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Wife of Man Allegedly Killed by Mexican Pirates Questioned
ABC News ^ | Oct. 18, 2010 | RYAN OWENS, SARAH NETTER and LEE FERRAN

Posted on 10/18/2010 9:03:56 AM PDT by Reeses

The wife of a man allegedly killed by pirates on a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border will return to FBI offices today to resume a marathon session of questions from Mexican authorities.

Tiffany Hartley, wife of David Hartley, who is missing after the jet ski incident Sept. 30 on Falcon Lake, endured eight hours of questioning by Mexican investigators Friday. She has said she refused a request to come to Mexico for further questioning, out of fear of a possible arrest.

"I just don't think that's a wise decision," Hartley told "Good Morning America." "I think they do believe my story, but I don't know what their plan is -- why they need me to go over there when I've signed every document they told me."

When asked if she feared arrest on the Mexican side of the border, Hartley said, "Possibly."

Hartley said that she hopes that by speaking with the investigators, without an attorney, she can convince them to continue their search for her missing husband. The search was called off last week after a lead investigator for the Mexican authorities was beheaded, allegedly by members of a drug cartel.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: comingtoyourtown; excusesformexico; falconlake; immigrantlist; immigration; mexico; mexicopandering; narcoterror; noevidence; squattersupportsquad; stupidfreepers; texas; tiffanyhartley
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To: TexasCajun

I heard financial troubles...so either way dope or scam I smell dead fish. The cartel boys always want bodies...make their Rep grow and the messier the better.


41 posted on 10/18/2010 9:36:44 AM PDT by databoss
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To: TexasCajun
Sounds more like a dope deal gone bad, on the water. ...but what dope-dealer bring his wife along? Maybe mules for a competing cartel?

Never thought of that. First idea so far that makes a whit of sense.

42 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:11 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: MizSterious
She should have stayed on this side of the border.
43 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:17 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Exactly.

This woman needs to lawyer up and shut up.

She must be stupid. To go joyriding on Falcon Lake is stupid enough, but to go blabbing away - without an attorney - to authorities who view her as a suspect is even worse.


44 posted on 10/18/2010 9:39:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: BunnySlippers

But what about the eyewitnesses? (one blog mentioned there were more than one, but only one who would risk coming forward)

Where would a bikini-clad lady hide an automatic weapon—wouldn’t her husband notice something like that?

I’m not convinced this was anything other than a cartel crime.


45 posted on 10/18/2010 9:40:38 AM PDT by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: StolarStorm

You don’t know that for sure and if it’s a way to get back the person I love(dead or alive), I would do it.

I’ve been going to Mexico my whole life, it’s always been pretty bad there, it’s more glorified now because people are trying to politicize it into our politics.


46 posted on 10/18/2010 9:40:38 AM PDT by blarney
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To: Reeses

“Something about this story for some reason just isn’t adding up for me.” is what I said here a few weeks ago, and I stand by it today.


47 posted on 10/18/2010 9:41:05 AM PDT by Jazz1968
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

“What, at most, did the attackers have to gain (two jet skis?)”

I’m with you. What use could water borne thieves have with a small, nimble, fuel efficient, hard to spot three man craft? I mean, they certainly wouldn’t have any use for it in their raids conducted on water. And beyond that, at most a “top of the line” jetski, as described by the husband’s mother, only goes for about 16 grand new. Everyone knows Mexican pirates are muy flashy, and too proud to touch any craft worth 25 grand or less. And of course, presumably the wife’s model was at least somewhat close in class, so that just doubles the doubt. What would dirt poor Third World pirates want with 25 grand worth of stolen merchandise?

And what in the World would a group of outlaw males want a live young female for? She wouldn’t make a very good pirate. Hmmm...so many questions.

Yep...can’t see any reason why they would attack them.


48 posted on 10/18/2010 9:42:55 AM PDT by Spike Knotts
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To: databoss
I heard financial troubles

So, going to a Dave Ramsey Seminar is proof positive one is having financial problems?

49 posted on 10/18/2010 9:44:22 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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To: TexasCajun

Having seen many episodes of Locked up Abroad, wives and associated women are often involved.


50 posted on 10/18/2010 9:45:53 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: SeeSac

You are probably right, but I’m not convinced that it would have mattered. Anyone on either side of the border is in danger these days. Lately, I’m noticing more and more people saying folks should stay away from areas CLOSE to the border. My question to them is, how far away does one have to go to be considered “safe” from these cartels? I know that in Oklahoma, they’ve threatened law enforcement and their families. So maybe Nebraska? Would we have to go all the way to, let’s say, Alaska to be considered safe?

If we do not start enforcing our borders, the safest place might well be Australia. Sad, and sick, that we’ve come to this.


51 posted on 10/18/2010 9:48:05 AM PDT by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: Spike Knotts
Look - these folks are criminals - but don't make the mistake of thinking they are necessarily stupid. The drug smuggling efforts at the border are concerned with maintaining a low profile. The consequences of stirring up such an issue on the border far outweigh the value of two jet skis, to fence for perhaps 35 cents on the dollar (if that). I think even Mexican criminals can appreciate avoiding a larger spotlight being focused on them. Absent more evidence - I'm not buying her story.
52 posted on 10/18/2010 9:49:48 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: silverleaf

Change that to, “What person in their right mind would go to Mexico”.


53 posted on 10/18/2010 9:51:27 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: MizSterious
Lately, I’m noticing more and more people saying folks should stay away from areas CLOSE to the border. My question to them is, how far away does one have to go to be considered “safe” from these cartels?

I think the DHS has signs in AZ (Stay north of I-10?)

54 posted on 10/18/2010 9:53:25 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

You are wrong. They are emboldened by US policies and their own successes, and few bother with the old-fashioned “low profile” stuff. They’re out in the open and up front these days. I wouldn’t call handing the head of an investigator to a police chief “low profile,” nor would I consider it low profile to deliver messages to state law enforcement that they and their families will die if they do their jobs. I wouldn’t call today’s cartel criminals low profile—I’d call them brazen.

And still this country does nothing.


55 posted on 10/18/2010 9:53:28 AM PDT by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: Reeses

“She won’t go to Mexico to re-enact the jet ski events, fears being arrested.”

Arrest guarnteed.

Any kind of accident in Mexico, no matter what the circumstanees, you are put under arrest.

I was under house arrest there for 2 weeks when I crashed my airplane and so were my 5 passengers, doctors and nurses doing charity work in a free clinic there.


56 posted on 10/18/2010 9:54:26 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: Spike Knotts

The jet ski price had nothing to do with it. They were shot at because the shooters had nothing better to do that day. Plain and simple.


57 posted on 10/18/2010 9:56:46 AM PDT by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: TexasCajun

On jet skis? What not a boat? The couple was stopped by a cop on their way to the lake - something about a tail light on the trailer or something, and they told the cop they were headed to Falcon Lake to go jet skiing. Would it be practical for her to bring a gun out on a jet ski? If she killed her husband, what happened to his body and the jet ski? Why would the witness lie. Could she be telling the truth?


58 posted on 10/18/2010 9:57:20 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: MizSterious
Correction ... Along I-8, not I-10


59 posted on 10/18/2010 9:57:40 AM PDT by SeeSac
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To: ilovesarah2012
Yes, she could be telling the truth.

Could be they were just too ignorant to know the danger they put themselves in venturing into the Mexican side of the lake.

60 posted on 10/18/2010 9:59:49 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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