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e.
Expert Robert C. Bux referred to documents relating to the deaths of Mr.
González-Rivera and Mr. Corado-Barrientos in his report delivered before the InterAmerican Court (infra, para. 67 (l) (4) and (5)).
5.
Concerning Mr. Manuel de Jesús González-López:
a.
Ms. María Elizabeth Chinchilla de González, wife of Mr. Manuel de Jesús
González-López, delivered three statements: the first two through affidavits of May 5
and 13, 1988, and the third to the Inter-American Court (infra, para. 67 (a)).
In her first statement, Ms. Chinchilla de González said that her husband had been
kidnapped in a white "minibus" on February 11, 1988, at approximately 6.00 p.m. and
was found dead on February 13. When later shown photographs of a white "van", she
said that it was not the vehicle in which her husband had been abducted, and that one
had been smaller with windows. She was also shown "six photographs of six persons, to
see whether she recognize[d] any of them as a participant in her husband’s abduction."
Ms. Chinchilla de González declared that she did not recognize the men in the
photograph.
(cfr. Sworn statement of María Elizabeth Chinchilla de González delivered to Notary Jorge Humberto
Castillo de León on May 5, 1988).
In her second statement, Ms. Chinchilla de González said that her husband had
been abducted by four armed men in a white "van". She was shown the white
1986 Nissan Cherry Vanette minibus, chassis No. KHGC120-027394, engine No.
A15-092198A, registration plate P-89324. After close study, Ms. Chinchilla de
González said that it was the same as the vehicle "in which her husband had
been kidnapped."
(cfr. Sworn statement of María Elizabeth Chinchilla de González delivered to Notary Fernández Font
on May 13, 1988).
b.
Ms. María Julia González-López, the victim’s sister, was questioned on
March 30, 1988, by investigators Edwin Gudiel-Alveño and Miguel Wilfredo
Santeliz, from the Homicide and Disappeared Persons squads, respectively, of
the Special Investigations and Narcotics Brigade of the National Police. Ms.
González-López declared that when she asked her sister-in-law (the wife of Mr.
Manuel de Jesús González-López’s) about her husband’s death, she had told
her "not to ask her anything about what had happened because she knew
nothing, adding that she was not to say anything because MANUEL [de Jesús
González-López] was already dead and […] she was not to accord it any
importance." Ms. González-López also said that, when she asked her sister-inlaw whether she remembered what the vehicle in which Mr. González-López
had been abducted was like, she told her that it was a white van "and that
afterwards she sa[id] that it was a grey SUBARU van, and later again she sa[id]
that she kn[ew] nothing and she was not to ask her any more questions."
(cfr. Police report of the Special Crimes and Narcotics Squad of the Homicide Section of the National
Police of April 4, 1988).
c.
The following mention is made in the police report of February 13, 1988,
concerning Mr. González-López’s corpse when it was found.
[i]ndentation on the neck, with signs of torture and hanging: […] on the wrists
signs of having been tied, grazes on the forehead.
(cfr. Police report of February 13, 1988, signed by Mario Alfonso Pérez Martínez, Second Int. Chief,
Homicide Sec. of the National Police).