Murder of young American by Guatemalan soldiers at Tapachula border station (Guat.-Mex.)

Murder of young American from Alaska by Guatemalan soldiers

Note to Alaskan readers: Help me locate the family of a young American man I saw murdered by Guatemalan soldiers on about July 15, 1975 about 2:00pm. on the Pan American highway about 5 miles past the Guatemalan border patrol station at Tapachula, Guatemala. I was an eye witness to the entire incident and I reported it to the U.S. Embassy in Teguicigalpa, Honduras about 3 days later. The Embassy didn't even bother to file a report or inform the young man's parents of what really happened. I have located the whereabouts of the C.I.A. official that I personally reported the murder to on July 18, 1975 at the U.S. Embassy and have his photograph, address and the telephone number where he works today for a major corporation. If you have family or friends in Alaska, maybe you can help me locate them and tell them the truth about how this young man was deliberately murdered and how the U.S. Embassy covered up his murder. Although it happened a long time ago, I couldn't do anything about it before and I had already reported it to the U.S. Embassy which are the only representatives of the U.S. government in Central America. I just returned to the U.S. recently and realized that the Internet was the perfect way to locate this guy's family and tell them the truth they deserve to know. He was a tall, slender, white male, mid twenties, shoulder length blond hair and wearing a white T shirt and white pants. He was driving an all white, 1000 CC Honda motorcycle with Alaska license plate. It had a clear plastic windshield and plastic compartments on both sides on the back of the cycle, and a tan-colored, rolled, rubber sleeping mat. The embassy probably reported that he was killed in an accident on the highway. This is a LIE! I followed him all the way through the border station and was about 150 feet behind him at the moment he was murdered. I was also in the border station at the same time that he was there and overheard a military policeman calling their buddies down the road telling them to kill him. I want to make it clear to his family that it was impossible for me to do anything to stop it from happening because even though I tried, I couldn't catch up to him on the highway fast enough to warn him what was about to happen and I was afraid to say anything to him at the border station because the police were watching me too, suspicious that I had overheard the conversation. If I had said anything in the border station, I think they would have killed us both. I'll be glad to give all the information in great detail to the family, including how the soldiers at the border station planned the murder. I will be glad to give a sworn statement to the family or their lawyer certifying that the information here above is true in every detail. In lieu of that legal certification, I hereby swear that the above paragraph is true and accurate in every detail and that I give permission to any close member of the victim's family to use it in a court of law as my sworn testimony. Travelers should know that the Guatemalan military police at the border stations on the Mexican-Guatemalan border (near Tapachula and Comitan, Mexico side), frequently harass young men with long hair when they arrive at the border stations to enter Guatemalan territory. I have seen them drag a guy into a room and shave his head while 3 soldiers held them. Also, they always ask for bribes from almost every tourist entering the country, usually a minimum of from $15-30 dollars. If you enter with a lot of luggage and other things in your car, they will ask for even more money, maybe hundreds of dollars. Guatemalans working at these border stations are murderers and thieves. If you ever have a serious problem of any kind with them, you should know that your life could well be in serious danger. The American Embassy (in Guatemala City) will not help you if you get into trouble... remember that they give millions of dollars of foreign aid every year to maintain these murderers in power. If something happened to you they wouldn't even bother to report it unless there were several witnesses, one doesn't seem to be enough.