The night started in Gardiner.
A dinner, friends, a few drinks.
Emmily Rodrígues Santos Gomes (26) had gone out “partying”.
She was one of many.
There was no anticipation or hint of what would happen later.
She ended up dead after falling from the sixth floor of an apartment in the Retiro neighborhood.
The case led to a murder investigation and uncovered
an open secret
: parties, gifts and women with some of the most important businessmen in the country.
Emmily was from Brazil.
Four years ago she had left Bahía to follow an Argentine that she—she later learned—had nothing of love.
From the violence she escaped hidden.
She pretended that she had left the country, changed her number and started a new life.
The woman had decided to study Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires, although her beauty, her flirtation, and the circle in which she moved led her to dedicate herself to being a model, making appearances, and having a new partner with whom "she did not lack nothing” but of which little was known.
This is how Emmily Rodrígues Santos Gómes (26) was dressed the night she would end up dying.
That was learned on the night of Wednesday, March 29: first Gardiner, in Costanera Norte, later Isabel, in Palermo.
But the night continued and Emmily ended up with her friend Juliana Magalhaes Mourao (37), a doctor who did her rotation at the Fernández Hospital and whom she had known for more than a year.
They went to the house of businessman Francisco Sáenz Valiente (52), from the world of agriculture and mining, designated by his neighbors as a regular at this type of party with women and after parties at his apartment on Libertad Street at 1500.
The judicial investigation will say that Juliana is the only eyewitness to what happened on the morning of March 30, around 9, when Emmily fell into the void in the middle of a confusing episode.
The building of the tragedy.
Photo Juano Tesone.
For Justice, Sáenz Valiente, passionate about fishing, travel and parties, could have thrown it away after a night of uncontrollability.
At least they found enough evidence to support the suspicion and detained him in pretrial detention.
Since everything happened, he has been detained at the 28th police station in Barracas, accused of aggravated homicide by femicide.
Juliana was delayed for 24 hours.
She testified for more than four hours and in her story she accompanied the defendant's version, something questioned by the young woman's family and friends.
"
He had an outbreak
," they both said.
This week the procedural deadlines will be met and the prosecutor Santiago Vismara will have to decide what he will do with Sáenz Valiente.
If he dismisses it, if he continues to investigate it in freedom or if he prosecutes him with preventive detention, always depending on the decision of Martín Del Viso, who subrogates Criminal and Correctional Court No. 31, in charge of the case.
What happened in the apartment?
During the early hours of Thursday, March 30, Sáenz Valiente was with at least four women.
Lia Alves, who on her social networks describes herself as a model, actress, pole dancer, playboy bunny and capoeirista.
Also, with Juliana, Emmily and a fourth woman who was identified as Dafne and who has not yet declared in the file.
She would do it this Tuesday.
Alves counted for more than four hours that he left the building around 8 in the morning.
"He was so scared that he left because this girl
drank tuci non-stop
," they told
Clarín
regarding his statement.
After leaving, he would have sent a text message to Sáenz Valiente warning him that he would not return to his house while Emmily was there.
At least that would have been indicated in his statement, which would corroborate the presumed state of excitement of the young woman.
Tuci is a synthetic drug that proliferates among the upper classes and has a euphoric and hallucinogenic effect.
The posts of the friends of Emmily Rodrígues Santos Gómes (26), who died after falling from a sixth floor in Retiro.
Always according to Sáenz Valiente's version, the girl had consumed drugs and alcohol, not only at home, but also at the nightclub she had attended.
An hour before the fatal outcome, he would have already given indications that were increasing and that led to the tragic death.
What is not clear is if, at that point, she threw herself from the balcony or if she was thrown.
autopsy
Clarín
agreed to the preliminary autopsy report where it was recorded that Rodrígues Sosa fell naked into the void.
She died as a result of "polytrauma, internal and external bleeding."
He also ensures that there were no injuries compatible with defense or previous signs of abuse.
Meanwhile, there
were marks and bite marks
on the body of Sáenz Valiente and that of the other woman who accompanied him, Juliana Magalhaes Mourao.
The posts of the friends of Emmily Rodrígues Santos Gómes (26), who died after falling from a sixth floor in Retiro.
The two admitted to having used cocaine and the toxicology tests were consistent with that story.
According to the businessman's version, they did not have sex that morning and the young woman was naked because she lost her pants in the struggle to prevent her from jumping into the void.
"I was like possessed," said the businessman, who called 911 twice for help.
In the first, quieter, Emmily's desperate calls for help could be heard in the background, just like in the second, four minutes later, when Sáenz Valiente already sounded desperate.
“At the moment, what is collected in the file is demonstrating the existence of
a psychotic outbreak of the victim
and the attempts of Sáenz Valiente to save her.
Also with the injuries and the calls to 911 within a few minutes of each other.
In addition, audios and messages that prove her innocence, "
Rafael Cúneo Libarona, the businessman's lawyer, told
Clarín .
Emmily Rodrigues, the 26-year-old Brazilian girl who died when she fell from a sixth floor on Libertad Street at 1500, in the City of Buenos Aires.
And he added: “As a defender I am respecting the times of Justice, which is doing a very good job.
This week will be defining”.
At the moment, they are analyzing cell phones to reconstruct the last hours of the victim and the link between the parties.
As
Clarín
was able to verify , the victim and the businessman had been friends on Instagram since 2022.
"Eyewitnesses to the event still need to be declared. The family's premise is that the truth be known. It is not that they are determined to break anyone's head. We have a theory of the case but we want to corroborate it with the expertise," he said. newspaper Ignacio Trimarco, the lawyer representing the family of the deceased young woman.
Francisco Saenz Valiente.
"Emmily didn't kill herself"
After the death, Emmily's friends met in a group of more than 30 people to deny the version of the suicide and the young woman's psychotic outbreak.
“Emmily was no taller than 1.60 why didn't they hold her back if something happened to her?
If Juliana was her friend, why did she upload photos the next day going to a hotel for lunch as if nothing had happened?
Why didn't she go to Emmily's mom to explain what happened?
I think mom deserves an explanation.
Why did she close her social networks?" Vanesa Buitrago, a friend of Emmily, objected to Mouroa's version.
The friends question Juliana for having taken the deceased young woman to that address.
In her Instagram profile "
Justiciaxemmily
" they point her out as "madama" and "deliverer".
On-site expertise.
Photo Telam
In addition, they denounced several friends of Sáenz Valiente as hosts of parties attended by women and replied to several complaints in which they spoke of "pressure to use drugs" or participate in sex parties and gifts or payments in dollars to convince them to remain silent.
As anticipated, this week these complainants will be presented as witnesses in the investigation.
“Emmily didn't need to do something like that.
Here in Argentina they have a way of referring to women, like they are cats because they dress in one way or another.
And no, it's that she had her style, her way of being.
She wasn't from here, she liked that way, I don't know, like Kim Kardashian... she was super careful, vain, she took care of her body.
She dressed up a lot, but that doesn't mean they can kill her like that
, "Vanesa insists.
"And if it was the drugs, if it was something she could have done because she was depressed or had a break like they say, why are so many people coming out to speak up for her? Why are so many of us who knew her suspicious of what they say? Why didn't her friend help her and prevent something like this from happening to her?" she closes.
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