catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:59 pm Post subject: Boycott Mexico |
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This story will be familiar to fellow Canadians on the board.
Mexican officials are shamefully trying to cover up the facts to protect their tourist industry.
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TORONTO (CP) - The brutal slayings of a Canadian couple in Mexico look more and more like the work of a greedy hotel employee, according to an investigative piece by "W-Five" which obtained exclusive access to a Mexican police report on the matter.
The "W-Five" report suggests Blas Ismael Delgado Fajardo, a security guard who went missing after Domenic and Nancy Ianiero's bodies were discovered Feb. 20, 2006, is the only suspect mentioned in the police report.
That contradicts statements by Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carillo, the attorney general for the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, who has long tried to pin the murders on Canadians.
In an interview with "W-Five," Rodriguez said he stands by his theory that the vacationing couple was killed by a pair of "assassins" - two single mothers from Thunder Bay, Ont., who were also staying at the resort.
"It was the only room, the one where they were staying, where we found traces of blood from feet, fingers, impregnated in the TV control, in the entrance door, inside the bathroom and other places," he said through a Spanish translator.
"For us, they remain the principal suspects."
According to "W-Five," the police report makes no mention of blood in the room or on the floor leading to the room, nor did it mention any blood being tested.
Rodriguez has also pointed to the couple's son Anthony as the motive behind the slaying, suggesting he has a gambling problem and owes the Mafia $300,000.
Anthony Ianiero has denied the allegations, and the "W-Five" report said police in Canada looked into the theory and found no evidence to support it.
"We met him when he was in Canada and he was an arrogant, pompous man," the family's lawyer Edward Greenspan said of Rodriguez. "The man lies, lies and lies."
Rodriguez said a hair found in Nancy Ianiero's hand was compared to a hair obtained from Delgado's mother and that the two didn't match.
Experts, however, said no DNA could be extracted from the hair sample.
Rodriguez also claimed Delgado didn't have the expertise required to slash the couple's throats, yet the police report contains Delgado's resume - which points to an extensive military background.
Several statements from hotel employees suggest Delgado was seen dressed in black and acting suspiciously the night of the murder, while crime-scene photos show the couple's luggage was rifled through.
While it's still not clear whether anything was stolen, the police report suggests robbery as a possible motive.
The police report, according to "W-Five," also contains electronic hotel records that indicate the Ianieros' safe was opened just before 9 p.m. The couple's daughter Nancy said the family was out for dinner and at a theatre that night.
The "W-Five" report suggests the Mexican government and hotel officials are deliberately blaming Canadians for the murder in order to protect the country's lucrative tourism industry.
A cellphone video shot by a member of the Ianiero family also shows hotel staff with mops, brooms and buckets of water cleaning the Ianieros' hotel room just two days after the murder in what "W-Five" calls an effort to cover up the deed.
Greenspan, the Ianiero family and Cheryl Everall and Kimberly Kim - the Thunder Bay women accused by Rodriguez - said the Canadian government has failed in its promise to help move the case forward, and suggested Canadians abroad cannot depend on their country should trouble arise.
"I think that that's setting a precedent, and the precedent is that we're not going to help you if you're out of the country," Kim said.
Added Everall: "I think it's putting Canadians out into a minefield. ... Step cautiously, because if you make the wrong step, you just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, your life is going to explode."
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