A HAUNTINGLY video of three women who were brutally raped, beaten and executed shows the moments before the savage act began.
The bone-chilling video depicting the trio as they mistakenly get into a stranger’s truck could be any group of friends getting into an Uber before a night out.
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The grainy CCTV shows the white pick-up truck pulling up curb-side where Lara Gutierrez, 15, Brenda Del Castillo, 20, and Morena Verdi, 21, are waiting.
The first woman – in white – walks up to the vehicle, glances into the back window and begins to open the door to get in.
The second woman walks around the back of the white car, before getting in on the other side as the third friend follows suit, all unknowingly about to travel to their final destination.
What was to follow has been described as “sadistic torture” by Argentinian police.
The women had unknowingly gotten into a car belonging to a violent drug cartel.
Investigators believe the women were tricked into going to a Buenos Aires home last Friday, under the impression they were attending a party.
Buenos Aires security minister Javier Alonso said the girls were “last seen getting into a vehicle voluntarily because they had been invited to an event, not knowing they were falling into a trap set for them by an international drug trafficking gang”.
The three girls were taken to the property and brutally raped, tortured and murdered.
The entire savage execution was live-streamed by the gang.
Alonso said police believe about 45 people saw the live-stream as it was happening.
Lara Gutierrez was the youngest victim of the sadistic murdersSocial Media
Brenda Del Castillo was found with a skull fracture and her stomach cut openSocial Media
Verdi was reportedly asphyxiated with a plastic bagSocial Media
“The torture session was streamed live on social media – not recorded, broadcast live – to a private Instagram group, and apparently about 45 people watched it,” he said.
“The drug-trafficking organisation has its operational command in Buenos Aires and they had chosen this house to carry out the murders.”
Local media reported two of the women had been accused of stealing four kilograms of cocaine from the gang prior to being kidnapped.
The three bodies were found five days after the attack through their final mobile phone signal locations, buried in the garden of the property.
Cops also located the pick-up truck, which had been burned out and abandoned in a section of wasteland 100m from the house.
The regional government minister said the murders were an “act of narco-revenge”.
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Shutterstock EditorialThe women’s march protested for justice for the women and all victims of femicide[/caption]
Chilling details emerged from the sadistic murders after cops found the bodies of the three women.
Gutierrez is said to have had all five fingers on her left hand amputated before being killed.
Del Castillo had a skull fracture, and her stomach had been cut open.
Verdi was reportedly asphyxiated with a plastic bag, which was found pulled over her head.
Alonso said the trio’s families had been informed.
The gang leader who allegedly ordered the “revenge killings” has been identified as a Peruvian national believed to have fled the country, authorities said.
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Alonso said that four people have so far been arrested.
The Buenos Aires Ministry of Women and Diversity released a statement saying the crime was a femicide – “the most extreme expressions of gender-based violence”.
“In the context of drug-related crime, they are a brutal and ferocious expression of dehumanisation, cruelty and neglect,” the statement read.
“We accompany their families and loved ones in their grief.”
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