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Arrive here this peaceful town was a perfect place for the young couple to live, but slowly it became more and more violent. there is a war in reynosa. two drug cartels battling for turf. the zetas, a rogue band of former military, are trying to push out the gulf cartel, which has smuggled drugs across the rio grande for decades. killings are constant. tiffany and david hartley learned firsthand. mexican police were not to be trusted. >> for one instance he was coming home from the bank after ca...

He is sick of the media attention and insists the lake and the fishermen are completely safe, as long as they follow the unwritten rules. >> this is not a jet ski lake. theres never a jet ski seen here. they come -- they show up on jet keys that they dont see, and then they try to approach them and stop them because its a war over there. two cartels fighting each other for control. and they dont stop. they take off running. >> collett agreed to take us into old guerrero, eight miles into mexico,...

Be paying people off. >> sheriff gonzalez says he believes tiffanys story and his sources and witnesses confirm it. >> you dont believe the hartleys were involved in drugs? >> no. >> you dont believe theres an insurance scam going on? >> wheres the body? >> you dont believe tiffany hartley herself may have executed her husband? >> i dont think so. >> and now even more evidence tiffany hartley is telling the truth. a surveillance photo taken that very afternoon, one hour after the attack. a. >> y...

Was working with the cartel. speculation began to swirl that tiffany hartley kill her husband for insurance money, or even that tiffany hartley was seeing another man. >> people still have a hard time believing you. does that hurt you? >> some days. other days -- they dont have room to judge. i mean, they dont know me. they dont know my husband. they werent there that day. so really they have no room to judge me. >> reporter: with television and newspaper attention still at viral levels, authori...

Absolutely not. >> since 2004 the state department says 200 americans have been killed in mexico and nearly all caught up in the vicious firefights between rival drug cartels. it is no different even along this peaceful 28-mile-long lake straddling the u.s.-mexican border two hours north of mccallon. >> weve had along the border shootings. weve had along the border murders. home invasions, burglaries, rapes. all types of crime where its associated with what i call spillover violence. >>. igi gon...

On falcon lake there has been no sign of david hartleys body, his jet ski, anything that could prove his wifes story that her husband was shot to death by mexican drug smugglers. the beheading of the one mexican detective willing to at least try to solve the crime has dealt the hartleys another blow. you feel right now theres people in mexico, maybe even police in mexico, who wont say what happened to david. >> i do. >> because theyre afraid. >> yes. if you have threats against your loved ones, ...

Theyre ruthless and violent, but theyre not stupid. >> captain stacy holland of the texas department of public safety says his proof is in these videos, captured night after night by the thermal imaging camera mounted underneath his helicopter. over the last few years there has been more violence and, most disturbing of all to holland, more coordination, lookouts, even reconnaissance in smuggling. >> one thing you have to understand is how well coordinated this is and what the level of scouting ...

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And adjudicate the killers in what is a lawless part of mexico? >> i really cannot answer that, but i can tell you that, based on past record, i think they have somewhat of a zero solvency rate and a zero conviction rate. >> and there is one more piece of evidence. a small blood spot on the life jacket tiffany hartley wore the day she says her husband was shot. the blood is from her husband. sheriff gonzalez says a dna test confirms it, but even the dna match remains just one more piece of an un...

Catch and adjudicate the killers in what is a lawless part of mexico? >> i really cannot answer that, but i can tell you this, that based on their past record i think they have a -- somewhat of a zero solvency rate and a zero conviction rate. >> reporter: there is one more piece of evidence. a small blood spot on the life jacket tiffany hartley wore the day she says her husband was shot. the blood is from her husband. sheriff gonzalez says a dna test confirms it. but even the dna match remains j...