The ongoing investigation into the murders of Callum Robinson, Jake Robinson and Jack Carter Rhoad has taken a new twist. Shortly after the bodies of the three missing surfers were found near Ensenada, Mexico, in northern Baja, police arrested Jesús Gerardo, Cristian Alejandro and Ari Gisel in connection with the disappearances. Gerardo was initially charged with ‘enforced disappearance’, but local authorities said at the time that murder charges would also follow.
Now multiple news outlets in Australia are reporting that a fourth person has been arrested in the investigation. Local authorities in Ensenada have not released any other details about the identity of the new arrest.
Police still believe the murders were the result of a botched robbery. The three surfers first went missing sometime around the weekend of April 27. The subsequent investigation led to the arrest of the first three suspects and to the discovery of a well the following weekend in which the bodies were located. Another body of a landowner who had apparently been there for much longer was found in the same well, which authorities believed was the victim of another crime.
Jesús Gerardo, who investigators have labeled the “ringleader” of the robbery and murders, will be held behind bars until his next court hearing in November.
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