Murrillo Karam claimed his investigations indicated the gang had killed the young men, burned their bodies and dumped the charred bone fragments and teeth into a nearby river. Under Murillo Karam, the attorney general's office appeared to be slow to investigate evidence that army troops had killed most of the 22 criminal suspects corned at a warehouse near the town of San Pedro Limon on June 30, after they had surrendered. Murrillo Karam's office did not appear to carry out its own forensic examination of the scene of the shootings for more than two months, by which time the scene of the crime had been open to passers-by for weeks. [...] it took him almost three months to bring charges seven low-ranking soldiers, including a lieutenant, in the case.