Who killed Paco Stanley? The true story about the murder of the TV host who is now a series – El Financiero

• Benito Castrowho was a close friend of Stanley.
• Mario Bezarescollaborator of the driver and one of the alleged intellectual authors of the murder.
• Paola Durante, aide-de-camp of one of the programs where Paco was a starter. They also framed her in her death.
• Jorge Giljournalist and friend of Stanley who was with him at the time of the attack he received and from which the driver died.
• Brenda BezaresMario’s wife.

Murder of Paco Stanley: This is what happened the day he was killed

The week was starting on June 7, 1999. Paco StanleyLike every day, he carried out his program in the morning One after anotherwhich was broadcast on TV Azteca and in which he was accompanied by Mario Bezares, who was then wearing a splint on his left foot.

As a ‘joke’, Stanley made a comment to whoever was his friend and teammate about that injury. “Look what happened to Mayito, the useless one! For kicking their children.”

The program passed with apparent normality, although for a few moments the host left the forum and returned, saying that nothing was happening. At the end of that day’s broadcast he said a few words and left. “I want to tell you bad news, we’re leaving!”.

El Charco de las Ranas: Where was Paco Stanley murdered?

After that program, he went with Mario BezaresJorge Gil, his driver Jorge García Escandón and some of his escorts to the restaurant The Frogs Puddle at its Pedregal branch, located in Periférico Sur, Álvaro Obregón mayor’s office.

According to records from that day, Bezares received a call while he was having lunch with his friends and colleagues, the same reason he got up, walked away from the table and answered.

Later he went to the bathroom arguing that the food had hurt him, so Stanley, Gil and the others who were with them decided to go to the van in which they were traveling to leave without thinking that, moments later, they would be shot down.

While they were waiting for Mario Bezares, They were shot down by hitmen who, armed with a machine gun, shot at the vehicle in which he was Paco Stanley, whose bullet wounds killed him instantly.

The driver was shot in several parts of his body, including the face, while Jorge Gil was also wounded in the leg, although he did not die.

Derived from this attack, a man also died named Juan Manuel de Jesús Núñez, 30 years old, because of a stray bullet.

Reckoning or revenge? The versions about the murder of Paco Stanley

The murder of Paco Stanley It caused a stir in the Mexican population, since at that time he was one of the television hosts most loved by the audience; His programs were a success and he was at the peak of his career at the time. 56 years.

There are several versions about the reasons that led to the death of Paul Stanley’s fatheralthough it is still not clear what happened.

The Attorney General’s Office of the Federal District (PGJDF) determined two lines of research: the first for revenge and the second for an alleged settling of accounts, according to an article in the legal magazine Facts and Rights from UNAM.

On June 22, 1999, Mario Bezares was arrestedsince they incriminated him as one of the intellectual authors of the murder, as well as Paola Duranteaide-de-camp of the Stanley program, based on the statements of an inmate.

Luis Gabriel Valencia, who was a cook for the brothers Jesús and Luis Amezcua, leaders of the Colima Cartel, assured in a call to the Attorney General’s Office that the intellectual authors of the murder were, in addition to his former bosses, Mario Bezares, Paola Durante and Erasmo Pérez.

Supposedly, the motive for the murder would have been because the driver Get them! I had debts with drug cartelswhich was never verified.

Who killed Paco Stanley? The mystery that still exists after 25 years

Almost 25 years after his murder, there is still no certainty as to who were the material and intellectual authors of the murder of Paco Stanley.

On September 2, 1999, they dictate order of formal imprisonment of Mario Bezares and Paola Durantein addition to Erasmo Pérez Garnica (alleged material author), José Luis Rosendo Martínez (Mario’s assistant) and Jorge García Escándon (Paco Stanley’s driver).

The five were identified as alleged perpetrators of the murder thanks to the fact that Jorge Gil, who was injured in the attack, assured that Bezares would be related to the crime. However, They were released from prison on January 20, 2001 due to lack of evidence in the crimes for which they were accused.

In February 2022, Luis Alberto Salazar Vega, alias ‘El Bolas’, who bore a resemblance to Erasmo Pérez, was identified as the perpetrator of Stanley’s murder. He was supposedly sent by men from the Arellano Félix brothers along with Rubén Quintero Madrid, alias “El Rito”, and “El Hitler”, although his relationship with this crime could not be proven either.