![]() ![]() On the approach, Barranca tried to kill Jones at Dead Man Falls, but failed and fled into the jungle. Unknown to Jones, Barranca and Satipo had received an anonymous tip-off from Belloq that he had the missing map fragment and so they had offered their guiding services to him. Barranca and Satipo already had the other fragment of a map to the site and some knowledge of the route and Jones was certain that some treasure hunter had a head start on him. Although Jones considered that he might have eventually found the temple on his own, that would have taken more time. The next year, Satipo and Barranca were hired by the American archaeologist Indiana Jones to guide him to the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors to learn the fate of his competitor Forrestal and if possible, retrieve the golden idol said to be there, despite Jones' awareness of their reputation. Belloq worked out the general area that Forrestal was looking for the site by calculating where Barranca and Satipo had gone hunting for the map instead. ![]() ![]() However, under the pretext that the map was useless for being incomplete and couldn't be used to find more treasure, Satipo and Barranca kept it for themselves. Īround 1935, Barranca and Satipo were hired by the French mercenary archaeologist René Emile Belloq to steal an incomplete map to the Temple of the Chachapoyan Warriors from one of the campsites of the Princeton University archaeologist Forrestal. The two con men had contacts throughout Peru, Colombia and Venezuela who set up jobs for them, and they often guided adventurers into the jungle only to then murder or rob them. They frequently hung out at Machete Landing in between expeditions. Satipo ran scams in the South American jungles with his partner Barranca. ![]()
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