03/26/2021 18:19
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/26/2021 6:32 PM
A 57-year-old woman was
Killed with machetes in Castelar and her partner, an 87-year-old man who confessed to the femicide of his daughter and accused the victim of having
stolen $ 1,000
from him, was arrested for the attack
.
The crime was discovered this Friday at noon in a house in Blas Parera and Lezica, Morón district.
Police sources reported that Luis Américo Palacios' daughter returned home Thursday night
after a vacation
with her husband.
Upon entering, he saw that the lights in his father's house, located on the same lot, were off.
According to sources in the case, the woman got up this Friday and went to her father's house to have mates.
Upon entering, he
discovered the horror
: the man's girlfriend, Norma Alicia Miller (57), was dead and had cuts on various parts of her body.
Spokesmen for the case said that Palacios admitted to his daughter that he had killed Miller and told her that the woman had stolen US $ 1,000.
"The reality is that
this money was not found
but that part is the subject of investigation, since that statement has no judicial validity," said a spokesperson for the case.
Faced with this situation, the 61-year-old woman called 911 and a few minutes later agents from the Castelar police station arrived at the scene.
The forensic doctor who worked at the crime scene determined, in principle, that the date of death would be between
12 and 18 hours before the discovery of the body
.
In addition, investigators established that the attack occurred with a machete.
"There are no previous complaints, there are no complaints of any previous conflict," the sources said.
The prosecutor Marina Rueda, in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 11 specialized in Family and Gender Violence of the Morón Judicial Department, will investigate Palacios in the next few hours for the crime of "homicide aggravated by the bond."
With information from Télam.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies