Remains Found at U.S. Border Lake Where American Was Reported Killed by Mexican Pirates

FoxNews ^ | Dec. 30, 2011 | Staff

[La Enchiladita]

Authorities are investigating human remains found at the same U.S. border lake where a Colorado man was reported to have been killed by Mexican drug cartel members last year.

A professional fisherman found the skeletal remains on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border, according to multiple reports.

The skeleton was found about 15 miles from where 30-year-old David Hartley was last seen alive on Sept. 30, 2010. His wife, Tiffany Hartley, said the couple had set out on Wave Runners to take photos of a half-submerged church on the Mexican side of the lake when they were attacked.

Hartley told authorities that her husband was shot in the back of the head while the couple tried to dodge bullets from three boats of Mexican pirates. The woman told investigators she was forced to leave her husband lying face down in the water because she was unable to pull him onto her watercraft. Hartley's body has never been recovered.

[La Enchiladita]

This is an inconclusive report thus far. Instead of recovering the body, the fisherman reported it to Mexican authorities. Ay, ay, ay.

[Jonty30]

I feel for the woman losing her husband like that.

[hoosiermama]

Prayers for his family. May they find some closer

[RitchieAprile]

moving the deceased would taint the crime scene evidence.

[thouworm]

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[La Enchiladita]

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[afraidfortherepublic]

Where are all those posters who thought she was faking it?

May he rest in peace.

[shanover]

Mexican Pirates?WTF.Calling General Pershing!I’m sorry Holder will get right on that.

[Krankor]

Dollars to donuts it’s not the hubby.

[Jonty30]

I think the water has washed away all incriminating evidence anyway.

[sockmonkey]

Where are all those posters who thought she was faking it?

I'd like to say they're hiding under a rock somewhere, but I see them mouthing off on other FR threads all the time.

I echo your Rest in Peace.

[Hot Tabasco]

Where are all those posters who thought she was faking it?

Still waiting for conslusive evidence........one dead body in Mexico is no different than the other, no matter where it's located.

[La Enchiladita]

Previous FR thread (one of many): Falcon Lake Murder: New Blood Evidence Found (Video) October 8, 2010

(snip)Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez says that he has a witness who corroborates Tiffany Hartley’s story. That witness, whose identity is being concealed out of safety concerns, claims that when Hartley came off the lake on her jet ski, she was being chased by men in a boat and that she was sobbing and frantic.

[Valpal1]

The crime scene is the middle of the lake, not where the remains came to rest.

[Valpal1]

The crime scene is the middle of the lake, not where the remains came to rest.

[Valpal1]

The crime scene is the middle of the lake, not where the remains came to rest.

[Valpal1]

The crime scene is the middle of the lake, not where the remains came to rest.

[Sam Clements]

This young wife had just experienced one of the most frightening and horrific incidents anyone could be expected to endure and there were actually some who thought she was guilty. UNBELIEVABLE

[FlingWingFlyer]

Skeletal remains, huh? Well, unless they turn them over to the actors on one of the forensics TV shows, I don't think we'll ever know what happened.

sarc/