Authorities have identified the two Americans who were discovered dead inside their opulent hotel room in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula on Tuesday evening. They also revealed that the couple had been dead for at least 10 hours before their bodies were found.
The Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office named the fatalities as John Heathco, 41, and Abby Lutz, 28.
According to the attorney general’s office, the two people’s deaths were caused by “intoxication by substance to be determined.”
Around 9 p.m. on Tuesday, paramedics and police found the victims inside their room at the Hotel Rancho Pescadero, a Hyatt hotel with rooms that cost more than $500 per night.
After learning that the Americans were asleep, authorities made the devastating discovery.
At the scene, the two were declared dead.