The woman accused of crime of her husband, Carlos Bustamantebeaten to death in March 2019 in the same house in the city of Miramar where eight years earlier a child of the marriage had been strangledwill be judged starting this Monday in Mar del Plata, reported judicial sources
Verónica Vilma González (53), charged with the crime of “homicide aggravated by the bond and treachery”, will be judged in Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 4 Mar del Plata over four days, and could be sentenced to life imprisonment.
González is accused of hitting Bustamante (66) on the head and face while he was sleeping, on March 22, 2019, which caused his death the next day, after being urgently admitted.
The court in charge of the trial will be made up of magistrates Alfredo Deleonardis, Gustavo Fissore and Fabián Riquert.
In turn, the prosecutor Ana María Caro, head of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit of Miramar, will intervene.
Throughout the hearings in the courts of Mar del Plata the statement of about 40 witnesses is expecteds, and it is expected that after the presentation of the evidence the parties will be able to present their closing arguments next Thursday, and then the court will announce the date of its verdict.
The evidence that incriminates González
Bustamante died on March 23, 2019 after being hit on the head the day before while he was sleeping, at the address where he lived with González in Miramar, on calle 27 between 46 and 48.
Because of the injuries sustained, the man fI was rushed to the Municipal Hospital from that seaside resort, and hours later he was referred to the Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos Mar del Plata, where he finally passed away.
According to the request for trial of the case, the prosecution considers that throughout the investigation, initially in charge of Florencia Salas, it was proven that the woman is the author of this crime, which shocked the Miramar community since It was committed in the same house where Gastón, the 12-year-old son of the couple, was strangled in 2011 in circumstances that have never been clarified, investigated in the framework of another file.
Among the tests valued in the investigation, the DNA studies carried out on the defendant’s clothing, which determined that a series of bloodstains found on some of those garments corresponded to the genetic profile of the victim.
Another element highlighted by the prosecution was that in the woman’s ring finger it was found genetic material belonging to the victim, and that all the traces that were in different rooms of the house where Bustamante was fatally attacked belonged to him.
The prosecution also took into account that, although the security camera images incorporated into the case recorded movements of the accused between 12 and 1:10 p.m. on the day of the attack in a local bank branch, “everything indicates that the attack occurred before,” at a time when different testimonies located her inside the home.
One of the last pieces of evidence incorporated into the investigation before it was brought to trial was a complementary psychiatric expertise which revealed that the woman “is punishable, is not imputable”understood what he was doing and therefore is in a position to face an oral process.
González was arrested the day of Bustamante’s deathand has been serving preventive detention in Penal Unit 50 of Batán since April 26, 2019.
Throughout the instruction, the woman He never wanted to make a statement or provide information about what happened.
The prosecution will also seek that this trial provide elements to advance the file for the death of the son of the couple.
In that case, a young man accused of the crime was initially charged, but after González was arrested for the murder of the minor’s father, he was dismissed.
