[citation needed] On 14 January 1982, the bodies of 13 men were found on the borders of a drainage canal in the Tula River.
Durazo was the chief of police in Mexico City during the administration of his friend, President José López Portillo.
that Durazo decided to keep the loot and do away with the Colombians and their Mexican taxi driver, who also disappeared, last seen in June 1981 by his mother.
It was said that the group were held in secret jails and the La Castañeda psychiatric hospital, tortured and murdered them, and then dumped them into a sewer in Mexico City.
The pictures of the 13 dead and partial information of the crime was published by ¡Alarma!, an explicit Mexico City publication that deals in images of mutilated and deformed human bodies.