The domestic worker of a 74-year-old retired lawyer and his 72-year-old wife, found shot to death yesterday inside their car in the garage of their house in the Vicente López district of Buenos Aires, was arrested last night and brought to justice, they reported. today judicial sources.
It’s about the domestic worker Maria Ninfa Aquino, of Paraguayan nationality (64), who was arrested last night at her home at 2406 Magaldi Street, in the town of Pablo Podestá, in the district of Tres de Febrero, and will be questioned in the next few hours accused of having been the delivery person, according to the sources. In addition, they pointed out that, in the context of the fact, jewelry and money were stolen of housing, among other values.
The investigation indicates that Ninfa Aquino had several contradictions in her statement and, in a raid, the detectives seized a velvet envelope, property of the victim, where the safe key of the house.
The victims
The slain retiree, identified as Enrique Del Rio (74)received three shots in his body, while Mercedes-Alonso (72)his wife, was executed with a shot to the neck.
Both bodies were found yesterday morning by their maid inside the Mercedes Benz car property of the couple that was parked in the garage of their house located at 1100 Melo Street, corner of Gaspar Campos, of the aforementioned north suburban party.
In addition to being a retired lawyer, the spokespersons indicated that Del Río had a brief stint with the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), had a business relationship with a private security company and owned parking lots in the city of Buenos Aires.
According to the sources, the episode was denounced by the maid of the house, who told the investigators that she arrived at her place of work around 7 in the morning.
According to his version of events, it happened that, since Del Río and his wife were late getting up for breakfast, he went to the room and discovered that they were not there. The woman alerted the police. and, shortly after, an ambulance from the SAME and personnel from the 5th police station arrived at the scene. of Spa, with jurisdiction in the area.
The police determined that both were inside the Mercedes Benz E350 with seat belts on, the woman on the driver’s side and the man as a passenger.
The investigation
The forensic examiners who reviewed the corpses warned, in principle, that Del Río had a bullet in the clavicle area, another in the right intercostal and the rest in a leg, while his wife, a shot in the neck.
Two police chiefs told Télam that despite the fact that the experts’ work was not finished, everything indicates that it is a “double homicide” committed by a third party and that, although no hypothesis can be ruled out yet, the main line of investigation is that the mobile of this double murder is linked to a Stole.
It is that the investigations verified, based on the story of other relatives, missing some valuablesincluding money and jewelry, according to the informants this morning.
One of the sources consulted indicated that, at first glance, no door, window or forced opening had been detected and another investigator clarified that no firearms had been found inside the car or property.
After the medical personnel verified that the victims were deceased, the Police preserved the scene.
Although the house had security cameras not only at the entrance but also in several of the environments, the criminal or criminals who committed the crime took the hard drive in which the images are recorded.
The case is in charge of the prosecutor on duty, Martín Gómez, from the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) of Vicente López Este, but given the possible complexity of the case, the attorney general of San Isidro, John Broyad, decided to add to the investigation a second prosecutor from the same district, Alejandro Musso.
At the police level, members of the Departmental Security Police Station (EPDS) of Vicente López, the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of San Isidro and experts from the Special Cases Division of the Superintendency of Scientific Police worked.
