Well, according to Wendy Murphy, the wife is to blame:
“Mexican ‘Pirates’? — Why We First Suspect the Spouse
By Wendy Murphy
Published October 07, 2010
| FoxNews.com
Twenty-nine year-old Tiffany Hartley says her husband was shot in the head by Mexican pirates earlier this week while the couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake at the Texas-Mexico border.
Claiming her husband fell face first in the water and that she tried to pull him out, Tiffany blamed God for why she left him and fled to safety. “I just keep hearing God tell me ‘You have to go, you have to go,’” she told one reporter.
No doubt God speaks to people in times of crisis, but it’s a bit convenient that He advised her to save her own skin. Let’s just say that’s not necessarily the Godly thing to do.
But even if there’s an ethic there that makes religious sense, there are lots of hard facts that make it very difficult to believe anything about Tiffany Hartley’s story...”
People better wake up to the danger of Mexico!
Sheriff: Evidence supports wife’s account in pirate attack
By Kevin Vaughan
The Denver Post
[snip]ZAPATA, TEXAS — Blood, witness accounts and other unspecified evidence all corroborate the version of events laid out by a Colorado woman whose husband is missing and presumed dead after an attack on a lake straddling the Mexican border, the sheriff leading the investigation said this afternoon.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. detailed some of the reasons he does not doubt that David Hartley, a 30-year-old Loveland native, was murdered a week ago by a drug gang on Falcon Lake, a 44-mile long waterway bisected by the U.S.-Mexico border.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_16279531
Posted:10/07/2010
Eyewitness in Alleged Mexican Pirate Attack Case Comes Forward [ Mexico blocks US from search ]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2603445/posts
A Fishing Paradise Gains a Deadly Reputation
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/us/08pirate.html?_r=2
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The shooting was the latest in a string of attacks by pirates on the lake that began on April 30. The gangs carry AK-47s and sometimes claim to be Mexican federal police or American game wardens. They have sometimes hijacked high-prowed boats favored by Mexican fishermen and used them to chase down Americans in bass boats, stealing their money at gunpoint.
But Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez of Zapata County, on the Texas side of the lake, has said that Mrs. Hartley’s story is credible and that the assault is in keeping with other recent robberies, some of which happened in the same part of the lake.
On April 30, for example, two boats carrying five tourists who wanted photographs of the Guerrero church were robbed at gunpoint by four heavily tattooed men in a fishing boat who identified themselves as “federales.” They demanded cash and even asked, “Where are the drugs?”
A week later, on May 6, three fishermen were robbed at gunpoint near Salado Island. On May 16, another group of boaters was robbed, again by armed men in a fishing boat on the United States side of the reservoir.
More recently, a gang of pirates in a small boat, with “Game Wardin” spelled out in duct tape, tried to stop a Texas fisherman, the police said. The Texan figured the misspelled word meant they were not really game wardens and outran them, the police said.
The governor has also staunchly defended Mrs. Hartley against anyone who doubts her account, saying he finds such theories “really reprehensible.”