A young employee of a bakery in the city of Corrientes was murdered by a co-worker, who buried the body in the backyard of his house, in the San Roque Este neighborhood.
The victim had been wanted since Monday morning, when her mother alerted the police that she had not returned from work.
The body of Mateo Enzo Gastón Pérez Saucedo (20) had no external injuries.
That is why the investigators believe that
his death was caused by suffocation
, which could be confirmed this Friday with the autopsy that will be carried out at the Forensic Medical Institute.
According to the reconstruction that the Police were able to carry out together with the prosecutor Sonia Meza, on Monday night, at the end of his workday, Mateo left the bakery together with another employee of the delicatessen sector, with whom he had a friendly relationship. .
This is Marcelo Ruiz Díaz, who was initially interviewed by the investigators because they considered him an important witness.
The appearance of security camera images showing him boarding a gray Fiat Siena truck with Pérez Saucedo, generated the first suspicions about the now detainee.
The Police try to locate the transport because the driver's testimony could be key to the cause.
Ruiz Díaz never mentioned that he boarded the remís with his co-worker with an uncertain destination.
That detail and some cracks in his story made suspicions grow with the passing of the hours.
That is why this Thursday afternoon the Justice ordered a search of the suspect's home, on 492 street, almost Tafí del Valle, in the San Roque Este neighborhood of Corrientes.
It didn't take long for officers to notice that there was recently turned up dirt in the backyard.
The prosecutor ordered an excavation, given the possibility that the person they were looking for was there.
The investigators found the body of Pérez Saucedo almost a meter deep.
The decomposition process suggests that the young man was murdered and buried that same night he disappeared.
There are no doubts about the identity of the person murdered and buried in the courtyard.
It is that she was still wearing the clothes with which his mother saw him leave the house, heading to her work: blue Bermuda shorts and a pink short-sleeved T-shirt.
Ruiz Díaz's situation is extremely complicated, since a debit card in the victim's name was found in his possession.
Sources linked to the investigation said that the victim did not use social networks or cell phones, so
it cannot be established with certainty what kind of link he had with his co-worker.
The detainee's couple was also in the sights of Justice.
The woman is "delayed" in another house, with police custody, because she is the mother of three small children.
Investigators do not rule out that she was in the house when the crime occurred.
In the next few hours, the prosecutor Meza must decide if she releases her or charges her in the case.
Those close to the young man's family announced that on Monday at 8 o'clock they will march to the headquarters of the Prosecutor's Office that is investigating the incident under the slogan “Mateo could have been your brother, your cousin or a friend.
Let's support the family asking for justice."
Currents. Correspondent.
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