bernie went back to fordsville to talk things over with the sheriff.-one of the deputies spoke , read and wrote spanish fluently so he read the letter to the detective and the sheriff and managed to decipher where the letter came from.-it was a little town just across the border from laredo , texas known as nueva laredo or new laredo.-bernie immediately booked a flight to the nearest airstrip to that town.- bernie spoke at length with ramons family.-expecting that the mendez family would speak no english , he had borrowed the spanish-speaking deputy from sheriff lampton and taken him with him as interpreter.-no one had known how to contact them to tell them what had happened to their son.-so , tavalerio had had to break the bad news of his death.-at first , they were afraid to tell him anything , but after they had talked for a while , they were convinced that this man was genuinely trying to learn who had killed their son and they gave him their complete cooperation.-the only thing they could think of that might help , though was to find a man in or near laredo , texas , named pablo alvarez.-they had both worked at one time for a man senor mendez hadnt liked the looks of.-his name had been jorge something or other and they were pretty sure his last name was laquidera or something close to that .