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Blood River

Part 2: A Dangerous Woman

Blood River

Bloomberg

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.4732 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In her final years, Berta Cáceres led a protest movement against a proposed hydroelectric dam in Honduras. Was her murder connected to the company behind the project?

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Date on time of autopsy, March 3rd, 2016, 1,300 hours.

0:09.0

The cadaver corresponds to an adult female.

0:12.0

Three bullets, all fired from a Smith & Wesson 38 special, had ripped through her body.

0:19.0

Complexion, average, body condition, intact, height, 163 centimeters.

0:29.6

Rigidity, complete.

0:32.1

One bullet entered her left arm and continued into her side.

0:37.1

It pierced her left lung before lodging in her right one.

0:42.2

Alterations observed.

0:44.2

The curtis tattoo on left upper third of back.

0:48.5

Another bullet entered her left shoulder at an upward angle.

0:52.8

It continued toward her neck, bursting the jugular

0:56.1

vein and an artery. A third bullet entered her upper back. It tore through her left lung,

1:03.8

then her diaphragm, then her stomach, her adrenal gland, and finally fractured one of her vertebrae.

1:12.6

Fingerprint examination revealed that the corpse registered as autopsy 371, 2016,

1:20.6

belongs to Bertha Isabel Casares Flores.

1:24.6

The medical cause of death was obvious to the coroner, but you'd never find the real cause

1:32.0

by tracing those bullets.

1:34.4

To do that, you have to follow the path of Berta's life as an activist.

1:39.8

It starts in her childhood home.

1:47.3

I'm Montty Real, an investigative journalist for Bloomberg Green.

1:52.5

This is Blood River. Here are still

2:03.6

here are all the documents, Bertha's mother's name is Aoustera Flores.

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