8 custody of the deputy prosecutor […]. At 3:20 p.m. the homicide unit arrived on the scene, 14 commanded […] and [illegible] of Visual Inspections for [illegible] fingerprinting […] 41. following: The report of the Deputy Prosecutor who appeared at the scene of the events stated the The body is that of a female who could not be identified because she did not have on her person any identification document […] the body shows signs of strangulation with a black plastic cord around the neck; in the upper portion of the cranium is a wound; the body also has a cut to the upper part of the ear, possibly caused by a knife; large amounts of food are in the mouth and nose; the body has bite marks in the upper extremities; the face was covered with one green towel and one black one […] POSITION OF THE BODY: the body is lying flat, with the head facing west, the legs east; the left and right arms are lying alongside the body, the legs are extended, and the body 15 is lying face down […] 42. The document transmitting the body to the forensic physician stated that “the deceased has bite marks on the upper extremities, a wound to the occipital region of the cranium and another on 16 the ear, illegible –presumably with a knife. It shows signs of strangulation using a cord.” 43. As the case file shows, the authorities themselves determined that the crime scene was processed and contaminated at the time of its inspection: At the time the scene was inspected, which had already been contaminated, 25 centimeters southwest of the deceased’s head was a black nylon bag with figures of a white kangaroo. As the Deputy Prosecutor stated, the bag had been on the deceased’s face. Alongside the head of the deceased were two towels: one green and a small black one; beneath the inferior extremities was a 17 large, transparent plastic bag. 44. The case file contains a report prepared by the PNC on the 110 call system, which shows that at 10:30 p.m. on December 18, 2001, a call was received from an anonymous informant who claimed to be a messenger and that at night on December 17, 2001, on 6th Street 5-24, Colonia Nueva Monserrat, Zone 7, he had seen a woman get out of a vehicle and drop a black sack in some bushes. The sack turned out to be the body of a woman: The informant said he was a messenger and that last night he was in the city of San Cristóbal de Mixco and noticed a beige Mazda 232; he only managed to copy the first two digits on the plate, which were 78. A female got out of the car. She was dressed in black. She took a black bag out of the trunk, and quickly threw it into the bushes. The way they left so fast was suspicious, so the informant followed them. He saw they drove the vehicle in question up to a house located at the address in question. But today, on Notisiete at 11:00 p.m., he saw that the bag they threw into the bushes was not trash; it was the body of a woman. That’s why he decided to call this section to 18 report what he saw. 14 Annex 2. Memorandum 1,131-2001 dated December 18, 2001, Report from Police Officer Jorge Martín Ortiz, Chief of Substation 1651, addressed to the Deputy Prosecutor in the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the Municipality of Mixco. Attachment to the State’s communication of September 25, 2008. 15 Annex 3. Report from Iliana Elizabeth Girón Delgado, Deputy Prosecutor I, Mixco Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, December 18, 2001. Attachment to the State’s communication of September 25, 2008. 16 Annex 4. Notice transferring the body of María Isabel Véliz Franco to the Forensic Physician for the autopsy, dated December 18, 2001, supplied by the petitioners in a communication dated April 25, 2007. 17 Annex 5. Visual inspection of the body, issued by Edwin Orlando Jiménez Castillo, dated December 18, 2001. Attachment to the State’s communication of September 25, 2008. 18 Annex 6. Confidential Information, 110 system, National Civil Police Report dated December 18, 2001. Attachment to the State’s communication of September 25, 2008.