Martin Santiago Del Rio the man arrested as a suspect in the double crime of his parentsfound shot to death inside his car in his own home two weeks ago in Vicente López’s Buenos Aires party, testified tonight for more than three hours before the prosecutors in the case, before whom he assured him of his innocence.
Judicial sources assured Télam that the investigation, carried out at the headquarters of the San Isidro Attorney General’s Office, located at 476 Acassuso Street, in that town in the north of the suburbs, was carried out by Martín Gómez, Alejandro Musso and Marcela Semería, who They make up the team of prosecutors that is carrying out the file for the double crime of José Enrique Del Río (74) and María Mercedes Alonso (72).
the inquest
Prosecutors charged Del Río Jr. with “double homicide quadruplely qualified by the link, treachery, for criminis causa (killing to achieve impunity) and for the use of a firearm”a crime that provides for life imprisonment as the only penalty.
Judicial spokespersons informed Télam that Del Río, assisted by the official defender Liliana Cucurullo, began to testify around 5:00 p.m. and his investigation lasted more than three hours in which, Giving his version of the events, he pleaded not guilty and provided an alibi to justify what he did on the day of the crime.
The witness
Meanwhile, the woman named Paola who had an extramarital relationship with the accused tried to commit suicide with pills and left a letter in which she regretted having been manipulated by a “psychopath”although he was out of danger.
Testifying as a witness Wednesday before investigators, this woman compromised the defendant, investigators said.
The situation of the suspected son
After being questioned, Del Río will continue to be detained and the prosecutors have 15 days, extendable for another 15, to request the judge of Guarantees 1 of San Isidro, Ricardo Costawhich dictates his pre-trial detention.
For the team of prosecutors, the youngest of Del Río’s children was the one who executed his parents on the afternoon of August 24 in the mansion on 1100 Melo Street with a 9-millimeter caliber pistol that was missing from the house.
After being arrested when he arrived at his home in the country Nordelta de TigreDel Río spent the night in the cells of the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of San Isidro, from where after noon he was transferred to the attorney general’s office.
Del Río Jr. had an extensive meeting with his official defender, with whom he planned for more than two hours what his preliminary statement would be, the sources explained.
On Wednesday, the prosecutors carried out three raids: one at the accused’s house in the Barrancas del Lago de Nordelta neighborhood, another at the parents’ house in the San Diego de Moreno country and the third at the house of Vicente López of a woman , identified by the sources only as “Paola”, whose cell phone was seized and who was taken to testify as a witness.
“This woman acknowledged in her statement that she had a relationship with the accused. And somehow, although details cannot yet be revealed, we can say that she complicated him in the case,” a judicial source told Télam.
Tests
in the raids Collectible coins, a laptop, cell phones and inside the detainee’s black Mercedes Benz van were seizeda bag from the real estate “Remax” -white with red and blue trim-, identical to the one the alleged parricide carries when he leaves the scene of the crime and where the investigations believe he took the DVR with the images from the cameras of security of the house of his parents and some other missing elements.
At the same time, Mary Nymph “Nina” Aquino (64)the employee of the Del Río couple who was detained for almost 13 days as an alleged “deliverer” and was released yesterday afternoon, assured today at a press conference that she never suspected the youngest son of the victims, and considered that his mother, “if She’s watching it from heaven, she’s very angry.”
The apprehension of Martín Del Río, who until yesterday was a private victim in the case along with his brother Diego, was precipitated last night after Judge Costa issued the cessation of Aquino’s detention and anticipated in his resolution that there was another line of investigation that disassociated her.
According to the sources, Del Río Jr. is compromised by a series of contradictions about what he did on the day of the event and especially some videos where the investigators detected him walking from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez to his parents’ house in Vicente López, in the time in which the double murder is believed to have been committed on Wednesday, August 24 last, between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
In some of these images, and after having parked his truck in the area of Avenida Del Libertador and Campos Salles de Núñez, the suspect is seen walking the 30 blocks to his parents’ house on the corner of Melo and Gaspar Campos de Vicente López, but covered with a mask, cap and the hood of a blue diver.
“He left the cell phone on inside the vehicle to mislead. On the way out he went with a blue hooded diver, on the way back he also put on a gray jacket”explained one researcher.
The key to recognizing him in the videos is that Del Río Jr. has a particular way of walking with a slight limp, which was noticed in the images and “recognized by some member of his environment,” detailed one of the sources.
The spokesmen revealed that “the mobile could be economical”, since it was detected that the now accused has debts and made some mismanagement with the money, businesses and properties of his parents.
In this context, what one researcher defined as “the move that never happened and was never going to happen” of his parents to the exclusive Chateau Libertador de Núñez building, could have been the trigger for the parricide, since the parents believed that they were moving that week and It was determined that Martín had paid only four installments of 10,000 dollars and to take possession of the property another 36 installments and a reinforcement of 1,700,000 dollars were missing.
Prosecutors believe that on the day of the event, Del Río Jr. arrived at the mansion on Melo Street, that with some excuse -perhaps going to visit Núñez’s apartment-, he convinced his parents to get into the Mercedes Benz E350 parked on the street. garage of the property and that from the back seat he executed them with one of the two missing weapons in the house, a 9-millimeter caliber pistol that his father kept on the bedside table in his room.
