Santa Cruz: a woman confessed to having murdered her husband three years ago for not including her in the inheritance

03/09/2021 4:39 AM

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 03/09/2021 5:01 AM

Susana Reina, wife of Vicente Maillo, the merchant murdered in 2017 in the Santa Cruz city of Río Gallegos, acknowledged on Monday her responsibility in the act, for which two of her sons' sons and the alleged hitman are also accused and detained. He believes, they hired because they were not covered by the victim's inheritance.

The debate in charge of the Criminal Chamber of the First Judicial District of Santa Cruz began this morning in a specially equipped room in the Police School with corresponding health protocols for the coronavirus pandemic. 

Judicial sources informed Télam that Susana Reina, wife of the murdered merchant, declared in the first hearing that she suffered gender violence and

claimed responsibility for the crime

with a weapon that she located in the place, which will be verified tomorrow during an ocular inspection .

"The psychological state, the mistreatment he had and a lot of things that Reina told, are proven in the file.

There was gender violence,

" said defense attorney Carlos Telleldín.

According to Reina, her sons José Maximiliano and Luis Gabriel "are strangers" and "declared the truth of what happened."

For Telleldín, "in the case file there is no material evidence to accuse of anything" to Maillo's stepchildren, who together with their mother and the alleged hitman, Cristian Gabriel Etchebarne, are tried for the crime of "

homicide aggravated

by the bond, consummated with treachery through a remuneration promise and with the premeditated assistance of two or more people ".

Susana Reina with her murdered ex-husband, Vicente Muillo, and one of her children.

The victim's mother-in-law, María del Carmen Spiritoso, was also charged with the crime, but did not come to trial since she died in October 2019.

For their part, Reina's two sons declared that "they owed Cristian money", which, according to the lawyer, "is proven in the file" with "the expenses that Luis had in (the Buenos Aires neighborhood of) Palermo and with many witnesses who said that the young man "spent 1000 or 2000 dollars per week".

"Through the cameras (security of the victim's house) we have this boy (for Etchebarne) who entered for 14 minutes, Reina paid him and left with the same clothes, without a blood stain. There is no trace of he did not go up, he paid him down, "said the lawyer.

"The person who participated must necessarily be stained and this boy enters the camera for 14 minutes, leaves, takes the plane with the same clothes and is filmed everywhere," Telleldín insisted.

Vicente Maillo was killed with three stab wounds on November 16, 2017.

Vicente Maillo (60) was killed by three stab wounds on November 16, 2017 on the top floor of his home located on the corner of Corrientes and Zapiola de Río Gallegos, where the Doña Ana bazaar of his property also operated.

The suspicion of the investigators is that the wife and their two children hired Etchebarne to kill Maillo because he had not included them in the distribution of the inheritance, a maneuver that also involved the deceased mother-in-law.

Meanwhile, the victim's sisters, Gloria and Petra Maillo;

with Vicente's lawyer and niece, Erica Schupbach, representing the complaint;

They hope that the accused will be sentenced to life imprisonment, while the prosecutor Iván Saldivia maintains that the evidence in the file also points to the guilt of the accused.

With information from Télam.