On the Sunday morning of 16 October 2016, Maria Lutz called her mum and they chatted from different corners of the globe.
Maria’s mum was in Bogota, Columbia, while Maria was in Sydney, Australia, where she lived with her family.
Maria, 43, had grown up in Bogota and missed her family, but loved her life in the leafy suburb of Davidson.
She was married to Fernando Manrique, and they had two children – Elisa, 12, and Martin, 11, who everyone called ‘Tin’.
As Maria chatted to her mum, Fernando, 44, was busy tinkering in his shed. It seemed like some of the recent troubles were behind them, and while Maria knew her marriage was over, she was optimistic about the future.
The couple met while they were teenagers in Columbia.…