![This two photo combo with undated handout photos provided by Nohemi Gonzalez, shows Erica Maria Alvarado Rivera, left, and her brother Alex, right, at their mother's home in Progreso, Texas. According to witnesses armed men took Erica Maria, 26, and her brothers, Alex, 22, and Jose Angel, 21, on Oct. 13 in El Control, a small town near the Texas border west of Matamoros. The three were visiting their father in Mexico and they have not been seen since. (AP Photo)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/dentonfracking/20141106193727im_/http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20141101-mexico_missing_americans_40519064.jpg.ece/ALTERNATES/w110/MEXICO_MISSING_AMERICANS_40519064.JPG)
Mexico: DNA tests confirm 3 found slain near Texas border are missing U.S. citizens
The statement issued late Friday by the Tamaulipas state prosecutor’s office did not mention the fourth body, which is believed to be the Mexican boyfriend of one of the slain Americans who disappeared with them.