Forensic Case Study
Enrique Camarena
The abduction of Enrique Camarena
The abduction of Enrique Camarena presents numerous interesting and unusual features regarding the gathering of forensic evidence. Many of obstacles that arose over the course of the investigation can be traced to the fact that the DEA Special Agent was apprehended in Mexico, where U.S. laws about preserving evidence did not apply. The Mexican police force (at least at the time of the abduction in 1984) was much more prone to corruption and bribery by persons engaged in illegal drug trafficking than U.S. law enforcement. Rather than seeing to assist the DEA in bringing the murderers of Camarena to justice, the Mexican police often acted as obstacles, not assistants.
The real perpetrators of the murder of Camarena concocted a scheme with certain select members of the Mexican policy whereby Camarena's body (and the body of Capt. Alfredo Zavala, a Mexican DEA source) would be buried at the ranch of the Bravo drug ring: a false letter was sent to the Mexican police 'tipping them off' on this false lead that would hopefully result in law enforcement scapegoating the Bravo gang. Thus, the perpetrators of the crime would accomplish two objectives in one: they would divert attention away from themselves and they would also successfully eliminate one of their chief rivals.
In the subsequent raid by the DEA and Mexican Federal Judicial Police (MFJP) the Bravo gang was indeed decimated according to plan. However, the persons contracted to bury the bodies did not fulfill their assigned mission and merely sloppily left the corpses by the side of the road. Certain Mexican police were bribed to 'hush up' any questions. Eventually the bodies were found and with U.S. pressure, one of the decomposing bodies was identified by fingerprint records to be Camarena; the other body was identified as Zavala's by dental records. But U.S. DEA personnel were not permitted to take the bodies...
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