Pirate Attack Widow Seeks Border Security

Oct. 24, 2010— -- Tiffany Hartley, whose husband was shot while the two were fleeing from Mexican pirates on jet skis earlier this month, said the attack should be an example for President Obama on the need for more border security.

"He should wake up and look at what's going on in our backyard," Hartley said, referring to the pirates that attacked her and her and her husband on Falcon Lake at the Texas-Mexico border.

Speaking outside of her home in LaSalle, Colo., Hartley said she spent 16 hours speaking with Mexican officials, who, in a rare move, came across the border to meet with her.

"I think the only reason they did is A, I was not going over there. And B, [because] of the publicity they've had," she said.

"But no, I don't live in fear for my life," Hartley said. "David and I didn't live in fear. And that's how I am living."

Hartley said she plans to remain in Colorado for the time being to relax at her family's 20-acre ranch, but wants to use the media to help keep the case in the spotlight.

"Being here in Colorado, you guys are, you're going to be my way to get my voice out," Hartley said.

Mexican authorities have said they will press their search for David Hartley's body after the lead investigator, Rolando Flores, was decapitated on Oct. 12.

"I still believe they are going to do what they can for David and for us, for bringing him home," Tiffany Hartley said two weeks ago,

Hartley said she had met with Flores, the head of state investigators in Ciudad Miguel Aleman, and that he seemed to be working hard to find her husband.

"I can't even explain how my heart is just broken for him and his family. There aren't any words," she told "Good Morning America" two weeks ago. "He was just such a nice guy and he really wanted to do what he could for us."

U.S. authorities, however, are worried that the beheading of Flores will cause Mexican police to back off the murder investigation.