This evidence-led archive opens with the murder of radio journalist Parmenio Medina Pérez. It distinguishes the two final homicide convictions from the murder acquittals and from separate fraud findings connected to Radio María.
Costa Rican courts convicted the person found to have ordered the murder and the gunman. The Criminal Chamber affirmed both homicide convictions in 2008.
No unresolved Costa Rica file has yet passed this archive’s sourcing and editorial threshold.
“Solved / adjudicated” rests on two homicide convictions affirmed by Costa Rica’s Criminal Chamber. It does not mean every person charged in the long proceeding was convicted.
Mínor de Jesús Calvo Aguilar and six other defendants were acquitted of homicide. The archive names that boundary so charges are not rewritten as guilt.
The prosecution also concerned financial wrongdoing connected to Radio María. Those fraud findings are relevant context, but they are not substituted for the homicide verdicts.
The national colors, mountains, radio waves, microphone, memorial light and court files are clearly editorial. They do not portray Medina, a defendant, his home, the shooting or evidence as documentary imagery.
One verified case file is published: the murder of radio journalist Parmenio Medina Pérez and the convictions affirmed by Costa Rica’s Supreme Court.
A trial court convicted Omar Chaves Mora of ordering the murder and Luis Alberto Aguirre Jaime of carrying it out. Costa Rica’s Criminal Chamber affirmed their homicide convictions in 2008.
He was shot outside his home in Santo Domingo de Heredia on 7 July 2001 and died while being taken to hospital.
No. Mínor de Jesús Calvo Aguilar and six other defendants were acquitted of the homicide charge. The archive does not treat those acquittals as convictions.
No. The proceedings overlapped, but the fraud convictions and the homicide convictions were legally distinct. This archive separates them.
Yes, but only when a case has reliable sources, a clear current status and enough verified material for a substantive, victim-aware file.
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