This week Beth and Wendy discuss the case of Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez, a former police officer in El Salvador who confessed to being a serial killer. Dozens of bodies were found buried in his yard.
This episode was researched & scripted by Wendy & Beth Williams and edited by Minnie Williams.
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Footnotes
Articles/Websites
Associated Press. (05/20/2021). 14 bodies found at home of ex-cop in El Salvador murder case. Yahoo News. Retrieved 11/24/2023 from https://news.yahoo.com/14-bodies-found-home-ex-211009535.html
Salcedo, Andrea. (05/24/2021). El Salvador police arrested an ex-officer for two murders. Then they found a mass grave of women in his yard. The Washington Post. Retrieved 11/24/2023 from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/24/former-salvador-cop-clandestine-ditch-backyard/
C., Jorge. (05/17/2021). The Prosecutor’s Office accused 10 people linked to femicides and aggravated homicides committed in Chalchuapa. FGR. Retrieved 11/25/2023 from https://www.fiscalia.gob.sv/la-fiscalia-acuso-a-10-personas-ligadas-a-feminicidios-y-homicidios-agravados-cometidos-en-chalchuapa/
Jordán, Laura; Marroquín, Miguel. (10/17/2022). A year of silence after the clandestine cemetery of Chalchuapa. La Prensa Grafica. Retrieved 11/25/2023 from https://www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Un-ano-de-silencio-tras-el-cementerio-clandestino-de-Chalchuapa-20221016-0073.html
La Pagina. (11/11/2022). Hugo Osorio, the murderer of Chalchuapa, receives a new sentence of 18 years for raping a minor. Retrieved 11/26/2023 from https://lapagina.com.sv/nacionales/hugo-osorio-el-asesino-de-chalchuapa-recibe-nueva-condena-de-18-anos-por-violar-a-menor/
Urbina, Javier; Funes, Margarita. (05/08/2021). Quadruple homicide in Chalchuapa. Former police officer detained as a suspect. La Prensa Grafica. Retrieved 11/28/2023 from https://www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Reportan-cuadruple-homicidio-en-Chalchuapa-20210508-0010.html
Jordan, Laura. (05/08/2023). The minutes that contradict the State’s accusation in the Chalchuapa case. La Prensa Grafica. Retrieved 11/29/2023 from https://www.laprensagrafica.com/elsalvador/Fosa-de-Chalchuapa-las-actas-que-contradicen-la-acusacion-del-Estado-en-el-caso-Chalchuapa-20230507-0085.html
Beltrán Luna, Jorge. (05/20/2021). Cristina, the heroine whose screams betrayed the monster of Chalchuapa. ElSalvador.com. Retrieved 11/29/2023 from https://historico.elsalvador.com/historico/840396/psicopata-chalchuapa-plan-control-territorial.html
La Prensa Latina Bilingual Media. (08/29/2023). Relatives of missing people in El Salvador demand that authorities answer. Retrieved 11/29/2023 from https://www.laprensalatina.com/relatives-of-missing-people-in-el-salvador-demand-that-authorities-answer
Garrison, Cassandra; Renteria, Nelson. (07/19/2021). El Salvador ‘House of Horrors’ killings shock nation numbed to violence. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 11/29/2023 from https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-el-salvador-house-of-horrors-killings-shock-nation-numbed-to-violence-2/
Talk To Me About Respect. (05/12/2021). The Psychopath of Chalchuapa. Retrieved 11/29/2023 from https://www.hablamederespeto.com/noticias-de-violencia/el-psicpata-de-chalchuapa
Carmen Rodríguez. (06/22/2021). The Missing and the Dead in El Salvador. CounterPunch. Retrieved 11/29/2023 https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/22/the-missing-and-the-dead-in-el-salvador/
Ernst, Jeff; Avelar, Bryan; (06/17/2021). A Former Cop Has Confessed to Being a Serial Killer. Vice. Retrieved 11/29/2023 https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avnwn/a-former-cop-has-confessed-to-being-a-serial-killer
History
Minority Rights. (n.d.). El Salvador Indigenous peoples. Retrieved 11/26/2023 from https://minorityrights.org/minorities/indigenous-peoples-2/
Associated Press. (09/19/2023). El Salvador’s leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing. Retrieved 11/24/2023 from https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-nayib-bukele-gangs-989d6e3ec5e25449e167c7790c795823
Bitzer, Jonathan. (09/05/2022). The Rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Authoritarian President. The New Yorker. Retrieved 11/24/2023 from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/12/the-rise-of-nayib-bukele-el-salvadors-authoritarian-president
Reuters. (07/09/2023). Salvadoran President Bukele’s party names him as 2024 candidate. Retrieved 11/24/2023 from https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/salvadoran-president-bukeles-party-names-him-2024-candidate-2023-07-10/
Fernández, Belén. (12/11/2021). Remembering US-backed state terror in El Salvador. Al Jazeera. Retrieved 11/26/2023 from https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/12/11/remembering-us-backed-state-terror-in-el-salvador
Wilkinson, Tracy. (12/09/1992). Notorious Salvadoran Battalion Is Disbanded : Military: U.S.-trained Atlacatl unit was famed for battle prowess but was also implicated in atrocities. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11/26/2023 from https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-09-mn-1714-story.html
Flemion, Philip F.; Varela, René Santamaria; Schultze-Kraft, Markus; Browning, David G. (11/25/2023). El Salvador. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11/26/2023 from https://www.britannica.com/place/El-Salvador
Macrotrends. (n.d.). El Salvador Murder/Homicide Rate 1994-2023. Retrieved 11/28/2023 from https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SLV/el-salvador/murder-homicide-rate
Sierra Becerra, Diana. (n.d.). U.S. Intervention in El Salvador. A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing. Retrieved 11/27/2023 from https://www.dwherstories.com/timeline/u-s-intervention-in-el-salvador
Menjívar, Cecilia; Gómez Cervantes, Andrea. (08/29/2019). El Salvador: Civil War, Natural Disasters, and Gang Violence Drive Migration. Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved 11/28/2023 from https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/el-salvador-civil-war-natural-disasters-and-gang-violence-drive-migration
Video
Casos Crimen y Misterio
El Monstruo de Chalchuapa la macabra historia de un Psicópata // El Caso de Hugo Osorio Chávez
Aurora and Angelina (hosts). (05/28/2021). Murder Murder News. Laura Marie Purchase’s Cold Case and El Salvadorian Serial Killer Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez
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