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Mexican Parents Frustrated With Government; Approaches The Cartel For Help In Finding 43 Missing Students

The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery — Drawings of some of 43 missing rural college students are surrounded by flower petals, forming the shape of a heart, during a protest marking the six-month anniversary of their disappearance, in Mexico City. Photo: Associated Press

Some of the families of 43 college students missing in southern Mexico since September say desperation and a lack of confidence in the government drove them to appeal to the leader of a drug gang for help in locating their sons.

After months of investigation, Mexican officials concluded a different drug gang killed and incinerated the young men. But six months after the disappearance, and with only one of the missing identified through a bone fragment, parents are asking the leader of a rival gang to share what he knows. Continue reading “Mexican Parents Frustrated With Government; Approaches The Cartel For Help In Finding 43 Missing Students”

10 Years After Going Missing, Still No Natalee Holloway; Possible New Developments In The Case

Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old graduate of Mountain Brook High School in Birmingham, Alabama, traveled to the Caribbean island of Aruba with 125 members of her senior class. On Monday, May 30, 2005, she did not show up for her flight back to the United States.

Witnesses said Natalee was last seen leaving a nightclub in a car with three males — Joran Van Der Sloot, 17; Deepak Kalpoe, 21,and Satist Kalpoe, 18. The three originally told authorities that they dropped the Alabama honors student at the hotel where she was staying, but their story has changed many times since the early days in the search for Natalee Holloway.

New Lead in the Case? Continue reading “10 Years After Going Missing, Still No Natalee Holloway; Possible New Developments In The Case”

63 Year Old New Jersey Woman Convicted Of Cutting Up Her Husband And Storing Remains In Tupperware

cold-case-remains-found — Loretta Burroughs, 63, was convicted in the 2007 killing of her husband.

Call her a pack rat. Call her guilty.

A New Jersey woman who took the dismembered remains of her husband with her when she moved at least twice has been found guilty of murder.

Loretta Doyle Burroughs, 63, of Ventnor City, was convicted in the 2007 killing of Doyle Burroughs after a four-day trial in Atlantic County Criminal Court in Mays Landing, N.J.

“The end of it all is Daniel Burroughs, decomposed in two Tupperware containers in this defendant’s closet,” Levy said. “This is how it ends.” Continue reading “63 Year Old New Jersey Woman Convicted Of Cutting Up Her Husband And Storing Remains In Tupperware”