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(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.