Chihuahua state Attorney General Carlos Manuel Salas says Susana Chavez was strangled and mutilated after a night of partying with three teenagers, who were drunk and on drugs. He said Wednesday that the killing had nothing to do with Chavez's activism.

Her body was found Jan. 6 in the historic center of the city, her left hand cut off. She was not identified until Tuesday.

Chavez, also a prominent poet, helped popularized the slogan "Not One More Death" regarding the killings of hundreds of women, who were raped, strangled and dumped in the desert over a decade, starting in 1993.