The femicide of the half scissors: he raped and killed a woman in Moreno and fell because his family could not bear the guilt

Maria Laura Balonga

10/19/2020 7:34 PM

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Updated 10/19/2020 7:34 PM

Sandra Soledad García (28) left a party around 4 o'clock and began to walk the 200 meters that separated her from her house in Villa Trujui.

Never arrived.

Her murderer crossed her on the road and tried to push her into a vacant lot: he

, and she fell to the ground.

Right there he

and then broke her head with a cobblestone.

Since she was still alive, he

and over again. 

"The coroner counted

with a particular dagger, with a mono edge;

some were post mortem ”,

sources from the investigation

told

.

This detail would be key to finding the femicide who attacked her in the early morning of October 14 in a vacant lot in Virgen de Luján and Teodoro Fell, in Moreno, less than 50 meters from where her 12 and 7-year-old children slept in the home of a friend, and just over 50 meters from where she lived with her husband, José Tolaba (50), the neighborhood butcher.

A few hours before the crime and while it was still Tuesday, October 13, Daniel Alejandro Melgarejo (29) left his house in Villa Trujui, about 15 blocks from Sandra's, where he lived with his mother, sister and brother-in-law.

He had been there since on October 17, 2019, he had left the Junín prison with the

and after purging three of the five years he had received for aggravated robbery by the use of a weapon by the Mercedes Justice.

The image, key to arrest Daniel Alejandro Melgarejo for the femicide of Sandra García.

Since he got out of jail, he did nothing more than take drugs, walk around the neighborhood at dawn and

.

Melgarejo's mother told investigators that she asked her son what he was sharpening it for all the time, and he replied:

.

The truth is that that Tuesday the 13th, Melgarejo left his house with his half scissors, a blue jacket, another with white and turquoise, and jean shorts, and a phrase that disturbed everyone:

.

Melgarejo's mother, sister and brother-in-law thought he was going to steal.

The mother did not suspect anything the next morning when she returned home all

, around 6

o'clock

, and told her: '

.'

The woman even washed his clothes.

And, during breakfast, she was concerned with her daughter about the life that Daniel Alejandro was leading.

The sister would doubt later.

Sandra Soledad García, 28, had two children Photo: Facebook

48 hours, four suspect

Meanwhile, that Wednesday, October 14, Sandra's body still lay half-naked, with a shoe on her face in the vacant lot.

What caught the attention of the investigators, when they found the body the next day, is that the husband had not filed a complaint for the woman's whereabouts.

He quickly became

.

It was the autopsy report and the surveillance of the security cameras that freed the butcher José Tolaba from the suspicion of the prosecutor Gastón López, of the UFI No. 8 of Moreno.

“Sandra's body had signs of defense and she had been raped;

and a video from a security camera

”, described the sources.

After ruling out the husband as a suspect in the femicide, a search against the clock began and the first thing the investigators did was show the

of the security cameras to one of the owners of the house where Sandra had been seen for the last time, before leaving that morning. fatal of October 14.

Behind that wall they found the body of Sandra Soledad García (28).

They killed her in a vacant lot in Villa Trujui, Moreno.

Photo: Capture

The image of the video was not very clear, but the witness gave some precision of who it could be.

And he pointed to one who is told

'El Colo', but that he had not been to the party.

Anyway, they looked for him, they found him and the only thing the prosecutor asked the police officers was to see if this second suspect

.

Sandra had defended herself and had to have marks.

“But 'El Colo' had no brands so it was almost ruled out.

And the discovery of

showing the man Sandra crossed paths with with better quality was key to also crossing him off the list of suspects, "the sources said.

Those clearer images were shown again to the witness who had pointed at 'El Colo'.

And he gave the name and surname of a certain

.

“He said that he had been to the party and that he had left at dawn.

He was the only one who

in the case, ”the sources recounted the step-by-step of the trail that led to the third suspect.

Daniel Alejandro Melgarejo had been released from prison on October 17, 2019.

When the police went to look for this

, they discovered that he

to one of his hands and one leg.

And he was physically similar to the man in the video with Sandra walking toward the vacant lot.

They apprehended him.

When I was about to break into the house of this

such

, in search of the clothes in the video and the murder weapon, a

and then a

changed the axis of the investigation.

“Melgarejo's sister does gymnastics in the neighborhood square with that

cousin

and, when she finds out that he was detained, she tells her friend: '

, the sources revealed the dialogue between the women.

The clothes that incriminate Daniel Alejandro Melgarejo in the femicide of Sandra García.

With these elements, before releasing this

, who turned out to be injured because he worked in a workshop, the police went to raid the house of

.

The brother-in-law opened them and there they found the clothes washed by the mother, the same one seen in the early morning video of Sandra's femicide.

“The jean shorts were missing.

But the story of how he arrived bloody on the morning of October 14 and that he was sharpening that half scissors, which coincided with the murder weapon that the coroner had described, were

"the sources concluded.

That

was released and a few hours later Melgarejo fell: he was wearing the jean shorts from the video, but the half scissors were not found, not even in a new search that was ordered in the vacant lot where the femicide occurred.

Now awaits the result of

expertise

to garments.

The Scientific Police, in the area of ​​Villa Trujui, where they found the body of a woman.

Photo: Capture

The truth is that on Saturday, October 17,

Junín

, Daniel Alejandro Melgarejo was imprisoned again.

Prosecutor López accused him of the crimes of "sexual abuse followed by death in an ideal contest with homicide criminis causa, aggravated by

, all in a context of gender violence."

Femicide

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