Regarding the staging:
*caution graphic and disturbing *
I’ve posted this before, but I spent time in El Chapo’s violent home city of Culiacan, Sinaloa Mexico.
Drug cartels would frequently hang the remains of their victims from bridges, usually in groups. Or display the remains in other equally graphic ways.
It happened recently in another part of Mexico:
Mexican drug gang 'hangs nine bodies from bridge'
The newspapers, in varying degrees, would run graphic photos of the deceased.
My view of the graphic staging:
- to strike fear or as a show of force. The cartels would usually take ownership of the murders, but usually there were no arrests.
-to send the message to the public: the deceased
must have done something very bad in order to have been murdered, have their bodies mutilated and displayed so disrespectfully.
-the deceased were usually very young. Normally the deaths of young people would strike a chord of public sympathy. An effort would be made to find justice. However, if the victims are made to be part of the drug trade/meddling in some way, the public won’t have empathy or interest in the deceased. No ground swelling from the public to put an end to the violence.
ETA: Possibly the staging of the Shermans is similar to Mexican drug cartel staging:
‘
this was deserved, they were involved in criminal elements where these brutal deaths are part of the world they were a part of.
Don’t look as them as senior citizens, hardworking, beloved people-see them as people who must have done something terrible for someone to have killed them this way.’