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Widow Tiffany Hartley was originally suspected of lying about the death of her husband, David Hartley.
According to her, while jet skiing on a Falcon Lake, a body of water that lies on the border of Texas and Mexico, Mexican pirates came and shot her husband but left her unharmed. She said she tried to pull her husband's body aboard but that the pirates decided to come back, so she left, and they did not follow her.
Her husband's body and jet ski were never found, and many authorities on both sides of the border did not believe her story.
That was until an eye witness who remains anonymous said that he did see a man on a jet ski chasing Tiffany, but that he did not witness anything prior to it. Further adding to the stories credibility, was the murder of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, a homicide detective for the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. His head was delivered in a suitcase to a military outpost just days after he handed documents to a Texas TV station naming two Zeta cartel members as suspects in the shooting on Falcon Lake.
Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan said Wednesday in Dallas that the Mexican federal investigation into the death of a U.S. citizen at Falcon Lake would proceed with diligence and speed.
Coming after a record 79 Americans were killed in Mexico in 2009, the Falcon Lake shooting and the murder of the Mexican investigator has become a talking point in the Texas gubernatorial race, and has sparked calls for the White House to get directly involved by further militarizing the border
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) last week urged the Obama administration to bring more national guard troops and to add armed aerial drones to patrol Falcon Lake. Governor Perry has resisted sending the Texas Rangers, who are under his command, to Falcon Lake in fear of political repercussions should someone get killed or hurt.
Last weekend, Sigifredo Gonzalez, sheriff of Texas's Zapata County, declined offers to help Mexican state authorities search the Mexican side of the lake, fearing a shootout. That came as other incidents of "spillover violence" from the drug war in Mexico, which has claimed more than 26,000 lives in the past four years, began to worry many in the borderlands.
According to her, while jet skiing on a Falcon Lake, a body of water that lies on the border of Texas and Mexico, Mexican pirates came and shot her husband but left her unharmed. She said she tried to pull her husband's body aboard but that the pirates decided to come back, so she left, and they did not follow her.
Her husband's body and jet ski were never found, and many authorities on both sides of the border did not believe her story.
That was until an eye witness who remains anonymous said that he did see a man on a jet ski chasing Tiffany, but that he did not witness anything prior to it. Further adding to the stories credibility, was the murder of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, a homicide detective for the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. His head was delivered in a suitcase to a military outpost just days after he handed documents to a Texas TV station naming two Zeta cartel members as suspects in the shooting on Falcon Lake.
Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan said Wednesday in Dallas that the Mexican federal investigation into the death of a U.S. citizen at Falcon Lake would proceed with diligence and speed.
Coming after a record 79 Americans were killed in Mexico in 2009, the Falcon Lake shooting and the murder of the Mexican investigator has become a talking point in the Texas gubernatorial race, and has sparked calls for the White House to get directly involved by further militarizing the border
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) last week urged the Obama administration to bring more national guard troops and to add armed aerial drones to patrol Falcon Lake. Governor Perry has resisted sending the Texas Rangers, who are under his command, to Falcon Lake in fear of political repercussions should someone get killed or hurt.
Last weekend, Sigifredo Gonzalez, sheriff of Texas's Zapata County, declined offers to help Mexican state authorities search the Mexican side of the lake, fearing a shootout. That came as other incidents of "spillover violence" from the drug war in Mexico, which has claimed more than 26,000 lives in the past four years, began to worry many in the borderlands.
