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On the morning of November 1, 10 years ago, the country’s newscasts began their broadcasts with the death of Luis Andrés Colmenares, who was found dead in the drain of El Virrey park in Bogotá. Although at first it was just another judicial note, Over the years, the trial for his death became the most popular events in Colombia.
On the night of October 30, Andrés Colmenares, prominent student from the Universidad de Los Andes, went out to meet a group of friends to celebrate Halloween, in one of the most exclusive sectors of Bogotá, exactly on Carrera 13 with 84B Street, Zona Rosa. Through testimonials, publications and material related to the process, we reconstruct the event minute by minute:
According to the story of Laura Moreno and Jessy Quintero, Laura left at 21:00, in his car to pick up Colmenares from his house in the Quirinal neighborhood, since they had been dating for a month and he wanted to be with him at the Penthouse bar.
Around the 11:30 pm Colmenares and his companions arrived at the bar, and according to Semana Magazine, they turned the truck over to the valet parking service and walked a few meters to the entrance of the nightclub, where they met a college classmate in charge of handing them the entrance passes.
Around the 2:45 am The party ended and Colmenares would have left the bar annoyed by an incident he had inside with Laura Moreno. Once Laura, Jessy and Luis reached the street they found themselves in front of the disco with several friends who still remained. The group waited there for the valet parking service to bring Laura’s truck.
Minutes later Colmenares would continue to be restless and annoyed by what happened and suddenly, with hurried steps, he would have run out and crossed the street to the park in front of the disco He walked diagonally along this street and then took Calle 85 to the west.
At 3:29 in the morning the most confusing and decisive part of the case took place, because according to Laura, she told Jessy on the phone that she had Luis grabbed hold of him, suddenly that he had let go and that she went running, that she could no longer see him and shouting: “¡¡ He fell, he fell, the Negro fell into the pipe! ”.
Towards 4:00 in the morningThe group tried to find Colmenares and even asked some policemen to help him search, which was unsuccessful as they assumed that the young man had returned home.
At 4:19 in the morning Jessy decided to call Luis’s brother from her phone to ask, once again, if he had arrived. Again the youngest of the Colmenares answered negatively.
According to the Bogota Fire Department, it was registered an emergency call at 4:00 am in which the fall of a person in the El Virrey pipe was reported. After 20 minutes of review, from 4:47 am to 5:17 am, the fire department did not find anything in the indicated place.
The strange thing is that the same October 31, between 7:30 pm and 8:20 pm. They conducted a new search and found the body of the young Luis Andrés Colmenares.
Oneida Escobar, Luis Andrés’ mother, had gone to the park to look for her son at 6:00 am after Laura and Jessy called Luis’s brother. Escobar initially searched hospitals and police stations. At night, after the insistence of the mother of the disappeared, Oneida Escobar, the firefighters carried out the second search, finding the body of Luis Andrés Colmenares about 120 meters from where Moreno said that Luis had fallen.
The body was transferred to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and the result of the first autopsy showed that Colmenares had a grade 3 alcohol intoxication, which supported the theory of an accidental death.
This theory was never accepted by the Colmenares family, who insist that their crime was murder.
From then on, a media novel was built where more protagonists, false witnesses, disappearance of evidence, books and even a series for Netflix appeared that showed their fictionalized version of what happened.
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