US couple held as serial killing suspects in Panama paradise
Bodybuilder William Holbert ‘confesses to seven murders’
Wife Laura Reese asks for lawyer after fleeing Bocas del Toro
For American expatriates, Bocas del Toro seemed the ideal retreat: an archipelago of white sand beaches, coconut palms and guesthouses off Panama’s Caribbean coast. It was relaxed, friendly and sunny. Then people started to disappear.
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The man known to neighbours as “Wild Bill” has confessed to murdering seven people, said Angel Calderon, a prosecuting attorney. “He has told us how many people he killed, why he killed them, how he killed them and where he buried them.”
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The tale has shades of The Talented Mr Ripley, the novel, and later film starring Matt Damon about an expatriate killer, except that Holbert reportedly started out with bodybuilding, steroids, white supremacy and a fascination with Adolf Hitler.
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He reportedly started bodybuilding and taking steroids, which made him more aggressive, and developed a fascination with the TV gangster Tony Soprano. He also acquired white supremacy tattoos and sold memorabilia with swastikas.
What. One would think it’s the whole white supremacy and Hitler worship that’s probably most telling, but noooo it’s obviously the steroids. Also the bodybuilding. If you take steroids for football and baseball it’s A-OK.
