REPORTER AT LARGE about the investigation into the murder of Hector Felix Miranda, a Mexican journalist. He wrote a column for the weekly independent newspaper called"Zeta"in Tijuana, Mexico. After Felix's murder on April 20, 1988, it was pointed out that in the past decade at least 30 journalists had been killed in Mexico. Writer talks about the lack of freedon of the press for unofficial, independent newspapers like"Zeta"& how the price for not going along with the system can be high for independent papers that publish exposes & attacks on the power structure. Two weeks after the murder the state attorney general announced that the investigation was over. The police identified the two suspects. Both suspects worked as security guards for Jorge Hank Rhon at his Agua Caliente Racetrack. Hank Rhon was never questioned by the authorities. He is the son of Carlos Hank Gonzales, the Minister of Tourism & a power within the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Hank Rhon was often a treated harshly in Felix's column in"Zeta." During the first days of the trial Victoriano Medina Morena, one of the 2 suspects, challenged the testimony of every witness against him, including the state police officers who had beaten a confession out of him. The trial resumed this past January & ended in April to await the judge's verdict. Jesus Blancornelas, Felix's friend & co-editor at"Zeta," continues to write about the murder of Felix in the paper & to list the 5 people, including Hank Rhon, whom he considers the principal suspects.