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FALCON LAKE, Texas - A funny thing happened last Friday after days of turgid high-publicity in the U.S.: stoic Mexican authorities announced the capture of two young thugs officials said were behind the alleged murder of American jet-ski aficionado David Hartley. No one is buying the news.
Hartley, a native of Colorado who had been working in Reynosa, Mexico and later living in McAllen just east of here, was reportedly gunned down earlier this month by "Mexican pirates" while on a recreational outing with his wife, Tiffany. Hartley's body and jet-ski have yet to be found, according to local authorities.
Mexico's response to the allegations came slowly. Cries for quick justice by the victim's grieving wife have been blared over American television screens for days, from CNN to excitable Fox. Suspicions surfaced early-on, however. Was this just another American involved in a drug deal gone wrong? Had David Hartley simply befriended the wrong Mexicans? Tiffany Hartley has said little about their activities in Mexico or in South Texas. At last report, Texas officials had taken possession of a life vest worn by Tiffany at the time of the alleged gunfight for testing of blood splatterings.
According to Tiffany Hartley, she and her husband were enjoying a day on the lake when out of the blue came a flotilla of Mexicans firing assault weapons in a scene that must have been remarkably like attacks on American PBRs along the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. It's a brain-freezer, but the tale of David Hartley's mysterious killing has yet to fully unfold.
We ask: Did the troubled government to the south merely pluck a pair of shoeless thugs off the street and blame them for the killing? Just to please bellicose Americans?
We're not buying any of it...
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