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In Gloomy Brownsville, The Last Photo of Chili Perez...
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpFHRa0FjKZE6xmOwbHujotSaPWlIE4A6idDtoR2Zzxv_C8m4lLisYANS0Jxz8la1Kn_dOdW8enZqb2PqT83Rnw9z-Etwn5EPTBxfUbA56zV7M89-0JiW8ryXC2CDhlmqUVyb_3jlmiGg/s1600/aaaachili.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 278px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696351561048005122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpFHRa0FjKZE6xmOwbHujotSaPWlIE4A6idDtoR2Zzxv_C8m4lLisYANS0Jxz8la1Kn_dOdW8enZqb2PqT83Rnw9z-Etwn5EPTBxfUbA56zV7M89-0JiW8ryXC2CDhlmqUVyb_3jlmiGg/s400/aaaachili.jpg" /></a><em><span style="font-size:85%;"> "All the rivers run into the sea,</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">yet the sea is not full..."</span></em><br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">- Ecclesiastes, 1, 7</span></strong><br /><br /><strong>By RICARDO KLEMENT</strong><br /><em>The Paz Files</em><br /><br /><strong>BROWNSVILLE, Texas -</strong> In his falling neighborhood of Las Prietas here, where even the smallest dreams are stillborn, people who knew police Det. Chili Perez don't just mourn his apparent loss; hundreds of them are turning to weird, money-grubbing Mexican <em>curanderos </em>and palm readers in an effort to rid themselves of the nerve-wrecking mystery that is his unexplained disappearance.<br /><br />"It's a Valley thing," said Panfilo "Fungus" Lozano, a local thug. "Until Chili surfaces, it's one of those damned drags, man. We need an answer. We need to be told what the Hell happened, you know."<br /><br />Across the aging wooden picnic table nestled between a rusting, Sears BBQ grill and a goofy-looking banana tree, Lozano's wife, Tencha, plays with rosary beads and, between utterances of prayer and hope, says, "That's how are people handle these things. We know the Perez family from back when we all picked cotton and it's weird to see him gone."<br /><br />Overhead, a moving gray sky shakes itself of a few tons of rain. Fungus and Tencha Lozano feel the raindrops, but do not move for shelter. That, too, is part of the Mexican border - this ability to take the bad over and over and over without comment.<br /><br />Chili Perez has been missing for 10 days, ever since the chief of police here put him on the Louise Herrera murder case. A gregarious cop, Perez is known for his unorthodox manner, yet is forever seen about town. Police have said nothing about the development, and some theorize that Perez is merely working undercover. They note that, yes, Chili was last seen with a woman by the name of Lina Von Osten, a German in the employ of<em> Paz Files</em> writer Rudolf Von Bulow. It is Von Bulow who was initially charged with raping the 23-year-old Ms. Herrera, a junior college student here.<br /><br />Emotional cops were the first to announce her mysterious death. They say a boxer out on a training jog found her dead at the base of a craggy mesquite tree along an isolated ravine frequented by coyotes. No autopsy report has as yet been released.<br /><br />The mystery has thickened after police released a photo they say may be the last photo taken of Detective Perez (see photo above). It shows what appears to be a man's upright body seemingly evaporating. According to local anthropologist Dr. Pancho Zavalatte, such is the way of the crazy Nazis of the 1930s.<br /><br />"They experimented with drugs that created spontaneous combustion in the human body," Zavalatte said during a chit-chat at Starbucks, where he downed a caramel latte while opining on the bizarre case. "This could very well be part of that. Chili could be a <em>fajita</em> by now..."<br /><br />At his mother's two-story, frame home, 94-year-old Marcelina Perez said this in between a stream of sobs: "All I want is my <em>mijito</em> to come back to be with us, the living..."<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">- 30 -</span></strong></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8418586410607151775-420608005192036403?l=thepazfiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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