David Hartley - Pirates shoot US man in Mexican waters #3

[Kimberlyd125]

I doubted Mexico would do any real testing.

There are so many dead bodies found in Mexico I couldn't imagine them trying to forensically ID them all.

I hope David is found one day.

[fran]

I was almost certain they would not identify this poor person's dead body as David Hartley. There are so many people killed in Mexico, related to the drug cartels in the past several years, it's unreal. No DNA testing? I am NOT surprised at all. This is just another day in THEIR WORLD.

I've been following this since '04(?), '05(?), when articles started popping up about over 40 people from Loredo, Texas who'd disappeared after crossing into Mexcio. LE in Mexico told the families it was because their loved ones were involved with the drug cartels, when MANY said, "There is no way!' After reading several of the families' accounts, I realized, these people were being slaughtered for no reason. I even attempted to begin a dialogue here on Websleuths and started a thread, but received almost no response, or very little.

Living on the Mexican border and having family from Mexico, I KNOW what's happening. I personally love Mexico and am sad that it's now too dangerous to travel there.

But guess what? I still have people in my family who still find a reason, 'oh, they just have to go there. Don't worry, nothing will happen.' ....................oh? really?

I realize there are many people who I, or anyone else, can convince that this was a day-trip that went horribly bad. This is after all, a crime sleuthing community and many of us suspect everything and everyone. But sometimes, bad things happen to nice people. Nice people sometimes make bad, or incorrect decisions that have deadly consequences. And the younger you are, the more invincible you feel, leading to the type of thing that happened to David and Tiffany Hartley. To be honest, when I was their age, I may have felt the same. IF ONLY I knew THEN, what I KNOW NOW, well,................you get the point.

Unfortunately, I believe the Hartley family will never find the answers they seek. There is no happy ending here. There will most likely never be an arrest, ............. no confession, no body.......... Just another day in the world,........... life of the Mexican drug cartels.

So sad. So many lost lives, unnecessary loss of life. My heart goes out to all of the victims of this violence. Most especially to Tiffany and the Hartley family.

JMHO
fran

[Linda7NJ]

Originally Posted by Kimberlyd125

http://www.9news.com/news/article/24...le-jet-skiing-

Test results from the Mexican government show clothing on a human skeleton found on Falcon Lake does not match what David Hartley was wearing the day he reportedly died. Additionally, the skeleton's skull does not have a bullet wound.

* earlier reports said the skull did have a bullet hole.

That's why we don't have fishermen doing autopsies.

[Intermezzo]

Was checking my subscriptions and I noticed this thread had revived activity...
I did not hear/read that skeletal remains had been found in Falcon Lake..
Looks like I need to go back a few pages and start reading ....

[NoeticSoul]

Mexico makes arrest in killing of U.S. tourist on Falcon Lake

"Mexican marines over the weekend arrested a man they say masterminded some of the most horrific crimes in northern Mexico, including the killing of U.S. tourist David Michael Hartley two years ago and mass slaughters in a border state."

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#ixzz28jMfJ9vX

[Kimberlyd125]

I'm hoping this family can get some answers.

[Kimberlyd125]

Originally Posted by NoeticSoul

Mexico makes arrest in killing of U.S. tourist on Falcon Lake

"Mexican marines over the weekend arrested a man they say masterminded some of the most horrific crimes in northern Mexico, including the killing of U.S. tourist David Michael Hartley two years ago and mass slaughters in a border state."

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#ixzz28jMfJ9vX

From your link:

Mexican officials said Martínez is a high-ranking Zeta who oversaw the gang's criminal activity in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, all of which border Texas. Mexico had a 15 million peso (more than $1 million) bounty on his head.

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...#ixzz28lB98j2h

[STEADFAST]

Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged drug cartel leader known as Commander Squirrel who they say is linked to the 2010 murder of American jet skier David Hartley on a border lake, as well as to more than 200 other deaths in Mexico. http://news.yahoo.com/narcoboss-comm...opstories.html

Well, I'm glad there's a chance there might be some justice.

[corq]

I'm hoping this has some actual ties to Hartley, and not some 'round up the usual suspects and close the books' due to diplomatic pressure. Everything about this case has been so odd and vague, cynical thought I know, this just crosses my mind.

[Linda7NJ]

Originally Posted by corq

I'm hoping this has some actual ties to Hartley, and not some 'round up the usual suspects and close the books' due to diplomatic pressure. Everything about this case has been so odd and vague, cynical thought I know, this just crosses my mind.

Gnaws at mine.

[Kimberlyd125]

Tiffany Hartley hopeful that Mexico will try cartel leader in her husband’s slaying

http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/c...ey-2010-mexico

[Kimberlyd125]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/art...on-3933490.php

Hartley widow says Zeta arrest brings vindication

Hartley, who now lives in Colorado, said the announcement should satisfy her critics: “The people who thought I had something to do with it can finally go, ‘But Mexico's admitting that they had something to do with it.'”

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said early that “speculation is unwarranted” toward Tiffany Hartley.

Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said he was frustrated by the way the Mexican government treated her.

“She wasn't interviewed but rather interrogated,” he said.

Some months earlier, officials received reports of armed “pirates” on the lake, robbing U.S. fishermen at gunpoint.

Sheriff Gonzalez said Tuesday that Tiffany's story was, from the beginning, consistent with those reports.

“I'm sure that the Mexican military is not going to lie about this thing,” Gonzalez said. “I'm sure he was involved somehow, though not the actual killing of Hartley himself.”

Mexican officials naming Hartley as a murder victim is “very important,” he said.