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The Good Life Reporter

August 2005: Tennessee cops get their man in Ajijic

In a case that was the talk of Tennessee – and lakeside too – nine-year Ajijic resident Perry March was deported in handcuffs in August 2005 and subsequently  convicted in Nashville of the 1996 murder of his wife Janet. 

Having served eight years of a 56-year sentence for first-degree murder, March, a former lawyer, continues to maintain his innocence. His wife’s body was never found, although his late father confessed to police that he had helped dispose of the corpse. All March’s appeals have been denied so far, but he’s taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

His most recent interview was to Nashville’s News Channel 5 reporter Nick Beres in November last year. 

"’m hopeful that the system will work the way it is supposed to,” said March. “Clearly I’m discouraged by not having obtained the remedy I think I deserve. I have faith the system will ultimately work. I’ve hired a good lawyer again to finish it the rest of the way.” 

While he waits to hear if the high court will take the case, March works in the prison law library often helping other inmates with their appeals. A balding March now appears to have shaved his head and gained some weight. 

After March became a suspect in his wife’s murder, he fled to Ajijic, setting up various businesses and eventually marrying a local woman, who bore his child.

March told Beres that he occasionally hears from his now 18-year-old daughter from his first marriage, but nothing from his 24-year-old son.  “I miss my kids very much and I fight every day to get out to see them.”

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