A Nicaraguan national, Bismarck Espinoza Martinez, 32, has been taken into custody in connection to Stefaniak's death, according to Costa Rican officials. The video shows the sharp edge of Jimnez's coffin resting on Volz's shoulder. Meanwhile, Volz was held in various jails and penitentiaries. Then Volz took the stand. ABC News (Ramn Rojas filed Volz's appeal shortly after the verdict; by press time, in mid-April, the Rivas court had sent the paperwork up to the appellate court in Granada, where three judges were expected to rule on the case by the end of the month. In December, I drove out to one of the bigger new projects, Cantamar at Playa Yankee. What I can say is this: The reading of the verdict was long and theatrical. If we don't get help from the national government, we are going to have critical situations with drainage and electricity., The mayor is not anti-development. Then she sat and began to speak. He's laughing out there. By Tom Batchelor On 11/19/20 at 1:14 PM EST. A student at Ave Maria College of the Americas, near Managua, whose family has ties to both Nicaragua and South Florida, Llanes was never taken into custody. In the street outside the Miscellania Calderon, where I'd buy all of my sundries over the next three months, a huge crowd had assembled, everyone hushed and looking at something I couldn't see. According to Alvarado and her lawyer, Erick Cabezas, who was also present, Baltodano told the woman, Your daughter is dead. Meanwhile, the boom continues, despite foreign anxiety surrounding the November 2006 reelection of former Sandinista president Daniel Ortega. Therefore the only witness tying Volz to the crime scene was Krusty Dangla. I was led into a spartan office; Volz was waiting at the desk. But that reputation has largely . That premise quickly fell apart as the police issued warrants for four men. While Baltodano denies offering a settlement, he admits the subject came up. The first forensic examiner found evidence of rape and sodomy. Holmann expanded the invitation to include Krusty Dangla's lawyer, Cesar Baltodano, and commissioner Yamil Gutirrez, of the Rivas police. Point by point, he went through the prosecution's evidence, highlighting the changes in the original charges, the scratches on Dangla, the conflicting findings about sodomy and rape, the shoddy police-lab work, which included Volz's incorrect blood typing as well as the failure to collect testable material from under Jimnez's fingernails, though her fingers showed signs of defensive injuries. A half-dozen dusty boys, their hands and faces pressed to the windows, waited for me to get out so they could guard my car for a tip. Mercedes Alvarado waved around a receipt from the Gran Diamante, crying out, I don't need a million dollars. His powerful family is trying to buy him out! became a local mantra. Despite the first suspicions, the man was released, without precautionary. I'm convinced that if they had caught any one of us, they would have killed us.. I had a lot of love for her, said Volz, who says that he ended things around June 2006. The Nicaraguan criminal-justice system does not yet test for DNA, and I found no fingerprint evidence against any of the defendants. Court adjourned at 1:00 p.m. Alvarado, dressed in black, rushed outside to lead a mob of a hundred San Juan residents, calling the police whores of the gringo for keeping them back. 'Little town, big hell.' An appeals court in Morocco has confirmed death sentences handed down to three men for the beheading of two Scandinavian tourists in the Atlas Mountains. One day I'll leave here Watch yourself., When the guards called time, Chamorro and I exchanged a hug. Carved into the forested hills overlooking an untouched beach are clear-cut terrace after clear-cut terrace, heavy machines at work, the ground rumbling beneath their weight. They hit me and hit me. Does he think Volz is guilty? We also learned that, between the two forensic examinations, Jimnez's body had been partially embalmed, at her mother's request. Jacqueline Charles Miami Herald A U.S. citizen vacationing in the Turks and Caicos was killed Sunday night in an explosion of gun violence that left three people dead and five others injured,. Eric was working to get beyond those divisive cultural and political relations. Early on the morning of Tuesday, March 27, I sat in a rental car in the parkinglot of the Modelo National Penitentiary, just outside the town of Tipitapa, 30 minutes east of Managua. Moroccan authorities believe four suspects in the killings had travelled to the Atlas Mountains intent on committing a crime, but had not selected a target in advance. With a murder rate that is eight times the global . This is the story you haven't heard. Nobody leaves the room, the judge said, and everyone flipped open their cell phones. At roughly 2:45, Volz received a call informing him of Jimnez's death; more calls would quickly come in confirming it. I was tortured by the police, he said. He was a student, not a delinquent. There was one last person I wanted to see: Rosita Chamorro. I still don't know exactly why I'm being forced to walk this path, he wrote. Los Aos Ochentas, as the Sandinista contra war of the 1980s is carefully referred to here, is long over, though the memories of it remain. Yeah, Eric Volz is a man in prison, but Doris is the one who lost her life. Many others simply say that he seemed aloof. It's expat surfers who are building many of the developments here. Nobody does: Fear of blood feuds looms large in San Juan, and Chamorro's and Dangla's extended families are enmeshed in everything. They were taunting and jeering. As Jan left with two legal advisers, he recalled, people were pounding on our car, hitting it with clubs. She went inside and returned with a credit-card slip bearing what appeared to be his signature, but the delivery driver never saw Volz himself. He began our interview with this statement: I've been misquoted a lot; that's why I'm recording I have an army of attorneys that are willing to step up in any way that I ask. He thought Nicaragua was the place to do this. Antoinette Traboulsi, who worked . Halfway up the block was another line of blue-uniformed national police, and facing them was an angry crowd of hundreds. That was the last time CSC guards appeared at the trial, though the damage had been done. Duck-diving back out through the set, I'd get to watch Roque's surgical dissection of the whole line, Rex's skateboard aerials. Who knows what's really going on?. The call lasted nearly an hour. This is Managua's moment and here are the best things to see and do in the city. Face masks should be worn in public areas. I can never go back to my town. He discussed his relationship with Jimnez in fluent Spanish. The day before the trial, the Volz family asked visitors to their Web site to pray for the safety of all involved in and surrounding the trial: Eric, witnesses, press, attorneys, bystanders, security, police; Health of one of Eric's key defense team who is sick with the flu; Judge; Doris's mother & family; That the trial is swift and that Eric will be free on Friday!. He was calm and looked directly at the judge. Eric and Doris had dated for a little over a year, but by the summer of 2006 they'd split: He moved to Managua to devote himself to EP, while she remained in San Juan to run her business. In 2004, Volz joined his father for a ten-day trip to Iraq, photographing country singer Chely Wright's tour as she entertained the troops. WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW TO TRAVEL TO NICARAGUA? I knew I wasn't going to be in Nicaragua forever, and I was always very up front and honest with Doris about that., Doris was Miss San Juan a couple years ago, Thompson said. Though sentiment in San Juan is unanimously positive concerning Doris Jimnez, opinion about Volz is mixed. Volz wore a jean jacket, the outlines of a bulletproof vest visible underneath. Thompson knew Jimnez three years longer than he knew Volz; he says what everyone says that she was nice. San Pedro Sula, in the northwest of the country, is at the center of much of this small Central American country's violence. A German tourist has been shot dead in White River, Mpumalanga overnight. But Tony D'Souza was on the scene from day one. When he described the $3 million an average San Juan real estate office made in annual sales, a ripple went through the gallery and a woman gasped, In dollars? Volz looked at the judge and said he was innocent. We were arrested together, he went free. The judge did not come in until 4:15. Top Things to Do in Nicaragua Places to Visit in Nicaragua Popular things to do City Tours Private Sightseeing Tours Hiking Tours Day Trips Half-day Tours Full-day Tours Bus Tours Night Tours Self-guided Tours Nature and Wildlife Tours 4WD Tours Ziplining Eco Tours Historical Tours Sporting Events Transfers & Ground Transport Top Picks My truck made me lots of friends in Central America, and among my more regular passengers out to Playa Madera were Roque and Rex Calderon, the half-dozen members of their entourage, and everyone's surfboard. In the coming days, the shocking details of what was alleged to have happened were splashed in tawdry headlines in El Nuevo Diario, the left-leaning national paper. Indeed, a terrified Nick Purdy looked at the door after being dismissed from his testimony and said, I ain't going out on the street.. A campaign and a movement have emerged.. Following it, at roughly 1:15 p.m., Volz, Castillo, and Adam Paredes, EP's art director, sat down to a lunch of curried fish served by the housekeeper, Martha Carolina Aguirre Corea. Cabezas alleges that Baltodano told Alvarado that if she would make a public written statement attesting to Volz's innocence, a cash settlement of $1,000,000 would be placed in her bank account, to which Cabezas, as her lawyer, would be entitled to 20 percent. Volz was calm and collected. MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan authorities say a U.S. citizen has been killed in the streets of Managua as violence and social unrest continue to grip the country's capital. That is the way I start each day. La Yuma (2010) Nicaragua's first locally produced feature film focuses on a young girl called Yuma who comes from a poor neighbourhood of Managua and dreams of one day becoming a professional boxer. The ultimate purpose is not yet clear, but in the meantime I have become a lightning rod for politics, compassion, prayer, and love. ADVERTISEMENT. He was a security guard at the apartment. I'd see her every day. Asked how he felt, Dangla said, Very good. One expat woman, who would not allow her name to be published, told me that she once pursued a restraining order against Chamorro after a violent encounter; when I asked him about it, he said that she'd hit him first. I said to her that her daughter would never live again, maybe we could do something. Volz's family, his defense team, and Holmann all emphatically deny having suggested a settlement. Middle-class by U.S. standards, Volz's parents say that they've spent their life savings defending their son. He had scratches. While still in police custody, he told me, he'd been tortured, but he refused to elaborate. [Eric] has his version. The women hang up their laundry to sun-dry. As Volz left the arraignment, the mob saw through the ruse and rushed him. Krusty Dangla, who would become the prosecution's main witness, said Volz came out of the shop at 1:00 p.m. and paid him 50 cordobas (about $2.75) to put two garbage bags full of what felt like clothes in a white car. The magazine, as he wrote in his first publisher's letter, would be devoted to everything from the explosion of surf culture to local anxiety over the oncoming waves of foreigners, construction, and the almighty dollar. Professional, bilingual, and printed on expensive paper, the premiere edition appeared in July 2006, boasting a 20,000-copy run, a viable presence in five countries, and a look to rival Vogue. A few other expats, people who had unsuccessful real estate dealings with him at Century 21, readily vilify him in open anger. Between the Waves covers feature lovely, light-skinned young Nicaraguan women emerging like Venus from the Pacific foam, some of the shots proving so popular they've been reprinted as local Re/Max ads: a tall girl stepping from the sea in a bikini and hoop earrings, smiling at someone off-camera, no one else on the beach. Even with Doris, although pleasant and nice, she was rewritten. It wouldn't be until after the trial that Chamorro's lawyer told me the statement had been coerced. I've worked for two years really hard, and as soon as I get released, I've got to leave the country., When the verdict was read, he recalls, Oh, man, it was a horrible feeling. They came in and out of the doorway of the Sol Fashion boutique in their neat blue uniforms, taking notes. 'Do you think he really loves me?' Some have mentioned 'karma' I say bullshit. Volz, it alleged, had offered Chamorro $5,000 to go to Sol Fashion, where the American hit and kicked his ex-girlfriend, then raped, sodomized, and killed her. Let's say I come to San Juan and I don't know there's an eco-stove project going on, he said in December. Early comments they made about the legal system were used by the Nicaraguan media to ill effect, and local coverage was so one-sided with the people of San Juan relying on the Diario and an incensed Mercedes Alvarado for most of their information that Volz's parents would finally pay to run his side of the story as an ad. One shopkeeper took me into a back room so she could cry and tell me how awful she feels for Volz; she wouldn't let me use her name. Travel; Money; Search input. During the rainy season, the road is an axle-bending, suspension-wrecking gash through the rainforest, but, to be fair, once the rains stop and the government grader comes through, you can get into third gear. From the first days, the family seemed out of their element. The Legal. What he found inside has threatened to boil resentments between locals and expats into open hostility: the woman's body, hog-tied with bedsheets, asphyxiated with wadded-up paper and rags. I used to see Eric surfing., In other words, Roque didn't want to talk about it. The agreement was printed at 3:11 p.m. at the Hertz office. Yeah, I knew her at the beach, when I'd pass her shop. And how violent would the mob get? He was home for the holidays from the job he held, legally, in Texas. The case for Volz's innocence seemed obvious, irrefutable. As I'd already read in the papers, Dangla's police statement alleged that at 10:00 a.m. on the day of the murder, he was standing outside the Costa Azul hotel when Volz stopped in a low, white car with another man in the passenger seat and told him to come to Sol Fashion at 1:00 p.m., where Volz allegedly came out of the shop, handed him two black garbage bags full of what felt like clothes, and told him to put them in the car. Back in San Juan, I found Dangla where I knew he would be: hanging with his friends outside his house. San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, is a fishing-and-tourist town of colorfully painted wooden homes laid out on lazy Pacific-coast streets where bicycles outnumber vehicles, where kids set up goal. Thank God! During recesses, he would come to the rail and exchange hugs with his mother and aunt, who always brought a sweater for him, which he didn't wear. His Century 21 money poured in, and eventually it grew beyond a local newsletter and became the international EP magazine.. This Central American country actually has one of the highest murder . But the people of San Juan had made up their minds: At Big Wave Dave's, the long-haired beauties tending bar began casually rebuffing expat advances with the simple and musical refrain Gringos son asesinos. Gringos are murderers. Rosita is my cousin. Tercero murdered Anderson by manual strangulation on March 8, 2018 at his Oak Street apartment on the West Side of Binghamton, a city in Broome County, New York. If Volz's conviction was upheld, the final decision will be decided by the Nicaraguan Supreme Court.) The town didn't know him; that's why they were so quick to condemn him., Have you heard the expression 'Pueblo pequeo, infierno grande'? he asked. He went looking for more kids. Rivas returned to Nicaragua to take care of his dying father and was arrested, tortured . Vittorio Caruso. I can't say, he replied. Then I saw the cops. Two days before Volz's December 7 arraignment in Rivas, a car with loudspeakers circled through San Juan exhorting people to bring justice to the gringo! A huge crowd jeered as he was escorted into the courthouse; during the hearing, a woman outside could be heard shouting, Come out, gringo, we are going to murder you! Expecting the worst, Volz and the U.S. Embassy regional security officer, Michael Poehlitz, exchanged clothes while Volz's father, Jan, who'd flown in from the States, looked on. The 35 million U.S. tourists who visit Mexico dwarf the number of their compatriots (1.5 million) who go to nearby destinations such as Jamaica. More than 300 have been killed and 2,000 injured since protests over social security reforms began in April . Students have been at the forefront of the anti-government protests. YOUNG BUSINESSWOMAN VICTIM OF JEALOUS GRINGO, US EMBASSY ADVISES ACCUSED GRINGO TO KEEP QUIET, Surfers Samir Guillermo Duarte, Enrique Cascante, Mancel Cascante, and Oswaldo Bonilla at Playa Madera, Defense lawyer Ramn Rojas in his Managua office, The Modelo National Penitentiary, where Volz is being held. Once the guards approved my papers, I walked past long cement buildings, the barred windows revealing prisoners in hammocks, clothes and towels hanging everywhere. Her dream, from when she was 15 years old, says her aunt Mara Elena Alvarado, was to have a shop. Jimnez studied business administration at the UPOLI University in nearby Rivas, taking computer and English classes. It's better this way, she whispered. First published on Thu 4 Nov 2021 17.30 EDT. With sentiment tilted so heavily against Volz and because a jury trial rules out the possibility of appeal, the defense opted for a judge; the trial was set for January 26. (I've since done this drive twice in the same amount of time. It's disgusting to see Krusty as a witness. Florida man grabbed 4-year-old, threw her at column, cops say. Two visitors from Canada died after being shot on Friday Jan. 21, 2022, at the five-star Hotel Xcaret in Playa del Carmen, which is about 45 miles south of Cancun. Chamorro is being held in an overcrowded dormitory cell; the 53 men of his wing, he said, share two toilets. google-search . This was my fourth attempt to get into the prison in two weeks; what was different about today was that I finally had a letter from Judge Toruo extending me access to visit Volz, for which I'd had to lobby all the way to the office of a Supreme Court magistrate. It was utter chaos, Jan Volz told me this spring. It's hard to be in here, he told me. Day after day in the months leading up to Volz's trial, the Calderons, their friend Juan, and I waxed our boards and paddled out to the four-footers. I never felt good about this guy. 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