On May 28, in zone 11 capital, it was the last time that Pablo Aníbal Méndez Vega They saw him alive; The cameras of the sector captured it by driving the MINI Cooper brand vehicle, P-379LHB plates. A week later he was found lifeless to eight kilometers from the place where he was heading.
Méndez told his family that he was heading to San José del Gulfo, Palencia, to do a business; However, hours later he did not respond to the phone or return home, according to his relatives to the researchers.
The Prosecutor’s Office against kidnappings of the Public Ministry received on Wednesday, May 28 the complaint of its disappearance.
“The investigations are started and surveillance cameras and some types of tours of zone 11 are requested, in the colony where he,” said Freddy Santos, head of that Prosecutor’s Office.
He added that there were obstacles in the investigations, because they had no knowledge of the routes that Méndez had taken after leaving his home.
Santos said they identified the person with whom Méndez allegedly gathered.
“He tells us that, indeed, that day they had joined and that the last time he saw it was in a property located in the prosecutor, San José del Gulfo, Palencia,” he said.
That place was an apartment that had been rented to a person that same May 28, located on the second level of house number 4, in the Colinas del Norte 1 neighborhood, the prosecutor.
The apartment, with direct access to the street, had “few furniture”, a bathroom and a room, and in that place they found the body of Méndez in a state of decomposition.
“The information obtained is that the property had been rented precisely on May 28 by a person who is still under investigation and is being outlined to see who is responsible or if he had any kind of participation in the death of Mr. Paul,” said the prosecutor.
Thus they tried to hide the body
The body of Pablo Aníbal Méndez Vega was wrapped in sheets and, according to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF), the cause of death was asphyxiation of strangulation.
“The body was wrapped in sheets, with enough lime and some type of liquid, I imagine, to avoid that bad smell that the people already deceased expelled,” said the prosecutor.
During the search, the investigators and prosecutors found bottles of beer, candlesticks, a boat with chemicals and documents.
“While it is true that the property was rented that same day, we do not know if it was really rented to kill Méndez,” he explained.
Hypothesis
He added that a line of research is that Méndez has been killed after a discussion and a disagreement when they intended to do a business.
“The information we had is that I was going to do a business; it is not known what kind of business, we are not sure that Mr. Pablo was really going to sell a vehicle,” Santos said.
What happened to Pablo Aníbal Méndez Vega’s car?
The prosecutor said that June 4 received an alert from an abandoned vehicle in El Progreso, Jutiapa, and when they carried out the diligence they determined that it was the vehicle that drove Méndez when he left his house.
“The Public Ministry was focused, the scene was over, documented the vehicle, where some elements that could help us in the investigation were located,” he said.
The case for the death of Pablo Aníbal Méndez Vega will now be known by the Prosecutor’s Office against MP’s life.