Thursday, March 6, 2008

In a gringo world, there will be no appeals for Doris Jimenez



When he spoke to the court about Jimenez — against the judge's advice — he sounded casual and cold. "She loved me a lot," Volz told the judge. "She had fallen for me more than I had fallen for her." -Washington Post

When US citizen Eric Volz came to trial for the gruesome rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend Doris Jimenez, Nicaraguans went into the streets screaming for vigilante justice. Video clips on CNN and NBC showed them struggling with the police in front of the courthouse in an attempt to get at the ‘Gringo Assassin’. The struggle became so out of control that warning shots had to be fired into the air to calm the crowd.

US media reporting on the case attributed the behavior to the fact that there was still a lot of residual ‘anti-Gringo’ sentiment left over from the Contra-Sandinista war days. That could certainly be a contributing factor, but other gringos have been tried for similar crimes in Nicaragua without being lynched. What was it about this case that sent these normally ‘laid back’ people into the street?

Part of the difference of course was Doris herself. Her incredible beauty made the manner of her violation and murder exceptionally heinous. What made matters worse however, what really made this case different, and what brought these hard working Nicaraguans into the streets, was the indifferent and arrogant demeanor of the accused himself, Eric Stanley Volz.

Keith Morrison, Dateline NBC: She would’ve married you if you had asked?
Volz: Oh yeah. Definitely.

Volz, a University of California at San Diego graduate in Central American studies, a mountain climber and adventurer, had moved to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, after being invited by an American friend, Jon Thompson, to become his partner in a new ‘green’ startup publication he had named El Puente, or, ‘the bridge’.

At 27, the self confident Volz had already traveled extensively. He now dreamed of going places vertically, of becoming successful with his new publication and hopefully, of becoming wealthy in the process. Because El Puente was not yet profitable however, he began working in real estate sales to make ends meet. Due to his natural sales ability he soon amassed a small fortune in this poor Nicaraguan village where a local head of household might earn only three dollars per day.

Real estate practitioners had developed a shady reputation in SJDS by buying properties under market from naive Nicaraguans, then ‘flipping’ them for huge profits to rich Gringo tourists. Possibly because of this stigma Eric soon began referring to himself as a ‘transition counselor’, someone who does more than just sell you a property. Eric would help you make the transition from the US lifestyle to the laid back Nicaraguan lifestyle. Or at least, so his new title indicated.

While in San Juan del Sur, Volz ate frequently at Rocamar, a popular tourist restaurant overlooking the beach in the picturesque seaside village, where Doris Jimenez worked as a waitress.

Doris, 25, had not been so fortunate as to attend an American University or to travel the world. She had been raised, along with her cousins, by her aunt Elena in poor and cramped conditions. Out of necessity, Doris’s mother Mercedes had lived and worked two hours away in busy Managua throughout Doris's youth.

Despite the financial poverty, and in a world where the average female student might only finish the fifth grade, Doris had managed to put herself through all but her final year of courses in business administration at the local college.
Unlike her compatriots, many of whom dreamed of nothing more than ‘hooking up’ with blond haired Gringo surfers, the independent Doris dreamed of one day owning her own boutique and even of traveling the world. She also had become a very stylish young woman.

The Gringo.

In Nicaragua, North American’s like Volz are often referred to as ‘Gringo’, a word which in some countries could be taken as an insult. In Nicaragua however it is considered more as a descriptive adjective for someone from the USA, Canada or even from Europe. Even light skinned or fair haired Nica's are often referred to as 'chele' or 'gringo'.

Because of the somewhat common dream of many young Nicaraguan girls to marry an extranjero, (a foreigner), a successful young Gringo like Eric can more or less have his pick of the pretty Nicaraguan girls. As a result, Eric and Doris soon began dating.

In the beginning it was Doris that fell for Eric, her life dreams seemed to be coming true. Soon she was ‘playing house’ with Eric in a small place Eric shared with his new business partner, Jon Thompson. Not long after and with Eric’s assistance, Doris opened her dream boutique, Sol Fashion, in downtown SJDS.

Keith Morrison: … people were envious of her beauty and her success?
Volz: Yeah, definitely. And of her boyfriend. I mean, there was a lot of people that were envious of the fact that she was dating me.

Things couldn’t have been going better for Doris. Eric was indeed making her dreams come true, but the relationship with his new partner in El Puente wasn’t doing as well. With his newly acquired real estate wealth Eric soon forced a buyout of El Puente from Thompson, the friend that had brought him to Nicaragua.Then, not long thereafter, he announced to Doris that he was moving to Managua to grow the newly acquired El Puente. When asked in an interview with Keith Morrison of Dateline, if Doris had considered going with him to Managua, Eric replied, “..she wasn’t invited.”

So Eric moved two hours away to the capital and Doris stayed with her dreams in sleepy SJDS. Though they were no longer together as a couple, and to the dismay of Doris’s family, Eric still made nighttime visits to Doris in SJDS.

After a few months of this however, Doris confided in friends and family that she had realized that she was being used by Eric and had decided to break off the relationship. She even told Eric that she had begun to see another young man, a wealthy young dual citizen who lived part time in his native Nicaragua and part time at his home in Southern Florida.

A new side of Eric began to show through.

According to the victims mother, Mercedes Alvarado, in the Nicaraguan newspaper El Diario: “At first my daughter was very enthusiastic with him (Eric), but later, little by little, she became disenchanted because Volz didn’t like to give explanations, he would go and leave her alone, later returning to reclaim her, accusing her of being unfaithful, then, after offending her, returning to her crying, to beg her pardon.”

According to Doris’s Aunt Elena who had raised her: “She told me that he became jealous too much, accused her often, that when they fought he would show up in the middle of the night and forcefully drag her out of her house and threaten suicide, or that he would kill her.” -El Diario

And to her sister, Genoveva Arias: "She told me one day she couldn’t put up with him anymore. I said, why don’t you break up? She said, I’ve tried, he doesn’t listen.” -Washington Post.

Indeed, Doris’s best friend Gabriela Sobalvarro testified later at trial that Eric was often jealous and menaced Doris if she tried to break up with him. She elaborated that Doris had even shown her emails where Eric threatened to kill Doris if she was unfaithful to him.

The result of this jealousy allegedly being that Doris told her family and friends shortly before her murder that she had become afraid of Eric and that someone was stalking her.

He didn't cry.

Then, at 2:43 PM on November 21st, 2006, Eric received an emotional call at his office in Managua from Doris’s best friend Gabriela Sobalvarro. She explained that Doris had been brutally murdered in her boutique. It seemed to Gabby that Eric took the news too calmly, “he didn’t cry” she said. She went on to say that Eric told her at the time not to let anyone, even the police, into the crime scene until he arrived.

Eric then says that because his own car was old and slow and he wanted to arrive rapidly at the crime scene, he then asked an associate to call and rent a car for the trip to SJDS . He didn’t actually leave Managua however, for another hour and a half after receiving the car, at about 4:30 PM.

The supervisor at Hertz Car Rental, Indira Leiva Garcia, testified later at the trial however, that the call from Eric’s office actually came in between 1:00 and 2:00 PM, while the Hertz driver, Victor Morales, was out to lunch. She remembered telling the caller that she would have to wait until Victor returned. Police estimated that the murder took place between 11:30 and 1:00 PM. Doris’s body wasn’t discovered until around 2:00 PM. If the Hertz testimony were true, Eric had to have had advance notice of the crime. What was the motive for the Hertz employees to lie?

It is worth noting that Nicaragua follows a different system of law than the USA. The prosecution had presented it’s Hertz testimony, it was now Eric’s responsibility to demonstrate that the testimony was false. When asked about this later in an interview with Keith Morrison, Dateline NBC, Eric assured Morrison that the Hertz call did indeed go out after his 2:43 notice of the murder and that he even had the phone registry to prove it. He didn’t explain why however, that if he actually had the phone records of the calls, his defense hadn’t presented them as evidence in his trial?

Eric then arrived at the crime scene at about 6:30 PM to find the lifeless body of Doris hog-tied and blindfolded. She was lying as if on display with a permanent look of terror on her face and rags literally stuffed down her throat. It was later determined that she had been sodomized, raped and beaten before she died. Police had left the door open and her bound feet were visible to people from the street. The police say Eric showed little or no emotion when he arrived and immediately attempted to take over the investigation. Eric says he was just trying to protect Doris from inquisitive eyes.

Eric then returned the following day to the police station questioning the chief investigator as to what they had learned in their investigation, raising further suspicions amongst the police of his possible involvement.

Meanwhile two well known local drug dealers/users and surfing acquaintances of Eric, Julio ‘Rosita’ Chamorro and Nelson ‘Krusty’ Danglas, had been seen near the Sol Fashion Boutique the day of the crime. They had been acting suspiciously and had what appeared to be fingernail scratches on their forearms, chests and in Krusty’s case, even on his penis. The local boys were arrested the next day.

Chamorro immediately confessed to his involvement in the crime and implicated Eric as having paid him $5,000 to participate. Oddly however, he also implicated Doris’s present suitor, Armando Llanes, as being involved with Eric, saying that he (Chamorro) only watched as Volz and Llenas committed the violation, a highly unlikely murder scenario. Then, after a visit with his attorney, Chamorro recanted the entire confession claiming it was obtained under duress and said that he wasn’t involved in any way.

When confronted by the police, Llanes demonstrated proof that he had been registering for classes two hours away at the time of the murder. He and Doris had spent time together but Doris’s next door neighbor on the other side of a thin wooden wall, said no one but Eric had ever spent the night with Doris in the small apartment attached to Sol Fashion. He was also not regarded by Doris’s family as a jealous person, or even really as a boyfriend. As a result, Llanes (from a wealthy and influential Nicaraguan family) was never arrested or even investigated further by the police.

Nelson Krusty Danglas (scratches on his penis) then struck a deal for immunity and testified that he saw Eric leaving the crime scene with another extranjero (foreigner) at 1:00 pm. It was never determined who this alleged second person was.

The following day, according to Doris’s family, Eric showed up uninvited at Doris’s funeral and served as a pall bearer, resulting, according to Eric, in his shoulder being scratched or bruised by the edge of the coffin. This became a major issue in the trial. Had Eric received these marks from the coffin or from Doris defending herself?

According to El Nuevo Diario, Doris’s Aunt Elena said that during the funeral Eric cried uncontrollably for several minutes over the casket then came over to her and said “I loved her very much, you know I would never have hurt Doris,” The aunt commented, “Why would he say that? No one had accused Eric of murdering her. Right then I knew he did it or that at the least, he had sent someone to do it with violence and sadism…..”. -Nuevo Diario
Charged with murder.

Immediately after the funeral, Eric was arrested and charged with physically participating in the murder. When the news of Eric’s arrest reached his mother Maggie Anthony in Tennessee she sprang immediately into action. She didn’t need to ask her son anything, there was ‘never a second’, Maggie said, that she considered that Eric might have been involved in this murder.

She soon quit her job and initiated a full time internet and television campaign, painting Eric as the innocent victim of Nicaraguan anti-Gringo sentiment and as a ‘political prisoner’ of a ‘corrupt’ judicial system.

The trial.

At the trial, multiple eyewitnesses placed Eric in Managua at the time of the crime. They were almost all employees of El Puente however, including the cook and the caretaker and his wife. Jobs being scarce in San Juan del Sur, Toruno disqualified the employees who most clearly stood to gain from Eric’s acquittal. She ruled that it would be redundant to have all ten witnesses testify to the same thing. She finally allowed only four alibi witnesses to testify:

-A reporter named Richard Castillo who had lunch at the El Puente office with Eric to talk about a job as a contributing writer to El Puente.
-A hair stylist named Rossy who came to perform a ‘group hair day’ at El Puente and was said to have appeared 'extremely' nervous while testifying.
-A businessman from the US named Ken Purdy with whom Eric had shared Instant messages for four straight hours more or less corresponding with the window of the crime.
-and Eric Volz.

There were a few other things:
-Calls made from Eric’s cell phone that originated in Managua throughout the day (no voice mail messages left by Eric during this period were entered into evidence by the defense however).
-Notice of the murder from Gabby Sobalvarro received by Eric at 2:43 on his cell phone in Managua.
-A credit card receipt signed by Eric around 3:20 for the rental of the Hertz car.
The defense went on to emphasize that there was no physical evidence whatsoever against Eric at the scene of the crime.

Eric stripped of his alibi.

Toruno Blanco disqualified all of the alibi witnesses on Eric’s behalf claiming they either presently worked for Eric or somehow stood to gain financially from his acquittal. She specifically stated that the reporter, Richard Castillo, was not credible. There was also a problem where an associate of Eric's had attempted to get the Hertz driver to alter his testimony, bringing all of Eric's alibi witnesses into question.

She then determined that the cellphone calls and IM’s could have been made by anyone using Eric’s phone. In essence, she stripped Eric of his alibi until 2:43 pm, when the call came in from Sobalvarro. She then explained that the lack of physical evidence had no value due to the incredibly inept police work in the case. She stated, “Just because there’s no physical evidence against someone doesn’t mean they weren’t there”. -Washington Post

Indeed, the police investigation had been so ‘third world’ that no blood evidence and not even a single hair from any of the accused was tied to any of the suspects. Not even to the victim!

Judge Toruno then considered the prosecutions evidence:
-Doris’s family and friends testimonies as to motive.
-Chamorro’s (questionable) confession implicating Eric as the mastermind.
-The uncontested Hertz testimony of the too-early call.
-The uncontested testimony by Danglas that he saw Eric at the crime scene (For some reason the defense chose not even to cross examine Danglas).
-The marks on Eric's shoulder.
-An alleged early attempt by Cesar Baltodano, Danglas attorney, to get Mercedes Alvarado to come to bat for Eric in the trial. (“Your daughter is dead. She's not coming back. How much could she have earned in her life? Fifty dollars a day? Over 40 years?... Maybe we can do something?) -Outside Magazine, Tony D’Souza

Guilty.

As Judge Toruno deliberated, an angry crowd threatened to erupt if their idea of justice wasn't met. Toruno then explained to the court that Volz had failed to disprove the allegations against him. She went on to say that the prosecution witness placing Volz at the crime, (the previously accused and now immune Dangla) was credible and pronounced Volz guilty of participating in the murder alongside of Julio ‘Rosita’ Chamorro.

Eric’s camp and the US media immediately cried foul and claimed anti-gringo sentiment, combined with the judges fear of the angry crowd, were responsible for the decision. Posters beat drums all over the internet that there had been no evidence whatsoever against Eric.

The crowd certainly may have influenced the judges decision. A bigger problem was however, that Eric’s defense had been so over confident in their seemingly bulletproof alibi, they hadn’t even bothered to counter the evidence against Eric.

Volz and Chamorro were each sentenced to thirty years. Many Nicaraguans said at the time of his conviction that “The rich Gringo” would likely be released in a year. “No one with money pays for a crime in Nicaragua”, they cried out in internet forums and letters to the editor. One internet poster named Emily put it more succinctly, “Money talks, shit walks”.
Sexy Eric.

Meanwhile, back up in Gringoland, the 'Friends of Eric Volz' internet campaign was in full swing and was becoming highly successful in establishing Eric’s innocence, at least in the minds of the American public. “An innocent man is convicted in Nicaragua” the media chanted. “They called him Gringo” said mother Maggie and so repeated CNN and NBC. It became almost a sin on internet forums to even question the possible culpability of the self proclaimed American ‘warrior’. Indeed, Eric’s MySpace page and even his Nicaraguan jail cell began to fill up with love notes from beautiful young North American women who saw Eric as somewhat of a sexy celebrity.
The appeal.

Days drug on and on for Eric, then finally, after over a year in prison, Eric’s case finally came up for review. The job of the three judge panel, Judge Robert Rodriguez explained, was not to determine Volz’s innocence or guilt, but to decide if his ‘physical’ involvement in the murder had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Mostly due to the unlikely Danglas testimony, two of three judges decided that there was not sufficient evidence to convict Eric of 'physically' participating in the crime.

Despite the fact that there was also no physical evidence against Rosita (little Rosy) Chamorro, the conviction against the penniless, Nicaraguan was unanimously upheld. He presently awaits his second and final appeal opportunity in Tipitapa prison.

For his part, Krusty Dangla was given complete immunity from prosecution. He is at home with his mother in SJDS, happily surfing and doing drugs. When asked later by Tony D’Souza as to how he was doing he replied, “Very good, I didn’t do anything. I have my version, Eric has his version. You’ll have to talk to my lawyer”. -Outside Magazine

As a result of the appeal judges decision, Volz was to be released immediately on his own recognizance pending an appeal by the prosecutors (of this decision) to the supreme court of Nicaragua. There were delays however, during which time Maggie Anthony flew down to Nicaragua surrounded by armed private security guards, and met personally with influential Nicaraguan judicial authorities including Julio Centeno, attorney general for Nicaragua.

Two days later, to everyone’s evident surprise, Eric was snatched out of the prison hospital where he was being treated for kidney stones and asked to sign prison release papers. Immediately after, he was physically deported by an order from the executive branch of the government of Nicaragua, under heavy guard and in a whirl wind of police sirens and paparazzi.

Upon hearing of Eric’s departure Attorney General Centeno indignantly called the release a 'barbarity', President Ortega said it was a sad day for Nicaragua, the prosecutors, human rights and women’s rights groups throughout Nicaragua became enraged, and one Nicaraguan radio show even called out for machete justice. By this time however, Eric was already out of harms way and in hiding, somewhere in the USA.

Eric soon appeared in a photo on his website, friendsofericvolz.com, with a Che Guevara stubble, arms folded defiantly, and sporting a “Justicia para Doris” (justice for Doris) t-shirt, which was immediately ‘cartoonized’ in the Nicaraguan press.

The world soon got a glimpse of Eric up close and personal. He was first interviewed by Meredith Vieira on the Today Show. By his side his mother Maggie literally ‘swooned’ over her son. Eric elaborated how he had been ‘scapegoated’ in a plot waged by high up Sandinista officials and Nicaraguan supreme court judges in order to protect a member of wealthy and influential Nicaraguan family, who was, according to Eric, the real mastermind of the crime.

When Vieira then asked him why he thought they had convicted him, Eric, replied, “Believe it or not, it’s because they knew I was innocent,” Then he went on, “It’s a way to create diplomatic tension so you can bargain other bilateral negotiations that may be pending.” Vieira looked puzzled. "I don't think I understand"?

Later the same day in an interview with Kerry Sanders of NBC News, Eric was asked by Sanders if he thought there were others besides Rosita Chamorro involved in the murder: Volz: “We know um, before the trial happened, as part of the defense effort we had an investigator collect evidence to, um you know, to put together, um, my defense…and we found out very easily what really happened, uh, people in San Juan del Sur know exactly what happened, people saw what happened…”. Unfortunately Sanders didn’t follow up and ask, and Eric didn’t volunteer, why, if Eric had all this evidence before his trial, including witnesses who saw what happened, had he not used this in his defense?!

Then back to the earlier interview on the Today show with Meredith Vieira:Vieira: “So why aren’t they (the real killers) being brought to justice if you know who they are?” Volz: “At this point it’s up to the Nicaraguan authorities. You know, um, it’s not our job as a civilian family, to, to, um, it’s not our, um, you know, we are not authorized to do that.”

A free man.

So now, due to a very successful PR campaign waged by his friends and family, and possibly a greased wheel or two in Nicaragua, Eric Volz is a free man. A self proclaimed ‘warrior’ who survived ‘the waiting room for hell’ in a Nicaraguan prison.

Everywhere he goes now, people recognize him. He says on his ‘Friends’ site, “people approach me in the street and just grab me and hug me, many of them speechless that I'm really standing in front of them.”

The warrior is back and on top of the world. He says that he is writing a book about what really happened and he excitedly tells his ‘Friends of Eric’ website readers: “..if you thought what you know is surreal and insane, just wait until the "real story" is published!”

He also announces that he is converting the high traffic ‘Friends’ website into a site which will seek justice for falsely accused victims like himself. He says to his readers, “…through your involvement in bringing attention to my story, you have in essence become what I've begun referring to as "shareholders in justice" and we will continue, with your help, to raise awareness for those in need of it!” I assume by “with your help”, he is referring to, donations.

Shortly after Eric’s release in early January this same ‘Friends of Eric Volz’ website had posted: “Over the past 13 months, out of concern for Eric’s safety in prison and a very delicate appeals process, the results of a parallel investigation have been protected. Those days are over and the truth must come to light.”

Because of my interest in this case I have since been anxiously awaiting this ‘truth’ to be revealed. It seems now however, that with the announcement of these exciting new projects, ‘justice and truth’ may have to be shelved for the time being in favor of other, potentially more profitable, endeavors.

The fat lady hasn't sung.

There is still an investigation going on in Nicaragua. There will someday be an announcement of whether Eric’s successful appeal survived the supreme court of Nicaragua. If it doesn’t there will most likely be a showy attempt by the Nicaraguan government to have Eric extradited to serve the rest of his sentence. There is however, no real chance of that happening.

If the truth turns out to be that Eric had nothing to do with this crime then 'this is the inspiring story of a mother who, against all odds, saved her son from the jaws of a corrupt legal system in a third world country'.

If, on the other hand, it turns out that Eric was indeed responsible for the death of Doris, then 'this is a story about a mother who doted on her only son so much, came to bat for him so many times, that he began to believe that he was omnipotent'.

There were countless allegations of improprieties in this case. When Volz was suddenly deported shortly after Maggie Anthony met with Julio Centeno, Doris’s family, and most Nicaraguans, felt that they had been sold out by their own government.

To others however, it seemed just as likely that President Ortega might have felt that his nation had swallowed up something indigestible in the person of Eric Volz, and needed to purge themselves of the problem.

Su belleza le fue fatal -Nuevo Diario.

Regardless of the final outcome, there will be no appeals for Doris Jimenez. The decomposing brown body of what was once the spectacularly beautiful Doris, is baking in the scorched soil of the San Juan Cemetery.

She tried her best, despite enormous odds, to claw her way out of the nearly impossible circumstances in which she was born, in the poorest nation of the America's. She would have made it too, if she just hadn't have been quite so magnificent. In the end, 'Su belleza fue fatal', her beauty was indeed fatal.

Her Mother Mercedes and Aunt Elena walk up the cemetery hill regularly to place ribbons on the grave, to pray for Doris's soul, and for justice, but each time they visit they are sadly reminded of the inequities between rich and poor, white and brown, and man and woman.

Rest in peace beautiful Doris. We won't forget you.

Copyright February 29, 2008, Joel Devin, all rights reserved.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Photos

Doris Jimenez
Doris Jimenez, aqui y ahora video screenshot

Doris Jimenez' aqui y ahora'


'aqui y ahora'
happy Eric upon release, 'aqui y ahora'

Judge Toruno -aqui y ahora

coffin scratches? aqui y ahora

Eric at trial

Rosita Chamorro -aqui y ahora
Krusty Dangla-aqui y ahora

Mercedes Alvarado, mother of Doris -aqui y ahora

Maggie Anthony, mother of Eric-Dateline

Eric the warrior
Cartoon in Nica Press
Doris as the removed the gag -aqui y ahora

hog tied -aqui y ahora

her pants were undone-Dateline
San Juan Bay-courtesy publicidadnicaragua.com
downtown SJdS-Dateline video
defendants in court

Sol Fashion boutique

Eric's release

angry mob

Tipitapa prison
Tourist restaurant overlooking the beach.

The real San Juan del Sur




Saturday, March 1, 2008

Nuevo Diario Nov 23 2006

They assassinate and they rob a young person in center of San Juan del Sur
lquintero@elnuevodiario.com.ni

San Juan del Sur, RIVAS. A young person of the municipality of San Juan del Sur was assassinated in hours of midday Tuesday, within her own bazaar, located contiguous to the market of this municipality. All indicates that the moving body of this mysterious crime was the robbery. The Nuevo Diario was transferred to the place and knew that the way in which the antisocial ones ended the life of Doris Jiménez Alvarado, of 25 years, was asphyxiating it with sheets, with which later they covered her body, to occur to the flight taking an amount of clothes not yet determined, that were for sale.
Watchman discovers body
According to Gabriela Sobalvarro, friend of the victim, the crime could have given between twelve and the one of afternoon, and assured that first in finding out the tragedy was Oscar Danilo Blandón, caretaker of the small store of the victim. According to Sobalvarro, Blandón arrived at the bazaar shortly before two in the afternoon and was surprised when seeing that the business was closed. He then opened with the keys that he handles, and when entering he observed Jiménez Alvarado, already without life, "and he went to call, when he saw what had happened. When entering the room in the back I observed Doris, on the border of the bed, wrapped in a sheet, and with another one around the neck, and in the place where it was located the clothes were everything messed up. There were watered rags ", explained Sobalvarro, she could not contain the tears.

It is possible to emphasize that to the place of the crime many tens of sanjuaneños were present that were offended by the murder, and already they are requesting to the Police that the sooner they can clarify the possible fact the better. Between the people present was the grandmother of the victim, Doña Francisca Lanzas. She commented that her granddaughter lived behind the shop and that a year ago rented the premises in which they assassinated her, in that installed a small store of varied clothes. She added that at the moment they suspect that the moving body of the crime could have been a robbery, "since the store lacks clothes, and perhaps those that assassinated her entered to rob and perhaps she recognized their faces, and had to asphyxiate her", she explained.
Simultaneously she indicated that the last time which they saw Doris alive was at noon of this Tuesday, when she was in her business, removing polish from her nails. Later nobody knew more of the young person, and in the dining room to which she used to go to have lunch, they also thought it strange when seeing that it was one in the afternoon and Doris had not arrived. But strangest for the sanjuaneños is that nobody saw nor heard anything in the place of the crime, although it was in broad daylight and right in the center of this harbor city. On the other hand, an equipment of Judicial Aid of the Police of Rivas was transferred to the place of the crime, at five of the afternoon, but until now they have not detained not any person.

Nuevo Diario, Nov 27, 2006

Police clarifies crime in less than eight days
María Urroz
In less than eight days, the Police Rivas clarified the murder of Doris Ivania Alvarado Jimenez, 25, senior in business administration, who on November 21 at noon was killed by mechanical asphyxiation after being raped vaginally and anally inside the store Sol Fashion in San Juan del Sur. An unofficial source disclosed that the police arrested Julio Chamorro Martin Lopez, 28, alias "Rosita" the American Erick Stanley Boltz, 24, which is dedicated to the business of Real Estate in San Juan del Sur, and Nelson Antonio Lopez Mangas, 24, alias "Moncho". According to the source, Boltz entered the store accompanied by Chamorro, Lopez and fourth subject only identified as Armando, but it was the foreigner that took Doris hands to take her by force the last room where there was a bed. Supposedly there was Armando, of which it became known that he is American and that his father owns a hotel in the town, took Doris by the neck, forced her to the border of the bed, he introduced a rag in the mouth, and he dropped the pants and bloomer to the knees.
Another American implicated
Later Volts was abusing her against nature and later vaginally. After apparently Armando he rolled a savanna in the head and raped her, taking advantage of the young woman was in a state unconscious as a result of the lack of oxygen. Then they threw in the center of the bed and rolled her with a blanket to get rid of her body. In two black bags, Boltz handed Nelson Lopez clothing in the store and a recorder to make the authorities believe that the motive was robbery. Although the store was located in the midst of a mill and a barbershop, in front of the Hotel La Fragata in San Juan del Sur, neighbors did not cooperate with the police, because they argued that they had not heard anything.

Nuevo Diario Nov 28, 2006

SAN JUAN DEL SUR, RIVAS
According to the Police Rivas, the young Doris Ivania Alvarado Jimenez, 25, was murdered by her own boyfriend atrociously, Erick Stanley Voltz, of American nationality, and who also raped her vaginally and anal intercourse, as well as his cronies, Nelson Lopez Tangla subjects, aged 24, and Julio Martin Chamorro Lopez, alias "Rosita." The fact shuddered to society of the resort of San Juan del Sur. According to the commissioner Emigdio Reyes, head of Legal Aid of the Police Rivas, the event has already passed into the hands of the Prosecution, "and today (yesterday) morning at the Public Prosecutor's Office indicted the three on charges of murder atrocious and the judge gave custody. " It should be noted that this crime keeps the residents of San Juan del Sur in expectation, because the victim was very popular in the port city and that is why since November 21 when the crime occurred, many people demanded his early clarification, because at the beginning it was believed that it was only a robbery, but according to the police this was a "screen" that used the American. According to the commissioner Gutierrez, everything does indicate that the motive for the crime was passionate, as they knew that Erick was jealous of his girlfriend with another man, and this insecurity led him to act in this way against her.

For its part, the spokesperson for the Police Rivas, captain Luisa Amalia Chavarria, indicated that Erick hired "Rosita" and Nelson to go to simulate the robbery at the store of Doris, which was located adjacent to the south side of the market San Juan del Sur. For the participation of these two subjects the gringo allegedly paid five thousand dollars, but according to Nelson gave statements to the police, being in the scene things went as planned and was completed as well as choking and raping Doris, to whom he introduced rags in the mouth, and once she was consumed he rolled her in a blanket and left on the edge of a bed, face down, and then were on the run, taking some male clothes and the cellular of Doris. According to the commissioner Reyes, "Rosita" Nelson confessed the crime and confirm the involvement of the North American in it.

Ten witnesses
However, he was aware that Erick denies having participated in the crime and claims that at the time the murder was in Managua, and puts ten people as witnesses, in this case workers in the real estate business "Century 21" of which the North American is responsible.
THE Nuevo Diario knew that initially the three detainees will be prosecuted for the crime of murder atrocious, but is not ruled out that they were also add the crime of rape, as it is awaiting the results of biological tests to be made the three detainees, are the ones to determine who participated in the rape.

Nuevo Diario Dec 3, 2006

CRIME that shuddered to San Juan del Sur
The suspicion of a betrayal sentimental is what apparently led to the abominable crime against the slender young and well liked Doris Ivania Jimenez, 25, in the municipality of San Juan del Sur. Due to her popularity and participation in beauty contests she was very known in this port city
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The scene that the police found in San Juan del Sur, in the shop Doris Ivania. A young man of Rio San Juan appeared in the life of the victim, and apparently was the spark of this appalling fact, as the alleged perpetrator was more jealous of this fact. Grandmother and friend of the victim agree that this should be a reflection for girls, not to accept overnight sentimental relations with foreigners.
SAN JUAN DEL SUR, RIVAS-This "little siren" of San Juan del Sur perhaps never imagined that to engage in a romantic relationship with the Mexican-gringo Eric Stanley Volz, 27 years, would culminate in another story of women murdered by their partners in our country.
According to the Public Prosecutor's department of Rivas, Stanley Volz was the intellectual author of the crime in which Nelson also appear concerned Dangla Antonio Lopez, 24, Julio Martin Chamorro, 29, and Armando Llanes, 20.
The crime has shocked the people of San Juan del Sur was hours from noon on November 21, and the scene was tiny shop that had Doris Ivania adjacent to the south side of the market in this tourist town.
Violated by two
According to the indictment, Stanley Volz arrived at the scene along with the others involved, and being moved indoors to Doris Ivania to a room where her hands and feet were tied and he put a rag in her mouth.
Later he stripped and raped her vaginally and unnaturally, and such action allegedly joined in Julio, but the public prosecutor's office is awaiting the results to determine biologically for sure who participated in the rape.
All the evidence indicate that while the rape occurred, Doris Ivania proceeded to slowly die of asphyxiation, and when they learned of her death the perpetrators dressed and covered her body with sheets.
The suspects left the store carrying clothes for men, to make believe that this was a robbery, but the police managed to assemble "pieces" of the crime and gave them to the alleged perpetrators, and in the case of Nelson and Julio, until they confessed and admitted the involvement of the foreigner, who had promised to pay 5 thousand dollars to both for their participation.
Grandmother calls for reflection
For Ms Jacinta Spears, grandmother Doris Ivania, this fact should serve as a reflection of a lot of young people who accept premiums in the early sentimental relationships with foreigners, especially since this port city, as well as the colonial city of Granada, it is highly frequented by people of many countries that even stay to live here permanently or temporarily. "With these people should be very careful, because we know nothing about them, nothing about his past, and in this case I always felt something bad, I never felt well with this man (Estanley Volz), perhaps the intuition of grandmother and therefore what I felt, "said the old woman. Gabriela Sobalvarro, 26, considered one of the closest friends of Doris Ivania, also agreed that the youth of San Juan del Sur should be very careful when accepting a relationship with foreigners, "and this tragedy should serve for reflection, "she explained.
At the same time she indicated that young Doris Ivania was very amicable, and said that she commented that after completing her university studies she was considering styling, because she wanted to devote herself to this work and her shop. At present, the victim dealt with the last year of the career of Business Administration at the Upoli-Rivas. According to Gabriela, her friend met Estanley Volz when she was working as a waitress in the restaurant "Rocamar." "There they met because Estanley Volz worked for the real estate company Century` 21 ', which was opposite the restaurant, and so was that initiated their relationship. "
Family and friends knew of the harassment
According to relatives of Doris Ivania, the relationship existed for a year and a half, but elaborated that in the last days things apparently were not going well, "because he was too jealous and harassed, arrived at midnight to take her from the house with force, and was apparently losing interest in her, "said Elena Alvarado Spears, aunt of the girl killed. Volz also were known to Gabriela, and she told Nuevo Diario, Doris Ivania talked with him on the subject. Also, the now deceased revealed that the young Armando Llanes, 20, was in love with her and that he had invited her to a hotel that his dad has in San Juan River, from where he originates, and she apparently finished being with the Mexican-gringo. However, the strangeness of the case is that Llanes was also accused by the prosecution, although the family of this young man state that he did not even know the foreigner and that the day of the crime he was not in San Juan del Sur.
He came to the wake
The day of the funeral, Estanley Volz came to see the remains of their beloved, and according to Ms Jacinta for minutes he remained above the coffin, crying, and at that moment she was already of the idea that he was the murderer, while the rest of the family still was waiting for the police investigations. Volz also reached the cemetery San Juan del Sur to bid farewell to his beloved, but once he left the funeral he was detained by police as he was leaving the cemetery, as a result of the investigations and was formally charged for the crime of murder, which he could add to rape. Significantly, Doris Ivania was the second of five children that had Mrs. Mercedes Alvarado, who at the moment is consistent with the work she is doing the Police and the Prosecutor's Office, since she, like the rest of her family, wants that the Mexican-gringo and his cronies should be punished, and we will await what they do the two institutions mentioned above. In this sense the next move is the realization of the initial hearing to be held this coming Wednesday in the District Court of Criminal Hearings Rivas. That will determine whether there are sufficient elements to refer the accused to a trial and the public.

Nuevo Diario Dec 7, 2006

Rescheduled hearing for gringo accused of murdering his girlfriend
Dozens of residents of San Juan del Sur came to the courts to seek justice Mother of the victim is unusual for the hearing has been postponed, and it draws attention to the family attorney defending the suspect Ortega
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RIVAS At the request of the Public Prosecutor of Rivas, the judge hearing District Criminal Rivas, Edward Peter Palma, decided to reschedule the initial hearing that was scheduled to take place yesterday, as part of the judicial process that is carried against the four indicted by the murder of the young native of San Juan del Sur Doris Ivania Jimenez, 25, and which appears as the American intellectual author Eric Estanley Volz, who at the same time maintaining a romantic relationship with the victim. According to the tax department Isolda Ibarra, they requested the rescheduling of the hearing because they do not yet have the results of biological tests performed at American, Nelson Antonio Lopez Dangla of 24 years, since July Martin Chamorro, 29, who allegedly participated in the crime that has shocked San Juan del Sur. According to Ibarra, the backlog of results is due to the lack of electricity in the Central Laboratory of Criminalistics, and as is appropriate to provide these results in the indictment, "we are waiting for them, while the Prosecution still investigating the case, "said the prosecutor. He stressed that the initial hearing was rescheduled for this Thursday at eleven o'clock, and according to her, at that time and have the results of biological samples. At the hearing, the Office also define the future of the accused, including the young Armando Llanes, 20, who was implicated by Nelson Antonio in the crime.
They check alibi
However, police sources revealed that the most likely Llanes would be excluded out of the prosecution, as it was found that the day of the crime (November 21) he was at the University Ave Maria College, San Marcos, Carazo. As will be recalled, police investigations suggest that Volz murdered and raped his girlfriend on the grounds of passion, as their jealousy increased when he learned of the alleged rapprochement between Doris Ivania and Armando Llanes, a young native of San Juan River and with whom victim walked twice shopping in Managua. Surprisingly, Nelson Antonio implicated Llanes in the despicable act, but his accusation has no basis.
On the other hand, it should be noted that tens of sanjuaneños moved to the courts Rivas to demand justice, but rather they are angry to learn that the hearing had been rescheduled and that the attorney Volz is Ramon Rojas, who has led at the same time cases the president-elect Daniel Ortega, so there is fear that trafficking of influence to bring about the freedom of American.
Mercedes Alvarado Spears, Mom Doris Ivania, stated that the villagers came to court to repudiate the heinous crime that was committed against her daughter, "and call justice, so the murder of my daughter does not go unpunished, because he (Eric Volz) has the counsel of Ramon Rojas, and although I too am a Sandinista activist, I would not like to leave free the perpetrator of the crime of my daughter," concluded Alvarado Spears.
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Nuevo Diario Newspaper Dec 8th, 2006

Almost lynched gringo implicated in the murder
He was kept in custody during the initial hearing
The prosecution modified the indictment left without guilt two of the four involved, and one of them will now be key witness to prove guilt of the foreigner.
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RIVAS In a marathon initial hearing, the judge of the Criminal District Court of Rivas, Edward Peter Palma, decided to retain in custody and refer to public oral hearing the Mexican-American Eric Stanley Volz, accused of having murdered his girlfriend Doris Ivania Jimenez , aged 25, who was also a victim of rape. A foreigner yesterday escaped being lynched by people who waited at the exit of the courthouse. The court scheduled January 26 for completion of the trial which will determine the future of Volz and his buddy, Julio Martin Chamorro, who is identified in the indictment as one of the three men involved in the heinous crime against Doris Ivania. The incident, which has shocked the people of San Juan del Sur, was on 21 November at midday, and the scene was a small shop that was the victims, adjacent to the south side of the market in this county. At the initial hearing, prosecutor Tom Peña amended the indictment, exonerating of any responsibility Armando Llanes, 20, and Nelson Dangla Antonio Lopez, 24.
At first the two were thought to have participated in the crime, with Volz and Julio Martin Chamorro, 29, but according to the prosecutor he did not have enough evidence to support the involvement of Lopez Dangla and Llanes. The evidence presented to the public prosecutor's office against Volz and Chamorro had more to do everything in a prima facie case of how much the gringo as Chamorro participated in the crime, and this is behind with four witnesses who saw the day of the crime, the two suspects loitering near the shop of Doris Ivania hours close to the murder.
Freed to sink gringo
But now the strongest proof that the Prosecutor's Office will have to investigate the crime is the release of Nelson Antonio, who was released testify against the accused for Prosecution. And it is that according to investigations, after the crime Nelson Antonio was the one who was responsible for receiving from the hands of Volz a few bags with clothing, which he put to a white car that was driven by the gringo.
For this favor the gringo paid 50 cordobas to Nelson Antonio, and then left San Juan del Sur and returned hours later to the scene of the crime. With this release, the Prosecution seeks to consolidate its indictment against Volz and void once and for all their alibis for the day of the crime was in Managua.
According to Pena, the argument of Volz is totally untrue, and added that his quest to try to prove that he was in Managua has failed, as they noted that he tried to make believe he was in the capital, attempted to show that he rented a vehicle and everything went wrong, "because in the place where he allegedly rented it, nobody saw him and the formalities for rental cars are personal," he explained.
"In the case of Chamorro, the prosecutor elaborated that witnesses who have testified to having seen him near the scene at the time of the crime, and that saw him sweating, and scratched and quite nervous," and according to the coroner , the period of evolution of scratches coincides with the death of Doris, "he said.
Still awaiting biological tests
Despite ensure that the cause was sent to trial, the prosecutor said he regretted the work of the police in this case, as spelled out that they have not yet forwarded the results of the expert evidence, and according to her, with these results they would have been much easier to prosecute the suspects. However, Pena hoped that those tests appear this weekend to consolidate them with the direct evidence. Moreover, it should be noted that such a hearing was conducted under tight police surveillance, as were tens of SanJuaneños bet on the outskirts of the court to demand justice and even to try to lynch to Volz, which almost succeed when he was removed by Police and they gave him several blows. The authorities had to take refuge along with the detainee in a building. The foreigner this week could be transferred to the Penitentiary System of Grenada, while waiting for the day of judgment.

Nuevo Diario Newspaper Jan 23rd, 2007

Version Doña Mercedes frightens me, my son is innocent"
Maggie Anthony, mother of the American Erick Volz, accused by the prosecution in the crime Doris Ivania Jimenez, reacted surprised by the statements of Ms Mercedes Alvarado, the mother of the victim, who stated that she was offered one million dollars to withdraw the indictment. "We are tremendously shocked and sore when I read the statements of the mother of Doris (Jimenez), Mrs. Mercedes Alvarado, which ensures that a men approached him offering a million dollars if desists process against my son Erick," said Ms. Anthony. The mother of Erick Volz, in addition to plead the innocence of her son, who was a boyfriend of Doris Ivania said they have enough evidence to prove the innocence of his case. "Erick is absolutely innocent of this horrible crime," reiterated Mrs. Anthony, who traveled from the United States to accompany her son in the trial scheduled for January 24.

Maggie Anthony, who claims to have known Doris Ivania, revealed that at the end of the initial hearing in which his son Erick Volz was referred to trial, Ms. Mercedes Alvarado hugged him and told the hearing that he was innocent.

"The mother Doris, in the aftermath of the initial hearing he whispered in his ear and said, 'I know that you're innocent'," says Ms. Anthony. However, according to Volz's mother, Doris's mother withdrew the complaint not because it is uninformed, and for fear of what they will say the people of St. John's South, who she says have not been duly informed of the entretelones crime.

The witnesses
The testimony of four people, as proposed by the Public Prosecutor's Office, is among other evidence that list is defending the American Erick Volz, to demonstrate that he is not the perpetrator of the crime perpetrated against Doris Ivania Jimenez Alvarado. The lawyer Ramon Rojas, defender Erick Volz, also noted that it counts as exculpatory evidence in favor of the represented (Volz), samples of blood and hair from the Central Laboratory of Criminalistics in clothing and crime scene . The young Doris Ivania Jimenez was killed at about noon last November 21, in a shop owned in the centre of the port town of San Juan del Sur. In addition, the defense of the American, who was a boyfriend , announced that during the trial that will start next January 24, will submit a report of the telephone Movistar, which indicates that the calls he made during the morning of 21 November, up past three in the afternoon, originated in Managua. "This report of the cellular phone company dismisses my represented has been in San Juan del Sur at the time the crime happened between 11 in the morning and one in the afternoon, according to the opinion of the coroner," said Rojas .

What they say witnesses
Leydi Altagracia de los Angeles Santos, one of the witnesses proposed by the prosecution and the defence will assist them to prove the innocence of Volz said that the day of the crime, he woke in Managua and stayed in the capital to that of half past two o'clock in the evening. Marta Carolina Aguirre, also proposed by the prosecution witness said before the Public Prosecutor in Rivas that November 21 was until two o'clock in the company of Volz, who made a telephone call from almost an hour with a partner in the United States . Ricardo Castillo, who is a businessman, claimed to have been at noon on November 21 with Volz in the so-called tele conference with his partner abroad.

Nuevo Diario Newspaper Jan 24th, 2007

"In a telephone conversation held with the mother of the girl raped and murdered in San Juan del Sur, and with a Legal Aid official who participated in the investigation, detailing how the United States embassy hampered investigations, to prohibit the main accused of the crime, Erick Stanley Volz, who confessed how they had killed his girlfriend Doris Ivania Jimenez.
That conversation was recorded and is held by Nuevo Diario, and for obvious reasons we prefer to omit for the moment the name of the investigator Legal Aid of Managua, as he is intended to be one of the witnesses.
In conversation, Ms. Mercedes Alvarado, the mother of Doris and the investigator, she asked him why they had not added on the record the statements given on 24 November Volz, "in which he had confessed everything, how they had killed my daughter , but that does not come out here now in the record"
According to the recording, the response that the expert gave police is: "Look, he said he could say everything, past and how he could help us, but then refused to sign his statement and said no, that he, the Ambassador told him to say nothing," was the response of the police officer.
The conversation also suggests that Volz is being investigated in another case, as a result of the crime there was apparently detected three false passports, and in the chat Doña Mercedes asks the expert why they have not made those other evidence.
When consulted on this conversation, Dona Mercedes indicated that there really is a document that has the statement of Volz, which "confesses how he murdered my daughter, but everything was verbal and he refused to sign the paper, and, yes, said that was under orders from the American Embassy. "
It should be noted that as they approached the days of the trial of this case there came to light explosive revelations, as received in the cells Preventive Police Rivas, Ramon (sic) Danglas, who at first was arrested as a suspect along with Julio Cesar Lopez and Volz, but in the cells, Danglas began to blame the gringo, with which he had fallen prisoner, and that caused him to fall to Lopez (Chamorro) blows, so he had to be moved from cell.
Moreover, Mrs. Mercedes rejected the statements made to Nuevo Diario by Maggie Anthony, mother of Volz.
The declaration said that the initial hearing at the end of this process, Ms. Mercedes Alvarado hugged Volz and told the hearing that he was innocent.
But according to Dona Mercedes that is totally false and ridiculous, it was he (Volz) who by orders from his lawyer, Ramon Rojas, came to embrace me and tell me that he was not the perpetrator against my daughter, and out of respect for the Consul of the American Embassy and those present, I left him not go his way, but I wasn't lacking desire to hit him, but what would I gain? "
In the final detail she is not withdrawing the complaint because what she wants is justice "and that the chief perpetrator of the crime pay for what he did, and tell Mrs. Anthony that it is she who is uninformed....
When consulted about the existence of a recording held by Doña Mercedes Alvarado, and that she provided to Nuevo Diario, in which a police officer said by telephone that the embassy of the United States obstructed the investigation, said: "I can not say because I do not know. "
We also consulted the Press aggregate of the United States Embassy in Managua, Kristin Stewart, who assured that it was difficult to comment on the recording, and at the same time sought a replica of the same order to provide a criterion.
"In this kind of case what we do is gather information and follow up," added Stewart.
For his part, Judge Rafael Solis, vice president of the Supreme Court, reported that the commission appointed to investigate the actions of Judge Edward Peter Palma - consisting of Judges Edward Navas and Marvin Aguilar - decided to advance inspection in the case file for this Tuesday.

Nuevo Diario Newspaper Jan 26th, 2007

A crime "dolarized"
An offer of 30 thousand dollars in return to be responsible for the heinous crime of murdering Doris Ivania Jimenez came to him in the cells of the Penitentiary System of Grenada. Julio Martin Lopez Chamorro, who at the moment is the only one that stays in prison for the abominable crime, which also appears involving the Mexican-American Eric Stanley Volz.
Such an offer was announced yesterday by Nuevo Diario, Ms Marta Enriquez, mother of Julio Lopez Chamorro, who in San Juan del Sur is known by the alias of "Rosita." According to the lady, her son received someone days after the initial hearing in which he and Volz were referred to trial for the crime.
"During his visit this person offered my son 30 thousand dollars provided he is made responsible for the crime," she said. But according to her, he consulted the proposal "and I told him to never accept this, that it could not be, as a mother and I am not going to accept it either because he has not done anything," she explained.
"If the gringo is released, my son also"
In the view of Ms Marta, if Volz gets his freedom, her child also gets a free, and argues that he is innocent, "because the day of the crime Doris Ivania, which was November 21 at noon hour, he (her son) walked from 10:30 in the morning to serve as a translator to a foreigner walking into a clinic, and then went to lunch, "she elaborated.
It is for ensuring that you have faith that your son was not involved in the crime, although police and the public prosecutor indicated that he and Volz were the authors of the murder and rape of the victim Doris Ivania.
At the same time, she pointed out that her son made friends with Volz on the beaches, and according to her, they can accuse him of being a bum and drug addict, but not a criminal. she said that being poor can not convict him for a crime he did not commit , and according to her, the day of judgement will declare what he knows.
Judge and prosecutors will be investigated
Meanwhile, Judge Edward Peter Palma and four prosecutors have to "sit on the bench," because the Supreme Court cited the first to give his version on the case of Eric Stanley Volz, while the other must explain before The Inspectorate of Public Prosecutions, whether it was true or not receiving bribes next to the judicial inquiry into the case of former police Román Jose Lopez.
Judge Edgard Navas, a member of the Governing Council and Judiciary of the Supreme Court, said yesterday afternoon that although they have not made a final decision on Palma, the board will meet on Friday to possibly be the judge in this Monday persone Court, and that records on hand lend its version.
Navas pointed out that the Judicial Inspectorate sent them yesterday afternoon the report of the investigation conducted in the trial record that follows Eric Stanley Volz, "but I see it very insufficient", which could be amplified.
Palma again this Thursday went to the "eye of the hurricane," because the relatives of Joseph Roman Lopez claimed that they gave him 3000 dollars for which it had released trial for drug trafficking, but he apparently did not comply and did not return the money.
The serious complaint also wrapped a prosecutor who would have received a "bribe" of $500, so that just yesterday the executive secretary of the Public Ministry, Delia Rosales, confirmed that the Inspectorate of Public Prosecutions proceeded to open an investigation into the four prosecutors that took participation in the process.
The prosecutor was appointed to investigate Dr. Blanca Salgado, who on Monday will move to Rivas to inspect records and court prosecutor in the case.

End of article. Palma was the first judge who was accused of accepting a bribe for releasing Volz on his own recognizance but keeping Chamorro, the other defendant, in jail.
I have included two comments from readers that I thought were funny.

el mas chingon (the most helpful)
To kill all the corrupt in Nicaragua who be 99.9% of the population.
CHICO CHE (boy che)
It’s not bad this offer, how can I make contact with the person who made it, I would run for $ 1000 the year (if they applied the maximum penalty ).... With such notes I would solve a lot of problems that I have and I it would make good business, assuring the future of my family .... I would sacrifice.

Nuevo Diario Feb 7 2007

Volz company will be tried in Rivas
They set trial for heinous crime Doris Ivania
Judge dismissed the request to change venue and drew on 14 February for the hearing * Magistrado expresa ante comparecencia de juez Palma, que en el expediente hay una marcada negligencia que puede ser venalidad * Judge expresses appearance before judge Palma, in the record that there is a marked negligence that could be venality
Lésber Quintero y Eloísa Ibarra
RIVAS Y MANAGUA
After several days of mystery, on Tuesday was announced the end of rescheduling the trial date on which will be known whether or not condemn the Mexican-American Eric Stanley Volz, for the heinous crime of his girlfriend, Doris Ivania Jimenez Alvarado. The rescheduled date was set for nine in the morning of February 14, as the judge announced District Criminal Trial Rivas, Ivette Toruño Blanco, in an indictment that passed at 2:30 on the afternoon of Tuesday. Maybe if the circumstances were other, the Mexican-American would be thinking about where to spend Valentine's Day with amenamente who in life was his lover. Volz on that date and the name of Doris Ivania will be the focus of attention in the courts of Rivas, not just for the alleged love that existed between them, but to show whether or not Volz participated in the heinous crime that shook San Juan del Sur on November 21, 2006, when the noon hour young Doris was raped and then killed by mechanical asphyxiation, according to police investigations. In the beginning of the trial was scheduled for January 26 but was cancelled because the judge hearing, Edward Peter Palma, passed the file to the trial judge District one day before the deadline.
They are going to "technical trial"
In the indictment yesterday, the court also accepted the request made through his lawyers, Volz and Julio Martin Lopez Chamorro, who asked not to be tried by a jury, but by a judge. On the other hand, the judge also ruled Toruño Blanco in the order issued yesterday, conducting the trial in Rivas and not in Grenada or in Managua, as requested by the defense attorney Ramon Rojas, which now officially turned to the Police of this department to ensure the safety of all persons who will be present.
Background
According to Ms Mercedes Alvarado, her daughter met Eric Stanley Volz in the year 2004, "when she was working as a waitress at the restaurant Rocamar.The mother Doris Ivania said that days after her daughter began dating her suitor, they became partners, and there was a time when they both lived in the same house. Maria Elena Alvarado Spears, aunt of the victim, said that ultimately Volz sustained many discussions with her niece, he was too jealous “and he restricted how she dressed because he did not like to see her with makeup or wearing shorts." He added that jealousy of Volz increased when in the life of her niece appeared Armando Llanes, and that, according to Ms Helena, that occurred in March 2006, and according to her claims, the meeting between the two (Llanes and Jimenez) was initiated by Julio Lopez Chamorro. That is why Ms Mercedes considers that of the crime to, which her daughter was the victim, Volz, Chamorro and Armando Llanes know much, as they all knew each other, however the latter (Llanes) was released by the Public Prosecutor.
Negligence or venality?
Meanwhile, Judge Edgard Navas, a member of the Governing Council and Judiciary of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ), revealed yesterday that the case file of the woman murdered in San Juan del Sur, has serious gaps that can lead to accountability to those responsible for the investigative process. Navas made the statements after reviewing along with other colleagues in the dossier which is processed to the Mexican-American Eric Stanley Volz (free) and the Nicaraguan, Julio Martin Lopez, for the murder of the young Doris Ivania Jimenez, and listen to the explanations the judge Edward Peter Palma. Martha Lopez, mother of the accused Julio Chamorro, alleged that after the initial hearing, a person came to the prison to offer 30 thousand dollars to her son to be responsible for the crime, which was rejected by the latter.
Palma appeared yesterday
Criminal judge Palma of Rivas, appeared yesterday before the judges of the Governing Council and Judiciary, to provide explanations for their actions in the case in question. "You can definitely conclude that responsibilities may exist in those in charge of handling the information, not having exhausted, as normally expected by law that will happen in the investigative process," said Navas. "There are major gaps and great sensitivity, serious deficiencies in the management of the research process," said Navas, after inviting the police and prosecutors Rivas in charge of the investigation to attend the CSJ next Monday to discuss together the dossier.
Gaps identified
Among the gaps mentioned why in the process there are no reports of anal and vaginal fluids that might have found on the victim, that should have been collected at the scene of the crime, then subjected to analysis and determine the possibility of participants. If there were personal injury analyzed as participants, why were not examined the nails of the victim to sample organic allowing them to determine responsibilities, but none of this is in the process, but are factors that help determine if you are making proper administration of justice in all its aspects. The executive secretary of the Public Ministry, Delia Rosales, explained that the Institute of Forensic Medicine made valuations of the victim and found no semen, but that does not mean that there has been no violation, because they found tears (torn skin). He reported that the Inspectorate of Public Prosecutions has not yet completed the investigation and expressed willingness to exchange information with the CSJ.

nuevo diario feb 14, 2007

Police group of forty in judgment by Doris Ivania? Today appear defendant under iron safekeeping? Prosecutor manages to hurl tests of the defense? Rivenses is prepared for maratónico judgment LÉSBER QUINTERO and ELOÍSA IBARRA Commissioner David Jarquín, head of Public Security of Rivas. RIVAS Downtown of Rivas amanece today Wednesday guarded like never before by the Police, and aside from the police unfolding that will count until on a numerous group of anti-riot, will settle down drastic safety measures, among them, the regulation of the people who journey at least to 400 meters to the round one of the courts of this city. This one is the plan that will start up the Police, to guarantee that the judgment in which Eric Stanley Volz processes itself to the Mexican-American, and to the Nicaraguan Julio Martín Chamorro, is developed with all the normality of the world, as other processes. In as much Eric Heads, the prosecutor deprived in the case of the violation and murder of the young person Doris Ivania Jiménez, it affirmed yesterday that the tests that rolan in the file demonstrate that both accused they are the authors of the crime, and hopes that it declares guilty to them. Stanley, Mexican-American and fiancè of Jiménez, as well as the Nicaraguan Chamorro, face the judgment today, in the middle of a series of signallings between the National Police, the public prosecutors and penal judge of Edward hearings Peter Palm, by the form as the investigation were taken. As one will remember, both process they were accused to atrociously violate and to assassinate the young person of San Juan of the South, Doris Ivania Jiménez Alvarado. The crime occurred to noon of the 21 of November, and since the Public Ministry accused the foreigner, the people who crowds together itself in the courts have tried in the hearings to lynch it, and are for that reason that the Police will be making this unfolding of security. According to commissioner David Jarquín, head of Public Security of Rivas, the security plan before enters use from del beginning del judgment (09:00 a.m.) and one will extend during and after the process, although he does not know himself when he could conclude, but of which if it is sure he is that the hearing will be maratónica. Red he solicits to stop process to the one of afternoon To make matters worse, in the preparatory hearing of judgment, Red Ramon defense counsel of Volz, solicitd to shorten the process to the one of afternoon, for which he put as excuse that in the evening would be in Managua participating in another judicial process. Without embargo, Jarquín commissioner assured that the security plan always will be effective for each one of the moments at which the process occurs, and although it did not want to detail the number of cash to be used, made clear that they will have a force sufficient "to resist any act that attempts against the processings, the judicial authorities or any other person that are close of the courts". If the things are altered, we will make use of a reserve of anti-riot, announced. Volz doubly protected With these strict measures, the Volz Mexican-American, will count on a device of police monitoring never before offered to a criminal. But aside from this "cord of monitoring", Volz also will count on a private equipment of security that her own family pays. Even in the middle of the signallings, Heads affirmed that "the blood found in the pink savannah of Jiménez agrees with the type of positive blood Or, of Stanley and Chamorro, and the opinions of the scratches examined in the bodies of both, agree with time of the death of the young person". "There are sufficient elements of test to demonstrate the culpability of both, we have key witnesses, in addition to the scientific tests. There is a new public prosecutor, Jorge Kings, whom much interest to the case is putting him, and is correcting errors of his predecessors ", said Heads. They hurl tests of the defense As far as the tests practiced in the nails of the victim, said that the first results, indicated that the material era very little to determine something accurately, and the last results have not known them. In the preparatory hearing conducted yesterday, Heads were able to hurl some tests that the defender of Stanley, Red Ramon, would use like alibi to demonstrate that his client was not in the store of the victim to noon of the 21 of November of the last year, when Doris Ivania was violated and assassinated. Between those tests it also hurled the testimonies of three employees of the Ricardo witness Castle, who would get to corroborate that it was with Stanley in his office day 21 to noon. The testimonies were excluded by being used of Stanely, and, therefore, subordinated, devoid of the suitability to testify with impartiality in the judgment. Also it was excluded a recording from Enitel, propose by Red, with which it tried to demonstrate that Staley was the 21 of November to noon with Castle in a teleconferencing with a partner of Miami. Heads explained that Red it accepted to exclude the recording because with her the place could not be demonstrated where was Staley the day of the crime. On the other hand, departmental public prosecutor Isolda Ibarra, is of the idea that the judgment could extend until for Monday, and more even by the request of Red. And he is that in agreement with Ibarra, in the judgment will have intervention 20 witnesses whom the Office of the public prosecutor proposed. To these the ten that proposed between the lawyer of Volz and the one of Chamorro are added Lopez. It is for that reason that thinks that the judgment will be maratónico, since in addition to the process opening of the judge of judgment, Ivette White Toruño, also will be made the interventions of the Office of the public prosecutor, particular defendant and the defense counsels.

nuevo diario feb 15, 2007

Doris Ivania Jiménez Alvarado took off the enamel of her nails when her assassins entered to her business named "Sol Fashion", the 21 of November of the last year. The defendants in her death are: Eric Stanley Volz and Julio Martín Chamorro Lopez. Yesterday began the oral and public judgment against these people, in the Court of Penal District of Judgment of the department of Rivas. From early hours of the day, the pedestrian crossing and the circulation of vehicles, 400 meters around one of the judicial complex, were prohibited by police agents. In addition, a brigade of anti-riot police was alert to conduct battle before any alteration the public order, since the crime of Doris Ivania inflamed a good part of the rivense population. The judgment began with one hour of delay, and the first interventions of the witnesses indicated Stanley Volz to be the main author of the death of Doris Ivania. Investigator first in declaring declares was the one in charge of the investigations of the case, police agent Silvio Aguirre, whom he related that during the first investigations they knew that a foreigner of name Kent Ross had information of the authors of the crime, reason why came to look for him, but the attempt was useless, since this man had left supposedly the country. It was then when they gave the other defendant of the death of Doris Ivania, Julio Martín Chamorro Lopez, who the day of the crime was seen in a suspicious attitude by the official Pedro Narváez. According to the testimony of Aguirre during the judgment, "Rosita" -- as also Lopez calls himself -- confessed to them that they had been contracted by the amount of 5 thousand dollars to participate in the crime, taking advantage of his friendship with Doris Ivania. Supposedly "Rosita" was only going to facilitate the entrance from the assassins to the store "Sun Fashion", property of the now murdered one, located in the market of San Juan of the South. A third criminal the investigator added that "Rosita" in his declaration said to them that Eric Stanley Volz participated in the crime like another foreigner who he did not manage to identify. Also it expressed that when entering the store they found Doris Ivania taking off the enamel of the nails, and that Volz with violence transferred her towards forth and threw her on a bed. "Rosita", equal detailed that Volz struck against the wall the victim, soon they tied her with strips of the sheet, later to violate her on the bed and to kill her by asphyxia. Volz left later with two black bags in with clothes from the store and he gave them to Nelson Dangla, who lifted them into a white vehicle that was parked almost in front of the store. In his declarations, the investigator explained that at the time of the captures of "Rosita" and Volz they found scratches on them that were compatible with the day in which the crime occurred. Another element showed by the police agent refutes alibi was that during the verifications that did they found out that he was an assistant of Volz that got to rent to a car to Hertz Car Rent, and is through this test that the Office of the public prosecutor hopes to demonstrate that the defendant was not in Managua, as he asserts the defense.
Another one of the witnesses who happened to declare was Nelson Antonio Dangla, and as it had published it the Nuevo Diario, he revealed before the judge that Volz was at the scene of the crime, adducing that about the ten in the morning of the 21 of November he was close to the place known like Costa Azul, and that he asked for him to arrive at the store of Doris at one in afternoon. Dangla claimed that when arriving at the place Volz called him from the door of the store and gavehim two black plastic bags him that he lifted into the white vehicle with shaded glass that was parked in front of the business, adding that in the interior of the vehicle was a man to who could not identify, and that soon Volz gave him 50 córdobas and he left the place. This version offered Dangla in the face of Volz, who did not return the glance to him of his eyes at any moment.
"If you cheat on me, I will kill you"
Another testimony to you that incriminates to Volz is the one of Helen Ortiz Lopez, who identified herself as a friend of the victim. She indicated in her intervention that Doris Ivania on one occasion confided to her that she had received the following threat from Volz: "If you cheat on me, I kill to you". The now murdered one also confided to her that the relation with Volz no longer marched well, and that no longer she wanted nothing to do with him because she felt used, because Volz looked for her solely when "he needed it", explained that a young person of name Armando Llanes was a pretendiente of the victim, and that in an occasion went with him to the Santo Domingo Gallery, in Managua. On the other hand, Mercedes Alvarado, mother of the victim, in her intervention described to Volz like a jealous man ", she restricted it, and she was scared of which she killed it by jealousy". He added that his son-in-law never was a communicative type with his family, and that therefore never had good relations with him. Also he mentioned in his declaration that supposedly Volz was having to its daughter 1.700 dollars to him, and that this one, when her daughter appeared dead insisted to him that they buried express. Red he wanted to negotiate the mother of the victim also denounced that there was attempt of the defense "to negotiate", indicating al lawyer Red Ramon, to the mother of Volz and to a second lawyer of name Caesar Baltodano, that was the one that let to him glimpse that if stopped del case would receive a million dollars, and that his lawyer Eric Heads would gain 20%. The lawyer Red Ramon admitted that he communicated with the mother of the victim, but not with intentions to arrive at no "adjustment", but because the mother of Volz he wanted to express to him personally that his son was not no assassin. "That I know, Baltodano was defending of Dangla (one of the witnesses), is something ugly there behind. Dangla made a pact with the public prosecutor and the Police so that they acquited it and declared against Eric (Stanley Volz)", maintained Red, that the witness Nelson Dangla, describing it as" incoherent patient disqualified and ". The other two witnesses who participated in the judgment, yesterday, were Lenín expert Garci'a and the forense doctor of Legal Medicine institute of Managua, Brave Oscar. Death does violence to the forense related that the young person was tied before dying, and who was a violent death. This testimony was the last one that occurred, since as was predicted, to the one of afternoon the judgment it was postponed because the lawyer Red Ramon had to be present in another judicial process that would be made in Managua. The judgment is predicted to continue today from the nine in the morning.

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Para SussanaLo más seguro es que Doris ya no quería nada con el asesino o ya no lo quería ver, además el no es ningun tonto el pendejo este le abrio el camino para que la matara y la vez le servia por si todo le salia bien le caia el clavo solo al" rosita", tan sencillo como eso!luis gomezQue la embajada de estados unido intervenga pero cuando ya este condenado en nicaragua en 2 o 3 anios esta libre aca en estados unidos si lo encuentran culpable va directo al pabellon de la muerte asecinos komo ese aca no se escapan aca hay pena de muerte en nicaragua no lo que hay en nicaragua es pena de dinero si tiras la plata luego estas en la calle jueces coruptos fiscales toma mordidas ect ect ojala lo extraditen pero ya condenado., de la justicia gringa no te escapas Stanley asta los que mintieron diciendo que el estava en managua echenlo al bote para que no anden mitiendo por dinero.,PedroEl asesino tiene nombre y apellido se llama "Eric Stanley Voltz" y su complice Julio Martín Chamorro, quien también es un asesino. Como Nicaraguense y padre de familia que soy espero que la justicia prevalezca, ya que todo está claro y que este gringo pague con todo el peso de la ley, ya que así como en EE.UU juzgan a todo aquel Nicaraguense que comete un delito, aquí también hay que juzgar a todo aquel extanjero que nos asesinan a nuestras mujeres, espero que la Embajada de Estados Unidos no intervenga en este caso.Suzana "Rosita" dice que "solo iba a facilitar el ingreso de LOS asesinos a la tienda". ?LOS asesinos? Tiene que saber quien es el "otro" (o los otros)? Si Volz era el novio de Doris porque iba a pagar US00 a Rosita para que este le falicita el ingreso a la tienda, cuando el ya tenia entrada libre en ese lugar? Hay algo raro, y la Policia tendria que seguir investigando porque puede que no tengan el verdadero asesinato. Se investigo al otro tipo mencionado en ese articulo, Ken Ross?