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NEWS COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE OF DEATH CASE

In the closing days of January 2004, Mexican authorities unearthed a dozen bodies buried beneath a suburban home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. All twelve of the men were victims of an organized crime syndicate often referred to as the Juarez Cartel.

Even as the bodies were still being examined, rumors began to circulate that a US informant might have played a role in the killings as well. Tensions within El Paso's insular law enforcement community were high.

Over the next few months, two journalists pursued this story with particular vigor: Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News & Bill Conroy of the online website Narconews.com.

 

The entirety of Bill Conroy's reporting can be found at Narconews.com. Some of Alfredo Corchado's stories are available by searching DallasNews.com.

 

Links to articles by both these journalists - as well as several others - appear to the right.

 

 


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Dallas Morning News - Alfredo Corchado - April 3, 2004

"Mexican authorities are angry about a report that a paid informant for a US government agency supervised murders in Mexico and that the agency did not share that knowledge, a senior Mexican law enforcement official said."

Narco News - Bill Conroy - May 22, 2004

"Mexican state police Commander Miguel Loya Gallegos disappeared in January. Several of his associates disappeared, too, vexing law enforcement agents who say their mysterious disappearance – and consequent unavailability as potential witnesses to multiple murders – could prove very convenient to U.S. prosecutors and a confidential informant under their protection."

London Observer - David Rose - December 3, 2006

"When 12 bodies were found buried in the garden of a Mexican house, it seemed like a case of drug-linked killings. But the trail led to Washington and a cover-up that went right to the top."

WFAA - Mark Smith & Byron Harris - August 25, 2006

"In a small-town jail in the upper Midwest sits a once highly-paid informant the U.S. government would probably rather you not know about."

PROCESO - J. Esquivel

"Guillermo Eduardo Ramírez Peyro, alias “Jesús Contreras” o simplemente Lalo, sirvió como informante de la Agencia de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE) y de la DEA en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua."