16 66. The Court deems it useful to summarize some of those statements, and to also include the autopsy reports on the murdered persons as well as reference to other evidence. 1. Concerning Mr. Julián Salomón Gómez-Ayala: a. Following the complaint lodged by Ms. Bertha Violeta Flores-Gómez, the victim's companion, investigators from the Homicide Section of the National Police, Rudy Alex Miranda-Ramírez and Edwin Gudiel-Alveño, went to the place from which Mr. Julián Salomón Gómez-Ayala had disappeared at Ferrocarril Avenue and 35th Street. There they conducted "door-to-door interrogations throughout the neighborhood and were helped in their inquiries by Mr. PEDRO VÍCTORIO", who informed them that a woman he knew only as "María", who worked at a "tortillería" shop two blocks from the site of Mr. Gómez’s abduction, told him that she had seen a man kidnapped there and taken away in a "white van." (cfr. Police report of March 21, 1988, signed by Rudy Alex Miranda-Ramírez, Edwin Gudiel-Alveño and Reinaldo Rodríguez-Hernández, Chief of the Homicide Section of the National Police). b. The investigators went to the "tortillería" shop, identified Ms. Josefa GonzálezRivera as the woman known as "María" and questioned her. She told them that on June 2 (sic), 1987, she was walking towards the "El Guarda" market when, on reaching 3rd Avenue, between 4th and 5th Streets, she saw "a white truck without windows" with small light blue letters on its rear. The vehicle stopped in front of a bar and about five young men carrying firearms got out and forced into the vehicle a man she did not know who was walking along 3rd Avenue. Ms. González-Rivera also testified that about three days later she met the kidnapped man's wife and mother and told them what she had seen. (cfr. Interview with Josefa González-Rivera, alias "María", contained in police report of March 21, 1988, signed by Rudy Alex Miranda-Ramírez, Edwin Gudiel-Alveño and Reinaldo RodríguezHernández, Chief of the Homicide Section of the National Police). The investigators asked Ms. González-Rivera to help them identify the white van, which was parked in the National Police compound. She said that the vehicle was different to the one used in Mr. Gómez's detention, but was of the same color and type. Ms. González-Rivera also did not recognize the photographs of the members of the Treasury Police since, as she explained, she had not observed any of the men who detained Mr. Gómez-Ayala because she had poor vision and it had all happened rather suddenly. (cfr. Police report of March 21, 1988, signed by Rudy Alex Miranda-Ramírez, Edwin Gudiel-Alveño and Reinaldo Rodríguez-Hernández, Chief of the Homicide Section of the National Police; identification by Ms. Josefa González-Rivera at the Headquarters of the National Police of Guatemala C.A., contained in report No. "3" of the Guatemalan National Police Homicide Squad of March 22, 1988, signed by Rudy Alex Miranda-Ramírez, Edwin Gudiel-Alveño and Reinaldo RodríguezHernández, Chief of the National Police Homicide Squad). c. Ms. Bertha Violeta Flores-Gómez, Mr. Gómez-Ayala’s companion, recounted that an unknown individual informed her that Mr. Gómez "had been abducted and put inside a white van, [... that the van ...] had tinted windows" and that "no one had come to look for" the victim, with the exception of an acquaintance who answered to the nickname of "the Colonel." Ms. Flores did not recognize any of the photographs of six Treasury Police agents she was shown.