Gerardo Daniel Spinazzola (76) had complete confidence in Nathalia Elizabeth Lara (41), his best friend's daughter, to the point that he said she was his "
little angel
".
Since he had reduced mobility, she was the one who took care of him.
That link was used by the woman, who was now arrested for the crime of the retiree, for the purpose of robbery.
Investigators believe that Lara, with the help of her partner, a 42-year-old woman, threatened the victim to tell him where he was hiding
1,800,000 pesos
, but when he refused, she stabbed him in the back.
He then set the property on fire and loaded some stolen items into a Chevrolet Corsa truck.
What the woman never knew is that
the money was hidden in the false bottom of a piece of furniture
.
With the data provided by the suspect's father, the Police re-requisitioned the place and found the money.
Some of the bills were burned.
Judicial sources informed
Télam
that Spinazzola's caretaker was seen loading bags into a green car at the door of the retiree's home minutes before the house began to catch fire.
"According to a neighbor in the area, moments before the fire, this car was parked in front of the house with the trunk facing the house, while this woman loaded several bags into the vehicle," a spokesperson explained.
With this information, the prosecutor of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 of Moreno, Luisa Pontecorvo, requested the arrest of the woman, who was arrested on Tuesday afternoon by agents of the City Police since she has a legal address. in the neighborhood of Villa Luro.
The suspect refused to testify before the prosecutor and was charged with
"criminis causa aggravated homicide and treachery in a real competition with robbery aggravated by the use of a knife
."
"The evidence suggests that the victim knew her assailant.
The house was a fortress
. When the firefighters entered, they did so through the side gate, the garage. It was not locked. The back door was wide open pair", clarified the source consulted.
The owner of the Corsa in which Lara was seen on the day of the event appeared before the Moreno prosecutor's office, where he explained that he is a taxi driver and provided the address of a home in the town of San Fernando to which the passenger who hired him went.
The authorities verified that Lara's partner, identified as María Itatí Morales (41), lived in that house.
In a raid on that property, bags with various valuables belonging to Spinazzola were recovered, for which Morales was arrested and charged as a "
necessary participant
" in the homicide.
The incident was discovered last Thursday after 8:00 p.m., in a house located on Calle Pío XII at 2300 Paso del Rey, Moreno district, in the west of Greater Buenos Aires, where the victim lived.
It all started when firefighters went to a fire in the building and after putting out the flames they found the man's body.
At first, they suspected an accidental death, but the experts detected in the autopsy that Spinazzola had a stab wound in the back.
Although he died from carbon monoxide inhalation, "the outcome would have been the same without a fire."
EMJ
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