:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/8fa5797a-ba2f-11eb-9e1a-02c309bc01c1.jpg "Possibly 40 bodies buried at ex-agent El Salvador’s house | Abroad")
The first bodies at the home of Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez, 51, were found earlier this month after he was arrested for the murder of a 57-year-old woman and her 26-year-old daughter. The man would have confessed to those murders.
On his land in Chalchuapa, about 50 miles northwest of the capital, San Salvador, forensic experts have been at work ever since. Authorities believe it may take up to a month to recover all the bodies.
Salvadorans, who believe their missing relatives may be among the victims of Osorio Chávez, have gathered around the closed country in hopes of finding their loved ones. Their DNA, among other things, is collected to compare it with that of the buried people.
The police are investigating.
Ⓒ Dutch Height / SIPA Press
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Ten arrests
The police have arrested at least ten people in total. According to the public prosecutor, the investigation is about sexual violence. Osorio Chávez, who was fired by police in 2005 for sexually aggressive behavior, is suspected of also carrying out murders on behalf of others.
Prosecutors have launched fourteen murder cases so far. Seventy women were murdered last year in tiny El Salvador. A year earlier there were 111.
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