Last Summer, I sent a lenghty letter to the current Sumter County Coroner, along with pictures and the text from the WS post from Redmeli that IMHO explains how Maria and Cesar made it to the United States from Argentina. I never heard anything back - not even a "thank you for your interest" letter. The lack of a response is really annoying, as a tax paying South Carolina citizen. I am not giving up.... sometime in June of this year, I hope to make a trip up to the area, speak to the coroner face to face, and visit the grave site, and the site where they were killed. I will share pictures with all of you here on WS's. I also made contact with a representative of the Desprarecidos group from New York. They also were less than helpful.....but, it was a volunteer, so take that for what it is worth. We have a new poster here on WS's who speaks Spanish, and is attempting contact with the Argentina group. I am so convinced that Jock and Jane Doe are Cesar and Maria that I need to see resolution, or I need to see them ruled out so that I can move on to another angle. This case can.... and WILL be solved. It haunts me.
Sumter County simply doesn't have any interest in this case. They don't even have a file on it anymore.
SLED won't do anything since "it's Sumter County's case." The local SLED agent said she would forward my own report to former coroner Verna Moore. She didn't. But I did talk to Mrs. Moore myself. She seems intelligent and reasonable, but she doesn't have any official authority anymore.
Furthermore, these two were probably killed by Miami-based Cuban exile terrorists Luis Posada Carilles and Orlando Bosch (CORU), who have been protected by the Bush family and the Republican Party (Illeana Ros) since before the Bay of Pigs. Sumter is an exceedingly right-leaning town.
It's been documented that the CIA (then led by future president George H. W. Bush, who pardoned Bosch in 1990) actually lied to the FBI about the Letellier bombing in September 1976. Same players. Incredibly, in 2005 (while son George W. Bush was president), the FBI destroyed its files on Posada (read Ann Louise Bardach).
Also, the local papers have withered to hardly anything. There simply isn't much investigative journalism anymore.
Finally, the Argentineans aren't going to want to believe that the most famous witness against the junta, Adolfo Scilingo, really was a bulls*** artist when he said María Marta gave birth at ESMA. He later recanted; at his 2005 trial he said he never even worked at ESMA. He was always a complete flake, but the human-rights activists are deeply invested in best-selling story "The Flight" he peddled to Verbitsky.
My favorite suspect is Posada. He trained at Fort Benning and was married in nearby Columbus, Ga. Before the murders he and Bosch were actually in Buenos Aires offering their services to the Argentine junta. They even started signing their communiqués "El Condor." Posada was a very sophisticated operator who at one time was head of Venezuela's state security service.
It is absurd to think the Lugones connection, first suggested around four years ago, hasn't been pursued by law enforcement. The reasons for this, like the murders themselves, might be purely political.