Mother of Elizabeth Salgado raising funds to get to Utah

Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado. Photo: GoFundMe

PROVO, Utah, May 26, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — Libertad Edith Salgado-Figueroa — the mother of slain Provo woman Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado — is raising funds to travel from Mexico to Utah after hearing her daughter’s remains have been found.

Salgado’s skeletal remains were found on May 18 by a man who was driving through Hobble Creek Canyon and stopped to look for some privacy, walking to an off-trail area where he discovered the skull and some fabric.

The Medical Examiner’s office confirmed the remains were Salgado’s before the news was confirmed publicly, five days later.

Salgado, 26 and a native of Mexico, was a recently returned missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who moved to Provo in 2015 to take English classes. She disappeared without a trace just three weeks after her arrival.

She had no car, and was found in a remote area she could not have walked to, so the case is being treated as a homicide. Law enforcement officials have said they have more than one suspect in the case.

The GoFundMe page,  posted by Salgado’s sister in Spanish with an automatic translation to English option, seeks to raise $15,000 so Salgado’s father and mother can travel to Provo.

The funds would also be used to pay for the “all the paperwork to get your accommodations since the consul Mexico says it will support her when I handed her the body this will be 6 months to 1 year,” the GoFundMe page says.

“The desire of my mother is to be able to see the place where they found their daughter,” the page says. An update said the visit was so Figueroa could “go see where they found my sister’s body” and answer her questions.

Speaking to reporters, Salgado’s mother has stated that she needs to see the evidence before she can believe her daughter is gone.

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