The victims were taken home with deceptions by the detainees. Twelve days later they found their bodies in different clandestine graves in Zacatecoluca, La Paz.
The Attorney General’s Office ordered the arrest of three men whom he accuses of missing a couple of husbands, allegedly to strip them of a property.
Detainees Edwin Antonio Muñoz Pineda, 30, who is allegedly engaged in witchcraft; Irvin Amílcar Polanco, 32, and Guillermo Mejía Castelló, 25; they will face justice for the disappearance of Cristòfor Leonel Méndez Ortiz, 79, and María Elena Bonilla Rodríguez, 56.
The victims disappeared last November 27 from a house located in Tecoluca, San Vicente.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office will present the accusation against the three detainees for the disappearance of the couple in San Vicente in the next few hours. Photo courtesy Prosecutor’s Office.
Twelve days later, on December 9, the tax and forensic authorities exhumed the bodies of Méndez Ortiz and Bonilla Rodríguez in two clandestine graves in the Parets de l’Zacatecoluca corner, in the Department of Peace.
Fiscal investigations determined that Méndez Ortíz and Bonilla Rodríguez were fired from their homes with “deception” by the detainees. They were told that they would be made a “clean”, as Muñoz Pineda is engaged in the practice of witchcraft.
In fact he is called Chaman, because according to him, he is a sorcerer who makes predictions and healing practices through “hidden powers” and natural products.
Muñoz Pineda and Polanco were captured at the time when they took the belongings of the victims from the house of the latter.
In the vehicle they were using to load the belongings, prosecutors found a deed of purchase and sale of the house, owned by Mendéz Ortíz, but in favor of Muñoz Pineda.
They were also confiscated DUI and Méndez Ortíz’s tax identity document (NIT).
Despite the arrests of the three suspects in the couple’s disappearance, tax investigations continue to determine whether the deed of purchase and sale is forged and more so if the intention to disappear in the couple was to strip them of the house.
The tax authorities do not detail what kind of relationship there was between the detainees and the victims.
In the next few hours, the St. Vincent tax office will file the indictment against the three detainees for the disappearance of the couple, but later the two homicides could be added.