Michelle Amaya’s mother posed as a street inhabitant to find her daughter: a month later, she recognized the body

This Sunday, new details of the case of Linda Michelle Amaya Buelvas, 15, who disappeared on November 30 in Bogotá were known and, in the last hours, as confirmed by her mother Nathalie Amaya, the body that has Legal Medicine does correspond to the from her daughter. Further, The mother of the young woman recounted the journey she undertook to find the whereabouts of Michelle, presumably dead today.

Mrs. Nathalie spoke with Noticias Caracol and there she told her heartbreaking testimony in which she revealed that, without stopping for a month, she searched for her 15-year-old daughter without success. The love and desire to find her little girl well led her to take drastic measures such as pretending to be a street dweller and walking into the streets of the San Bernardo neighborhood, known as ‘the new Bronx’ of Bogotá, to get new clues as to where her daughter was.

Nathalie said that she repeatedly frequented that neighborhood in the south of Bogotá and wanted to “go unnoticed.” In addition, through tears, in his dialogue with the newscast, he revealed that “Every night I sat in race 11 with third with a blanket and a cigarette, hoping that the girl would perhaps pass by”Linda’s mother recounted with emotion.

Although Legal Medicine is still evaluating the hypothesis that Linda Michelle’s body was the one they found in the San Bernardo neighborhood a few weeks ago, her mother, Mrs. Nathalie assures that the corpse that she identified in forensic sciences is that of her young daughter.

One of the details that Colombians are most shocked by regarding this case is that Linda Michelle’s mother assures that days after her daughter disappeared, she went to Legal Medicine to ask if they knew anything; However, according to the woman told the aforementioned newscast, At that institution they told him that the body they collected in the San Bernardo neighborhood was not his daughter’s, so Nathalie decided to undertake the search for her little girl on her own.

Faced with this information, Mrs. Nathalie, in all disappointment, asserted in her dialogue with the aforementioned media that she does not understand why until a month after she went to Forensic Medicine they tell her that this body could be Linda’s. Michelle.

In this case there are more unknowns than answers and now the young woman’s relatives are asking the authorities for speed to clarify what happened.

On the other hand, Linda Michelle’s grandfather told Noticias Caracol that in the midst of the difficult situation they found themselves in while looking for the teenager, they were almost extorted.

“They demanded ransoms, they demanded money in exchange for the girl. They had it, they demanded sums of money from us on pain that if we did not consign them, they would send us the corpse of the girl wrapped in black bags ”, Nelson Amaya, Michelle’s grandfather, told the news.

Regarding the case, General Óscar Gómez Heredia, commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, assured that on December 1 of last year they found a body that still remains in Legal Medicine and that remains unidentified; which, presumably, would correspond to Linda Michelle.

“We were investigating the death of this person in the San Bernardo neighborhood, who was unidentified, indeed, at this time he continues without identification,” said the uniformed man.

At this time, forensic sciences are investigating the body of the deceased and seeking to identify if those remains belong to Linda Michelle. For its part, the Attorney General’s Office of the nation is carrying out investigations into the case and, according to Noticias Caracol, during the day they will give new details about the murder of the 15-year-old teenager.

In context of the Linda Michelle case

Since last November 30, 15-year-old Linda Michelle Amaya Buelvas was reported missing. The only thing that was known is that he had left his home, in the north of Bogotá, on his bicycle. But it was not until the last day of 2020 that the death of the minor was reported. The confirmation was made by his mother after recognizing the body in Legal Medicine.

So far, the authorities have 20 days to confirm that it is the minor. According to information from El Tiempo, General Óscar Gómez Heredia, commander of the Bogotá Metropolitan Police, the body was found on December 1 in the San Bernardo neighborhood and From that day on, she remained in Legal Medicine as NN, where it was only known that she was a woman.

What her mother told the CityTV newscast, at the time of the disappearance, was that her daughter had left on her bicycle to the Avenida Jiménez TransMilenio station to look for a cell phone that had been stolen days before, but did not return, so later days of searching, he approached Legal Medicine, where on December 4, 2020 they received the complaint. However, despite the woman’s insistence to know if her daughter’s body had been found, officials told her that they only had that of a person of legal age, between 19 and 23 years old, the woman told the newscast. After this, he went to look for her in the center of the city, in the Tercer Milenio Park, a place he liked to go.

For their part, the police told the newspaper El Tiempo that they received the complaint on December 5, the day on which the search began and the formal investigation was opened.

Mother She returned on December 16, but was informed again that there was no body, so on some occasion she said that she felt alone in the process and requested the change of the investigator in charge of the case, in addition to advancing a sit-in on December 30. in the park of the Journalists. It is not until the next day that in Legal Medicine they do a new interview, they take a genetic test and then they let you see the body which you recognize immediately thanks to a scar on the forehead, eyes, eyebrows and teeth, reports the capital medium.

“This is not a murder for a bicycle, it is a femicide and we do not want it to go unpunished,” said the mother who also asked for clarification on how the events occurred and again demanded “a competent person in the case.”

Michelle suffered from a mild cognitive disorder, and according to the information provided by the family, the disappearance of the young woman occurred when she was looking for her stolen cell phone, two weeks earlier, at the Transmilenio station on Avenida Jiménez.

According to Nathaly Amaya, mother of the minor, Michelle had been very saddened by the loss of her cell phone, and especially because when she made the report in front of a patrol car, he did not pay attention to her because of the minor’s disability, denounced in Semana magazine.

“She was left with a lot of anger in her heart and began to frequent this station in order to see who to ask for her cell phone. We have evidence that she left with her bicycle and went to that station and someone told her that all the stolen cell phones were on 13th Street. She, in her innocence, was left with the hope that she would find her cell phone.”Explained the mother of the minor in an interview with the same medium.