Macabre discovery in El Salvador: 14 bodies in the house of a former policeman who was under investigation for several femicides

Forensic investigators Public minister Salvadorans have located 14 bodies in the house of a former national civil police officer (PNC), who was dismissed from his post after being accused of aggressive sexual conduct, the Minister of Justice and Public Security reported Thursday, Gustavo Villatoro.

“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.“.

According to forensic experts, in the house of the former agent of the PNC, located in the town of Chalchuapa, 78 kilometers west of the capital, at least eight graves have been located where it is suspected that the former policeman Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez buried his victims.

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 said to be 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.

The house, which has been the focus of Salvadoran society in recent days, is located in a secluded area and close to a large sugar cane cultivation, according to the press agency EFEThe authorities are not allowing the press to approach the house and have widened the security perimeter.

The director general of police, commissioner Mauricio Arriaza Girls, confirmed that Osorio Chavez He was separated from the facility in 2005 and estimates the subject had been committing the murders for about 10 years. He revealed that during questioning “He told us he identified the victims through social media and was looking for a way to get closer and even make them see the American Dream.“.

“This psychopath is already in custody and the people who collaborated with him I think 99% are already in custodyAdded the police chief. Arriaza Girls said investigations into the case are complicated as the victims were taken to the home of Osorio Chavez, so the neighbors did not realize what was going on.

For his part, the minister Villatoro noted that due to the depth to which the bodies of the victims were located, “murders are not suspected of being the work of one person“.

According to local media publications, Osorio He said out of court that more than 40 remains of murdered people could 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 thatthey have different edges” and “we are in front of 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 Foundation for Law Enforcement Studies (Fespad), realizes that during this period, the National Civil Police (PNC) received 12,495 complaints, but that 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 different occasions that if a person spends more than eight days going missing, there is a high probability that they have been murdered and buried in an underground cemetery. .

In the country of Central America, 6.7 million inhabitants, were registered last year 70 femicides (homicides committed because of the condition of the victims’ wife) and 111 in 2019, according to police data.

Violence against women Latin America, including femicides, worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, according to civil organizations.

At Mexico A 72-year-old man was arrested this week as a suspected serial killer of women, local media reported after the remains of several people were found at his home. The discovery was in the State of Mexico, resident of the capital, following an investigation into the death of a 36-year-old woman.

(With information from AP, EFE and Reuters) .-

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