US Marshal's ‘15 Most Wanted’ Couple Captured in Mexico
Edgar Salvator Casian-Garcia and Araceli Medina are accused of heinous crimes against children
For two years, thirty-four-year-old Edgar Salvator Casian-Garcia and thirty-eight-year-old Araceli Medina had been on the run after fleeing Washington state.
The couple had been the first fugitive couple to appear on the US Marshal’s 15 Most Wanted list. They were wanted for various crimes relating to child abuse allegations, and it sparked an international manhunt, not just for them but also for their five children. The children were considered endangered.
The situation began to unfold in 2020 when two little girls were discovered abandoned at a gas station in Tijuana, Mexico. The girls, aged eight and three, were taken into child protective custody, but the girls were highly traumatized. It took child welfare experts six months to get the girls to trust them enough to explain what had happened to them.
The girls were sisters and continually asked officials if they had found their seven-year-old brother. The eldest girl eventually revealed their names and the extensive amount of physical and sexual torture used by Edgar Salvator Casian-Garcia and Araceli Medina.
