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...sentenced to death by a Mexican court. The crime for which he was condemned to face a firing squad occurred on the night of Oct. 12, 1959, after Simmons entered Mexico from Laredo, Texas, about 45 minutes behind a Monterrey dentist named Raúl Pérez Villagómez. Roughly 43 miles south of Laredo, the dentist's car broke down. Leaving his younger brother and two sisters behind, Villagómez went for help. When he got back to his car, his brother and one sister were dead, riddled with .22-cal. bullets. Hilda Villag...
...hospital, where she survived for 17 days, Hilda described the gunman as a tall, blond, 200-lb. American who had stopped in his southbound car, tried vainly to start the Villagómez car, and started shooting when the youngsters giggled at his failure. He wore a white shirt and dark trousers, she said, had two gold teeth, and drove a blue 1958 Chevrolet with Texas plates. Mexican police immediately began a massive man hunt for all Americans who had crossed the border at Laredo on Oct. 12. In a dusty village 130 miles northwest of the murder scene, they...
...Mexican judge, U.S. officials drove the demented doctor across the border (after putting him in a straitjacket) and deposited him in a Waco mental hospital. Since released, he is now practicing in Houston. Bullets from his assorted weapons have never been matched against those used in the Villagómez murder, and no solid evidence links him to the Villagómez crime. Nor has any American in living memory ever been extradited to Mexico...
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