Mexico - Ximena Osegueda, 39, & Alejandro Santamaria, 38, murdered, 14 Dec 2011

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Fast on the heels of Robin Wood last week, a PhD candidate at UBC and her partner are discovered in shallow graves on a beach just outside (south) of Acapulco. Expect a travel advisory soon. Naturally, it is being dismissed by authorities as another "isolated incident."

A professor at the University of British Columbia says faculty members and students are in shock after the recent killing of a PhD student in Mexico.
Manuel de Jesus Lopez, an attorney general in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, confirms relatives of Carmen Ximena Osegueda Magana, known as Ximena Osegueda at UBC, and Alejandro Honorio Santamaria, her boyfriend, found the couple's bodies last week in Huatulco, south of Acapulco.

Much more info on this very sad case below:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ubc-student-found-dead-mexico-professors-friends-mourn-050239163.html

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[FrostOwl]

May 2012:
Mexican Police Make Arrests In UBC Student's Murder
Mexico releases re-enactment of Canadian's murder

The University of British Columbia have a yearly prize in her memory:
The Ximena Osegueda Prize 2017 - Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies