Typical Monkey Behavior: American HeBoon admits after he was trapped to Killing 5 in Panama to Take Their Land

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PANAMA CITY (AP) — A jailed U.S. man has admitted killing five other
Americans so he could take
over their businesses and other properties in a Panamanian resort area, a
government prosecutor
said Saturday.

The man's wife refused to talk with investigators and asked for legal
assistance from the U.S.
Embassy, the official said. The embassy was closed Saturday and U.S.
officials could not be
located for comment.

The couple, William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese, were arrested
earlier this week when
they tried to enter Nicaragua from Costa Rica and were sent back to Panama
in shackles for
questioning in the slayings of two Americans and the disappearances of three
other U.S. citizens
and two Panamanians.

In testimony Friday, Holbert "acknowledged that he killed five people" — the
five missing
American citizens, Assistant Prosecutor Angel Calderon said in a telephone
interview with The
Associated Press.

"He has explained what he did, how he did it and why he did it," said
Calderon, who added that
Holbert denied killing the two missing Panamanians.

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defender was present for Holbert's questioning, but didn't report the
lawyer's name, so no
independent comment was available on Calderon's description of the
prisoner's statements.

The case began when authorities found the bodies of a woman and a man buried
behind a hostel run
by Holbert in an area of small islands in Bocas del Toro, a Caribbean
archipelago popular with
tourists.

The woman was identified as Cheryl Lynn Hughes, 53, a native of St. Louis,
Missouri, who had
lived in Panama 10 years and was reported missing by friends and relatives
in late March. The man
was Bo Icelar, who disappeared in late November and was described by a
friend as the former owner
of a gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Authorities in North Carolina say Holbert had owned a landscaping business
in that U.S. state
until six years ago, when he divorced his wife, sold the company and filed
for bankruptcy.
Holbert disappeared soon after and allegedly sold a house he didn't own and
a car he had stolen.
Police say he used aliases to elude authorities in at least six states.

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