He also used to park his helicopter there.

The property used to have a menagerie of tigers, lions and other exotic animals that Armes said he has since donated to several zoos. It also used to have a lake where his five children would play and fish, he said. He still can recall reams of details about the cases he's worked on over the years all over the world. I specialize in homicide cases.'Īrmes has been a private investigator for about 70 years, and has garnered plenty of publicity for many high-profile cases. He takes credit for rescuing actor Marlon Brando's kidnapped son Christian Brando in Mexico in the early 1970s. I'm not penniless, and I still have a lot of strength and I have the same brain I had 50 years ago that I can solve any case that comes before me. 'To get the record straight that there's no other reason. More: El Paso detective Jay J. Armes downsizing, selling his Lower Valley estate Someone even falsely said Armes was selling his prosthesis hooks, he said. Armes had his hands amputated after a childhood accident when he was growing up in Ysleta. They bought a smaller home located in a country club, he said. And I'm just selling my home' because the 13,387-square-foot house is too large for him and his wife of 54 years, Linda, he said. 'They (some people) started saying that I was selling my home because I was destitute, and I'm not destitute, and I don't have Alzheimer's.

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