Police Off The Cuff

Ensenada Mexico: 3 surfers bodies recovered, a robbery gone bad. Relatives have positively identified the bodies found in Baja California as the two Australians and a San Diego man who disappeared last weekend, Mexican officials said Sunday. Since the victims' relatives identified them, genetic testing is not needed to confirm their identities, according to the State Attorney General's Office of Baja California. BAJA CALIFORNIA MAY 4 Safety tips from the US government for Americans traveling to Mexico Thieves apparently killed the men on a surfing trip to Mexico in order to steal their truck because they wanted the tires, authorities said earlier on Sunday. The corpses were decomposing after the thieves dumped them into a remote well about 50 feet (15 meters) deep, some 4 miles (6 kilometers) from where the foreigners were killed. The well also contained a fourth cadaver that had been there much longer. The cause of death for the three bodies recovered in Baja California on Friday was ruled a shooting, the m