he has retired since our interview. i remember when i started as a deputy sheriff back in the 1970s, where this was used for drug trafficking. human trafficking. been used like that forever. reporter: and lately, even before the hartley s trip to falcon lake, gonzalez says a new threat has emerged. pirates. totally inaccurate. definition of piracy a lot different than when i know it to be. had one robbery on the lake totally. reporter: robert speedy colette who owns a fishing lodge here admits he s been stopped by drug cartel members but he also bristles at news reports of piracy and danger. these reports decimated his business on the lake which he insisted is safe. as long as you know the rules. it happened to me. i didn t run. they boarded. they found out i wasn t a threat, and i was released. never robbed. never took a penny from me.
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them coming home. reporter: but there was some unfinished business. one last adventure david had long talked about, but never got around to. he had heard of a church partially submerged in falcon lake on the mexican side in an abandoned village called old guerrero. perfect for a couple who loved their jet skis and loved adventure. i m just like, okay. let s go see it. reporter: had they asked local law enforcement would have warned them about pirates on the lake. had they asked, captain stacy holland would have told them not to go. we don t recommend going into mexico on the side of the lake, but it s perfectly well with your rights but we just want to you be aware that threat is out there, and it s very real and you should take it seriously. reporter: it was a thursday and david hartley called home. they were excited to go have one last big ride on their jet skis before they come back to
day. they describe a military-style attack. three boats, several shooters, and hundreds of rounds being fired at two jet skiers. the shot that killed david hartley was an unlucky shot. reporter: the sheriff now believes the killers were instructed to kill tiffany hartley, too. what happens next, he says, is a scenario he has put together from three witnesses on the mexican side of the lake. one source in mexico and at least one witness who told cnn that he saw a high speed chase on the u.s. side. a boat chasing a girl on a jet ski. it is clear that one of sheriff gonzalez sources was involved in the attack itself. so they were given the instructions to go ahead and shoot and kill her also. but she was able to escape. she said she was able to get away from us and we kept shooting at her to this her but she kept zigzagging and we were not able to hit her. she says she was zigzagging when
tiffany s life jacket, questions persist. where was the camera they used to take pictures of old guerrero? why wasn t there far more blood evidence? the jet ski the jet ski was destroyed. my understanding, the jet ski was taken apart. that parts that would float were burned and buried afterwards. and the parts that would not float were just thrown into the lake and of course, they sunk. this is coming in from mexico. reporter: the sheriff believes hartley s story but may never be able to prove it. david hartley s mother can barely control her emotion. what happened to david and tiffany was an act of terror. plain and simple. it was a senseless violence, but it was an act of terror. and that is not going to end at the border. it s over here already. reporter: and for tiffany herself, it is even more troubling. reporter: do you think your husband is a victim of, in a way, politics? i would say a victim of
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