A man whose family owned the ranch where a retired California couple was slaughtered in northern Mexico has been busted in their slayings, a report said.
The suspect identified only as Emmanuel “N” allegedly stabbed to death Ian Hirschsohn, 78, and Kathy Harvey, 73, after entering their vacation home last summer on the ranch near El Socorrito, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Hirschsohn’s daughter said that her father knew the suspect, who is one of the members of a family that owned the ranch where his vacation home was located.
“We believe they were stabbed in their sleep in the middle of the night,” Ava Setzer told the newspaper.
Setzer said that her father’s killer removed all of the bedding with the bodies then dumped it all in the “well in the middle of nowhere.”
Hirschsohn and Harvey were both retirees from San Diego, and were set to return to the Golden State around the same time their bodies were discovered on Sept. 5 in the bottom of a well in a remote area of Ensenada.
Setzer said Tuesday that her father’s lack of security cameras might have made him a target, though she doesn’t know why anyone would kill him.
“He had no money and a 1996 Land Cruiser … Why would someone kill this old man?” she told the newspaper.