MEXICO CITY - It was the dead men who did the talking.
And with their videotaped confession, the mystery may have been solved of what happened to 20 men who disappeared after going on vacation in Acapulco and being hauled away by gunmen.
Under heavy military guard, forensic specialists have extracted 18 bodies from a mass grave in a coconut grove south of Acapulco after the videotape popped up on YouTube. In the grainy tape, two beaten, bruised men confess to killing the group of 20 and reveal where they are buried.
On Thursday, investigators expanded the search area to about 2.5 acres.
Alerted separately by an anonymous telephone tip, police initially on Tuesday found two corpses believed to be of the men who appear in the video. A note attached to their bodies attributed the slayings to one of the drug-trafficking gangs working in the area, and again pinpointed the burial site of the other victims. The 6-by-12-foot clandestine grave was found alongside the two dead men, and digging began Wednesday.
Relatives of the missing 20, from the western state of Michoacan, will travel to the Acapulco area to attempt to identify the bodies, most found with their hands bound, said David Sotelo, prosecutor for the neighboring state of Guerrero.
Videotape tells of mass slayings
And the killings continue and continue.........
And with their videotaped confession, the mystery may have been solved of what happened to 20 men who disappeared after going on vacation in Acapulco and being hauled away by gunmen.
Under heavy military guard, forensic specialists have extracted 18 bodies from a mass grave in a coconut grove south of Acapulco after the videotape popped up on YouTube. In the grainy tape, two beaten, bruised men confess to killing the group of 20 and reveal where they are buried.
On Thursday, investigators expanded the search area to about 2.5 acres.
Alerted separately by an anonymous telephone tip, police initially on Tuesday found two corpses believed to be of the men who appear in the video. A note attached to their bodies attributed the slayings to one of the drug-trafficking gangs working in the area, and again pinpointed the burial site of the other victims. The 6-by-12-foot clandestine grave was found alongside the two dead men, and digging began Wednesday.
Relatives of the missing 20, from the western state of Michoacan, will travel to the Acapulco area to attempt to identify the bodies, most found with their hands bound, said David Sotelo, prosecutor for the neighboring state of Guerrero.
Videotape tells of mass slayings
And the killings continue and continue.........