What I thought when I first heard about it.
It was pretty obvious from the pictures of the ‘victims’ this wasn’t a random kidnapping.
Not sure why the FBI was so quick to offer a 50K reward for information about them when they went missing - there is no way they didn’t know their backgrounds - but then again, who trusts anything the FBI does anymore.
Me too.
“What I thought when I first heard about it.”
Yep. I mentioned this before. About two years ago the US media was panting about an American “mother” and her “two children” being kidnapped and murdered in Mexico. The articles were hyperbolic in their hysterical coverage. Suspicious, I went searching and found the entire family, except the children, were wanted in the US for a variety of crimes, most of which involved drugs. Not one word in the media about how much trouble you’d be in if you suddenly ran into one of these family members. You’d have thought the woman had recently won the Pilsbury Bake-off. Since it was so easy to find out the background on these people the only reason the story was presented this way is to get clicks they wouldn’t have gotten if the title was, “Another American druggy gets killed by Mexican drug suppliers.”
The first report about them that I read said they were in Mexico for plastic surgery (tummy?) which I found hard to believe.
Hmmm. The tummy-tuck narrative appears to be falling apart.