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At noon on Tuesday, August 11, in Cali I was doing a solo. After playing for a while around the Navarro district, which borders the Llano Verde neighborhood, in the east of the city, Álvaro José Caicedo, Josmar Jean Paul Cruz, Luis Fernando Montaño and Léider Cárdenas went to bathe in a pool that there is behind a school.
Four other young people came to that place, and the first group invited the second to eat cane. Only one of them, Jair Cortés, accepted the invitation. The others went home for lunch.
The young people, all friends, minors and innocent, had identified a canyon -The only stop that was in the area in those days because the harvest had just passed– in a sector of a hacienda called Las Flores, behind a place known as Casa Blanca.
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The planting was a bit far from the puddle and, just when they arrived to eat, they were approached by three men, two security guards from the area and a machinist, who had already expelled the boys abruptly in previous days.
This is stated by one of the investigators who is part of the team of 60 officials, made up of six prosecutors, morphologists, criminologists, agents specialized in homicides, among others, from the Prosecutor’s Office, the Sijín and the Dijín of the National Police and Legal Medicine, that from the very night of the events he was formed to capture the murderers.
On Wednesday, August 12, at the height of the pandemic, a group of 15 people from the CTI’s Strategic Center for Evidence Assessment (Cevap) arrived in Cali from Bogotá. that would be in charge of analyzing and finding a relationship between what was found at the crime scene and the results of the samples carried out by Forensic Medicine on the bodies of the victims. The attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, prioritized the case and ordered how to proceed.
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It was a complex episode. There were no security cameras or witnesses. The community was demanding and demanding justice and to know what exactly happened. Versions popped up all the time on the media and social media. Apart from this, the investigation began from what was found at the scene of the multiple murder.
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“The first thing that as analysts we start to analyze is how modified the scene is. Once we tried to establish that with the highest degree of probability, we began to discern, to look at what evidence would give us more information to generate a more objective context of the case, “said one of the leaders of this research.
A video that was recorded at the time of the discovery of the youths –and which is part of the probative material that will be used in the trial– shows that two bodies were moved by their relatives amid the desperation to identify them. This altered the scene.
However, the analysis of the trajectory of the bullets, which determined that the projectiles entered the skull of the victims from back to front, and from top to bottom, in addition to the position in which some of them were left, showed that they were surrounded, subdued, preventing them from fleeing, put in a defenseless state and killed with a firearm in the same place where they were found.
Some marks on the skin of all the young people caught the attention of the detectives. What was it about? What caused those injuries?
To commit a crime of these characteristics, the participation of more than one person was necessary, which is why it was identified that there were several perpetrators. In addition, using drones, 3D surveying and other advanced techniques, it was possible to establish exactly how the events occurred. A video was even made that recreated the scene. Until that moment it was known how the massacre had happened, but not who committed it or why.
It also remained to determine what time everything happened. The discovery in the gorge occurred late at night. In the midst of the chaos, comments emerged warning of alleged people fleeing with bladed and bloody weapons, or that the police wanted to burn the bodies to remove the evidence.
However, some marks on the skin of all the young people caught the attention of the detectives. What was it about? What caused those injuries? Legal Medicine experts concluded after some analysis that they were sunburns.
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“Regarding the skin that shows these changes, it is identified that it was an exposure to a very strong radiant sun. That places us an hour in the day. Where is the strongest sun? It is between 12 noon and two in the afternoon, so we find ourselves with that window of death of around one in the afternoon, ”said a Legal Medicine official who inspected the corpses. That day, at that time, the agents found out, Cali was between 33 and 35 degrees Celsius.
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With all this, the Prosecutor’s Office established that the death occurred between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. on August 11. This information led to the following question: who else was at the scene at that time other than minors?
In the midst of the announcement of an initial reward of up to 200 million pesos, the inter-institutional team of researchers also spoke with relatives and inhabitants of the sector. In total there were 82 interviews, of which, says Eufemia Cárdenas, director of the Cali section of the Prosecutor’s Office, five provided the greatest evidentiary strength.
From these tasks, the first name related to the crime appeared: Juan Carlos Loaiza. One of the interviewees, Jhon Alexánder Vera, said that Loaiza had confessed to him that he had been present when the massacre occurred. Loaiza, a warden, and Yefferson Marcial Angulo, who was a machinery operator in the works that are being carried out in the jarillón, were captured on August 28, accused of being co-authors, 17 days after the crime.
“It should be noted that once apprehended, the accused voluntarily provided information in interrogation with which the theory of the case of the Prosecutor’s Office was confirmed with its consequent formulation of an accusation and request for an assurance measure in a prison against the accused,” he added Cardenas.
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The detainees not only confirmed the theory that had already been established on how and at what time the events occurred, but also provided the name of a third person, Gabriel Bejarano, alias el Mono, who would be, according to the version of the captured, the person responsible. to shoot. “They do not confess the whole truth, they say that it was only one who did everything, that they kind of closed their eyes, like they were in company, but they did nothing,” said the director of the Cali section of the Prosecutor’s Office.
A catch is missing
Despite these efforts, several questions have arisen about the investigation. One of them has to do with the wounds that one of the murdered had. A judicial police report indicates that, in effect, he had different injuries from the others. A lawyer for the victims, Elmer Montaña, questions that, according to him, it is not clear who murdered the only minor who had a sharps wound to the neck and blows.
Gabriel Alejandro Bejarano without a beard, but also with a beard, as some people would have seen in eastern Cali.
Cali Metropolitan Police
“With all the respect that the lawyer deserves, that he does not understand what these injuries mean does not mean that the Prosecutor’s Office is not clear about the context and why and how the circumstances in which they were generated were, and that they will help to sustain the theory on trial, “said one of the investigators in the case.
Regarding alias el Mono, they explained that he is a convicted man for carrying, trafficking and manufacturing weapons of military forces who was in house arrest and that he will serve his sentence more or less on November 15.
Meanwhile, the Police published a photo of him – in which he is bearded and wearing a cap – and is offering a reward of up to 50 million pesos to anyone with information that allows them to find his whereabouts.
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