Mexico’s Masked Midget Murder Mystery

Last Monday there was a double tragedy in the world of Luche Libre.  As Kris Zelner posted on “Pro Wrestling Insider“:

Alberto & Alejandro Jimenez also known as the original La Parkita & Espectrito II respectively were found dead on Monday in room #52 at Hotel Moderna just blocks away from Arena Coliseo after being drugged & robbed by two prostitutes.

The officers said that the men were found unharmed [other than dead!] and all of their belongings were gone and after talking to the hotel clerk who said that they checked in at 6:00 AM on Monday and that the women left some 12 hours later alone. The bodies were transferred to a forensic specialist where the autopsies will be done to determine the true cause of death but the initial belief is that the women put something in the men’s drinks and it killed them according to Enrique Humberto Pliego who is a prosecutor in Cuauhtemoc.

The mini wrestlers were 35-years-old and professionals for around 18 years working all around the country for the various promotions with their older brother being the original Espectrito.

The speculation was that La Parkita and Espectrito II deaths were the unintended results of the old “dope-a-mope” scam, in which ladies of the evening entice their clients to take a doctored drink (belladonna — used for eye diseases — has been used for this for the last couple of centuries) that will put them out for a few hours while the victim is robbed.  It’s a pretty common crime (and the source of a great urban legend ) … but even with large sized people, the amount of belladonna need to put a guy under can be fatal (allegedly, it’s what Macbeth used to off Duncan).  Smaller people, presumably, are more susceptible to a drug overdose.  Too easy.

Being Mexico City… a simple crime is never simple.   It turns out that the hotel security tape turned over to the Federal District Prosecutor was “intentionally edited, with the purpose of removing certain sequences of the recording.” Specifically, the prosecutor’s office said they think images of certain individuals entering and leaving the hotel were edited out of the tape.

Add to the weirdness that the two brothers made their living dressed as skeletons, and that La Parkita recently got out of prison after doing time for credit card fraud … and I fully expect this story to get stranger.  If it doesn’t make a good novel, it’ll at least make a good short story…. or a mini-series.