By David Lohr
(Continued)
With the growth of his magazine, Eric decided he needed to move to a bigger city and establish a central office. With Eric's encouragement, Doris had opened her own clothing store, which was also becoming a hit with local shoppers. Both of them had their own dreams to follow, and unfortunately, neither of them fit into the other's plans. The relationship eventually came to an end, but they remained on good terms. Doris resigned herself to stay behind, and Eric moved on to the capital, Managua, a two and a half hour drive from San Juan. Once there, he opened an office for his magazine.
By the fall of 2006, Eric had grown tired of Managua and decided to relocate his magazine to Costa Rica. Everything was moving along smoothly until the afternoon of November 21, 2006 when a friend called him and told him about Doris' murder. Shaken by the events, Eric rented a car and drove to San Juan to offer his condolences to Doris' family. He soon learned that police had arrested two local surfers for the murder: Julion Martin Chamorro and Nelson Lopez-Danglas.
"It's such a small town that if you asked, 'Who are the two most delinquent people, they would name these two people,'" Eric said in an April 23, 2007 interview with Dateline NBC. "That was the only thing they hadn't done: killed somebody."
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| Eric Volz incarcerated |
Two days later, police made an unexpected move and arrested Eric for Doris' murder. According to the arrest warrant, investigators suspected that Eric, Chamorro, Lopez-Danglas and a fourth man, Armando Llanes, Doris' then boyfriend, had all worked together to rape and killed Doris.
Not long after the men were arrested, Lopez-Danglas allegedly confessed that on the day of the murder, at about 1:00 p.m., he had seen Eric and an unknown man inside the store. He further stated that Eric had paid him 50 cordobas to move some bags into a waiting car. In exchange for his confession, police dropped all charges against Lopez-Danglas. Charges were also dropped against Llanes when he presented paperwork showing he was registering for college at the time of the murder. Eric and Chamorro were both taken to a Nicaraguan jail to await trial.
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