Search resumes for body of slain boater
By Lynne Brezosky - Express-News
Web Posted: 10/07/2010 10:58 AM CDT

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Tiffany Hartley and family members on Oct. 6, 2010, lay a wreath near the site where her husband, David Hartley, was reportedly shot last week, on Falcon Lake in Zapata.


McALLEN — Amid threatening radio intercepts received Wednesday, Mexican authorities resumed this morning the search for the body of a missing U.S. citizen believed shot and killed last week by drug gangs on Falcon Lake reservoir.

This morning's ongoing efforts, being conducted by at least 40 troops, comes one week after David Michael Hartley's wife made a frantic 911 call reporting his slaying during a sightseeing trip.

The ambush by three boatloads, as the couple was on Jet Skis viewing Mexican ruins, was the fifth reported confrontation with “piratesâ€