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additional information regarding the person or persons who found the body and notified the police. The
police report of August 13, 2005, states that they went to verify the possible existence of a dead person:
That today, at 5:30 a.m., on the orders of the controller on duty at the 14th Police District radio
dispatch center, they went to a location on 10ª Avenida opposite a house numbered 8-87 “A,”
where a restaurant known as “Mary” is situated, in Colonia Roosevelt, Zone 11, in order to
investigate the report that there was a possibly dead female there; they confirmed that there
was a dead female person on her back on the asphalt lying from South to North, opposite the
aforementioned house or building, whereupon they immediately coordinated with the scene-of9
crime units.
51.
The report states that at the scene there arrived an assistant prosecutor, a medical
examiner, two investigators from the Public Prosecution Service, and the crime scene protection unit “in
order to prepare the requisite notice of removal for a female person by the name of: XX [Jane Doe].”10
The report describes details of the discovery:
Approximately 20 years old; regular complexion; long, straight black hair with brown highlights;
elongated face, closed eyes, thick eyebrows, aquiline nose; clothes: stained blue trousers, black
blouse, pale pink sweater, black sandals, white brassiere, pale pink briefs; approximately 1.66
meters tall.
In addition, evidence found at the scene included a cartridge case and a “illegible” [sic], possibly
9 mm caliber. Which remained in the possession of the crime scene investigators from the Public
Prosecution Service. According to information collected by the reporting agents, who were told
by several individuals who were at the scene that a white taxi-like vehicle, arrived at the place
possibly to dump her where she was found; they did not provide their names for fear of
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reprisals.
52.
According to the Removal of Body Form exclusively for police and prosecutorial use, at
6:30 a.m. on August 13, 2005, the body of “XX - female” was removed from 10 Ave. 8ª calle opposite
house No. 8-87 “A” Restaurante Mery.12 The report of the Guatemala Volunteer Fire Department
establishes that the “deceased was not identified because she did not have any identity documents.” 13
The investigation
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Appendix 4. Official communication No. 2,544/2005, Ref. agente.mazariegos of August 13, 2005, issued by Saul
Rigoberto Estrada García, 142nd Station Chief, Zone 11. Copy of judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.
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Appendix 4. Official communication No. 2,544/2005, Ref. agente.mazariegos of August 13, 2005, issued by Saul
Rigoberto Estrada García, 142nd Station Chief, Zone 11. Copy of judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.
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Appendix 4. Official communication No. 2,544/2005, Ref. agente.mazariegos of August 13, 2005, issued by Saul
Rigoberto Estrada García, 142nd Station Chief, Zone 11. Copy of judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.
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Appendix 5. Removal-of-Corpse Form exclusively for police and prosecutorial use, signed by Rocío Yesenia Reyna
Pérez, Assistant Prosecutor. Copy of judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012; Appendix 6, Autopsy report
of August 16, 2005, No. 2604-05, issued by Mr. Sergio Alder Alfredo Martínez Martínez, Judicial Medical Examiner, addressed
to Rocío Yesenia Reyna Pérez, Assistant Prosecutor. Copy of judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.
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Appendix 7. Notice No. 828.09-. 2005 issued by Fire Department Official Oscar Rafael Sánchez Aguilar. Copy of
judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.