The mystery of an entire band that vanished on the way to a concert has baffled the internet.
Five members of the norteño band Los Juniors de Monterrey and their driver became the focus of a baffling disappearance this week, vanishing somewhere on the highways of Nuevo León while en route to a private show.
The group had performed late Sunday night, June 15, at La Kaprichosa bar in Guadalupe, one of five acts on a Father’s Day programme about an hour‑and‑a‑half south of the Texas border.
Shortly after midnight, 23‑year‑old bassist Luis Domínguez posted a clip from backstage that showed several musicians laughing and posing with their instruments.
Everything appeared normal.
Roughly three hours later, at about 3 a.m. Monday, bassoonist Óscar Pérez, 24, uploaded another video – this time from the side of a dark rural road in the municipality of General Terán.
In the recording, someone is fastening a rope to the roof rack of the band’s white 2018 Chevrolet Suburban while Pérez jokes from behind the camera: “Oh, just technical problems,” eliciting nervous chuckles.
That brief social‑media post became the last public trace of the men for nearly 36 hours.
When the musicians failed to turn up at the contracted private engagement and stopped answering their phones, alarm spread among relatives and fans.
Authorities in Nuevo León circulated missing‑person notices for Pérez, Domínguez, lead singer Abraham Ontiveros (23), drummer Leonardo Rubio (33), stand‑in accordionist Francisco Alfaro (18), and their 40‑year‑old driver Lorenzo Martínez.
Regular accordionist Fernando Martínez had not joined Sunday’s trip; he told reporters that repeated calls to every handset went straight to voicemail.
Family members confirmed the timeline.
Ontiveros’s mother, Karla Leal, said her son last shared his live location around 2:30 a.m. Monday, from a highway near Cadereyta Jiménez.
The father of driver Lorenzo Martínez added that the booking came from someone the band had met previously at a nightclub.
“New clients come out at every club, and that guy was the one who called, and well, he’s not a regular customer, and he confirmed to us that they didn’t come to the event,” the elder Martínez noted, per MailOnline.
By Tuesday afternoon, June 17, anxiety flipped to relief: Nuevo León Governor Samuel García announced on X (formerly Twitter): “The young people from the Los Juniors de Monterrey group are well and with their families.”
No information accompanied the reassurance, leaving the public to speculate about mechanical trouble, an aborted robbery, or something more sinister. Relatives likewise refrained from elaborating.
The brief disappearance drew heightened attention because it followed a far more tragic incident only weeks earlier.
On May 25, four members of the norteño outfit Grupo Fugitivo and their manager were abducted en route to a private party near Reynosa, Tamaulipas; their tortured bodies were discovered on a ranch three days later, and nine alleged members of the Gulf Cartel faction Los Metros have since been arrested.
Given that violent crime against traveling musicians is not uncommon in northern Mexico, the silence surrounding the Los Juniors episode is striking.
For now, fans are simply grateful that Pérez, Domínguez, Ontiveros, Rubio, Alfaro, and Martínez have returned safely, even if the ‘technical problems’ teased in the predawn Instagram video remain unexplained.
