The bodies of two unidentified men were discovered last week in the vicinity of the Ajijic-Chapala bypass road near its junction with the highway to Guadalajara.
The first corpse was spotted on Thursday, March 15 in a ditch located just south of the roadway.
Agents of the Chapala Ministerio Publico (public prosecutor’s office or MP) report that the body was in an advanced state of decomposition, suggesting death had occurred at least 10 days prior to the discovery.
The dead man appeared to be about 50 years of age. While no identification was found on body, investigators located an assortment of medical supplies and other items nearby, indicating that they may have been the meager belongings of what is presumed to have been a homeless person. The absence of signs of physical violence, suggest the man died of natural causes, pending autopsy results.The other corpse was discovered around 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 18, close to the roadway near the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) power sub-station.
MP agents report that the unidentified male appeared to be 30 to 35 years old and had succumbed to at least one gunshot wound in the head. Four 223-caliber bullet shells from an automatic rifle were found nearby.
The dead man was described as being of slender build and medium stature, dressed in a white t-shirt, blue pants and tennis shoes.
Later the same day the MP were called to a nearby location where workers digging the foundations for a wall came across a pile of bones in what appeared to them as a clandestine tomb. Investigators arriving at the scene qualified the alert as a false alarm after uncovering what turned out to be the skeleton of a dead dog.