February 5, 2011
Cryptomundo’s Man in Mexico, Red Pill Junkie feeds us the latest news on film producer Ilya Salkind:
Allegedly, he was kidnapped and then was found. TMZ notes that Ms. Salkind wishes to stress that her suspicions have not been confirmed by anyone involved in the formal police investigation.
I’m sorry, but that does not concur with a kidnapping gang’s M.O. If they kidnap you here in Mexico, is because they want money from you –or because someone has already paid them to make you “disappear”– not just to use you as a punching bag.
Check out this article from La Crónica:
It was speculated that he had been kidnapped, but according to investigations, the filmmaker was on a binge.
The hospital deputy director of Health Services State of Morelos, Arturo Torres Alpizar, said the director was admitted to the general hospital “José G. Parres” on Jan. 31 in an ambulance from the Rescue and Medical Emergency Squad (ERUM).
The medical staff found him unconscious, with breath smelling of alcohol and multiple bruises on a street of Tepoztlan, near Cuernavaca. Apparently, Salkind, 63, was beaten during a brawl on a binge, according to authorities.
Now I am the first one to mistrust the claims of the police when it comes to explanations of crimes or incrimination of alleged felons. That said, kidnappers in Mexico are first and foremost businessmen –and a very lucrative business it is, I’m sorry to add.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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