JAN 19, 2020
Son-in-law of missing California couple arrested after bodies believed to be theirs are found in Mexico
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The couple’s son-in-law, identified only as Santiago N, 37, is in custody and is expected to be charged with their disappearance at a state court hearing late Saturday, Jan. 18, said Deputy Baja California Attorney General Hiram Sanchez Zamora.
Sanchez Zamora said charges likely will include forcibly detaining someone, but he declined to get more specific on possible accusations.
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When Mexican authorities questioned Santiago about what happened to his in-laws, he told them he had picked the couple up after they walked across the border, Sanchez Zamora said.
He claimed he took them to their houses and took them to the bank to exchange currency, then drove them back to the border.
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The Guilléns drove themselves to their houses, Sanchez Zamora said, not Santiago. Then, “they never left.”
Sanchez Zamora said it appears Santiago also tried to use the couple’s bank cards.
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Do investigators believe Santiago may have killed the couple because he didn’t have the 120,000 pesos to give them?
“That’s one of the hypotheses,” Sanchez Zamora said. It is still under investigation if others were involved in the crime, authorities said.
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