76 prepare a detailed report with any observations regarding the scene, the measures taken by the investigators, and the assigned storage for all the evidence collected.310 The obligations established by the Minnesota Protocol establish that, when investigating a crime scene, the area around the body must be closed off, and entry into it prohibited, except for the investigator and his team.311 302. In this case, the bodies of the three victims were removed officially on November 6, 2001. The information in the case file before the Court indicates that a telephone call from a “construction worker who was taking a short cut across the field”312 raised the alert about the presence of the bodies. However, neither this information, nor any other related to the circumstances of the discovery appears in the respective judicial report, which only states that an official of the Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated the investigation based on a telephone call from the radio operator of the state’s Judicial Police.313 303. The November 6 Public Prosecutor’s affidavit listed a total of 26 items of evidence.314 However, except for one item, these are not the items of evidence that appear in the official records of the removal of the three bodies,315 each of which indicates different items of evidence, with no indication of where they were found, the relationship between them, and their relationship to the Public Prosecutor’s affidavit. Other items of evidence were found on November 7, 2001, when the official removal of the other five bodies was conducted (supra para. 209). However, the list of the evidence gathered on November 7 is the same as that drawn up on November 6.316 In addition, the official records of the removal of the other five bodies also contain items of evidence that differ from the previous ones,317 although the case file does not show where they were found, or the relationship between them and with the Public Prosecutor’s affidavit. 304. After the collection of evidence on November 6 and 7, the next of kin of the victims carried out two searches on February 24 and 25, 2002, to gather additional evidence at the site where the bodies were discovered. They found a significant number of items. The inventory of the evidence gathered includes clothes, nine shoes and eleven varied objects, including the license plate of a border vehicle and a provisional municipal license. Also included were hair, blood remains, clothes of possible victims, bits of plastic, different kinds of containers, samples of earth, and bones, among others. There is no indication of which officials were responsible for 310 Cf. United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extralegal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, Doc. E/ST/CSDHA/.12 (1991). 311 Cf. Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extralegal Executions, supra note 310. 312 Cf. testimonial statement given before notary public by Mr. Máynez Grijalva on April 21, 2009 (merits case file, volume XIII, folio 3845). 313 Cf. report issued by the official of the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Office of the Special Prosecutor for the Investigation of the Murders of Women in Ciudad Juárez on November 6, 2001 (case file of attachments to the pleadings and motions brief, volume XIV, attachment 3, folio 4742) and decision issued by the Fourth Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the state of Chihuahua on July 14, 2005 (case file of attachments to the application, volume IX, attachment 83, folio 3431). 314 Cf. affidavit concerning the place and the bodies, supra note 238, folio 2667. 315 Cf. official record of the removal of a body, supra note 234. 316 Cf. list of evidence prepared by the Head of the Technical Office of Expert Services and Forensic Medicine on November 13, 2001 (case file of attachments to the application, volume IX, attachment 44, folios 2708, 2720 and 2721), and affidavit concerning the place and the bodies, supra note 238, folio 2667. 317 2718. Cf. official record of the removal of a body, supra note 234, folios 2710, 2712, 2714, 2716 and