Tourism folks in Cancun are not happy.

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Two single mothers who left for a vacation at a luxurious Mexican resort and returned to their hometown a week later as suspects in a brutal murder have come forward to try to clear their names.

Mexican authorities and the tabloid press have variously described these women as contract killers, with large, man-like builds, strong and bulky.

Both women are slight in appearance and attractive.

They're both active in their church, have strong family connections to their communities, and both are mothers to two young children.

Kimberly Kim and Cheryl Everall, both tanned from their vacation but looking anxious at being under intense scrutiny by authorities and the media, avowed their innocence in the killings of a Woodbridge, Ont., couple whose throats were slashed while they stayed at the same resort on the Mayan Riviera.

"Our biggest concern is being charged with something we have absolutely nothing to do with. We can't even fathom how a finger has been pointed at us," Everall said as Kim, her close friend, sat beside her in their lawyer's office.

The two women - who are in their early 30s and have been friends for a decade, since they attended Lakehead University - say their ordeal since leaving Mexico a week ago has been devastating and life-altering.

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Never mind that one is a few months away from finishing her medical degree, and the other is Long Term Care Program Coordinator at Hospice Northwest.

Back from thread drift; the story is very disturbing. It's also sad how the focus has (perhaps inevitably) shifted entirely from the tradegy of a couple brutally murdered while attending their daughter's wedding. I can't imagine what's she's going through.

Are there travel advisories for Canadians travelling to this area? Seems to me that could be a pressure point to apply to the Mexican government.

[ 01 March 2006: Message edited by: pookie ]

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Originally posted by Wilf Day:
In fact, I can't really plumb the full depths of how devastating this must be for them.

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Mexican authorities and the tabloid press have variously described these women as contract killers, with large, man-like builds, strong and bulky.

Both women are slight in appearance and attractive.

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Got to love how "large, manlike builds," is juxtaposed against "slight in appearance and attractive.

I quite understand why Foreign Affairs is being discreet in public at the moment, but I really hope that they have promised these women all the protection they need in private.

I also don't find them that attractive. I am not even sure if I am talking about "sexism" per se, but stereotyping generally.

[ 01 March 2006: Message edited by: Cueball ]

It used to be that witnesses had to be called to justify extradition.

Now, the Extradition Court gets a summary of the evidence, plus a statement that the evidence is sufficent to justify having a trial in the country seeking Extradition.

Once they have shipped documents to the Court here, the judge has no discretion whether or not to issue an Extradition order.

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Originally posted by Cueball:
that does not change the reality that most Mexican men do not match the proportion of the Nordic queens we have up here

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Originally posted by jeff house:
The truth is that the Extradition Act was gutted a few years ago, so that almost nothing is required for any Canadian to be extradited to almost anywhere.

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Originally posted by Sineed:

And why was there an embalming, with everybody involved knowing it would destroy evidence? I would think the family wanted that; do the police order embalming?

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