Alleged Mexico murder suspects
proclaim innocence
CTV.ca News Staff
Two Canadian women who fear Mexican
authorities consider them as suspects in
the murders of an Ontario couple
proclaimed their innocence Tuesday,
saying the accusations are "ridiculous."
In a press conference held in Thunder
Bay, Ont. on Tuesday night,
Kimberley Kim and Cheryl Everall
say they left their Mexican
hotel last week with no idea that
two other
guests had been brutally slain.
"It's ridiculous, I don't even know
how to express it in words," Kim
said.
... Everall and Kim described hearing
crying and breaking glass down the
hall from their room the night the
Ianieros were killed, but say
they didn't pay much attention.
Early in the investigation, Mexican
police said the prime suspects in
their investigation are two Canadian
women who registered at the hotel
with the names
"King and Everald," names that sound
similar to those of the Thunder Bay
women.
Mexican police have also said the
principal evidence in the murders is a
trail of blood from the crime scene to
the suspects' door.
The women said that if traces of blood
were indeed found in their room, it's
possible they unknowingly tracked it
in from the hallway.
"We'd just like to express our deepest
sympathy
(to the Ianiero family)," Everall said.
"This has been traumatic for us and
we can't imagine what that family is
going through.
This is awful; our thoughts and
prayers are certainly with them."...
One family member, who asked not
to be named, told CTV News they're
distraught and that they're "crying
and helping each other and
still can't believe it."
On the killers, she said:
"We're just hoping it's nobody
Canadian.
Of course we don't believe it's these
women."
...Coroner's investigation
Ontario's chief coroner said Tuesday
that the examination of the Ianieros'
bodies will likely take two days.
"A forensic examination of the bodies
will begin today,"
Dr. Barry McLellan said in a statement.
"Some of the forensic tools available
in such circumstances include x-ray,
forensic autopsy, the gathering of trace
evidence and toxicology."
The Ontario Coroner's office received
the bodies of at 6.30 p.m. ET Monday,
after they arrived at
Toronto's Pearson International
Airport.
CTV's Austin Delaney told CTV
Toronto that the victim's bodies had
already been embalmed,
sparking fears that important forensic
evidence had already been washed away.

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Whew what a strange case?