Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas Review 2024 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online

The docuseries opens with an introduction to the Zona Divas website. It is a website where women can pay to advertise their escort services. The agency handles professional photoshoots for models/escorts. Among them is Kenni, who is the face of the website. The news channels are actively reporting tragedies linked to the website. There have been around six deaths of the escort women who died while locked inside the hotel room. The only person who managed to leave evidence behind is Kenni regarding what was going on with the Zona Divas website. An ex-escort, Brenda, recalls how the website worked.

In 2010, Brenda was experiencing some issues at home. During this time, Brenda’s hairdresser recommended another friend who flew Brenda to Mexico for escort services. For 77 days, many girls stayed together and eventually became a family. Another woman named Candice chose to hide her identity since Mexico does not have stringent rights for women. In 2015, Candice had financial difficulty, which affected her family.

While looking for jobs, Candice met a girl who connected her with people who could bring her to Mexico. Since one has to pay to get an advertisement on Zona Divas, Candice goes into debt immediately. The escorts also had to pay for food, transportation, and photo shoots. Additionally, the website lists different prices depending on the page where the escort’s photo appears. As a part of the agreement, Candice remembers signing a notarised contract stating that there wouldn’t be any sexual trafficking acts involved and that everything done was voluntary.

According to Brenda, she never faced any issues with her clients, and everyone treated Brenda well. Brenda argues that there weren’t any such websites in Mexico, while some countries had similar websites to get escort services. Since women in strip clubs are under a lot of pressure and make very little money, websites like Zona Divas help these women make some extra cash. Zona Divas originated with conversations between Ignacio Antonio Santoyo Cervantes, alias El Soni, and his former partner El Tony. The idea for Zona Divas came about after El Soni and El Tony conversed with women who worked in the strip clubs.

A radio program called El Soni discusses Zona Divas and the tragedies that have occurred because of it. However, El Soni asserts that the women willingly participated in all activities and were not forced to do so. The murders, however, were not related to the Zona Divas website, according to El Soni. Family members of Kenni, Massiel, and Dina remember Kenni being extremely close to their mother.

At one point, Kenni had to bring medicines from abroad as her mother’s health started deteriorating. Because of this, Kenni started doing escort services from the Zona Divas website. Kenni’s family members recall Kenni crying so often that her body would hurt. Yet she had to work through the pain to make sure her mother’s health improved.

Some girls soon realized that the company had not paid rent for their apartment. After doing some math, the girls discovered the hefty amount they were paying for one bunk bed. We hear from Wendy’s mother (another escort), who had to leave Venezuela as the country was going through a food and water crisis. Initially, Wendy never told her mother what work she was doing in Mexico.

One of Wendy’s colleagues and best friend, Daniella, recalls the agency taking away the girl’s passports for three months as per the contract. The girls were not allowed to leave anywhere without the designated driver. Once the three-month contract was over and the girls paid their debt, the company added more charges for things the girls didn’t have to pay. When Daniella and Wendy escaped, the company banned them from working for Zona Divas again.

The girls needed money to return to Venezuela. The only way to work for Zona Divas again was through El Soni. During such situations, El Soni would organize parties where the girls are expected to have unprotected sex, threesomes, and anything to satisfy the sexual fantasies of people. To make money, Daniella and Wendy attended El Soni’s party, where he forced them to have unprotected sex with him.

Meanwhile, Wendy’s mother recalls Wendy not answering her calls. So Wendy’s mother calls the authorities to check on the situation. A woman was found dead in a hotel room after being strangled by someone. When Pedro, from the Consul of Venezuela in Mexico, visited the morgue, he immediately confirmed that the woman who died in the hotel was Wendy.

The episode opens with men writing bad reviews for girls on the Zona Divas website. There was a forum on the website where the clients could review the girls based on their looks in real life compared to the ones in the photos. As Brenda remembers, those with a lot of money would book many women and give multiple reviews. That user will automatically become verified. There was supposedly an impartial moderator among the reviewers.

Many of the reviews had made-up information. This moderator seems to be the creator of Zona Divas. Investigator Karla gives an insight into the existence of Zona Divas. In 2001, Divas DotCom was launched, providing a platform for sexual service advertisements. This website operated as a trafficking agency. In 2007, authorities arrested founders El Soni and El Tony. However, they got out of prison and started the Zona Divas website. The first page of the Zona Divas website explicitly states that it is not a trafficking site.