Proceso magazine’s Regina Martinez was found dead in her Veracruz, Mexico home over the weekend, apparently beaten and strangled.

It is too soon to know who killed her or why, but her death was brutal and she was known for reporting on crime and drug trafficking in a state that like other parts of Mexico has been rife with violence.

Authorities have vowed to thoroughly investigate the case, but murders are rarely solved in Mexico, and when they are, there are many doubts that authorities have even charged the right person.

Here is a sampling of some of the English language news reports on Martinez:

The Los Angeles Times: notes that she covered crime and drug trafficking for Proceso, which is known for publishing plenty of news about drug traffickers and corruption.

“State officials in Veracruz said police went to the house after receiving a telephone call. Martinez’s body showed signs of blows to the face and body and she appeared to have died of strangulation, the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.”

The BBC:

“State prosecutors said her body showed signs of heavy “blows to her face and body.” A spokeswoman for the Veracruz government said all lines of investigation would be exhausted, and that “the fact that she was a journalist is one of them. Ms Martinez had been working for investigative news magazine Proceso for 10 years.”

Associated Press:

“Authorities provided no possible motive for her killing, which was the third involving a journalist in Veracruz over the past year. The National Human Rights Commission issued a statement Sunday decrying violence against journalists. Such violence “also violates the right of all people to be adequately informed,” it said. “This independent body will follow the actions of the authorities and investigations to solve this act.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists notes that at least 25 reporters have been murdered in Mexico since 1994, going back to Jorge Martin Dorantes, of El Crucero, who was killed June 26 of that year in Morelos.

The CPJ announced last month that it welcomed the Mexican Senate’s approval of a constitutional amendment that would make attacks on the press a federal crime.

(The only twist is that while this sounds great, federal authorities successfully prosecute – as in get a conviction- in only about 3 percent of the prosecutions in Mexico. Yes, that is three percent.)