Archive for July, 2010

Wild Bill confessed on Friday to killing seven people in a murder-to-steal-property spree in Bocas del Toro, Panamanian authorities confirmed. “He has told us how many people he killed, why he killed them, how he killed them and where he buried them,” Angel Calderon, Deputy Attorney General, told the Miami Herald on Friday. The...
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Accused serial killers, known as Wild Bill and Jane Cortez in Panama, touched down at Panama’s Marcus A. Gelabert domestic airport, arriving on a private Panamanian government flight from Nicaragua at 6:10 p.m. Thursday. Heavily escorted by Special Forces agents, the couple was escorted to police headquarters in Ancon, just down the road from...
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More than a hundred of Panama City’s lottery ticket vendors descended on Casco Viejo’s Cathedral Plaza to protest in front of the Presidency on Wednesday. The majority were women but all were yelling for an increase in their ticket sale commissions and asking for the resignation of National Lottery Director, Jose Pablo Ramos. What...
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If all goes according to plan, accused serial killers Wild Bill and Jane Cortez will be extradited to Panama today. Javier Carrillo, head of the Judicial Investigation Police said that a delegation will make a roundtrip to Managua to pick up the couple. They will not be traveling commercially but in a state airplane...
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National Environmental Authorities officials accompanied a Caiman crocodile from to a protected lagoon in the Chiriquiri province Wednesday. Acting on reports that the Zapata family found the Caiman on their Tinaja farm in the district of Dolega, environmental inspectors located the reptile who was still in the area, explained Amarilis Acosta, head of the authority’s Department...
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