TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- Nine bullet impacts, all tipped back, were the ones that took the lawyer’s life. Indiana Beatriz Castellanos Barahona.
The 49-year-old law professional was found dead around 7:00 a.m. Tuesday night inside a van-type vehicle, Ford Escape, silver-colored, with FES 0576 plates.
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The discovery of the car in apparent abandonment occurred in the street that connects the residential Copacabana with the peripheral ring, in the sector of West Oak, south of the capital.
the National Police receive the alert by calling 911 that a car of the characteristics described above had been parked on the side of the street for more than an hour. Police officers arrived at the indicated location and corroborated that the citizen alert was correct.
As they approached the vehicle they learned that it was a woman, she was with her head bent and with apparent blood stains on her back.
Many hours later
The presence of police officers occurred minutes after 7:00 pm, however, the task of opening the car took more than four hours as the doors were locked.
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In order not to damage the evidence left by the victims at the crime scene, investigators were assisted by a locksmith to be able to open the doors of the car, but the technician arrived at it from 10:00 pm .
When opening one of the doors they could see that in fact the female was dead due to various bullet impacts.
Eye Inspection Officers from the Police Investigation Directorate (DPI) began the expertise work and among their documents found several that accredited the identity of Indiana Beatriz Castellanos Barahona.
A note that causes suspicion
Among the clues found inside the Ford Escape van and very close to the body was a note that read verbatim “for camouflage husbands,” the alleged reason the killers took her life.
Both eye technicians and forensic personnel who participated in the uprising reported that attorney Castellanos Barahona received nine projectiles from the back, only one of them with an exit hole.
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She was left inert in the co-pilot’s seat, suggesting she was accompanied by one or two people. In addition, they found a pistol holster and the box to deposit it.
The now defunct Indiana Castellanos has been litigating the private party for about two years, after serving in various positions in the courts and as a judge in various judiciary.
Rommel Martínez, director of the DPI, argued that “it would be unwise to advance any kind of data; any element that has been found inside the vehicle is an element that must be processed and subjected to analysis.”
Indiana Beatriz was a formula companion of the lawyer Melvin Bonilla (murdered the 4 of March of 2021) in the defense of the gentleman Eduardo Enrique Lanza Raudales, In the case called Pandora.
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