This evidence-led archive documents four adjudicated crimes and one unresolved massacre. The latest file follows the Matapalo family killings from ignored warning signs through a cross-border prosecution in Nicaragua.
All four files rely on criminal judgments. The archive states cross-border jurisdiction, sentence caps, acquittals and unresolved motive separately.
Five members of the Beauchamp-Durán family were killed. Michael Adrián Salmerón Silva admitted responsibility and was convicted in Nicaragua after extradition was denied.
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Seven victims and two assailants died during a failed bank robbery and hostage crisis. Erlyn Hurtado’s nominal 210-year term was legally adjusted to fifty years.
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The radio journalist was killed outside his home. Two defendants were convicted of qualified homicide, while others were acquitted.
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A Civil Guard corporal killed 18-year-old detainee Viviana Gallardo in her cell and wounded two companions. He was convicted, but no court established that anyone else ordered the attack.
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“Solved / adjudicated” means a criminal judgment resolved the principal charged conduct. It does not erase acquittals, transform civil liability into criminal guilt or conceal a statutory sentence cap.
Salmerón was arrested in Nicaragua. Its constitution barred extradition of a national, so Nicaragua prosecuted conduct committed in Costa Rica.
The individual terms totaled 183 years and six months; Nicaragua’s legal maximum meant thirty years were executable.
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Five verified files are published: four adjudicated cases and one unresolved cold case.
No. Nicaragua denied extradition of its national and prosecuted him there. He admitted responsibility and received a Nicaraguan conviction.
Seven victims died. Two assailants also died, making nine deaths in total.
Yes, but only when reliable sources and enough verified material support a substantive, victim-aware file.
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