Mexico Mexico - Domenic, 59, & Nancy Ianiero, 55, Riviera Maya, 20 Feb 2006

[joanofarc]

This case is mystifying. Was there anything missing from the dead couple's room? If so, I lean more towards it being an "inside" job.

Nothing specific was mentioned but the son held a press conference stating that his parents were victims of a robbery so some personal things of value that belonged to the couple must be missing.....

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144015810236&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home

— Anthony Ianiero, the couple's son, held a news conference to say his parents had been victims of a robbery. He accuses Mexican authorities of ignoring information they were given about a mysterious man who befriended his parents at the resort. Prominent lawyer Edward Greenspan was at Ianiero's side.

 

[joanofarc]

Mexican murder probe faltering

Ianieros' lawyer blasts investigation


TIMOTHY APPLEBY


After meeting the Mexican state attorney who heads the Ianiero murder investigation, lawyer Edward Greenspan said yesterday that he and the Ianiero family have zero confidence in Mexican justice and in a man Mr. Greenspan described as "incompetent . . . arrogant, pompous and downright rude."

At a packed news conference in Mr. Greenspan's downtown office, a haggard-looking Anthony Ianiero, the 35-year-old son of Woodbridge tourists Domenico and Nancy Ianiero, slain Feb. 20 at a luxury Cancun-area hotel, said the same.

"From the family's point of view, we're back to square one," he said. But with respect to the motive for the brutal slayings -- the couple were found with their throats slashed at the Barcelo Maya Beach Resort -- Mr. Greenspan and Mr. Ianiero appeared to diverge.

"We have no conceivable idea why these murders occurred," Mr. Greenspan said, reiterating that the Ianiero family and their associates had no role whatsoever. "We do not have evidence that it was a robbery."

Mr. Ianiero, however, seemed to remain convinced that robbery was the reason his parents were killed while visiting Mexico for the wedding of one of their daughters, and that Mexican police should be looking particularly hard at a hotel security guard who has vanished.

"We know there were items taken" from their hotel room, he said. "But we can't prove it."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060520.IANIERO20/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

 

[joanofarc]

This link has video of the two women who were named by Mexican authorities as suspects in the beginning of this investigation....

http://eyesforlies.blogspot.com/2006/03/mexico-murder-suspects.html

 

[joanofarc]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060519/ianiero_060519/20060519?hub=TopStories


http://www.cbc.ca/toronto/story/to-mexican-couple20060519.html
From the start, Rodriguez has been outspoken about the investigation at the upscale resort near Cancun. Several times, he hs released information and then backtracked. Almost immediately after the bodies were discovered, Rodriguez said it appeared the killings were a "professional, premeditated slaying." He recanted a few days later, saying there was no evidence the murders were linked to organized crime.


"The Ianiero family does not trust him. I do not trust him and no Canadian should trust the justice system in Mexico," Greenspan said.


Senior Mexican police investigators have been in Canada meeting with police about the case.


But Anthony Ianiero said the family is losing hope about the investigation.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060526.MEXICO26/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/

Mexicans raise mob-hit theory in Ianiero case

Family's lawyer angered that York police are asked to probe 'baseless' rumours


TIMOTHY APPLEBY AND MARINA JIMÉNEZ


Mexican authorities probing the double murder in February of a Woodbridge, Ont., couple found with their throats slashed in their room at a luxury hotel have asked York Regional Police to examine the possibility that the killings stemmed from an underworld debt owed by a person close to the slain pair.

"I raised this aspect about the debt, they knew about that rumour already and I asked them to investigate it," Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo, who heads the inquiry into the slayings of Domenico and Nancy Ianiero, said in a telephone interview yesterday.

Together with three colleagues, Mr. Rodriguez visited Ontario last week to consult Canadian police and justice officials about the Feb. 20 killings at the Barcelo Maya Beach Resort, an hour's drive south of Cancun.

He stressed yesterday that the debt theory is only one line of inquiry being pursued, and that "everyone is under suspicion until, one by one, they are cleared."

 

[Shadow205]

I was just wondering if there was ever an arrest made in this case?

 

[Shadow205]

Jul. 26, 2006

Ex-resort security guard hunted in Mexican case
He went missing after Woodbridge couple slain

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Blas Ismael Delgado, 36, who after his stints in the army and police worked at the resort as a security guard, is wanted for questioning in the slayings of Domenic and Nancy Ianiero.
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Delgado had only worked at the resort for about six months before he went missing the day after the killings, a source said. When Delgado disappeared, he became a prime suspect.

It has been five months since Nancy Ianiero, 55, and Domenic, 59, were found with their throats slashed, lying in pools of blood on the floor of their posh Barcelo Maya Beach Resort hotel room. They had gone to the resort in a party of 19 family and friends to attend their daughter Lily's wedding to high-school sweetheart Marco Facecchia. Their bodies were found Feb. 20 around 8 a.m., less than two days after their arrival at the resort.

much more at the link http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1153864209912&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845

 

[OkieGranny]

From February 2014:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/no-sign-ianiero-murder-suspect-still-being-sought-1.2545276

It was eight years ago this week that family members discovered Nancy and Domenic Ianiero murdered inside their hotel room in the Barcelo Maya Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. No one has been arrested in the slaying of the Toronto-area couple.

Mexican police identified Blas Delgado, a resort security guard, as their prime suspect. But there was not even a photograph to aid in the search for Delgado...

Downer said the Mexican police pointed fingers at many different people, but they let the man they identified as the prime suspect slip away. "They have no interest in it, and it's so frustrating. I can't tell you. It's year eight and nothing has changed," he said.

 

[tarabull]

DNA evidence clears chief suspect in Ianiero murder case
October 16, 2006

Snipped...

...According to a published report, investigators said a hair found in Nancy Ianiero&#8217;s hand did not match that of Blas Ismael Delgado Fajardo and therefore he was no longer considered a suspect in the murders.

Read more: http://www.citynews.ca/2006/10/16/dna-evidence-clears-chief-suspect-in-ianiero-murder-case/

:thinking:

 

[dotr]

Jan 23 2022
By Peter Edwards
Why international insults and a messy crime scene mean the Cancun murders of Dominic and Nancy Ianiero may never be solved
''There was no shortage of high-level promises after Dominic and Annunziata (Nancy) Ianiero of Woodbridge were murdered in their room at the five-star Barcelo Mayan Beach Resort in Cancun on Mexico’s Mayan Riviera in 2006.

Within days of the slayings, eight police forces in three countries were said to be involved in the hunt for the killer or killers of Dominic, 59, and Nancy, 55.

Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he would raise “anything necessary” with Mexican officials to make sure the murder probe was conducted with integrity.

Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Ernesto Derbez promised “a clear and thorough investigation.”

Mexican President Vicente Fox assured Canadians that “Cancun, and all of Mexico, is safe.”

Fifteen years later, there are still no arrests and promises of a clear and thorough investigation seem long forgotten.

Within days of the murders, Fox dismissed the suggestion that the killings were random, or motivated by robbery. The Mexican president instead suggested the double-murder of the Ianieros was the work of fellow Canadians.

Physical evidence hasn’t been much use, since much of the blood trail was literally mopped up by hotel cleaning staff within hours of the discovery of the bodies on Feb. 20, 2006.''

 

[agathaholmes79]

I sadly remember this case. My thoughts to the families of the victims.
From what I can remember as it was 15 years ago, the Ianiero's were in Cancun at that resort for their daughter's wedding. Jewelry and others things were taken. Missing security guard. Canadian hit. etc.

There seems to be a lot at play. I say that because the list of suspects could be large. All or probably most of their families knew about the wedding. Not just family, possibly co-workers, friends also knew or maybe neighbours.
So people know exact location for a period of time. They were killed two days after arrival. Did they flash around that much jewelry in two days?? Also, did this couple travel frequently?

How did the Ianiero's make their fortune? Did they own a business? How was the business financially?

How were the Ianiero's finances when they were killed? Did any kids owe money to anyone for drugs or gambling?
After reading another case, it donned on me that maybe it was someone around the couple that was having troubles and those people decided to take out the Ianiero's as revenge or payback or a warning.

Were names crossed referenced with the closest airport and hotels of possible oddities? like a traveler arrived one day and departed the next or the day after?
Justice needs to be served.