10-13-2010, 01:18 PM
here she is STILL making the TV rounds. she is getting on my last nerve. blah blah blah de blah
edit to add: she really needs to put a sock in it. she was on JVM wed. night too. STFU girl!
anyway, what is interesting is the American sheriff does NOT believe Flores' murder is related to Hartley case. MANY LEOs have been murdered in mexico.
AUSTIN, Texas — The wife of an American man missing after a reported shooting on a border lake said Wednesday she will not go to Mexico to meet with authorities because she is afraid of the dangers she might face there.
"We're all under agreement that that is not a wise decision," Tiffany Hartley said on NBC's TODAY show. "Who knows what would happen if I do go over there?"
Hartley appeared on TODAY one day after a Texas sheriff told NBC News that the severed head of a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of her husband, David Hartley, had been delivered to authorities in Mexico.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez is spearheading the investigation on the U.S. side.
David Hartley vanished on Sept. 30 while on Jet Skis with his wife on Falcon Lake, which stretches into Mexico.
Rolando Flores, commander of state investigators in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, was part of a group investigating the reported shooting. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the Tamaulipas state confirmed that Flores had been killed, but said the death was unrelated to the Hartley investigation.
Tiffany Hartley described Flores as a "very sincere, very compassionate" person who "seemed like he really wanted to help" despite the challenges he faced because of the violence in Mexico.
"My heart broke," Harley said of learning of the investigator's death.
"I just grieve for his family and my heart just aches for his family because they're now having to go through what we're going through," she said during the TODAY interview. "And just like everybody says to me, there just aren't any words to explain how sorry I am and how much I hurt for his family."
Attempt at intimidation
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the death of the investigator was a message from gangsters for investigators to "stay out of their territory."
"I think their attempt is to intimidate law enforcement, no matter who they are or where they are," Perry told The Associated Press.
The beheading "is taking a page out of al-Qaida's playbook that these drug cartels have been doing for about the last three or four years now, trying to come up with the most grotesque form of murder they can to intimidate authorities and to intimidate the citizens of Mexico," former FBI profiler and NBC News analyst Clint Van Zandt said on TODAY.
U.S. officials have said threats from drug gangs who control the area around Falcon Lake have hampered the search for Hartley, though divers have been in the lake searching this week. The search for Hartley's body is expected to continue, although Gonzalez said it's becoming increasingly unlikely the body will be found.
The part of Tamaulipas state where the lake sits is overrun by violence from a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zeta drug gang, made up of former Mexican special forces soldiers, and both are battling the Mexican military.
edit to add: she really needs to put a sock in it. she was on JVM wed. night too. STFU girl!
anyway, what is interesting is the American sheriff does NOT believe Flores' murder is related to Hartley case. MANY LEOs have been murdered in mexico.
AUSTIN, Texas — The wife of an American man missing after a reported shooting on a border lake said Wednesday she will not go to Mexico to meet with authorities because she is afraid of the dangers she might face there.
"We're all under agreement that that is not a wise decision," Tiffany Hartley said on NBC's TODAY show. "Who knows what would happen if I do go over there?"
Hartley appeared on TODAY one day after a Texas sheriff told NBC News that the severed head of a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of her husband, David Hartley, had been delivered to authorities in Mexico.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez is spearheading the investigation on the U.S. side.
David Hartley vanished on Sept. 30 while on Jet Skis with his wife on Falcon Lake, which stretches into Mexico.
Rolando Flores, commander of state investigators in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, was part of a group investigating the reported shooting. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office in the Tamaulipas state confirmed that Flores had been killed, but said the death was unrelated to the Hartley investigation.
Tiffany Hartley described Flores as a "very sincere, very compassionate" person who "seemed like he really wanted to help" despite the challenges he faced because of the violence in Mexico.
"My heart broke," Harley said of learning of the investigator's death.
"I just grieve for his family and my heart just aches for his family because they're now having to go through what we're going through," she said during the TODAY interview. "And just like everybody says to me, there just aren't any words to explain how sorry I am and how much I hurt for his family."
Attempt at intimidation
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the death of the investigator was a message from gangsters for investigators to "stay out of their territory."
"I think their attempt is to intimidate law enforcement, no matter who they are or where they are," Perry told The Associated Press.
The beheading "is taking a page out of al-Qaida's playbook that these drug cartels have been doing for about the last three or four years now, trying to come up with the most grotesque form of murder they can to intimidate authorities and to intimidate the citizens of Mexico," former FBI profiler and NBC News analyst Clint Van Zandt said on TODAY.
U.S. officials have said threats from drug gangs who control the area around Falcon Lake have hampered the search for Hartley, though divers have been in the lake searching this week. The search for Hartley's body is expected to continue, although Gonzalez said it's becoming increasingly unlikely the body will be found.
The part of Tamaulipas state where the lake sits is overrun by violence from a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zeta drug gang, made up of former Mexican special forces soldiers, and both are battling the Mexican military.