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.