The violent homicide of Raymundo Barrionuevo (84), a retiree from the city of Catamarca stabbed to death in his home during a robbery, shocked the province and called marches of family and friends demanding justice.
However,
it was discovered that the person responsible had been very close: it was his son-in-law.
This is supported by the different evidence that the provincial justice was finding and
that complicate Ezequiel "Peque" Condori (33),
until today the only accused in the case that had almost a dozen detainees and adds lurid details about the death of the old man.
The case began last Sunday, January 15, in the San Ramón neighborhood, located in the south of the provincial capital.
During the morning, around 7:30, Condori entered the home of "Gringo" Barrionuevo, located at 1400 Misiones Street
. He left an hour later.
The retiree's body was only found a day later, on Monday morning, when one of his sons came over to bring him lunch.
He found him lying in the dining room, in a pool of blood.
According to the expertise,
he had wounds to the head and multiple stab wounds to the neck
and chest.
He suffered "hypovolemic shock" after which he bled to death.
The house was upside down, he had been the victim of a robbery, according to the newspaper El Ancasti.
The violence of the case caused shock.
In the first hours, the police arrested almost a dozen suspects looking for profiles similar to those registered by the witnesses.
But none had been in the place.
The search in Barrionuevo's house helped to find more than 40 traces.
However, almost a week later there was no accurate information about the person responsible.
So much so that the family began planning a march that was going to take place last Monday, the 23rd, to ask for justice and demand that the case not go unpunished.
But at the last minute it was cancelled.
Something had happened.
On Tuesday, the Catamarcan police arrested Condori after a search at his home.
They pointed to him as the man who was at the scene.
Not only that, they also found clothes with blood stains, a cell phone and
bodily injuries compatible with the defense that the retiree exercised
when they killed him, according to the newspaper La Unión.
According to José Barrionuevo, the victim's son and lawyer, when they began to look closely at the security cameras in the neighborhood, they found the figure of a man who had the same way of walking as his brother-in-law.
"My father did not open the door to anyone who came to my house. We began to see
the way he walked, moved his arm
, his height, his physical build, and we began to suspect Condori," he told the Tveo Catamarca channel.
Condori—who was in a relationship with Graciela, the victim's daughter—refused to testify.
But in the last few hours, more details about the weekend of the crime were known, from the witnesses who were with him.
Apparently, he had an almost party raid.
As the police were able to reconstruct, the man left the house and took a taxi to Balconsa, a town located almost 90 kilometers from the crime scene.
There he paid for a barbecue for all his friends
, along with various alcoholic beverages.
With the money, he also took the opportunity to pay some debts that he had.
But one of the most chilling facts is that he later returned to the capital
and attended Barrionuevo's wake
.
According to witnesses cited by Ancasti, he had the courtesy not to go near the drawer.
He dodged it all day.
Her attitude, in addition to her, caused suspicion in the family, she did not greet anyone and passed with her head down.
He was nervous.
There was another element that caused strangeness: he was wearing shoes.
"Little" lived on slippers.
Condorí is charged with the crime of "homicide double qualified by cruelty and criminis causae", and could receive
a life sentence if found guilty
.
In the last few hours it was also known that the defendant charged in his record with complaints from his partner for "violence" and for "theft."
The case is in the hands of the Investigative Prosecutor's Office No. 7, the prosecutor at the fair Alejandro Gober.
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