The story is from a movie.
Includes: a millionaire inheritance, eight DNA tests, a dark family plot, the desecration of a body and a still unfinished mystery.
The death of
Eva Paole
this Saturday, at the age of 83, revived an
incredible novel
in a town in
La Pampa
.
Eva Paole was actually
Chacha,
a retired woman from General Acha, located in the middle of the Pampas plain, who at the age of 68 her life took an unexpected turn.
It was when one of her children, in the late 90's, heard on a grill that her mother would be the daughter
of a millionaire landowner
from the area who had died in 1983 and had left a fortune valued at
30 million .
of dollars
.
Chacha
at that time received a pension of 390 pesos and lived with just enough.
The landowner,
Rufino Otero
, had no children (confirmed) and when he died he had left some
50,000 hectares
, real estate in Buenos Aires and Miami,
two planes
, five thousand head of cattle and luxurious trucks.
The story sounds like a soap opera.
Josefa Paole (Eva's mother) worked as a maid in the Otero house.
There she became
the mistress of her patron
Hers.
Eva was born from that relationship, but her origin was hidden and then "Don Rufino" married a woman of the same social position as him.
Chacha always lived in a humble house in General Acha.
With the suspicion that was becoming more and more true,
Chacha
began the search for his identity.
But nothing was easy.
In 1999 Eva filed a parentage claim saying that she was the daughter of Otero.
She requested a DNA match and began the claim for the millionaire inheritance that had remained in the hands of the landowner's nephew,
Darío Sarasola
.
But just a month after that presentation, something unexpected happened: Otero's body
was stolen to prevent the tests from being carried out
and another body was put in its place.
A criminal judge verified that someone had opened Rufino Otero's drawer just a few days after Paole's court appearance.
A naked body with cuts was found in Rufino's drawer, but the man had been
buried clothed
and no autopsy had been performed on him.
Also, a marble plate
had two broken screws
, and the iron plate
was damaged
.
The attempt to carry out DNA studies between the woman and the false body were negative
, as expected
.
At this point, it was the year 2006 when the Justice granted the possibility of conducting a study between Eva's mother (Josefa Paole) and Rufino Otero's mother, Justina Portas.
Eva with her two children in her house in La Pampa.
These analyzes established that
Chacha
was a granddaughter of the latter.
The results took two years and were reached in January 2008.
Meanwhile, the official heir to date, Saralosa, had sold some 26,000 hectares to an unknown corporation.
He had also
disposed of seven properties
and four fields.
Finally the man died in 2007 of a sudden illness.
But Paole never gave up, she insisted and in 2012, after a legal process that lasted 13 years, the Pampas Justice determined that this retiree
was the only daughter of the millionaire Otero
.
There were, from that moment, more judicial presentations and, finally, Eva
agreed for a much lower figure
, never publicly revealed.
In an interview with
Clarín,
Eva was asked about her inheritance and what she planned to do with the money.
Chacha replied: "And yes, that money thing is a whole question. In any case, we're going to see what's left... (laughs). Anyway, this doesn't change our lives. We're going to carry on as always. It won't change us..."
Paole died this Saturday at the age of 83 in her same house in General Acha surrounded by her children, her daughters-in-law and her nine grandchildren.
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