The last time Luz Yuberkis Tejada He heard his daughter’s voice, it was the past. Saturday October 4at three in the afternoon. Lisset Melenciano Tejada He told her he was fine, not knowing that this would be their last conversation.
On Monday, the phone was ringingbut no one took the call, and from that moment her mother’s life became a desperate search to find her.
“On Sunday I was in a place with no signal, but when I returned on Monday and was able to communicate, no one knew anything about her,” says Luz with a broken voice. “His phone was ringing insistently, but he never responded.” He revealed that his last connection WhatsApp It was on Sunday at 11:28 in the morning.
Lisset, from 31 years and mother of six childrenone of them with autism, had gone out on Saturday night with some friends to a drinking center known as El Triángulo, in the province Saint Christopher.
One of her companions later told the mother that, without warning, the young woman left the place. It was later learned that it was picked up by a former romantic partnerwho reported that she was “depressed and desperate“.
“He told me that she slept at homebut that early Sunday he took her to Canastica marketbecause she asked him to leave her there to go look for the children,” Luz said. That was the last time several people saw her alive.
In the area, witnesses claim that the young woman was seen by other people that same Sunday morning. Among them, a delivery who took an order to the home of Rodolfo Antonio Ramírez, 50 years old, nicknamed “The Barber”his current partner, and who was received by Lisset. A married couple claims that they gave them a lift on the way home.
a man violent and repeat offender
During the tireless search, Luz insisted several times to Lisset’s partner about her whereabouts, to which he always responded: “I already told you that I haven’t heard from her since Saturday night.“.
The residents of the community have no doubts: ““The Barber” was a aggressive man. Ivelise Franco Rodríguez, a resident of the place, remembers that before Lisset moved in with her partner, there were days of arguments and shouts that came from the house where she lived with another woman.
“He was violentI don’t deny it, because he had another wife and used violence with her. Sometimes at dawn he wouldn’t let us sleep with the fights and problems,” said Ivelise. “He and I had several confrontations, once over water. He once wanted to give me one cookie“.
After the disappearance of lissetthe neighbors noticed strange behaviors. “Even when she disappeared, I asked him: Isn’t that your wife who is missing? and he didn’t tell me anything. He remained silent,” says Ivelise.
Outside the man’s house are traces of burns and several meters from the property The remains of a mattress destroyed by the fire are located.
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Luis Eduardo Guzmán, the person in charge of a construction site near the site, also describes it as “a tough guy”. “The guy looked very decent when we arrived here. He even kept the wood there for us, we paid him, but later we saw that the guy was rude, that he even pulled a machete for his son,” he commented.
Likewise, he revealed that around fifteen days he stole eight cement sleeves. “The guy was not easy, the guy was a predator“he indicated.
The testimony is repeated: “The man was not a good or healthy man,” said Bilma, a resident of the place, who also described “The Barber” as “a devil“.
A desperate search
During the days of uncertainty, Luz toured hospitals and clinics in the province with the hope to find his daughter alive. “I went to Insurance with a photo of her, asking. Nobody had seen her,” he remembers.
When Luz put the complaintI knew something was wrong. He wasn’t wrong. A few days later, the authorities confirmed what she feared: relatives assure that the remains of lisset They were found on a piece of land, near the home he shared with ““The Barber”. The discovery shook the entire community of Kilometer 3.5 of Basketwho have not yet assimilated the cruelty of the crime.
“He took it as if it was a dog he killed. I was like nothing. It wasn’t an animal that he killed, it was a human being,” Ivelise said.
Although the three-year relationship with “El Barbero” was a “they left, they came back”Luz assured that Lisset never paid attention to her. “She never left that man, no matter how much I told her. Her friends got tired of telling her. He followed her wherever she went. I don’t know if it was by threat or how, because eventually she returned to him.”
- Both the mother and her neighbors describe lisset like a kind young man, without evil, loved by all and loving to her children.
They demand justice
The National Police reported that “El Barbero” was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the disappearance of his partner, Lisset Melenciano Tejada. The institution explained that the arrest occurred following an order issued by a court, after the lifting of evidence, including charred human remains and personal clothing.
Neighbors and relatives ask that the case not go unpunished and that the authorities review the offender’s background. For Luz Yuberkis Tejada, the pain is inconsolable. She still doesn’t understand how someone could take her daughter’s life in such a horrific way. “I told him: everything has its time under the sun and truth comes out come to light one day,” he recalls.
Today, while preparing the funeral From her daughter, Luz only asks one thing: justice.
According to Lisset’s mother, he is expected to attend the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif) in the Cristo Redentor cemetery, where some evidence and in the next few days the remains of his daughter will be delivered to him.
