Still Missing Mexico - Malcom Madsen, 68, Ontario snowbird, missing from Puerto Vallarta, 28 Oct 2018 * arrests*

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This Canadian vanished from a Mexican resort town. Startling video shows the last night he was seen in Puerto Vallarta before he disappeared | The Star
By Kenyon WallaceInvestigative Reporter Nov. 29, 2019

"It’s just after midnight on Oct. 28, 2018. Malcom Madsen, a 68-year-old snowbird from Sutton, Ontario, and his 43-year-old Mexican girlfriend, Marcela Acosta Ramos, are sitting at a table inside Andale’s Restaurant and Bar, a popular tourist spot in Puerto Vallarta.

The place is hopping. Customers in tank tops and shorts sip beers, down shots and sway to the music beneath a disco ball. A security camera, mounted on the ceiling, records the festivities, including what happens at Madsen’s table."
Madsen leaves to go to the washroom. When he’s out of sight, Ramos pulls what appears to be a white pill or powder from her purse and cradles it in her left hand. She scans the bar and then rests her hand beneath the table, out of sight, just before Madsen returns.

Madsen leans in close to speak into Ramos’s ear, and his sightline to his drink is momentarily cut off. Ramos brings her left hand up from beneath the table and appears to sprinkle the powder into Madsen’s drink. Then she stirs it.

About 20 minutes later when his glass is half empty, Madsen makes several attempts to take more sips but is stopped by Ramos. She gets the drinks put in to-go cups, and the couple leaves the bar.

Madsen hasn’t been heard from since."

 

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"Security footage from Andale's bar in Puerto Vallarta shows Malcom Madsen sitting with Marcela Ramos before his disappearance."

Daughter of missing Canadian presumed murdered in Mexico is frustrated at lack of arrests
"TORONTO -- The heartbroken daughter of a missing Ontario man she believes was murdered in Mexico is frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation.

Brooke Mullins took to Facebook this week appealing to people to share her post about her father Malcom Madsen, who was last seen in the early hours of October 28, 2018, in Puerto Vallarta.

She claims her dad was drugged by someone he trusted in a popular tourist bar.
Mullins, 41, from Port Hope, Ont., says the incident was captured on the bar’s surveillance camera.

“I can’t imagine what it would be like to be murdered by someone you love,” she told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview.

“The Mexican authorities have three main suspects. They claim they need to make sure every ‘i’ is dotted and every ‘t’ is crossed. I need more help from Canada. “

Madsen had started to split his time between Canada and Mexico in the last seven or eight years, his daughter said.

The retired jeweler, who was 68 when he disappeared, and was last seen wearing a grey short-sleeve shirt and black pants.

He was accompanied by a medium-build dark-skinned woman with long black hair in a ponytail wearing a pink dress, according to his missing person poster.

Mullins has used various investigators to try to trace her father and has flown to Mexico on a number of occasions.

“Mexican authorities have still not arrested the person responsible, almost a year later,” Mullins wrote on Facebook.

“He called and left me a message the day before he went missing, telling me that he was excited to go out to his tree house in the next couple of days.

“We knew that Malcom was missing and in distress within five days. Close friends of my dad’s alerted me that they were unable to locate him and that he was expected to connect with one of them in Mexico.”

Mullins was hesitant to make her dad’s story public until his birthday on September 12 triggered her to set up the “Justice for Malcom” Facebook group, which has attracted more than 500 members."

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  Malcom Madsen seen in a picture posted by his daughter Brooke Mullins on Facebook. (Facebook/Brooke Mullins)
  

 

[MissMYB]

Wow. Horrifying.

 

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A Canadian vanishes from a Mexican resort town. His daughter unearths disturbing details
"Since 2006, 374 Canadians died in Mexico in circumstances other than a natural death, including 59 who were murder victims, according to Global Affairs Canada. Roughly 2,600 foreigners have gone missing in Mexico since 2007."

"Brooke helped her dad find the Mexican treehouse he eventually bought to escape the Canadian winters.

The Chonchos treehouse appealed to Madsen's love of nature. He kept pet scorpions in a glass terrarium, collected unique rocks and shells in a bowl, and displayed various animal skulls. On the wall hung a large tortoise shell. The balcony faced a secluded beach where Madsen fished.

A couple of years after moving into his treehouse, Mullins said, Madsen met Marcela Acosta Ramos, a single mother 25 years his junior, through some friends.

Emails between Madsen and Ramos show she asked him for money for things such as medication for herself and her father, hospital surgeries and a TV. Between October 2012 and October 2013, Madsen wired Ramos more than $4,000 (Canadian), according to Western Union receipts Mullins found at her dad's home in Sutton.

He composed a letter to Ramos — Mullins found it in his computer but doesn't know if it was sent — asking her how it was that she never seemed to have any money: "How did you ever manage before you met me? For you have being [sic] paying the rent a long time before you met me, and you did pay rent! Why since I have shown up, you do not have the money to pay the rent?"

Madsen gave Ramos a Bank of Montreal debit card for one of his accounts. In 2015, he bought a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house in an upscale Puerto Vallarta neighbourhood for Ramos and her family. He outfitted it with big-screen TVs, new appliances, air conditioning, furniture, gym equipment and solar panels. He also bought a van, which, Mullins alleges, Ramos's family would drive when Madsen wasn't around.

"I think he was afraid not to have that family to help him in Mexico with things. He didn't have the language. He was an older man. I think he felt secure," Mullins said.

Then in April 2018, Madsen sent Ramos an email saying that he was considering selling the house in Puerto Vallarta and buying a condo.

About that time, Madsen confided in Stasyshyn that his relationship with Ramos was in trouble. But just before he was scheduled to return to Canada it was "all worked out, it's all patched up," said Stasyshyn.

Mullins grew frustrated with her dad because she said he seemed unable to see that he was being taken advantage of."

 

[Nancy19XX]

Very chilling footage. I cannot imagine what his daughter is going through. I am hoping she gets answers and that he is found alive. MOO but I do not get a good feeling about this.

 

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This Canadian vanished from a Mexican resort town. Startling video shows the last night he was seen in Puerto Vallarta before he disappeared | The Star

Malcom Madsen with his girlfriend Marcela Acosta Ramos are pictured together in Mexico, around 2015. Madsen, 68, disappeared on Oct. 28, 2018 from Puerto Vallarta and has not been heard from since. Ramos has told Mexican police that she has done no wrong and that she last saw him that afternoon about to leave the house they shared to head for his treehouse by the ocean.Courtesy of Brooke Mullins


A young Malcolm with his daughter.
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A Canadian went to Mexico to investigate her father's disappearance. Here's what she found

 

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Daughter of missing Canadian presumed murdered in Mexico is frustrated at lack of arrests

 

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From the article:

A Canadian went to Mexico to investigate her father's disappearance. Here's what she found

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Suspicious GPS data
Mullins said her father's girlfriend told police that the pair left the bar early that night because Madsen was drunk. They crashed at his place, and the next morning, she said he got up, packed his bags, and left never to be seen again.

She also reportedly told police they'd left his Toyota van in her garage all night. But Mullins says the data tells a different story.

Madsen had an account with the GPS provider Trackimo, which automatically sent co-ordinates to his email account every time the van turned on and started moving.

She said those emails show the van went to a shopping mall early in the evening, a remote jungle-like area north of Puerto Vallerta three hours later, then a marina in the early-morning hours before finally returning to Madsen's girlfriend's house.

As It Happens has seen emails from Trackimo, which show Madsen's van taking several trips on the night he went missing.

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[musicaljoke]

Oh my. How frustrating and painful. Will we ever see this resolved with truth and justice?

This was such a smooth kidnapping that I wonder how many others have been taken.

 

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ARREST!
July 17 2020
Missing Canadian’s girlfriend arrested in Mexico over his 2018 disappearance from Puerto Vallarta

" Malcom Madsen, who disappeared in Mexico in October 2018, took a turn this week with the arrest of the man’s former girlfriend.

Authorities in Puerto Vallarta say Marcela Acosta Ramos, 44, was arrested in a municipality just north of Mexico City on Tuesday and has been charged with the crime of “disappearance committed by individuals.” The charge stems from Mexico’s law on forced disappearances, used when the fate of a missing person remains unknown.''

 

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July 23 2020
Port Hope woman solves mystery of missing dad in Mexico
“It was definitely overwhelming,” Mullins told CBC. “When my lawyer finally called and confirmed that she was, indeed, arrested, you know, there were tears of joy for sure.”

''It could take a year for Ramos to go to trial and local cops have issued warrants for her brother and son. They remain on the lam.''

 

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Full page article.
Son of ‘black widow’ arrested in mysterious 2018 disappearance of Canadian snowbird
Oct 3 2021
''The son of a woman implicated in the disappearance of a Canadian man who went missing in Mexico nearly two years ago has been arrested and charged in connection with the case.

The Jalisco state prosecutor’s office says investigators captured Andres Javier Romero Acosta Sept. 24 at a cemetery in a region north of the popular tourist town of Puerto Vallarta, on Mexico’s west coast. Acosta is the son of Marcela Acosta Ramos, 45, the former girlfriend of Canadian Malcom Madsen, who disappeared on Oct. 28, 2018, after spending an evening with Ramos at a bar in what’s commonly known as the romantic district of Puerto Vallarta.''

Son of ‘black widow’ arrested in mysterious 2018 disappearance of Canadian snowbird - NY Press News
''Martin Alejandro Acosta Ramos was arrested on Sept. 24, 2020, after Mexico City authorities found him hiding out at a house close to Mexico City International Airport. He too was interviewed by police in 2018, and told them, like Acosta, that he and his nephew went to a cockfight on the night Madsen disappeared. He said they were with friends until about 4 a.m.

In June 2021, his lawyer Jose Antonio Torres Arteaga made a submission to court with a long list of witnesses he claims could exonerate Ramos and his sister, including a man who allegedly saw him and Acosta at the cockfight; a man who claimed to see Madsen at 2 p.m. the following day outside Marcela Acosta Ramos’s house along with some suitcases; and Marcela Acosta Ramos’s mother who allegedly saw her daughter and Madsen arrive home on the night Madsen disappeared.

Reached at his office in Puerto Vallarta, Arteaga told the Star he couldn’t comment on the case, but said “people are innocent until there’s a conviction. Until then, they can’t be called guilty. There’s a presumption of innocence.”

''Back home in Ontario, Mullins said families whose loved ones experience problems in foreign countries need better support from local and Canadian authorities. She says several relatives of missing Mexican nationals have reached out to her with helpful tips and information through a Facebook page, “Justice for Malcom,” that she created about her father’s disappearance.

“A lot of them are helping because they either have missing loved ones or they don’t like what’s happening in their country,” Mullins said.''

 

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Lengthy article.
March 20 2022 by Kenyon Wallace
Taxi driver testimony yields new details on case of missing Canadian in Mexico Malcom Madsen | The Star
''A taxi driver’s statement to Mexican authorities investigating the disappearance of Canadian snowbird Malcom Madsen is raising questions about claims made by Madsen’s girlfriend about what happened the night he went missing.''

''In statements to investigators, Ramos, 47, claimed that she and Madsen had a few drinks shortly after midnight at Andale’s Restaurant and Bar, a popular tourist hangout, before returning immediately by taxi to the home Madsen had bought in town. The next day, Ramos said, Madsen packed up his things and headed for his beachside treehouse a few hours south of Puerto Vallarta. Five days later, she reported him missing.''

''But now, a statement made to the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office by the taxi driver who picked the couple up at Andale’s provides a different story. According to an official prosecutor’s office document obtained by the Star, taxi driver Jose Guadalupe Ochoa Garcia told investigators he did not take Madsen and Ramos home, but rather, dropped them off at another bar, Mandala, in downtown Puerto Vallarta.

The document states that, during this time, Ramos would communicate with her son Andres Javier Romero Acosta, who would immediately communicate with his uncle and Ramos’s brother Martin Alejandro Acosta Ramos.
Ramos never mentioned this in any of her four police interviews.
“Why would she even forget something like that? What was the importance of going to that location?” said Brooke Mullins, Madsen’s daughter, who has spent the past three-and-a-half years seeking justice for her father. “It’s incredibly disappointing. It’s been a really hard three years and I wish the police had picked up on this at the beginning.”

 

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April 5 2022
Mexican police search for body of Canadian who vanished in 2018 | The Star
''More than three years after Canadian snowbird Malcom Madsen disappeared from the Mexican tourist town of Puerto Vallarta, local authorities have begun a ground search for the man’s remains.

The start of the search of an area in Puerto Vallarta was announced through a one-minute video posted online by the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office last Saturday in which an official provides a brief overview of the operation.

The search is a joint operation involving a number of agencies, including the Jalisco prosecutor’s office, the Special Prosecutor for Disappeared Persons, the Mexican Secretariat of National Defence and local police, the official in the video says. About a dozen investigators wearing white forensic bodysuits can be seen behind the official.''

''Madsen’s daughter, Brooke Mullins, who has been pushing authorities in Puerto Vallarta to find out what happened to her father, said she was surprised by the announcement of the search and also suspicious of its timing given that a television documentary about the case is currently in production.
Mullins says she learned recently, however, that a new team that seems more committed to finding the truth had taken over the investigation.''

 

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Nov 20 2022 Lengthy article.rbbm

Prime suspect in disappearance of Canadian snowbird wants to cut deal, new film reveals

Offer to reveal the location of 68-year-old Malcom Madsen’s remains, revealed in documentary airing Sunday, contradicts woman’s earlier statements to Mexican police.

www.thestar.com

''A new documentary delving into the disappearance of Canadian snowbird Malcom Madsen in Mexico four years ago reveals that the primary suspect in the case is willing to cut a deal with prosecutors in exchange for information about the location of the Ontario man’s body.

The offer to shed light on the whereabouts of the remains of Madsen, a retired real estate agent and jeweller from Sutton, Ont., comes from his former girlfriend Marcela Acosta Ramos, and contradicts her earlier statements to police that she had no idea about what happened to the 68-year-old Canadian.

That revelation is one of several in “Malcom is Missing,” a documentary by filmmakers Robert and Jari Osborne chronicling the efforts of Madsen’s daughter Brooke Mullins to find out what happened to her father and obtain justice. The film airs Sunday at 9 p.m. on CBC’s Documentary Channel.

Mullins, who lives in Port Hope, Ont., is seen on a heart-rending and arduous journey to force indifferent Mexican authorities to act on evidence, which she uncovers through her own investigative work, pointing to who might be responsible for her father’s disappearance. With the help of a trusted team of friends, private investigators, local informants and a lawyer, Mullins appears to achieve the impossible when her work leads to the arrest of three people implicated in the case.''

 

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Malcom is Missing is screening at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema on Sunday, Jan. 29.

 

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'Malcom is Missing': Canadian's disappearance in Mexico puts daughter on gruelling quest for answers

The documentary, "Malcom is Missing," tells the story of Canadian Malcom Madsen, who disappeared in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and his daughter's journey to find him.

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April 10 2023

As suspects in snowbird’s disappearance face trial at last, his daughter says Canadian agency failed to help

Marcela Acosta Ramos, along with her son and brother, are charged with a “disappearance committed by individuals,” used when the fate of a missing person — in this case, Sutton, Ont.’s Malcom Madsen — is unknown.

www.thestar.com

''More than four years after Canadian snowbird Malcom Madsen went missing in Mexico, the three suspects accused of orchestrating his disappearance, including his former Mexican girlfriend, will stand trial this week.

Marcela Acosta Ramos, 48, along with her son Andres Javier Romero Acosta and brother Martin Alejandro Acosta Ramos, are charged with a “disappearance committed by individuals,” used when the fate of a missing person is unknown.''

''Prosecutors in Puerto Vallarta, where the trial is to begin Monday, are seeking a prison sentence of between 25 and 50 years for Acosta and her alleged accomplices, and are planning to present the court with some 100 pieces of evidence, according to local media reports.''

 

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‘A victory’: Three convicted in Canadian snowbird’s disappearance in Mexico

Malcom Madsen’s girlfriend, her son and brother were convicted of “disappearance committed by individuals,” four and a half years after daughter Brooke Mullins first sought justice.

www.thestar.com

''A Canadian woman’s more than four-year quest for justice in the disappearance of her father in Mexico has come to a triumphant, if bittersweet, end.

Brooke Mullins, who almost single-handedly forced authorities in the tourist town of Puerto Vallarta to pursue the case of her missing father, Malcom Madsen, learned Friday that the three accused in the Canadian man’s 2018 disappearance have been found guilty by a Mexican court.

At the end of a weeklong trial that began last Monday, Madsen’s Mexican girlfriend of six years, Marcela Acosta Ramos, her son Andres Javier Romero Acosta and brother Martin Alejandro Acosta Ramos, were convicted of “disappearance committed by individuals,” a charge stemming from a Mexican law on forced disappearances used when the missing person cannot be found.

A sentencing hearing is expected to take place next week.''