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Three family members found dead in Bogotá apartment, farewell letters suspected

Three family members were found dead in a Bogotá apartment, with police recovering medications and documents suggesting farewell letters.

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Three members of the same family were found dead inside an apartment in the Casablanca neighborhood of the Kennedy locality in Bogotá, Colombia, after neighbors alerted police that they had not seen the residents. [1] Colombian authorities said the three victims were a 67-year-old woman described as the mother, a 32-year-old woman, and a 44-year-old man. [2] Lieutenant Colonel Julián Felipe Cetina Rodríguez, an officer of the National Police, said that medications and documents were found in the apartment that allow inferring farewell letters. [3] Neighbors alerted the Police that there was no trace of the residents, prompting officers to investigate the apartment and discover the bodies. [4] Lieutenant Colonel Julián Felipe Cetina Rodríguez, officer of the Garrison of the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá, said on the night of September 3 that three members of a family, two women and a man, were found dead in an apartment in the Casa Blanca neighborhood of Kennedy, Bogotá. [5] Preliminary information from authorities suggests the victims are María Cristina Pinzón, 65, and her two children, Joana Pinzón, 38, and Jairo Nicolás Pinzón, 35, though Legal Medicine must confirm their identities and ages. [6] The bodies were found inside one of the bedrooms of the apartment, located on the third floor of one of the blocks of the residential unit. [7]
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  1. Three members of the same family were found dead inside an apartment in the Casablanca neighborhood of the Kennedy locality in Bogotá, Colombia, after neighbors alerted police that they had not seen the residents. · Semana - Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo
  2. Colombian authorities said the three victims were a 67-year-old woman described as the mother, a 32-year-old woman, and a 44-year-old man. · Semana - Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo
  3. Lieutenant Colonel Julián Felipe Cetina Rodríguez, an officer of the National Police, said that medications and documents were found in the apartment that allow inferring farewell letters. · Semana - Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo
  4. Neighbors alerted the Police that there was no trace of the residents, prompting officers to investigate the apartment and discover the bodies. · Semana - Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo
  5. Lieutenant Colonel Julián Felipe Cetina Rodríguez, officer of the Garrison of the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá, said on the night of September 3 that three members of a family, two women and a man, were found dead in an apartment in the Casa Blanca neighborhood of Kennedy, Bogotá. · El Colombiano
  6. Preliminary information from authorities suggests the victims are María Cristina Pinzón, 65, and her two children, Joana Pinzón, 38, and Jairo Nicolás Pinzón, 35, though Legal Medicine must confirm their identities and ages. · El Colombiano
  7. The bodies were found inside one of the bedrooms of the apartment, located on the third floor of one of the blocks of the residential unit. · El Colombiano
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