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IS THERE A SERIAL KILLER STALKING ISOLATED NORTH SPI?
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />Even though it has been determined that a business surveillance video tape shows that the third body found floating in the Laguna off South Padre Island shows the victim falling off a bridge and into the water, the fact that it is the third dead person found in the vicinity is fueling speculation that the first two may have been the act of a serial killer working on the isolated stretches of beach north of the island.<br />The tape shows that shows that Michael Lonnie McPeak. 65, of Port Isabel fell from a bridge just past the Dairy Queen, said Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio. Lucio hastened to say that the discoveries were not linked.<br />“No, no we don’t think they are related at all,†Lucio said Friday.<br />Last Wednesday, the body of a woman was found about 6 to 9 miles north of Beach Access No. 6.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RDXwiSk_A0cQsWPYiIRPLoNSGqZ9-WREiFImazofVlNBoKYT4N0AAFCWs8i37YIvsvkimIv-uIgR9WtPao5oJJz72vs_l38FkuIj-7Y-HLT3lWth7EhcJruaOP1BDVKDE-1VK2Knnxo/s1600/2421171-climb_South_Padre_Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RDXwiSk_A0cQsWPYiIRPLoNSGqZ9-WREiFImazofVlNBoKYT4N0AAFCWs8i37YIvsvkimIv-uIgR9WtPao5oJJz72vs_l38FkuIj-7Y-HLT3lWth7EhcJruaOP1BDVKDE-1VK2Knnxo/s320/2421171-climb_South_Padre_Island.jpg" width="320" /></a>Lucio said the woman’s body had been buried in the sand.The cause of death has not been determined, he said.<br />“We still don’t know,†he said, adding that one of his investigators had attended the autopsy Thursday.<br />Then, on Sept. 29, the <em>Valley Morning Star</em> reported that the body of 33-year-old Jeremy Tyrone Eyster of Irving also was found north of Beach Access 6. Lucio told the newspaper that at the time he was found blood and sand were on the victim’s face. A tattoo of a spider was discovered on the man’s right rear shoulder.<br />The sheriff said at the time that Eyster was identified through fingerprint technology provided through the assistance of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<br />The first two bodies were found north of Beach Access 6, which is in the northernmost part of the island. It is a usually isolated part of the island, but even then, “it’s very rare to find bodies, maybe a drowning, but not this,†Cameron County Parks Director Javier Mendez told the <em>VMS</em>.<br />Lucio said the sheriff's department was treating the first two victims found as homicide victims, but again would not comment on the possibility the perpetrator might have been the same person.<br />“We are treating all three as homicides until a final determination is made,†he said. <br />A former Parks employee said that it was impossible to tell whether anyone could use the furthest reaches of the South Padre Island National Seashore as a dumping ground and said that transients come and go, sometimes even leaving their belongings behind.<br />"They're here one day and then they're gone before you know it," he said. "A few years ago we were cleaning up and found a deserted campsite with all the person's belonging still there. It's hard to know what happened to them."<br />If there is a serial killer working the island, it will be hard to detect any other remains because of the continually shifting sands and tides that often cover and wash over clandestine graves dug in the farthest reaches of the island, he said.<br />"Until we have a big storm and we go out there and see something, we'll never know if there is a predator working the island," he said.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-5877451155211513999?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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TURMOIL AT THE PORT OF BROWNSVILLE P.D.
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />With the arrival of former Brownsville Police Department Chief Carlos Garcia at the helm of the Port of Brownsville police force, people figured that an officer who had been in charges of a force of about 250 officers would have easy sailing with his impressive 8-person troop.<br />But the rumblings we hear from the Golden Gulch is that not everybody is a happy camper out there.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcOzTwCR7PDFAKGxycX_XBOpo2B3xQLJX7aUCWR0ZDbihsuWPcUU8nwddc6CKRE0vXiij9N7neHZyOfCx_dgCIl_H-nlkEMZDZRZMX-3cd6N2bubZMoIBoPl8udP0eRm0p03act3TeS8/s1600/chief.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYcOzTwCR7PDFAKGxycX_XBOpo2B3xQLJX7aUCWR0ZDbihsuWPcUU8nwddc6CKRE0vXiij9N7neHZyOfCx_dgCIl_H-nlkEMZDZRZMX-3cd6N2bubZMoIBoPl8udP0eRm0p03act3TeS8/s200/chief.JPG" width="200" /></a>For example, we understand that at least two veteran officers have left the force in frustration over Garcia's style of command and that one officer hired by Garcia recently lasted just three days before turning in the towel.<br />"At least two of the people who left were good veteran cops," said a port insider. "They just got tired of the way Garcia was running things. And the guy who lasted three days before quitting is a testimony to the fine screening done by the chief."<br />Garcia was a shoo-in for Port of Brownsville's director of security when he was named the finalist for the position.<br />It didn't matter that there were 25 other candidates, the scuttlebutt at the port indicated that Garcia had the inside track on the plum position even before the application period had elapsed.<br />And, as was the case when we initially reported the item, Garcia had not told the city commissioners or city manager that he had applied for the position.<br />At $107,966 (plus benefits), Garcia was the third-highest paid city employee only behind City manager Charlie Cabler at $159,120 (an ex-cop himself) and Assistant City Manager for Finance Pete Gonzales, at $115,696.<br />While Garcia was responsible for about 250 police officers in a city of almost 200,000, he will now be the head of a formidable seven-officer force and ride herd on a dwindling port force that has steadily decreased from a high of almost 6,000 workers in the different port leasees to a number estimated to hover between 2,000 to 3,000. <br />And still, after less than a year there, and with the number of defections under his command, could it be that the job is too much for the chief to handle? <br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-8905502455263077901?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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