Posted on 07/25/2021 11:54:02 AM PDT by conservative98
A Texas firefighter has been found dead after his family believes he was kidnapped at a Mexican resort while on vacation to celebrate his wedding anniversary, according to reports.
Elijah Snow, who was a firefighter in the city of Arlington, had traveled with his wife, Jamie, last week to an all-inclusive resort in the popular tourist destination of Cancun, news station DFW-TV reported.
The couple went to grab drinks at the hotel bar for their first night of the vacation, but at some point in the evening his wife decided to go back to their room, the outlet reported.
When she woke up around 4 a.m. Monday, she realized that Snow wasn’t there, the news station reported.
She began searching for him and was told that he had been found dead, possibly after falling between the walls of the resort next door, the outlet reported.
Officials in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said Friday that Snow’s body was discovered stuck in the bathroom window of a hotel in the Benito Juarez district.
The death appeared to be an accident and there were no signs of violence, officials said.
Snow’s family, however, hired a local attorney who obtained crime scene photos that show bruises on most of his body, news station KTVT reported.
The family now believes that he was kidnapped and beaten before he was killed, the outlet reported.
“You’re supposed to be safe there,” Randy Elledge, Snow’s father-in-law, told the outlet. “You’re at your resort,
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
stuck in the bathroom window
Go to Mexico at your own risk.
The couple went to grab drinks at the hotel bar for their first night of the vacation, but at some point in the evening his wife decided to go back to their room, the outlet reported.
When she woke up around 4 a.m. Monday, she realized that Snow wasn’t there, the news station reported.
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Something is off... At some point the wife goes back alone to her room without hubby?
Yet she is fine, hubby dead.
She might be a three martini 0 to nightmare drunk and went off in a snit. What hubby did afterward who knows.
> Go to Mexico at your own risk. <
I have two rules in that regard.
Rule #1: Don’t go to Mexico. Instead visit some nice place in the USA.
Rule #2: if you’re thinking about going to Mexico anyway, go back and read Rule #1 again.
It’s a shame to have to say that. But it’s not 1950 anymore.
Most people can live perfectly happy fulfilled lives without ever setting foot on Mexican soil. Even Mexicans.
What are you saying? She was in the room. He was out and about, more likely he would be killed, not her alone in the room asleep.
I’ve never been to Mexico- and I have zero desire to do so. Can’t get me to Jamaica, either.
“Yet she is fine, hubby dead.”
Could have been a simple robbery. Hubster stays for a couple more drinks, gets a Mickey in his drink and is taken out of the bar by the criminal. Tries to put up a fight, gets beaten to death and gets thrown out of a bathroom window.
OR
Wifey tells Hubster “I’m going to lay down. You stay and enjoy yourself. Really, it’ll be fine.”
Wifey goes back to room. Pedro plops down beside Hubster buys him a few drinks and talks him into leaving the bar. Pedro beats Hubster to death and chucks him out of a window.
Pockets the $100 American wifey paid to get rid of Hubster.
Hell, might have been $50. Life is cheap in Mexico.
Or something else. Alcohol and lawless places are a bad combination.
Whatever happened Wifey Jaime cashes the checks and goes back on the market with a nice nest egg.
I have one rule. Look at the still alive spouse first.
“The body was located in a bathroom window” at a hotel, which was not the resort where Snow was staying, according to the tweet translated from Spanish. Benito Juárez is about a 30-minute drive, or 10 miles away, from the beachfront hotels in Cancun.
Snow’s cause of death has not been released, and results of an autopsy are pending. Family members believe he was murdered after possibly being kidnapped and trying to escape, according to media reports.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/arlington/article252991218.html
Body of Arlington firefighter was found in bathroom window, Mexican authorities say
I’d say its possible to do #2 but as a group with several friends who watch out for each other. Definitely not alone.
I’d say its possible to do #2 but as a group with several friends who watch out for each other. Definitely not alone.
The fire training facility in Arlington TX is named after one of his kin who died during a training accident.
Prayers for the family.
In the 70’s, my in-laws would drive to Mexico from Wisconsin in their big old ‘Woodie’ Station Wagon and then drive all over Mexico to see the sights. Never any problems. They always came back alive, LOL!
I’ve vacationed in MX half a dozen times. Last time was in the early 90’s. You couldn’t PAY me to step foot in that country ever again.
And that’s sad, because there’s a lot of history there, and it’s quite beautiful, and the ocean view is just spectacular from so many places. :(
Have been in Mexico only to eat cabrito back in 68 when I worked in Brownsville, TX. Perhaps 3 times in total.
Of all the vacation spots folks can go to, why is it that Cancun seems to be where so many non-Mexican vacationers get killed?
In the link below, notice that among cities with the top homicide rates, Mexico has 11 of the top 25 cities, and 18 of the top 50.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
“I’d say its possible to do #2 but as a group with several friends who watch out for each other.”
I everybody has to stay at a Kandahar-level of switched on, it’s not much of a vacay.
my wife and I took a cruise to mexico in the 90’s. It was a hellhole and we will never go back
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