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 Editorials | Issues | April 2007 
Prosecutor Lied in Ianiero Case, CTV Says
 Greg Mcarthur & Marina Jimenez - Globe and Mail
| | It's been more than a year since Domenic and Nancy Ianiero travelled to the Mayan Riviera for their daughter's wedding, only to be killed in their luxury hotel room, their throats slit ear to ear. |
The Mexican prosecutor investigating the unsolved slayings of a Canadian couple has lied publicly in order to cast suspicion toward innocent Canadians and away from a suspected Mexican killer, an upcoming CTV documentary alleges.
It's been more than a year since Domenic and Nancy Ianiero travelled to the Mayan Riviera for their daughter's wedding, only to be killed in their luxury hotel room, their throats slit ear to ear.
The mystery of who killed them, and why, endures and tonight CTV's W-Five explores whether Mexican investigators are purposely discounting a Mexican security guard as the prime suspect in order to protect the country's lucrative tourism industry.
Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo, the attorney-general for the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, has insisted from the outset that the killers were Canadian. However, the CTV documentary has found that the prosecutor's own investigative file, parts of which were obtained by W-Five, contradicts his public statements about Blas Delgado Fajardo, the security guard who has long been suspected by the couple's children and their criminal defence lawyer, Edward Greenspan.
The contradictions include: Mr. Rodriguez y Carrillo has said that Mr. Delgado Fajardo wasn't in the Mexican army and that he didn't have the expertise to perform the killing, even though the security guard's own rιsumι lists his service in a Mexico City military camp and anti-drug trafficking operations.
The prosecutor has said that a hair found in the hand of Nancy Ianiero rules out the security guard as a suspect because it didn't match a sample taken from Mr. Delgado Fajardo's mother. However, the investigative file states that the hair found at the scene couldn't be tested because it wasn't handled and stored properly.
The hour-long documentary didn't determine what might have motivated the security guard to murder the couple, and stated that it isn't clear whether anything was taken from the hotel room.
The couple's daughter, Nancy Ianiero, also appears in the documentary and spoke publicly for the first time about her parents' slayings, which took place only a few days before her twin sister, Lily, was supposed to be married on the beach.
She said that the night before they were killed, Mr. Delgado Fajardo ingratiated himself with her parents by massaging Mr. Ianiero's ailing foot and instructing him on applying special cream.
The security guard has been missing since the killings, and even though he was seen on the resort grounds the night the couple was killed, dressed entirely in black and not scheduled to work, investigators haven't expressed much interest in finding him, the family alleges.
Nancy told police about the guard as soon as they arrived, she said.
It was the first thing I said and they looked at me like I was crazy. It's like they didn't believe me when I was telling them, she told W-Five.
Anthony Ianiero also attacked the federal government and accused them of refusing to make his parents' slayings a major, diplomatic issue.
As far as we're concerned they're not pressing them at all, he said of the government's appeals to the Mexicans. We don't think this is an issue they're bringing up with the Mexican government.
Mr. Ianiero also denied ever having a $300,000 gambling debt.
Asked whether he was a gambler, Mr. Ianiero said: I would go just as much as any other person would go once in a while, a few card games with friends during Christmas, New Year's or what not. But no. |
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