Canadian photographer murdered in Yucatán

Murder of 74-year-old Canadian citizen, Barbara McClatchie Andrews, a photographer for National Geographic, was confirmed by state prosecutor Ariel Aldecua Kuk, who identified suffocation as cause of her dead.

McClatchie Andrews lifeless body was found lying on weed near Hacienda de Teya in the 14km of the Mérida-Valladolid highway, last Friday midday, by some farmers collecting wood in a neighboring area. Her body showed signs of violence in both face and arms.

At first, it was believed that the victim had been run over, but the autopsy confirmed she had been strangled to dead.

Aldecua Kuk argued that the investigation on this murder is well underway and that they will have concluding results on the perpetrators of the crime in the next hours; a suspect is already submitting a statement on his participation, with robbery as a possible motive to the crime.

The foreign victim had been based in Mérida, Yucatán, for the last ten years and lived in 60 St. near the city downtown, where she also ran an art gallery called “In La ‘Kech”.