Falcon Lake: Case Closed? Five Remaining Oddities In A Very Weird Case

“A normal reflex when hit in the head is to jerk backwards, as JFK did.”

Okay. But what happens when you're shot on a jet ski and your foot comes off the accelerator. Do you agree that the laws of physics would result in a body going over the handle bars?

Because in an automobile, if it suddenly stops or slows, you are in the windshield!

One of the aspects of this incident is that memory is problematic, particularly if it was very sudden and brutal. And I tend to believe people who have a witness, and then when the main investigator ends up dead.

As to the lie detector test, they're not admissible in court. I would never take one, for that reason alone.

I have posted this before, but will do so again. This witness, btw, is not the independent witness who has been seen on televison with his voice disguised.

From the San Antonio Express News 10/10/2010:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/american_shot_while_jet_skiing_on_falcon_lake_104116729.html?showFullArticle=y

The Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at about 2:20 p.m. from a man working in the backyard of his residence in the Falcon Estates subdivision, who stated that someone had been shot in the head and claimed that a body had been dumped by people in three boats, Gonzalez said.

Yep, I’ve been severely chastised on other boards for having the temerity to question the grieving widow’s account. Nonetheless, it’s a real life mystery and I can’t resist the challenge to try to figure it out. The drug angle certainly has merit, but this couple seems a bit too whitebread to get mixed up in something like that. They had to know about the murders and be headings associated with the drug cartels, so they would have had to be totally desperate to try something like that. Of course, they did move back to the States, so maybe they thought it was safe to do on this side of the border. And the Mexican investigator getting decapitated certainly seems a bit of a coincidence. Still, I like the insurance scam angle.I believe they were stopped by the cops for not having the proper license tags on their vehicle- or something like that. I’m not sure either. I’d bet dollars to donuts the couple were weaned on TV. The woman’s account her husband went flying after being shot, smacks of a lifetime exposed to violent movies. I mean, when you’re shot you drop. Did you know you can’t even shoot a guy’s hat off his head (Mythbusters)? And you’re right, she doesn’t seem too bright. She probably thought a good story featuring murderous pirates (along with her husband’s blood on her life vest) would be more than sufficient for a big insurance payout. Oddly enough, in most cases like this, the cops are fairly tight lipped and say stuff like, “the woman is not a suspect blah blah blah”. Yet the local sheriff, along with some big time politicians and news organizations seem to be actively supporting and promoting her story.

>> They may have gone to pick up a drug shipment <<

Stongest possibility, IMHO.

>> he’s alive and they’re trying to run a lame insurance scam <<

Number two on my list of likelihoods.

>> it could have been a love triangle murder <<

Not in the running, AFAIC.

Presumably "falling off" is a common occurrence on jetski boats ~ so all of them (particularly those rented out like these were) are equipped with a dead-man switch.

That way when you fall off out in the middle of the bay, or lake, or river, it stops and you can swim to it easily to get back on and start up again.

I am trying to figure out why anyone would wire across a deadman switch on a jetski. Just doesn't make sense.

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