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Devil's Island

2015-06-24
An American couple looking for paradise in Panama -- she ends up dead and exposes her ex-Marine boyfriend’s secret life. Can a little used law find justice for her family? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant investigates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Real people, real crimes, real life drama, my sister was deeply in love with the man named brain perimeter, I'll shoot. was to be with him and left him there. So madly in love, I think she was very proud of him because he doesn't She used to say things like I'm with the marine environment on two panama brian three years ago to start a new life, that's wave on wanted to be was perfect, I am a chauvelin. Well, my sister's, yvonne bodily sure it's a karaoke. She likes to dance. Did you like it, she loved here here, with cheap theirs and happy our beautiful issues? The water right in front of house, where are we Ok, run easily gotta metal
bogus, have total this is the house they were renting in from a journeyman lily, Yvonne told her family members that everything was good. She painted a very happy picture through email. She made it seem like everything was fine, and will the reality of it was that her in Birmingham were fighting constantly asked heard stories of the fight I can understand. Why should want to leave there's no immigration records, it indicates that she left panama. She fell off the radar screen. Changes went away one day, her email stopped her communication, stop everybody lost contact with as but for this is no book for dummies on what to do in your sisters? Gone missing. From the outside appears to be a tropical paradise, but it's a Want beheld, like devils island, because some terrible things to place them
brand premature, has done nothing zero to help with the search for we are in. central america, in some jungle in some small looking free born Really? This is unbelievable, what no one knew is that Brian Bremiker had a secret. He was living a double life. He came back megan engaging, got married and is this going on like normal. Full never been. Where did you her Brian coming out with his golf clubs. Let's go get and this is what I now ok, let's go. My sister went down the panama Brian brow, returned and my my sister didn't right, sir, was CBS. News would like to ask a couple questions for you: investigation
two countries and one man held accountable? I'm peter Van sect tonight Forty eight hours, devils island,
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when I want, a brian, Kristen, See a couple in love and and super sincerely happy and just enjoying the dead beach lawyer. These, our brain Renningers wedding pictures, but the bride. Isn't yvonne ball daily, its christian work haven, an old flame, I propose to just two weeks after yvonne disappeared. It wasn't their wedding day, but they came in their wedding, attire and a limousine and champagne flow in. through his lens photographer jack English captured the smiles playfulness and romance of newlyweds clearly in love, walk on a beach, holding each other with the sun going down the ways crash in the background brine hit me
the woman with powerful connections who had once had topped secrets, security clearance and worked as a white house analyst sometimes in the situation room under president george, w bush very happy very love as if she found a prince, charming, prince charming a man who had just left yvonne ball, deleon panama, two weeks earlier. How could this happen travelled to the remote islands of the caribbean coast of panama to find out up ahead is the island of care, a narrow, worried brian with the locals called brim, came to live in september, two thousand and eleven it's a place where they could chase their dream. Why did they decide to go to panama should like the fact that they can live on the beach in by the pretty pretty ray?
I'll, be right down there. You bonds Mr Michel balance whaler says broke wanted to become a singer performing in bars and clubs with her beloved daughter Georgia may in hand yvonne brought, who sewing machines in hope of starting a clothing business, stepmother lillian faust, issues and make bathing suits and seldom tourist I knew she was excited, and she's she's, didn't have any reservations it. Certainly she had a real plan for the future. She did and she thought that found her paradise. Her perfect place. Michel recalls how her younger sister, Yvonne recently divorced was smitten with Brian when they first start. dating in two thousand and nine in southern california, she's physically attracted to him. I was a big part of it. While he bond seem to be falling in love with Brian big, Mr Michel was so sure as far
as emotionally from my sister yvonne would put one hundred percent into you and she would expect that back and ate. Get the impression that she was receiving that that concern me? She deserve that after yvonne was laid off from her management job with procter and gamble, and break ended his eight year career in the marines. two decided to make a fresh start and ryan. Themselves in panama. Suddenly this house, they quickly fell in with the local experts Did you think they were in love with her? seem so Joan stephen crabtree own, the cosmic crab he resort and waterfront bar. Where broke would sing for his supper. He played here at the cosmic crab couple nights a week and they were frequent visitors here. Very nice people penny charms.
Of another waterfront bar also let brian play for food and free booze lots of blind days to drink a lot, so they were always happy. What's a lot, a lot and Jim Merton says Brien's drinking about may have. and in the way of his singing happens, they played a guitar good but when he started to saying that's when it went away, what was it like a hand, argon porch happy in the pictures and she was really enjoying yourself. There might be a place that she would lie for evil, father doom faust, the constant stream of joyful phone calls and emails describing the couples anima adventures was reassuring. Givens emails, horror stories of exactly what our life was like down there and I could picture at geneva close my eyes and it was like I was there I can imagine thing emails like this one. She says I says
already working at local restaurants and bars. We love it. We wake up and go running than swim in the ocean every morning and soon bones? Family thought all was well in paradise and that Brian might be the one for yvonne apple that they were gonna get married. That's what I thought was gonna but when they got down there, but then right around thanksgiving. Two thousand and eleven three months, after they arrived in panama, the hat. emails and calls for me VON started to drop off four. Michelle truly instinct, started to kick in. That's what set me up. Does the fact that There are coming less frequent. The aim from her and then they stopped completely weeks, passed then on December, fourteenth michelle finally got a text, but it wasn't from yvonne
There is a number I didn't recognize and a text message on their said: his brain may make arrangements to pick up. My truck michel was shocked. Brian was back in the. U s I sat up that number four only Well where's, my sister, he system you get my email, I will receive any emails from anybody. It's been a few weeks, so I'll call you back so I went to my computer. Michel discovered an email she had overlooked. It was from Brian who had never written before The one from him stated, I'm sure you ve heard by now that body and I are no longer together. I called him back off. Something like what happened, and is that got in a fight because she had found out that he had a child from somebody else that somebody else Kristen or call them the two had it be girl in two thousand and ten
vote was unable to have a child because of a medical condition. The discovery must been earth shattering? Brow then said, yvonne just up and left I suggest, leaving out now- I'll to call you since now. Do you know? What is that? and I said I haven't heard from her Brian. And he said well, I'm sure she's, fine, but Michel had heard doubts That story- and Days later, when Brian called and still wanted to pick up his truck Michel said she had another plan. I said when you come to pick up the check I'll, be here. That's no problem and I think it's a good idea that you go with me to the police department essential I want to see- and we can fill out a missing persons report, because our already the mid december and I haven't anything from her? That's not right. This is wrong.
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in los angeles Michel balance whaler- was still worried about her missing sister, so she went back to her computer where she found a nun. Overlooked message this one for me Vaughan Hi says just an update, ryan and I are no longer together. I should have trusted my instincts that he is lying cheating else. I'm headed to costa rica with a man I met when we first go to focus which, when you read the signal, I'm sure there's some things and other than to write to me. Her head Spinning could have gone wrong. Have run off with another man. After learning that Brian had loved, try all you ever wanted to do was be a mother at all. She ever wanted. It would be a mother find out that I had a child in just over the jihad. Go the other end of the world to be what this man and he had intolerable tat. I am questioning what her mental It is right now, she's broken in upstate, new
work and lillian Faust also felt the turn of events was just so out of character for their daughter for our life. The chain so abruptly and she's I go. Well, I'm going with this guy in too close to revive sorry got that made absolutely positively no sense to me all making no sense three weeks had passed since Yvonne had emailed from panama, but then out of the blue, she said a new email. It was strange Miss you and everyone at home was trying to get a little homesick. I'm working plans to get home as early as the second week of january, I've been living with of hangers for awhile levies is iran. While strange the email We also reassuring for her family, who is happy to learn yvonne woods. Soon return to California, so I stopped working. I think it. Ok, knows that in January, we're having a family get together, she's gonna, be there. Do you feel she safe at this? At this point I was
worried, but I was satisfied with it for the moment on the same day that email arrived so too did Brian brim injure. Knocking The front door of michel's l a home to pick up his truck What did you see on his face? What was his demeanor, like It was just in a hurry he's com very brief. All business get us get his truck after Brian got. His pickup truck Yvonne's emails stopped so sixteen long days passed until on january sixth, two thousand and twelve michelle wrote her sister, the subject worry I just want to make sure you weren't, kidnapped or someone pretending to be. You haha a paranoid suspicious mind, or maybe too many forty eight hours, the drive. You're back from your sister again now, that's the last email.
michel was still hopeful that she would appear at that family reunion, but a bond never showed up at that point, We met it with my dad, and I told him we haven't heard from her He said owner something's, wrong, something's wrong. What actually do not lay panama. This is my feeling now michel was convinced. Her sister never ran off to costa rica with another man, so her instinct was to learn Bonds, emails we're really coming from So I went to my cousin. Please check it out. Like I said I haven't, I haven't, got a clue, the cousin, a technology which said guinea bonds. Emails would be easy all he needed their ip addresses. So we search The emails yvonne had supposedly sent from panama and costa rica as well was that email Brian had sent from near Dana point California
the cousin made a start. Discovery. The wants from Canada, came from panama and then the one that was supposed to be with her being in costa rica, came from me it states. Words Instead, one of them look like they were coming from Dana point. Email Michel says, originated from war? Brian was now living near Dana point, California. It was evidence. Michel had been looking for, They were sharing the same ip address, so we vote Email is coming from Brian's computer, yes,. The families worst fear had come true. It appeared Brian, hacked into yvonne's email account and was personated her, but why, for michel, only one answer made sense. As ice he's dead and I'm never going to see her again. It's like someone calling you up and telling you that your love on gotten a car acts and our knew. There was a compromise here going
Think it's gonna happen. That's when I knew not. He did something to her and the same person, it's murdered and smarter. for Jim and lillian, who would lie son to leukemia twelve years before it It's almost too much to take. Was that amateur realisation. Jim had said to me. I think we lost yvonne and, I said, no honey, I'm not going to accept that we lost another child, I'm not going to accept that. We want another child. but for Michel there was no time to mourn. I'm gonna stay police department right now, hope you understand. I heard a report a martyr. They referred her to the fbi. I and the state department to get amiss Person report filed in panama back the embassy and the embassy tells us. There is no record of her leaving panama and no record Forever, entering costa rica. adding to their worry that how
Brian and VON lived in was once owned by notorious american serial killer wild bill homeward, who killed. least six: u S, citizens in costa rica and panama weather. Erin moments that that the just If you chose when you think about the connection gave him his them all, he used his big my own online identities to communicate with their families, after murdering them he did. It said false emails, so that I don't know if ryan Lou about that are what connection narrows air, but that was a similarity while bill the serial killer. In fact, Forty eight hours was told Brian did no about wild bill. You can make this stuff. and that's unbelievable. It was. It was very, creepy how things like this could have had in that same house evil. Family couldn't wait any longer. It was
to go to panama and search for answers. The while Brien brim ensure was, join his new life with
his new wife, the. What will it take to prove the vaughan's disappearance was murder chat now with correspondent, Peter vincent on twitter. The next forty eight hours will continue the forty eight hours listeners the first place you should look for. Tickets is scorebig dot com, that's where you save on every ticket every day. Scorebig is your ticket destination for all your favorite sports games, concerts events and shows, with seating from the rafters to the front row with savings averaging forty percent of the box office price they've made live, entertainment more accessible for every fan and buying tickets is easy, just go to scorebig dot com, find a game or show you want to attend pick your preferred seating area, name a ticket price and get an instant answer. That's it since forty percent of tickets to events typically go unsold scorebig and offer the average customer naming you ticket price about eighty dollars in savings. We're talking about playoff games, big name concerts, even events that most people think are sold out, often have hundreds or thousands of tickets available, and the savings aren't just for last minute. Tickets, save on tickets days weeks even months in advance, go ahead and check it out right now: scorebig dot com. Why pay full price when you can pay less with scorebig? So next time you want tickets, think big, save big and scorebig as scorebig dot com that scorebig dot com
the two months after filing a missing persons report with panama authorities yvonne's family. Travelled to the tropical paradise. To start their own investigation was This anxiety, we need to get their right away before leaving the. Doubt to legendary investigator don winner. Why is it when something goes back with an american citizen in panama? You get the phone call I vote put away or help to put away three killers, so one things happen. They know that to come to me when, when they don't know what else to do winner is in, U S, intelligence officer, living panama, with an uncanny billowy to solve murders?
German lillian tell dawn the story of their daughters, disappearance and Brian's claim that she's run off with another man. I think the chances of cheese running around in costa rica, somewhere with some other did, are than theirs. here's a nail. This is what happened. This is what we think is going on winner. Cbs news consultant is convinced. Brian brim ensure is involved. His strategy put pressure on the panamanian government to act and to turn on disappearance into international story, so he as to the state department and he took us to the prosecutor's office and he took us to the men in charge cause when done winter speaks people, listen, yeah, winters game plan. Also, all four jim and michel to give blood for dna tests, should any remains be found and when he wants late travels hundreds of miles from panama city to the trouble,
island where she disappeared, evolve led by lady Panamanian police are persuaded to hold a press conference to plead for information. The family has been experiencing living nightmare for quite a few months and we continue to appeal to anyone who knows absolutely anything about evolves. This apparent to come for patenting, in police announced for the first time that yvonne is the victim of foul play and named Brian Bridger, as the suspect awful that I was able. The persistence of the family and don winner pays off in an extraordinary way. This. His conference reverberated around the world policing within weeks of her disappearance and bridger, returned to the. U s got engaged and married another woman tonight, the f b. I is calling him a person of interest riding the momentum of the press conference. They printed flyers
van doubt, neighbourhoods and the village searching for their own clues island. Where are they going to sleep? I see, I guess it's a bitter sweet search for a bonds, niece lauren fire in a place that is no longer a paradise. There's! Nothing here until we find her. That's. Why we're here for the firm his quest is starting to get results. Witnesses who knew the couple come out of the woodwork described in Brian's verbal and physical abuse. To me, it was a scary person is that the kind of person I wanted vieira looking bar Jeff. Salzman saw it firsthand on yvonne's, face I recall it was black eyes and blackness around the face.
Was she self conscious about it? She was trying to hide it and not speak of it. Luis or jet lived next door and says late at night, he'd here screaming your hearing, physical fighting from their apartment therefore it was something that it was happening, pretty much everything that I was very pale well to learn that he had hit her that she had bruises that she had black eyes. Those things were very difficult to learn I mean even with such a part of my life and then to see a place where such torture may have happened to her. It just breaks my heart. the realisation that Yvonne may have been murdered is setting in. Where could Yvonne's body have been dumped or just feeding further? That house you ve, got thousands of square miles of water, Well, if you just go, not twenty yards from the shore learn impenetrable swamp
I find something in there, but that's exact. What yvonne's family investigators, volunteers set out to do entering what could be yvonne's swampy graveyard drive this area that has to be searched. Just how difficult a place is that it's jungle, it's tropical, so you have every kind of bug and critter that you can think of spiders and snakes, and you know it's not a place to go slogging around through the struggling through the mark, the spiders and the rancid water the smallest discovery raises hope a purse a medicine bottle.
serious sing coal Asking myself. Finally, one, but One final, via I mean I want to know where she is, but do I want see her in these swamp. Areas. Then they find a passport Yeah we find a us passport from the sheer number. None of it is yvonne's. The search for now is a dead end, but f b, I agents in panama city have joined the investigation. They bring a special team of F b. I divers from the u s to search the waters near the house where the couple lived. While that search came up empty fbi agents in california, are hot. On Brien's heels. They conduct us eyes, interview on march twenty first, two thousand twelve at his home and
eve with numerous pieces of evidence, including what They believe to be Yvonne's laptop panamanian and you, as officials, including the fbi, are investigating panamanian authorities have named perimeter a person of interest and declare the case a homicide, investigation and one foot I for jag english hears that brian premature is a suspect. He nearly jobs his camera they actually did was call my sister. I just said I think we photographed a murderer the tonight's forty eight hours will continue.
Welcome to play a new podcast network featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports tech, entertainment and more play it at play, dot it you do with her. What did you take her to the ocean? Just kills me to think that she's just thrown like trash. Michel balance whaler is convinced. Brian brim adjure killed her sister kitty after dismember her harem barrier. They put her everybody's looking for even mobility. John winners campaign for justice scene to be working the: u s: embassy the fbi, panamanian authorities, prosecutors, everybody got this ever going gone fish being traced. Meanwhile, forty eight hours learned that the joint fbi
Panamanian investigation is now focused on a forensic analysis of the home where the couple lived. the fact that they did luminal test here in the bedroom and they had a positive result and theirs. So a positive result in the other as an investigator. What with that tell you if there's presence of blood and two rooms, its tremendously important its critical in big, because This is the last place that yvonne was known to be alive has done. Winner works the island talking to residence, get that are coming on the potential for winning he. Torments that that yvonne was murdered in the early morning hours of november. Twenty seventh, too thousand. Eleven It here altercations screaming and yelling go glass breaking bull slamming up against the building. Later. On that day dawned learns. Brian Bremiker was telling anyone who would listen that yvonne had run off.
with another man he came up, story of oh, my four and left me and pour me I'm the I played the role of the abandoned boyfriend. Then he started to give away Yvonne's personal possessions, like clothing, and what about it, dog georgia may, which, not been seen since she disappeared. Winner has a theory He knew that she loved that dog and that if the dog was running around, he knew that anything. She said about her taken off with some guy costa rica. Everybody would immediately know it was crap so we had to get rid of the doktor. John, We are also made another potentially sinister discovery on Brian's facebook page where he saw hold this machete driven, disappeared, bremiker made a comment about the life is like here that used to be mine. I brought it down with. When I came down from the states and the
in part, as you made a comment that said, I've only used to chop up one stripper, that's just showing for don a portrait of brine brim injure, the suspect is finally coming into focus gimme, a biography of this guy, who is from one standing, one in the? U s marine corps, two thousand and four, two thousand and four This same year he was stationed in Washington DC. That's when he met christian work. Colvin, then a white house staffer in the bush administration. They started a row anti relationship. We did about seven years in the marine corps he was assigned to Iraq, never in combat in our investigation we discovered. Yet. Another woman in Brien's life, similar super nice guy always came off super even and generous meet new coal power. She was with Brian to revolve disappeared, and she says all he did was party.
when she was gone. I feel like heaters, can open up slowed enemies, rita spending money on everybody and who was for all this partying no calls Brian was using yvonne's atm card. whether it be booze food in and our drugs you now he he's kind of first said into this whole other person. Days later. Brian was back in california and in the Of his new fiance christian work colvin, but what could still didn't realize, is when she was out of town flew nicole up from panama. Therefore, it was like hectic begin. His car and, of course, he's got- is to go beverage.
vodka orange juice, but Brian had chain was definitely not the same person. What had he become connive. So self absorbs, nervous alcoholic craig first to days into her visit. Brian suddenly turned violent. He got. Super angry with me and. flung his hand. I've been hit me in the face I was shocked. I I've never been hit before in my life. New coal caught the first flight out of california and ever saw Brian again, just weeks later, Brian and kristen got married. It's so strange and it's creepy really creepy. So within literally a month and a couple of days he goes from being here.
Building killing that girl to back in the state and marion somebody else, and The way there was another girlfriend between them to who used as well, despite Brian, bein. A murder suspect he Christian settled into this condo on the outskirts of san diego. While she worked for a defence contractor bright spent much of his time, gulfy recognised. as I do that's fine, In the summer of two thousand and twelve, we show The VON sister Michel, video of blue in a new life because remember when you see him, honestly, it's not surprising now that I know what he's capable of. He thinks he got away with murder. So what you have here
as a person killed my sister and can walk away scot free. Let's go get. It was time to confront brian to get some answers. Cried bitterly So was CBS news. We like to ask a couple questions. Would you please talk to us? Did you murder, even bob dylan You can speak too, as you can answer that question right. Why won't you speak with us we have anything to do with her disappearance. O brian heads off to play. Yet another round of golf little does he know that the fbi is to his game. the
Welcome to play a new pie, gas network, featuring radio and tv personalities, talking business, sports, tack, entertainment and more play it play dot. It We seek answers justice and help summer. Two thousand twelve march for justice for yvonne not rest wherever took yvonne from us needs to be behind bars, but that long wait would continue. spring two thousand thirteen, a memorial service without yvonne's body. The governments, both apparently united states, not gonna, give up that they find out? Whoever did this to our precious yvonne and there, sir. Holding that more answers. And an arrest are coming. It would help
we get an arrest. It maybe we'll find out where she is, you're reading a book terrible mystery or murder mystery, and there is no end to it. All the while the murder suspect Brian premature is living just a few miles away. This going on like normal It will never be the same while Brian we moved into this new house in two thousand and twelve forty eight hours learned, the fbi, was getting ever closer to knock and down the front door of his fanciful life, my sister, humiliated and panama, and then she was murdered. That's the biggest concern. Obviously, doesn't care about women. This fact that he is his daughter is scary These were taken off the streets throughout our investigation remedy or has repeatedly refused to talk to us. So we approached him one last time for his sight
the story, a brian. I need to talk to you. How do you explain the fact yvonne's email. That said, she in costa rica that she sent to people was actually sent by you from hearing california? Can you answer that? You knew she was dead when you sent that email didn't you. Find a. We really want you to talk to us answer some questions. She's never said a word never said a word to us. He will not answer any question, but that would change a former marine family member murdered his girlfriend before on june, twenty six, two thousand and thirteen just six days after his wife gave birth to their second child. The f b I arrested Brian Bridger
How did you learn that Brian had been arrested? Truth be told, detached from my dad said they got there so be, and I sat down and a sense of relief, because now, believed us he was charged with thirteen felonies relating to the cover up of yvonne's death. But now her actual murder. Even assistant united states attorney, hamilton, Erin son named him, the primest spect, MR premature killed, miss ball daily and disposed of her body in an unknown location and then in an elaborate scheme to cover up his crime. Erin since says the evidence was clear, including a google search where bremen jurists sought how to clean blood off of a mattress. A stern face Premature loudly pleaded not guilty to all charges, his bail was denied.
He remains locked up in this san, diego federal jail, bridegroom, understood in that court room and said forcefully not guilty to that court room. When you sit down. Your download from the beginning and everybody's going to see what he's about and what he did. It's obvious what he did to her. So time that he just fess up. What did you do with her and where did you put her or you hopeful? You will find I really believe that We're gonna be able to bury her we're gonna be able to give her a celebration of life like she deserves. Then, just two months after Brian's day in court, a stunning discovery. Justice your hundred yards from the swampy beheld, the family had spent days searching human remains, have been found on daily lithuanian island workers
covers a military, styled, duffel bag and to trash bangs inside them. Our human remains when I first heard the possibility that they founded on my first react was this good news, because I just feel good. We can now this bastard dna tests confirmed its yvonne you know how dare he he just thought that he could discard her draw her way like she was trash and she there's so much more yvonne had been dismembered. Investigators speculate that brian use that machine which he sold on facebook. There is a dramatic development this morning in the case of ice in california, woman who has been missing, seven months after his arrest panamanian authorities finally charge him with the bonds murder my heart it and it was taking a long time, but I always knew that we were gonna get justice for her and christian. You're seen here in the sunglasses she's dead
if I ever met kristin, may I ask do you still believe in your husband's innocence? Can you just tell us that the coward hurry, bonds, family, another tragedy in the spring of two thousand fourteen mission, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer that quickly spread. I'm still had to fight, for. Life and I'm still alive to fight for my sister. This was michelle in june Two thousand forty and was her last september, are we're going. I'm going to be given a did position, given just weeks to live michel, a crew, the witness for the prosecution agree to tell her story, while she still could Her deposition was videotaped with Brian bremiker sitting right across from her
don't rush to ignore him so tat I can write. Peter Van sant with CBS news with the last ounce of her strength. Aka, michelle describes bryant's actions after refund disappeared, but for, I would fight for her like she would fight for me. Michelle, passed out after the exhausting testimony and days later she died. among the last word she spoke were at that deposition. Courageous final act of love for her sister This might be the last thing I get to do for her, over and over again, because it'll be a camera forever.
This past spring. Just five months after michel balance, whalers tragic jeff, you S, officials dropped a bombshell. It agreed. with panama, the? U s, will prosecute brine premature for the murder of yvonne ball dealing a crime that and in another country, more than three I was in miles away. Federal grand jury has charged a retired marine with murdering his girlfriend in panama and then dumping her body in the jungle. Today they brought an indictment against Brian premature for murder. The charges follow she negotiations between the united states in panama, the? U s invoked, are rarely used, long or and murder of a. U s. National. It is so rare, according to federal court records that it is we been used twice before it's a good.
is being tried here, because this rate of family can be a trial, is very important to us is, I think, he'll receive judgment. that the family will be happy with. Both these offices of secretary of state John Kerry good afternoon and then Attorney general Eric holder had to approve the use of this Being in the same room with him cancer stomach foremost. His daughter, lauren buyer, it's a bitter sweet day, both her mother and aunt or gone, but they are one step closer. to justice for yvonne today. I definitely wish mamma here to hear the words that he was indicted, charged with murder. She probably say something like we got the bastard. You know she would be very, very, very happy. We share that joy for her, but he bought
Family is still waiting to bury her there, anxious for the brim and your trial to when her remains will be returned to the united states, and they can finally lay her to rest. Right Imgur is doing court next week. will judge is likely to set a trial date. Do you think they will Justice for yvonne's family chat now with correspondent, Peter Van sant on twitter the the.
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