11/06/2020 15:30
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 11/06/2020 3:32 PM
An expert opinion determined the presence of traces of gunpowder on both hands of businessman
Jorge Neuss (72)
and on the left of his wife
Silvia Saravia (69)
, and investigators of the femicide followed by suicide that occurred on October 10 in the country Martindale of Pilar believe that the man was the one who shot and that his wife defended herself and tried to take cover from the shot.
The study was carried out in the laboratories of La Plata of the Electronic Microscopy Division of the Superintendency of the Buenos Aires Scientific Police at the request of the prosecutor of the case, María José Basiglio, of the Functional Unit of Instruction (UFI) of Gender Violence of Pillar.
The expert report, called "SEM", by the use of a Scanning Electron Microscope, was made with the samples taken on the day of the fact from the hands of the victim and the perpetrator and consists of finding barium, lead and antimony, the three elements chemicals that are dispersed and impregnated when deflagrated by a shot.
The experts informed the prosecutor that in Neuss's case, traces of a gunshot appeared on both hands, and that in Saravia they were found on the left hand.
"This confirms that Neuss was the author of the shots with his .357 Magnum caliber revolver, and the presence of the gunpowder in his wife's hand is interpreted as confirmation that he fought, tried to defend himself and wanted to cover or put the gun away of her head before she was executed, "
one of the judicial investigators
told
Télam
.
Another source explained that it
was to be expected to find remains of gunpowder in the two members of the marriage
due to the closed environment where the femicide occurred, the proximity that occurred between the victim and the perpetrator and the large amount of charge that a projectile of the type Magnum.
The expert report reinforces the conclusions of the autopsies, where it was determined that Saravia was murdered, after being
surprised in the bathroom and having tried to defend herself
, from a single shot with which Neuss executed her with a .357 Magnum caliber revolver leaning on the head after taking it by the hair and dominating it.
The doctors detected that the homicidal shot entered the right posterior region of the skull (behind and above the ear), exited behind the left ear, re-entered the body through the left shoulder and the projectile was lodged in the arm, from which it was extracted with a great deformation.
The shot was fired with
the revolver supported and when Saravia had her head reclined on her left shoulder
and signs of defense were detected in her hands and forearms.
Regarding Neuss, the experts confirmed that he shot himself in the dressing room-anteroom of the en suite bathroom, looking at his already murdered wife.
The suicide shot entered through the right temple, its trajectory was from right to left and inclined from bottom to top;
It exited from the opposite side of the skull and embedded itself in the left side of the wooden gabled ceiling in that sector of the room.
In the autopsy they also detected that when shooting his wife, the businessman injured himself with the same shot in his left hand - where now gunpowder residues were also found - in the region of the thumb, which suggests that he had taken it of the hair when he struggled, he put the gun down and fired.
The incident occurred on October 10 in the country Martindale de Pilar, when Saravia, after spending the night at her daughter's house, within the same gated community, returned home around noon and told the employees
"I go up to find some things ".
Shortly after the woman went up to the first floor, heading to her room, the two employees, who were on the ground floor, heard the detonations of two shots, went upstairs, noticed that the door to the room was locked and called the children they discovered his mother murdered and his father seriously wounded by a shot in the head.
A Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum caliber revolver was found next to Neuss's body, one of the 30 weapons that the businessman had registered in his name.
The daughter of the couple,
Lucila Neuss, was the one who gave the prosecutor a key testimonial statement
in which she said that the night before the femicide followed by suicide, her parents had an argument, which prompted her mother to ask her to leave her go to sleep at the house that she also has in country Martindale.
In an extension of her testimonial statement, one of the house employees also said that the night before she heard an argument between the couple and that Saravia had left the house.
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