17 (cfr. Statement of Ms. Bertha Violeta Flores-Gómez, delivered through record at the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police Department on May 5, 1988). d. Ms. Blanca Alicia Ochaeta-Corzo de Ortiz, Mr. Gómez Ayala's landlady, delivered three statements: one during questioning by Police Officer II Reinaldo Rodríguez-Hernández at the Observation Room of the IGSS General Hospital on April 16, 1988; the other two through affidavits at the Special Investigation and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police Department on April 28 and May 20, 1988. In her testimony of April 28, 1988, she said that in 1986 she had as tenants the victim, his companion Bertha Violeta Flores-Gómez and their small son; that Gómez-Ayala’s companion told her that he had been abducted by individuals "in a white van;" that eight days after the kidnapping three individuals arrived on three consecutive days and were let in by Ms. FloresGómez, as if she knew them. To the witness’s remark that she disapproved of that sort of visitor, Ms. Flores-Gómez replied that she received them because "one of them was known as ‘the Colonel’, that the other two were his employees and that he had reassured her and offered to locate her husband and bring him back." Those three individuals arrived on three successive days; on one occasion "the Colonel" was wearing green uniform trousers similar to those worn by the army. She was shown photographs of the white Ford "van" but did not recognize it. On the other hand, she "was absolutely sure" that she recognized two photographs: one, of the person known as "the Colonel," which was a photograph of Aníbal René Morales-Marroquín, and another of Manuel de Jesús de la Cruz-Hernández. Both of these men were members of the Treasury Police. (cfr. Statement of Ms. Blanca Alicia Ochaeta-Corzo de Ortiz, delivered through affidavit at the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police Department on April 28, 1988). In her testimony of May 20, 1988, she repeated what she had stated earlier and, having been shown thirty-two photographs of persons in police uniform, she recognized the following: Edwin Arturo Pineda-Hichus (sic), José Luis Grajeda-Bentetón, Douglas Rafael Meneses-González, Manuel de Jesús de la Cruz-Hernández and Aníbal René Morales-Marroquín. She said that she had already recognized the last two in another proceeding. She also pointed out that the first three photographs "[were] of persons who came to visit Mr. JULIÁN SALOMÓN GÓMEZ-AYALA before his abduction." (cfr. Statement of Ms. Blanca Alicia Ochaeta-Corzo de Ortiz, delivered through affidavit at the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police Department on May 20, 1988). e. Autopsy report, official communication No. DI-19/87 of June 18, 1987, containing the results of the autopsy carried out on the body of Mr. Julián Salomón Gómez-Ayala, read as follows: LESIONS: wound produced by contusion on the nose with ecchymosis and slight swelling. Grazing on the left knee. Indentation produced by the tying of both wrists. Indentation from hanging around the entire neck of 0.5 cm, hyperpigmented. A wound produced by a short, blunt object on the front left of the neck measuring eleven by six centimeters exposing muscle and cervical organs. Wound produced by a sharp object on the front thorax, in the form of a cross, the vertical line measuring thirty-one centimeters and the horizontal twenty centimeters, affecting only the dermal tissue.

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