Letter points to Canadian suspects in Mexican killings
The unsolved killings of a Canadian couple in Mexico have taken another bizarre twist with a Mexican newspaper reporting it received an anonymous tip from Ontario about possible Canadian suspects.
The typewritten letter was sent from Hamilton, Ont., to the newspaper Novedades Quintana Roo in early March, just days after Domenic and Nancy Ianiero were slain in their hotel room at a resort near Cancun.
According to Canadian Press, the letter reads: "Will you please ask the police to check out the possibility of Canadians flying from Cuba to Cancun on the week that the murders took place."The letter writer described one Canadian as tall and thin, while the other was heavyset. The tipster described a Latino who was with them as "possibly Mexican."
"Thank you very much," the writer concludes. "I thought the police will hear you better than myself."
This latest suggestion of possible Canadian suspects falls in line with remarks made last week by Mexican President Vicente Fox that the killers were from Canada.
- FROM MARCH 29, 2006: Suspects in Ianiero murder likely Canadian: Fox
On Friday, well-known Canadian criminal lawyer Edward Greenspan lashed out at the Mexican president for his comments.
Greenspan, who is representing the Ianiero family, said Fox had compromised the murder probe by suggesting that a Canadian member of the wedding party committed the murders.
Mexican investigators initially pinpointed two Thunder Bay mothers as prime suspects because they'd been staying at the resort at the same time as the Ianieros and had left the morning the bodies were discovered. They backtracked after an outcry in Canada and said the women had never really been suspects.
The women, Kimberley Kim and Cheryl Everall have asked that their names be officially cleared.
The investigators are also focusing on four resort workers who went missing shortly after the murders.
Last week, police in the Ianieros' hometown of Woodbridge, Ont., confirmed they were investigating a knife turned over by an American family vacationing about a kilometre away from where the Ianieros had stayed in Mexico. The knife was found stashed in a backpack.
- FROM MARCH 31, 2006: Ontario police study knife found near Mexican resort