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Conroy: House of Death Informant

Conroy: House of Death Informant Recounts the “Whataburger Murder”

June 29, 2009
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Dear Colleague,

In recent weeks Narco News correspondent Bill Conroy has conducted several telephone interviews with Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, the US law enforcement informant who was involved with several murders in the infamous House of Death in Juarez, Mexico. In their latest conversations Ramirez tell Conroy about the circumstances surrounding the “Whataburger murder,” where he sent a friend to pick up money as part of a drug-deal, and ended up dead.

Conroy reports:

“‘I set up the deal from San Antonio [while supposedly under ICE’s protective custody and working under his own name at an area shopping center],’ Ramirez Peyro said. ‘It took me two months to find someone to do it [to agree to bring a load of drugs from Juarez to El Paso to help set up a sting on the corrupt inspector] because I didn’t want to deal directly with cartel people.’

“…The plan was simple, in theory. A driver was to bring the merchandise, marijuana, by van across the bridge from Juarez to El Paso… In this case, according to Ramirez Peyro, part of the money was sent in advance and the balance was to be delivered at a Whataburger fast-food restaurant in El Paso.

“…And so Guzman found himself at the Whataburger near downtown El Paso at about 11 p.m. waiting in a purple Lincoln Navigator for a bag of money to be delivered to wrap up a sting operation.

“Instead, Guzman found himself on the receiving end of four bullets to the face and chest delivered by a VCF assassin. The perfect sting was a bust, compromised by a leak or some other critical oversight, and Guzman was a dead man.”

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Read Conroy’s latest addition to the House of Death reports online at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com

From somewhere in a country called América,

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