Mexico City.- Mexican authorities arrested, after more than a year on the run, the alleged femicide of Andrea Maylin Chino Ramos, a 22-year-old woman whose body was found buried in a home linked to her partner’s family in the state of Morelos (center), in June 2025.
The head of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Omar García Harfuch, reported this Saturday the arrest of the man, in the state of Puebla (center), for the crime of femicide, that is, a crime based on gender.
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He detailed that the capture was carried out by SSPC agents, with information from the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office.
He added that the action was in response to a request for collaboration from the Secretariat for Women, although he did not specify the scope of their participation.
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Andrea Maylin Chino Ramos was reported missing on June 20, 2025, and, subsequently, on July 31 of that year, her body was found buried in a home linked to the family of the alleged perpetrator.
The accused’s parents were arrested in June of this year for the crime of accessory after the fact, for allegedly helping their son evade justice.
The victim had filed two complaints for domestic violence against her partner in 2023, according to testimonies from the young woman’s parents, reported by local media.
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In addition, media reported that, according to Andrea’s friends, her boyfriend had threatened to make her disappear and kill her.
A recent study documented 58 clandestine graves linked to possible femicides in Mexico between 2020 and September 2024, in which 92 women were located.
60.7% were in private properties and, of these, 38.2% corresponded to properties of the victim, the perpetrator, or shared by both, according to the report ‘Tracing the Absence, Walking the Hope’.
The investigation warns that graves linked to femicides are a poorly documented phenomenon and that more victims could remain buried in private properties due to the difficulties in searching for them, although, unlike other clandestine graves, in these cases it is usually possible to identify the victims and reconstruct the crimes.
In Mexico, an average of ten women are murdered every day, and a quarter of the crimes are investigated as femicide, according to official figures and NGOs.
According to the report presented to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), of the 26,652 murders of women recorded between 2018 and 2025, only 6,781 were initiated as femicide, that is, less than 25% of the total.
