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“Are They Going to Murder Me?” — The Femicide of Valeria Márquez

🕯️ “Are They Going to Murder Me?”  The Live-Streamed Death of Valeria Márquez and What Would’ve Happened in the U.S.

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🎥 Have You Seen the Video?!!?

On May 13, 2025, 23-year-old influencer Valeria Márquez was livestreaming from her salon in Zapopan, Jalisco. She was mid-conversation with her TikTok followers, chatting casually, when a strange delivery was mentioned. Seconds before she was shot, Valeria looked into the camera and asked:

"Are they going to murder me?"

Moments later, a masked man entered the salon posing as a delivery person. He asked, “Hi, are you Valeria?” She replied, “Yes.”
He shot her in the chest and head on camera.

The screen went dark. The viewers were stunned. Her life ended and the world watched it happen.

⚠️ A Crisis Beyond the Camera: Femicide in Mexico

Valeria’s horrific murder has become a flashpoint for an issue that rarely makes global headlines: Femicide.

Defined as the gender-based killing of women, femicide is rooted in misogyny, power imbalances, and systemic inequality. Unlike general homicide, femicide specifically targets women because they are women often committed by intimate partners, criminals, or people seeking to control or punish them.

Mexico is one of the deadliest countries in the world for women.

📊 90% of femicides in Mexico go uninvestigated.
📉 Fewer than 2% result in a conviction.

This isn't just a murder. It's part of a human rights crisis, one that the United Nations and World Health Organization have repeatedly called out. But what if this had happened somewhere else?

🧩 Alternate Timeline: If Valeria Márquez Had Been Murdered in the U.S.

Let’s play it out.

Same livestream. Same eerie foreshadowing. Same masked killer.
But instead of Jalisco, the salon is in, say, Los Angeles or Houston.

Here’s how the investigation would’ve likely gone down in the United States versus what happened (or didn’t) in Mexico.

🇲🇽 In Mexico

  • No arrests after 2+ months.
  • Prosecutors deny cartel connections despite U.S. intelligence naming a suspect.
  • Public suspects a cover-up.
  • Authorities claim they’re “investigating,” but no leads have been confirmed.
  • Her grave was vandalized shortly after burial.
  • Witnesses have not come forward, possibly out of fear.

🇺🇸 In the U.S.

  • Immediate crime scene lockdown by local PD.
  • FBI joins the case due to livestreamed nature and digital evidence.
  • TikTok and Meta subpoenaed within hours for video footage, metadata, GPS logs.
  • Forensics team collects:
    – Bullet casings
    – Gunshot residue
    – Cell phone data
    – Security cam footage
  • All salon employees and nearby business owners interviewed the same day.
  • Autopsy performed within 48 hours with public summary released.
  • Suspect’s identity possibly narrowed using facial recognition and AI.
  • If cartel-related, Homeland Security and DEA step in, issuing international warrants.
  • Victim’s social accounts archived for evidence not erased.
  • DOJ and prosecutors hold a press conference within a week.

🎯 So What’s the Difference?

In one country, systemic impunity.
In the other, investigative urgency at least when the spotlight is on.

Even in the U.S., women’s murders often get overlooked unless they go viral. Valeria’s livestream made her death impossible to ignore. But shouldn’t every victim get that kind of attention?

🧨 Misogyny + Impunity + Organized Crime = Femicide Explosion

Valeria’s case isn’t isolated. It’s emblematic.

It reveals a sickening truth: when criminal organizations are protected by state inaction, and women are seen as disposable, murder becomes a message.

Cartels don’t just kill their enemies.
They kill girlfriends.
They kill witnesses.
They kill women who don’t play along.

“If Valeria wasn’t livestreaming, would we even know her name?”

That’s the question that haunts this case and every femicide buried in silence.

🔎 The Takeaway

Valeria Márquez’s murder shocked the world because we saw it.
But what we didn’t see justice, accountability, and political courage is even more damning.

When powerful men are protected and victims are forgotten,
when 90% of femicides go uninvestigated,
when even a viral video isn’t enough to get an arrest…

…it’s not just a crime.
It’s a crisis.

📢 Up Next on Dicking Around With Richie

🕵️‍♀️ The Murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik
A nun, a cover-up, a Church-wide conspiracy
and the brave women who said enough.

Stay tuned.
And don’t forget to ask:
Who benefits from your silence?

✍️ Written by RICHIE D. MOWREY
For The Sassy Gazette
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