30 (cfr. Official communication number 051/Srio. of June 14, 1988, signed by Luis Alberto MazariegosCastellanos, Judge of the Thirteenth Criminal Justice of Peace, addressed to the Seventh Judge of Criminal First Instance, Julio Aníbal Trejo-Duque). VII TESTIMONIAL AND EXPERT EVIDENCE 67. At public hearings on September 22, 23 and 24, 1997, the Court heard the statements of the witnesses and the reports of the experts produced by both the Inter-American Commission and the State. The reports and statements are summarized below in the order in which they were delivered: a. Testimony of María Elizabeth Chinchilla, wife of Manuel de Jesús González-López In February 1988 she was living with her husband, Manuel de Jesús GonzálezLópez, and their children at the Mezquital Estate in Zone 12 of Guatemala City. Her husband worked as a mechanic and played sports. On February 11, 1988, she went to meet her husband outside his place of work and they returned home by car at 5.45 p.m.; while he was closing the car door a white "van" with Guatemalan plates drew up and four men got out. They were dark, wearing civilian clothes, with very short hair, shorter on the sides than on top. They seized her husband from behind and put him into the "van"; she went to get help from the police station in Bolívar Avenue in Guatemala City; the next day she went to look for her husband at the General Hospital; early on Saturday, the 13 th , she went to the morgue but could obtain no information; around midday her sister-in-law told her that her husband’s body was at the morgue and that it had been found beheaded and naked in the street, and bore traces of burns similar to those made with a cigar. She went to the morgue and saw her husband’s body in a box; he looked purple, had cuts and bore signs of hanging, with his tongue outside, also purple, and burns on his skin. Following her husband’s death, she returned to the Sixth Avenue police post in Guatemala City, where she was questioned and shown photographs for her to identify those responsible; she was unable to identify anyone in the photographs because they were of common criminals. She was never summoned to any court. Some time after her husband’s death she went to Los Ángeles and did not return to Guatemala because she was afraid. b. Testimony of Blanca Lidia Zamora de Paniagua, sister-in-law of Ana Elizabeth Paniagua-Morales In February 1988 she was living with her parents-in-law, her daughters, her brother, her niece and her pregnant sister-in-law, Ana Elizabeth PaniaguaMorales. On February 9, 1988, Ms. Paniagua-Morales got up early and went to the shop to buy bread and milk. Ms. Zoila Ruano told her that her husband, Eugenio Ruano, had seen her sister-in-law abducted in a white "van". She spoke to a neighbor ("Irené") who told her that a long white "van" with dark windows was parked in front of her house with a man sitting in the "right front seat." She also spoke to the shopkeeper ("Doña Felipa", see supra, para. 66 (3) (d)), who told her that a white van drew up and four men got out, one of whom seized her sister-in-law by the hands and covered her head with a towel while another grabbed her legs; they put her into the "van", which drove off to an unknown destination. She passed that information on to her sister-in-law’s mother, to her husband and her brother. The victim’s mother went to various police stations to find out whether her daughter had been detained; six men