The Only Heir (last part)

A few days after Liliana Laserna and her partner, Camilo Fidel Pinzón Gómez, were detained, Liliana underwent psychological and psychiatric evaluations that would determine the health of her mental state. The World Health Organization’s guide for psyhological evaulations sets standards for various severe mental disorders including schizophrenia, delirium, schizoaffective, bipolar, and depressive disorders. Liliana’s mental…

The Parachute Jump (part 3)

Once María Liliana Laserna and Camilo Fidel Pinzón Gómez were formally arrested, the District Attorney investigators went to examine the place where the ranch workers had mentioned that the couple had supposedly conducted a “dangerous radioactive experiment” in 2016. During the inspection, they found bone remains that are currently being analyzed by forensic scientists to…

Warning. Radioactive Material. (part 2)

Felipe returned to New York following his vacations in Colombia at the beginning of 2016. He was worried about his friend Liliana Laserna’s mental health. He began contacting her more frequently after he found out that her brother, former senator Juan Mario Laserna Jaramillo, had died in a traffic accident in June of that same…

The Secret Experiment (part 1)

Several years had passed since Felipe Montejo had seen his good friend. He was excited about the prospect of having lunch at the beautiful ranch in Sesquilé, Cundinamarca that Lilian Laserna had inherited from her mother. He could distinctly remember the verdant evenings among the Bogotá Savannah that they would contemplate from the 100-year-old house…

I Didn’t Have a Father. Mine Was a Head Coach.

There are some childhood memories we never forget. If I dig through my past, the first images I find are all in black and white. My family anxiously sitting in front of the TV among euphoria and tension. My father fully focused, making comments to some friend about every play. Everyone sitting in that tiny…