Baja California state prosecutors said on Sunday that the three bodies that were found in a 15-meter deep well were positively identified as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend.
The three were allegedly killed by thieves who wanted to take their truck's tires when they were surfing on the Baja peninsula in Mexico. The bodies were then reportedly disposed of by being dumped in a well near the coast.
The well mentioned above was located some four miles (6 km) from the scene of the tourists' deaths and also held a fourth corpse that had been there for much longer.
Three suspects are being detained in the case, which locals claim was resolved far faster than the thousands of other Mexican disappearances.
Prosecutors have disclosed gruesome details of the killing.
According to reports, the victims' relatives looked at the bodies to verify their identities by sight.
"The probability that it's them is very high," chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez said, noting the corpses still appeared to be identifiable by sight. "If they say that they are not completely certain that it is their relative, we would then have to carry out genetic testing."
Before they vanished last weekend, the three men were camping and surfing on a stretch of coast south of Ensenada, sharing pictures of waves and isolated beaches on social media.
However, Andrade Ramírez detailed what probably would have been terrifying circumstances that stopped the journey for American Jack Carter Rhoad and Australian siblings Jake and Callum Robinson.
Her theory was that the killers wanted to steal the tires from the foreigners after they drove by and noticed their pickup vehicles and tents. However, they certainly resisted when the foreigners came up and caught them.
