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Taking roy further down the road to his truck. he said he didnt know roys last name and never saw either of them again. >> the police are looking for a mysterious roy. they dont have a last name for this man. all they know is that hes the last one seen with michelle. >> investigators suspected roy was the key to michelle wallaces disappearance. hey there, i just got my bill and i see that

Hundreds of protesters marched through the street of the capital to denounce roys murder. hes the second to be murdered and the fourth in the muslim nation over the past ten years. >> joining us now, ravi there were witnesses. what do police say about possible suspects? >> reporter: hi john. yes, there were witnesses and, of course these guys probably left fingerprints on the machetes but when we spoke with the bangladeshi police the man leading the investigation, the deputy commissioner police ...

He started getting death threats. return to bangladesh and youll be murdered. today, an extremely savage death on the steps of capital, he was murdered. more from agri agraval. >> reporter: following a brutal and deadly attack on an american author and blogger. a u.s. citizen and his wife were returning from a book fair when witnesses say they were attacked by at least two men wielding machetes. the 42-year-old roy was hacked to death. his wife was seriously injured. >> i saw an unknown person b...

Capital thursday night on their way back from a book fair. now roy said he got a surge in death threats after he published a book last year that was titled "the virus of faith." in which he denounced religious extreme itch. and in a column he wrote for a mag sheen published in april, he condemned the attacks in paris against the cartoon magazine "charlie hebdo" carried out by islamist fundamentalists. im going to read an excerpt that goes quote, religious extremism is like a highly contagious vi...

The u.s. back to bangladesh to take advantage of that opportunity to try to kill him. here he came to bangladesh. he was reportedly scheduled to fly back to the u.s. in just a couple of days. somebody followed through evidently on the death threats and attacked the writer. >> yes and there was also similar killing of someone in 2013 critical of religious extremism extremism. roy talked about the increased edd death threats, but had he expressed concern about his safety when visiting bangladesh? ...

Investigation of this murder. i must note that roys wife who also comes from -- lives outside of atlanta in the u.s. she was also seriously wounded in this attack. shes still in treatment in a hospital in bangladesh. at least one of her fingers was severed in this attack. at least two assailants attacked with machetes coming up behind the couple and attacking them from behind as they were walking home. >> attacked from behind. ivan watson covering the story for us live in hong kong. thank you fo...

However, yes, its a good point that you pointed out, the other killings of atheist writers there have taken place in bangladesh in the past one notable case two years ago that also took place there and in 2004 two writers who were attacked in similar fashion with knives and mash schetties. a third -- machetes. a third writer who survived his attack. roys father has since told journalists that he blames islamist extremist groups that he claims are backed by the most prominent islamist political p...

Investigate the killing of a bangladesh i american blogger. ploits say murders hacked him to death as he walked in bangladeshs capital. they havent identified any suspects yet but they say a fanatic group may be all hind the killing. is this having a chilling affect on writers there and people in general? >> reporter: there have been at least four writers who espoused an atheistic secular position in their writings who have been attacked in the past ten years in bangladesh. roy is the third to h...

To send photos but even that doesnt work. she saw the granite counters and the fire pit she went nuts. so im trying really hard to describe it but words are not my thing. that was all it took. i mean what do you want, im a realtor, not a poet. join us and save without settling on the largest most reliable network. theres an unusual legal case now unfolding in massachusetts. it involves the suicide of a teenager last summer. one of his friends has been charged with involuntary manslaughter accu...

The majority 90% muslim population of bangladesh. there has been a political crisis of scores of people killed in the last month and a half in political violence that doesnt seem to be directly related to the criticism of islam or islamist exextremism. it does fit a separate trend of violence political violence within bangladesh where the father of roy has come out directly accusing islamist groups of playing some role in this. the main islamist political party in the country has denied any link...