Authorities in Colombia detained two men for kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a man before leaving his remains in bags on the streets of Bogotá.
The Semana report indicates that the suspects, identified as Héctor Fabio Banguero and Yovanni Rojas Martínez, face charges of aggravated homicide.
The alleged murderers stabbed the victim on 27 occasions , after he was transferred to a house in the San Bernardo neighborhood.
After the murder, they moved the body in bags that they left abandoned in the town of Los Mártires.
“The Attorney General’s Office presented Héctor Fabio before a guarantee control judge Banguero and Yovanni Rojas Martínez, who would be responsible for transporting and abandoning the lifeless body of a man, last 27 March, in the center of Bogotá”, said José Manuel Martínez, Sectional Director of Public Prosecutors in Bogotá who cites the aforementioned medium.
“The victim was found on public roads and wrapped in a red mattress. The autopsy carried out by the experts from the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences showed that she had 161 wounds made with a sharp weapon. The report concluded that the death was the product of acts of extreme violence and cruelty,” added Martínez.
Prosecutors have with security videos in which you can see those involved with the body in bags and wrapped in the mattress. In addition, the moment in which the remains are thrown into the street can be seen.
“The videos from the security cameras and other evidence show that those accused today moved the body in a cart and they threw it in a corner of the San Antonio neighborhood, in the Antonio Nariño locality, in the center of the city”, detailed the authorities.
A resident of the area spotted the remains in the past 27 of March. About five similar finds have been recorded so far this month. The modus operandi is similar: the victims were tied up and killed by suffocation or with a knife.
Researchers suspect that these crimes in houses in downtown Bogotá are the result of fights between rival drug gangs.
The so-called “houses of pique”, residues of old houses that the Government should have demolished a long time ago, would be the center of these homicides and the hiding place of the criminals.