It was multiple femicide that horrified El Salvador

Former policeman Hugo Ernesto Osorio, in whose house there was an underground cemetery and whose remains of 14 victims have so far been extracted, authorities have said, has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Salvador, for being the main suspect of multiple femicides.

The prosecutor’s office and the Institute of Forensic Medicine of El Salvador have extracted part of the remains of 14 people killed by the former policeman to identify them through genetic testing.

The recovery of the remains took place in an urban area of ​​the municipality of Chalchuapa, more than 73 kilometers west of San Salvador, where he lived former policeman Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez.

Forensic scientists dressed in special coveralls to protect themselves during searches worked on the site, and were assisted by inmates from a “confidence phase” program.

The house, which has captured the attention of Salvadoran society in recent days, is located in an isolated area and near a large sugar cane harvest, according to what he found. Efe.

The authorities are not allowing the press to approach the house and have widened the security perimeter.

At the beginning of May, he registered at this place the murder of 2 men and 2 women, crime attributed to Osorio and whose investigation led to the discovery of clandestine graves at his home.

The Salvadoran Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, indicated that genetic testing will begin and that excavations will continue with research.

According to local media publications, Osorio has said out of court that more than 40 remains of murdered people can be found in his home.

On the other hand, Villatoro denied in a television interview that this case represents the pattern of disappearances in the country, given that “they have different sides” and that “We are facing a psychopath whose goal was not to disappear, his goal was to satisfy his sexual appetites and then, according to him, to erase the evidence.”

The document “Disappearance of people in El Salvador”, from the Foundation for Law Enforcement Studies (Fespad), reports that during this period, the National Civil Police (PNC) received 12,495 complaints, but the FGR data was 22,307.

Israel Ticas, one of the most recognized forensic pathologists in the country and who works for the prosecutor’s office, has pointed out on various occasions that if a person spends more than eight days going missing, there is a high probability that they will have been murdered and buried in an underground cemetery.

“In the case of Chalchuapa, 14 bodies have already been identified, separated in the excavations“, He said Villatoro talk to reporters after appearing on a national television talk show. It is assumed that there are more than 20 organs in place, but the authorities have not confirmed this.

Villatoro explained that, in coordinated work with the State Institute of Forensic medecine, “The bodies will be extracted and the normal recomposition that is done in the face of the skeletons will be carried out, and DNA tests will be carried out on families in the area and who are looking for their loved ones.“.

Osorio Chavez, 51, was captured for the murder of Mirna Lima Yes Jackeline Cristina Palomo Lima, mother and daughter aged 57 and 26, respectively, but investigating the location of the double femicide, experts discovered the existence of more graves.

The authorities have decreed arrest warrant against 10 other people linked to nine femicides and five aggravated homicides. These people are linked to the former policeman. “The relationship with Hugo Osorio is obvious, since, in his residence, this is practically where these people were buried.», He told the Prosecutor Gabriela Sagastume.

(With information from EFE)

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