He was carrying a dead man and he did not know it: the incredible story of a taxi driver

February 8, 2019

The man did not discover that he had a corpse in his vehicle until the end of the road. He is now a witness and suspect of a crime without resolution.

The clock indicated 02:00 and Camilo Cárdenas I was looking for a service station in Bogotá. He had to fill the tank of taxis and then he would come home to rest.

The man charged fuel and went home. However, in the middle of the road, a woman stopped him and the driver discovered the possibility of going to a hotel near his home.

Cárdenas entered with the vehicle on the inn's parking lot and two friends of the woman came in, charging a third who was drunk, to the car. "I told them I would take them wherever they wanted, but only if they do not vomit in the car."He said.

The woman who stopped her was sitting next to one of her friends and the man who was drunk in the back seat. The journey started and everything became suspicious. The drunk young man tried to cover his face and the driver hesitated: "When I looked in the rearview mirror, I could not see that person's face" .

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According to the history of Cárdenaspeople who took their taxi spoke with a Venezuelan accent and asked him to take them to the Restrepo neighborhood. "If you see, the party was very good but it happened. Next time do not take a lot"They said to themselves.

The trip became a lot more confusing when the kids arrived on the scene. They first asked to change directions, but the taxi driver refused. He told them that it was time to get off and accused them. "I told them that the race cost 17,000 pesos, they gave me 20,000 and they told me to leave it like that"He said.

It was at that moment that he experienced the strangest situation. The taxi driver turned around and found that the woman, like the two men, had run out and then warned that something was wrong. "I realized that something had happened with the guy who had been taken away. I saw two traffic police officers and shouted that they were for these three people, but they did not do anything"He revealed.

Cárdenas He started looking for a police officer and found one at a checkpoint. He told her what had happened and the money reported the situation on his radio. "He told me to stay quiet, to leave," said the taxi driver who returned to the place and who, once arrived, found a pair of shoes in the meadows.

The man he had transported was not drunk but had died and his alleged friends had left him in this field. Later, we learned that the victim herself was Cristian David Cárdenas Almanza, from about 30 years old.