The rotting corpse of 27-year-old Carmen Yarira Noriega Esparza

The rotting corpse of 27-year-old Carmen Yarira Noriega Esparza has been discovered inside a city’s filtration tank after residents complained of a “strange taste” in their drinking water.

The aspiring actress was reported missing last January when she did not show up at the clinic where she worked. She had been last seen leaving a gym in the Mexican capital Mexico City in February last year.

Police and her family believed that Esparza may have been kidnapped by a gang and forced into the sex slave business. After police failed to turn up any leads, her friends and family launched a social media campaign and posted photographs of her in public.

Eleven months later, city officials were called to the tank after residents at apartments where Esparza lived complained about their foul tasting drinking water. That’s when they found the source of the bad taste floating inside the tank – Esparza’s body in a high state of putrefaction.

She was identified from implants that she had as a result of a plastic surgery operation. Her body was removed and taken to the Institute of Forensic Sciences so that an exact cause of death can be determined.

Her family is now questioning how she could have been in that tank for so long with no one knowing, while others wrestle with the knowledge that they drank corpse water for almost a year.

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