Mass Murder Detective Missing in Mexico
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Mexican prosecutors say they are deeply concerned for the safety of a detective who is leading an investigation into the killing of 72 foreign migrants.
The wife of Roberto Suarez said that he had been missing since Wednesday, the day after the migrants were found dead at a ranch in Tamaulipas state.
A police officer who was travelling with him has also disappeared. Mr Suarez was one of the first people to find the migrants' bullet-ridden bodies at the ranch near San Fernando.
The only known survivor, an Ecuadorean man only identified as "Freddy", said the Zeta drugs cartel had tried to force the migrants to carry out assassinations for them.
The 58 men and 14 women were from South and Central America and had been trying to reach the United States. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon was asked by reporters on Friday to comment on the latest development in the investigations into the massacre, but stressed that it was too soon to speculate.