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photographed on the day their
father disappeared.
mother, Carlota, have rekindled their
search for the lost Jairo.
Donna had no idea
that Gary's best friend
and boss, Randy
Krugh, was an
out-of-control drug
smuggler,
criss-crossing the
skies with cocaine and
marijuana shipments
from Colombia and
Jamaica. The pilot,
pictured at the right
next to the groom,
arranged for Gary's
final trip to the
Bahamas -- and has
kept his role in it a
secret ever since.
Krugh was a leading
smuggler in the FBI's
Operation Airlift, which
was led by special
agent Dan Mitrione.
On the surface,
Mitrione seemed a
promising agent. A
Vietnam veteran and
son of a proclaimed
American hero, he was
put in charge of the
FBI's first official
operation in the
Reagan and Bush
"War on Drugs." But
things were far from
what they seemed.
Mitrione's father, Dan
Sr., was a torturer for
the State Department
and CIA who was
murdered by leftist
guerillas in Uruguay.
And Dan secretly
believed the U.S.
government was
behind his dad's
death. Seeking
revenge, Mitrione went
off the tracks and
became one of the
most corrupt agents in
U.S. history.
Teamed up the
Mitrione was Hilmer
Sandini, a wily con
man and sociopathic
killer. Together he and
the FBI agent would
steal cocaine
shipments and make
millions of illicit dollars
from their sale. The
relationship ended with
a powerful bomb being
discovered under
Sandini's car. Did
Mitrione plant it?
Jeff Fisher. Was one of
the last men to see Gary
and Jairo alive. Lived in a
big house on the water in
the Bahamas. Believed to
have been married with
children. Described as an
overweight man with a
thin-lined mustache and
beard.
Pat Hagerman.
Hagerman was a drug
smuggler who lived in
South Florida. At one
time he lived at the Rod
Laver Tennis Club in
Delray Beach. His
nickname was "Fat Pat,"
and he was, indeed
rotund. Donna Weaver
believes Hagerman and
Fisher are one in the
same, though that hasn't
been substantiated.
Hagerman may have
gone into the Witness
Protection Program.
