Official: Men confess to killing Mexican students

[bemildred]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Three men arrested in connection with the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in Iguala have admitted to killing them, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said Friday.

Murillo said police officers handed the victims to the three men, who he said belong to the Guerreros Unidos gang.

Authorities had already arrested a Mexican mayor called the "probable mastermind" in the mass abduction. Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were caught earlier this week.

The attorney general identified the three gang members who confessed as Patricio Reyes Landa, Jhonatan Osorio Gomez and Agustin Garcia Reyes.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/07/world/americas/mexico-missing-students/

[BillZBubb]

1. I'm skeptical of this at least until there is more information

Three low level gang members wouldn't have killed that many people without help and orders from above. They may have participated, but there are a lot more guilty people.

[TorchTheWitch]

8. How did you miss the part about the MAYOR and his wife???

The MAYOR, the alleged mastermind. That "more information" is right the hell there in the article.

[BillZBubb]

9. I didn't. Given the enormity of the crime, it has to go beyond the mayor.

The police, the police chief, the gang, the gang leaders, maybe even higher up the political chain. Murdering that many students was a big move. I think someone above the mayor either called for this or a least OK'ed it.

[bemildred]

2. Mexico: Students Killed, Burned, Dumped Into River

Forty-three missing college students are believed to have been murdered and burned near a municipal garbage dump in the southern state of Guerrero and their remains thrown into a river, Mexico's chief prosecutor said Friday.

In a somber, lengthy explanation of the investigation, Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam played video showing hundreds of charred fragments of bone and teeth fished from the river and its banks. He said it will be very difficult to extract DNA to confirm identities of the victims of a horrific mass murder and incineration that lasted 14 hours.

"I know the enormous pain the information we've obtained causes the family members, a pain we all share," Murillo Karam said at a news conference. "The statements and information that we have gotten unfortunately points to the murder of a large number of people in the municipality of Cocula."

"International experts have said they can't give a time frame for when they will get results," he added.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/families-missing-students-told-remains-26764976

[NaturalHigh]

3. Something makes me think these guys are the patsies.

I wonder how the Mexican police "convinced" them to confess.

[Judi Lynn]

4. If these young teachers-to-be were cremated, thrown into a river

it would explain why their bodies didn't turn up in any of the mass graves claimed to be their resting places earlier.

Unforgiveable.

The truth MUST be determined in this case. So much suffering should NOT be swept under the carpet, no matter how many politicians or wealthy people are involved.

Just once justice should prevail on the side of the people after one of these openings of the gates of hell get visited upon the innocents.

[WinkyDink]

5. I don't know why posters are saying "skeptical" and "patsies." The MAYOR was arrested; POLICE are

implicated; the MAYOR'S WIFE, with ties to the drug lords, was arrested.

These gang members were the trigger-men. Not difficult to believe.

[hopemountain]

7. agreed -

corruption is everywhere. sadness for the families.

[Scairp]

6. The human race is doomed

"The three gang members who confessed told police they don't remember exactly how many people they killed, but they were told by their leaders that there were more than 40".