Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay

Some Lesser Known Facts About Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay

• In April 2020, Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay began sharing funny lip-sync videos on TikTok. As her followers grew, she posted more about her daily life and travels.

• In her videos, she showed off her fancy branded things from Dior, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton.

• Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay also posted videos featuring luxury cars, cosmetic procedures, and costly trips.

  

• She posted videos where she lip-synced to narco-corridos, which are Mexican songs about drug cartels.

• Her videos often suggested that her husband could be part of a cartel.

• In one video, Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay showed the words ‘Advantages of having a narco boyfriend’ and posed with a Gucci bag. However, there was no proof that Garibay or her husband was in a drug cartel.

• Reportedly, her husband sold cars and grew tomatoes in Michoacan, which could have made him a target for gangs.

• In 2024, Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, with her family, shifted from Michoacan to Guadalajara for work opportunities.

• On 22 August 2025, four bodies were found wrapped in plastic inside a pickup truck, an old grey Ford Ranger, in the San Andrés area of Guadalajara, Mexico. Prosecutor Alfonso Gutierrez Santillan shared this information at a press meeting.

  

• On 2 September 2025, the bodies were identified as Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay, along with her husband, Roberto Carlos Gil Licea, son Gael Santiago, and daughter Regina.

• Mexican news outlet El Financiero claimed that Roberto Carlos Gil Licea was thought to be the main target of the killing.

• During the investigations, police watched security videos to follow where the truck went. They found the truck at a local auto repair shop.

• At the shop, there were blood marks, used bullets, and signs showing that the four people might have been killed there.

• According to a noted media house, Latin Times, the bodies were then moved to a different place. Prosecutor Santillan claimed in the media,

  While the forensic results are not yet in, ballistic and blood evidence almost certainly confirm they were murdered at that location.”

• Three men who worked at the mechanic shop where the truck with the bodies was left were arrested, but soon they were released because there was not enough proof.

• Prosecutor Blanca Trujillo said in the media that the attackers waited over two hours before attacking. This indicated that the attack was carefully planned.

• The police stated that it was not clear if the attack was revenge for the killing of Garibay and her family.

• As of August 2025, she had more than 44,000 followers on TikTok.