Clothing with bodies matches missing Texans

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MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Clothing found with four slain bodies near the border city of Matamoros appears to match that of three siblings from Texas who disappeared in the area more than two weeks ago with a fourth person, a state prosecutor said.
Oscar Fuentes Fierro, assistant prosecutor for the state of Tamaulipas, confirmed on Wednesday that the clothes matched a description given by Pedro Alvarado, father of the three missing residents of Progreso, Texas.
Parents of the missing youths say witnesses reported they were seized on Oct. 13 by men dressed in police gear.
Authorities said late Wednesday it could take 24 to 48 hours for DNA tests to confirm if the bodies are those of Erica Alvarado Rivera, 26, and brothers, Alex, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, who were last seen in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros.
They had been visiting their father in Mexico and disappeared along with 32-year-old Jose Guadalupe Castaneda Benitez, Erica Alvarado’s boyfriend.
Alvarado told The Associated Press on Thursday that he had not been allowed to see bodies and had not been told of a match.