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Cardinal Found Safe After Missing for Two Days in Panama

Missing Catholic cardinal José Luis Lacunza found safe by police in rural Panama inside his car after disappearing for two days.

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Protesters: Panama police in standoff with protesters over Canadian-run mine

Rest of World News: Police in Panama fired teargas Monday at protesters burning tires and blocking roads to protest a contract allowing a Canadian company to continue ope

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>> and with good reason. when don winner tapped into th islands legendary coconu telegraph, the more he becam convinced that wild bill was the key to finding both bo and cher >> this was a common denominator between the two of them this guy has supposedly brough their property for cash an then both of them disappeared. >> but while bill that wit both these people and they'r missing? >> do you remember that moment >> yeah, dread came over me. like oh my god he really could've don something to these people. >> could the brush real estate buying bartender be hiding a deadly secret? coming up -- the dark side of paradise. >> execute a search warrant at his house, i in the ak-47, get him in custody >> the police went appreciable 's then they came up about two hours later and said, we nee you to come off and take a look >> when "dateline" continues

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could their disappearances b linked the >> more you think abou something like that then, yo know, it didn't add up >> did it kind of eta yo thinking about it? >> yeah, i kept thinking about it the cause it was a righ that cher would leave withou the party. i knew that this girl would no leave town without throwing party. and bo could leave, but the tw of them together, i'm just like, send them their belongs afte the fact that didn't sound. right >> and then kristen hear something that made the floo drop from under her. bo had abruptly stopped paying his bills. something totally unlike him >> i just woke up one morning was like one of those were things and i just knew i couldn't ignore any more i just couldn't. somebody had to do something >> kristen went to the police. >> did they immediatel investigate? >> no. they just put it in a file

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and stay right there staying true to mommy. >> but the horror wasn't over. as police continue searching bill's property, the discovered another mound o disturbed dirt, another shallo grave. there, buried beneath more rubble, they found the other missing american >> when they found the bodies, that's when they found and realized it was not just suspicions and accusations it was really happening. >> keith watched as authoritie raided bill's home he says they found evidence of the ghastly crimes bo's i. d., cher's passport, her purse and her cell phone used to send those tex messages, saying she had simpl gone for a sale. and there was more, not se memorabilia, strange the tan

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make sure you have downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters. mmm, popcorn. (alternate voice) denture disaster, darling! we need poligrip before crispy popcorn. (regular voice) let's fix this. (alternate voice) poligrip power hold + seal gives our strongest hold and 5x food seal. if your mouth could talk, it would ask for... poligrip. while bill cortez ran the joll roger social club with americans living on a group of panamanian islands linke together but he was interested in getting some of the local real estate just how far did bill go to ge his hands on these properties? local police were about to fin out. continuing with stealing paradise, here is kate snow. >> in the tiny ex-pat communit of bocas del toro, all eye were on one of their own

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hill until police followed him there, they found somethin shocking a mound of disturbed dirt. that began to dig. cher's husband keith waited at the bottom of the hill >> the police waited wit shovels and then they came dow about two hours later and said we need you to come up and tak a look >> in a shallow grave, hidde under amount of garbage, the police made a horrible discovery. the body of cher hughes, she had been shot once in the back of the head. >> and that was one of the hardest days of your life? >> yes when no one should ever se their kid look like that >> now keith finally understoo why jack kept swimming to bill place. >> he would swim that mile bac

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city, get to the prosecutor an turn up the heat >> keith went to panama city and laid up the case to th panamanian fbi >> kudos to the panama police, they stepped it up >> but for all the suspicion there was no hard evidence of crime. that's when don winner got a idea he heard a lot of stories abou "wild bill" and his ak-47, how he would fire it off sometimes to impress his friends but in panama, it's illegal fo a civilian to own that type of women, so a suggestion was mad to police. >> get him in custody, find th ak-47. >> find the gun. >> find the gun, lock him down >> and find out what role, i any, he may have had in th disappearances police drew up the warrant on steamy day in july and descended on the home of "wild bill", police began the search >> police are looking around they have a search warrant

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excites, and jewelry that ma have belong to the victims and the most gruesome discovery? about a dozen gold teeth >> he lived these things, he lived with personal effects an corpses around him the ex pats in bocas, were i turmoil, two friends dead an their friends fan of the backyard of a man they onc trusted, wild bill cortez. >> it was my home, i invited him to dinner, we did th social neighbor thing. and he shot my wife. it's just inconceivable. >> authorities launched search for bill and his wife who they also suspected wa involved but it was too late, they ha already fled >> this is now a major manhunt >> right, i knew he was alread out of the country already, on the fly. the most important thing a that point was to get hi picture out there. every television screen, o every newspaper cover, on ever computer monitor it's got to get out there in a big way. >> by then, wild bill and hi wife jane were in costa rica someone recognize them there and contacted the police, as the search intensified they made a desperate attemp to cross into nicaragua by boa but were stopped by soldiers a a checkpoint >> they got a drop on him at

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Afghan special forces commando seeking asylum gets caught in broken US immigration system

This is a story about an Afghan soldier and a broken U.S. immigration and asylum system; "I was in a special force Ccmmando unit, but I come here and they put me in jail."

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