Cancun Cops Now Eye Son as 'Person of Interest' in Parents' Murders
 Canadian Press
One year after a vacationing middle-aged Canadian couple were found slain in a luxury Mexican Riviera hotel, their throats slashed ear to ear in a spectacular unsolved crime, Cancun investigators regard the couple's son, Anthony Ianiero, as "a person of interest," according to a report in yesterday's Globe and Mail.
That does not mean an individual is a suspect, but rather, someone investigators would like to interview.
Were Domenic and Nancy Ianiero victims of a random robbery, as Anthony has long insisted? Or, as some have speculated, were they slain by a professional assassin acting on orders?
Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo, Attorney-General for the state of Quintana Roo, was unequivocal.
"The killers were contracted by Canadians," he said in the Globe.
In an exclusive, three-hour interview in Rodriguez's Cancun office, the prosecutor told the Globe he had not wanted to give the case file to Anthony's high-profile Toronto lawyer, Edward Greenspan, who ultimately secured a Mexican court order compelling Rodriguez to disclose his findings.
BRUTAL ROBBERY
For the past 10 months, Greenspan and Ianiero have voiced certainty that the Feb. 20, 2006 killings at the Barcelo Maya Beach Resort stemmed from a brutal robbery.
Ianiero was in Canada when his parents - Domencic, 59, and Nancy, 55 - were slain, preparing to join them at the five-star resort for what was to have been his sister Lily's beach wedding.
Still, he has said he knows "for a fact" that his parents had more money than the cash that was found on them.
Although it was a month before he spoke up, since then he has repeatedly said the prime suspect is a hotel security guard, Blas Delgado Fajardo, who befriended his parents before allegedly slaughtering and robbing them.
According to the Globe, not all of the Ianiero family shares that theory.
And on Thursday, four members of the Mexican investigative team provided a PowerPoint presentation to explain why they don't believe it either, revealing crime-scene photographs and detailing all the cash, items and travellers cheques that weren't taken from the room.
Along with Rodriguez were Ludwig Vivas, state director of forensic services at the time of the killings, Raymundo Canche, director of the criminal investigation, and William Bastarrachera, Quintana Roo's chief of police.
They stressed they still view Delgado Fajardo as "a person of interest," that he appears to have entered the United States illegally and that they are looking for him.
However, he is regarded as a peripheral rather than a central player in the deaths, Rodriguez told the Globe, one reason being that he was off duty on the night of the killings. |
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