themonitor - Elvia Martinez-Montez and Rockcliffe Montez believe they finally have some answers, 60 years after their patriarch’s death — and they believe it has to do with Nazi gold.Elvia’s father, Adan Martinez, died when his car went off Military Highway as he returned from Reynosa in December 1950.
Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputies ruled Martinez’s death an accident. But that never sat well with Elvia, a 64-year-old paranormal investigator, who said some relatives and friends of her father told her the death was suspicious.
A 25-year investigation by Elvia into her father’s death culminated last month, when her family exhumed his skeleton from Hillcrest Memorial Park in Edinburg.
An autopsy of the badly decomposed skeleton revealed Adan’s skull showed blood stains and stress on his skull, likely from a blunt force impact, said Rockcliffe, Elvia’s son.
At first glance, Adan’s injuries seem aligned with that of a serious auto wreck.
“It wasn’t a single-car accident,” Rockcliffe said Tuesday. “We believe something else occurred.”
Other evidence gained through Elvia’s amateur investigation leads her to believe her father was murdered.
ACCIDENT?
Benny Garza and his family found Adan’s body in front of his Dodge sedan at dawn on Dec. 18, 1950, about 40 yards west of U.S. 281 south of Pharr.
Newspaper accounts at the time quoted deputies who said Adan died in a rollover accident. And the injuries Adan suffered could have occurred in an auto wreck.
But Garza recalls a different scene.
A teenager in 1950, Garza gave Elvia a sworn statement in May, saying Adan’s car was undamaged when he and his family found him dead on the ground, lying in front of the hood.
“The automobile in question had no visible damage, with the exterior being in excellent and undamaged condition,” the affidavit states.
All accident records taken by deputies had already been destroyed before Elvia launched her investigation in the mid-1980s.
Without that evidence available, Elvia and Rockcliffe pursued their own conclusions through their own probe.
‘BIZARRE’
The mother-son duo work as paranormal investigators, traveling the country looking into reports of ghosts and ghouls believed by some to haunt houses or other buildings. That belief in the paranormal helped push them to find an alternate answer to Adan’s death.
The pair announced their latest suspicions at a press conference Tuesday morning at the Adobe restaurant in Edinburg.
“There is a part that will sound bizarre,” Elvia said.
In 2008, Elvia and Rockcliffe placed an audio recorder on Adan’s headstone for about 20 minutes. The recording revealed an EVP — electronic voice phenomenon — of an unknown voice telling them to proceed with digging up the skeleton.
“Go back to the grave,” the voice apparently says.
Elvia and Rockcliffe said the EVP also mentions gold, “Metz” and “it’s in France,” leading them to believe Adan may have found stolen Nazi gold or other valuables that may be buried somewhere in Europe.
NEXT STEP
After the autopsy and replacing Adan’s remains back in the ground, Elvia and Rockcliffe said they went to the National Archives in College Park, Md., where they were able to track Adan’s movements with during World War II.
He was part of a unit that moved through Metz, France, a city in the northeast part of the country captured by U.S. forces in November 1944.
The Nazi regime was known for pillaging gold from the governments and citizens it defeated during its march across Europe, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars to fund its war effort.
Whether Adan actually found gold during his time in Europe remains unknown. Elvia and Rockcliffe said they believe they know where it may be hidden, but refused to give the location.
Regardless, that would not positively identify whoever killed Adan — even if he was killed — as he drove back from Reynosa nearly 60 years ago.
“That is what ultimately led him to meet his demise,” Rockcliffe said. “We can’t legally accuse anybody.”
Adan’s second wife was with him in Reynosa before she left prior to his return, apparently receiving a note from a bar waiter that they would face trouble.
Elvia and Rockcliffe — whose matriarch was Adan’s first wife — say they believe his second wife, already dead, may have been behind his death.
For now, though, the amateur investigators said they would meet with their lawyer later this week to begin negotiations with the French government — and possibly hunt down Adan’s lost treasure.
“Could it be coincidence?” Rockcliffe said. “Sure. But in our chosen field, we don’t believe in coincidence. Everything happens for a reason.”
NOTE: EVP audio is available at 'Family that dug up patriarch's skeleton believes he was hunted for Nazi gold (Click to listen to the EVP)'...Lon
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