3 U.S. citizens among 4 people killed mysteriously in Mexico Brett Akop p.5

"On Sunday, Raquel and Pedro Alvarado buried three of their children -- Erica, Alex and Jose Angel -- in the Mexican village of El Control, just five miles south of the Texas border." Born in Progreso, Texas, the siblings made a life in their quaint and comfortable environment. They disappeared October 13th after a visit to El control to see their father. "Their bodies were found last week. Each was bound at their hands and feet, the Tamaulipas State Attorney General's Office said, and each had a gunshot wound to the head. A fourth victim, Jose Castaneda, met the same fate. Castaneda was Erica's boyfriend, her family said." Tragically, all victims died the day they were abducted without elaborate detail. "Some witnesses told investigators that the armed men who confronted and took the youths belonged to a new security force known as "Grupo Hercules," State Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla Acosta told reporters. Grupo Hercules was created one month before the disappearance of the youths. It is touted as an elite security force under the direction of the mayor of Matamoros, 37-year-old Leticia Salazar." By no means is border control organized, even the "authority figures" in the region manage to have some correlation with the cartel. In more severe circumstances, drug gangs have posed as cops entirely. "But what troubles Pedro and Raquel Alvarado is that no one has offered a motive or theory about why their children and Castaneda were killed. No one has accused the Alvarado siblings of being involved in criminal activity. And while nine members of Grupo Hercules were interrogated by investigators, no arrests have been made." This specific story troubles me in its lack of detail, there was no motive behind the death and no further information regarding their deaths. Link to article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/world/americas/mexico-american-siblings-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 Link to video: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/11/04/lv-us-alvarado-family-killed-in-mexcio.cnn.html