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In early May of 2009, a prominent Guatemalan attorney named Rodrigo Rosenberg-Mazano began receiving

threatening phone calls. The call started on Tuesday, May 5 and always played out the same way.

Rodrigo's cell phone would ring, he would answer, and the person on the other line would issue a menacing message before terminating the call.

These calls came through once or twice a day and were typically between 10 to 15 seconds

long, just enough time to deliver a death threat.

Sometimes the caller said nothing at all, they just left a heavy, drawn-out silence before

hanging up.

Most disturbingly of all, sometimes Rodrigo's phone would ring as soon as he returned home to his apartment after leaving work for the day.

Just as he answered his phone, the person on the other end would hang up.

The caller didn't block their number and Rodrigo could see its unfamiliar digits appear on his

phone screen each time they called.

He jotted the number down and passed it on to a longtime friend and mentor, explaining that

he was being stalked and his apartment was likely under surveillance.

Other friends and family members of Rodrigo's noticed how nervous

he seemed during this time. His adult son, Eduardo, observed how Rodrigo had started

looking over his shoulder every time he got into his car. On Saturday, May 9, five days into the threatening calls,

Rodrigo invited Eduardo to take a day trip with him to the pretty colonial city of Antigua,

which was popular with tourists.

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