House of Death informant fingers Mexican, U.S. governments

Narco News just obtained a copy of the transcript of that testimony, which can only be described as startling in parts and puzzling on other fronts.

But it is important to share some of the highlights of that testimony now, so you, kind readers, can put together a few more pieces of the House of Death puzzle.

The case, for those who might be new to Narco News’ coverage of this bloody mystery, involves the torture and murder, between August 2003 and mid-January 2004, of up to a dozen people in a house in Juarez, Mexico, at the hands of narco-traffickers associated with the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes crime organization. Present for many of those murders, and participating in carrying them out by any reasonable standard of moral complicity, was an informant, Ramirez Peyro, who was under the watch of U.S. federal agents and prosecutors.

In this transcript of Ramirez Peyro’s legal testimony — which reads like a macabre screenplay set on a court stage in bucolic middle America — the actors are the informant, Ramirez Peyro; his attorney, Jodi Goodwin; and the attorney for the U.S. government, Kevin Lashus.

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