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A video statement by Dereck McNeil, a protected witness in the Angie Peña disappearance case, has emerged showing him claiming to have seen the young woman and naming alleged members of a criminal group called Los Delta; McNeil was later killed.

A Honduran court has ordered the trial of four men accused in the disappearance of American tourist Angie Peña, missing since January 2022 from Roatán, to be conducted in closed session, barring press and public access; the prosecution argues secrecy protects the investigation and potentially Peña's safety if she is alive.

Walter Peña, whose daughter Angie disappeared in Roatán in January 2022, says he has received written threats demanding he stop giving interviews and pursuing the case, but he will not be silenced and believes his daughter is still alive.

Dereck McNeil, a protected witness in the investigation of the 2022 disappearance of student Angie Peña, was shot and killed Monday on Roatán by armed gunmen; authorities are investigating how his identity as a protected witness was leaked.