30 September 15, 1995, Diomedes and a friend had been arrested for being undocumented and on that day “they beat [Diomedes] up with a thole and their fists, and they tie[d] up his hands and torture[d] him and […] they [did] nothing to [his friend].”26 79(30) The body of Diomedes Obed García Sánchez was found dead in the morning of September 17, 1995, on kilometer 8 and 9 of the Olancho highway, in Tegucigalpa. 79(31) The autopsy practiced on the body on September 17, 1995, by the Public Prosecutors’ Office revealed that Diomedes Obed García Sánchez presented eight wounds produced by a fire weapon as well as three blade wounds, one of which was so deep that “they almost cut off his head.”27 The entry wounds of the bullets were: one in the left temporal region, one in the top part of the left cheekbone, one behind the right ear, one in the left cheek, one in the left pectoral region, and three bullet entries in the left hand. Besides, the body presented two blade wounds produced with a machete, one on the right side of the neck and another on his right arm, and a blade wound on the left side of his neck. The Public Prosecutors’ Office did not take any pictures of the body, “due to lack of film.” G) Similarities between the four illegal arrests, tortures, and extrajudicial killings 79(32) After having been arrested and having remained under the custody of the State since the 15th or 16th of September of 1995, the bodies of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez were found on September 17, 1995, after having been tortured and murdered,28 in different parts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The points of the city in which the bodies were found, when joined together formed a circle, reason for which the case was locally known as “the four cardinal points.” 79(33) The deaths of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez were “all […] homicides, [and] the relationship between the ways in which they died is similar at the light of the characteristics of the entrance wounds of the bullets[,…] reason for which we could be dealing with the same weapon[. The] injuries found, […] are compatible with those produced by bullets from fire weapons, with signs of having been produced from short and long distances. The blade wounds […] are compatible with those produced by a long metal object that is sharp on one of its sides, whose measures are similar and the mechanism of production is pressure that is exercised overcoming the elasticity of the tissue producing serious internal injuries. The blade 26 Cfr. statement offered by Cristian Omar Guerrero Harry before the Second Criminal Peace Court on March 15, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 1197 and 1198). 27 Cfr. newspaper article titled “Encuentran otros tres desconocidos ejecutados en diferentes lugares”, published by the newspaper El Heraldo, on September 18, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, folio 967). 28 Cfr. “report on claim [No.] 9173 received [(sic)] in the DIC” issued by the human rights inspector of the DIC, Mrs. Nery Suyapa Osorio, addressed to the Main Prosecutor of the Public Human Rights Prosecutors’ Office, Mrs. Marlina Durbor de Flores, on September 17, 1995 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folio 987 through 980).