I felt hurt, I felt outraged, I felt offended. That procedure should not have been done at that moment[. However,] I authorized the procedure under threat; I authorized the procedure because I thought that it was necessary, so that, later, it was not used as an excuse to fail to resolve Claudina Isabel’s case. […] And, as if this wasn’t enough, already traumatized by the event, the funeral home staff came and asked me what to do with my daughter’s clothes – whether they should put them in the coffin, or if Claudina Isabel’s clothes had to be included among the evidence. Everyone knows that the clothes should be conserved. […] So, full of anger and rage, and thinking that, at some time in the future, they could exhume my daughter’s body to correct the error and I wasn’t prepared to accept this, I ordered them to be burnt.304 212. He also indicated, with regard to the efforts he had made to give impetus to the investigation into his daughter’s death, that he had been “criticized,” “wounded,” “offended” and “humiliated” [and] they had spoken negatively about [his] daughter, owing to [his] action […] becoming a joint complainant in the case.” He asserted that all this had “taken its toll on the family,” who ceased to be happy, and the “harm” had been “irreparable.”305 Similarly, Elsa Claudina Paiz Vidal stated that her husband, “since then, has lived for the investigation of the case, […] he stopped working and maintaining the family [financially], […] he immersed himself in his pain and did not realize that he was abandoning us.”306 213. According to Mrs. Paiz Vidal, her daughter’s death “caused indescribable sorrow.” She indicated that: “that was the worst day of [her] life; it broke [her] heart and it ha[d] been impossible to rebuild [their] lives.” Regarding the taking of the fingerprints by agents of the Public Prosecution Service, she stated that “it shocked [her] exceedingly and caused [her] profound anguish.” She added that: The conversation with the investigator [Carolina Ruiz] on the Monday following Claudina Isabel’s murder only served to add more pain to the pain already felt. She told us that, at the start, they were not very interested in carrying out the procedure for the removal of her body appropriately and investigating the crime scene thoroughly because they had assumed that Claudina Isabel was ‘a loose woman’ as she was wearing sandals and a choker necklace, and because she had a navel piercing with a ring. She told us that she thought the ring was in bad taste; she also told us that the investigators had assumed this because of the place where the body was discovered.307 214. Mrs. Paiz Vidal also described the obstacles to closing the mourning process with her husband and son, and the rift in the family due to the absence of Jorge Rolando Velásquez, who devoted himself to investigating their daughter’s death. In this regard, Mrs. Paiz Vidal indicated that: We should have been able to face our pain together as a family, but when the State was so negligent in the investigation, my husband had to assume the role of investigator; he spent most days in the offices of the Public Prosecution Service […]. This prevented us from healing and separated us at a time when we most needed to be together. My relationship with Jorge also suffered; it almost destroyed us as a couple; there were times when I wanted to disappear and escape from everything.308 215. Meanwhile, Pablo Andrés Velásquez Paiz, Claudina Isabel Velásquez’s brother, stated that he had “stored up all the rage and sadness and never stopped thinking over and over again what would have happened if he had accompanied her to the Law Faculty in the morning or to the party she went to that night.” He stated that his “sister’s death had affected [him] profoundly,” and that he “began to drink until [he] passed out […] three or four times a week […] to forget the pain, [and] to stop thinking.” At the same time, he “began to have ever stronger suicidal thoughts, to the point that [he] try to kill [himself] driving too fast and, on one Cf. Statement made before the Inter-American Court by hearing held on April 21 and 22, 2015. 305 Cf. Statement made before the Inter-American Court by hearing held on April 21 and 22, 2015. 306 Cf. Affidavit prepared by Elsa Claudina Paiz Vidal on April 9, 307 Cf. Affidavit prepared by Elsa Claudina Paiz Vidal on April 9, 308 Cf. Affidavit prepared by Elsa Claudina Paiz Vidal on April 9, 304 73 Jorge Rolando Velásquez Durán during the public Jorge Rolando Velásquez Durán during the public 2015 (evidence file, folio 6701). 2015 (evidence file, folios 6700 and 6701). 2015 (evidence file, folio 6702).