The judicial fate of Francisco Waldemar Reddy (20) is sealed: the dermotest was positive, which detected the presence of gunpowder in his hands and arms, and the carbine seized behind the seat of his brand new truck was used to kill his father Diego Adolfo Reddy (44), his stepmother, María Eugenia Suárez (47), and his half-brother. Ignacio Leonel Reddy (11), in a field in Chascomús.
Prosecutor Jonatan Robert, of the Decentralized UFI No. 10 of Chascomús, confirmed to Clarín the result of the forensic examinations that further compromise the young Buenos Aires policeman, who remains detained at the 5th police station. of Avellaneda, in Wilde, separated from the rest of the prison population.
The ballistics expert determined that the 22-caliber rifle, Mahely brand, found in the 10 Chevrolet S2008 pickup truck, purchased the day before the massacre from a resident of Ayacucho, was suitable for shooting.
The comparison was made with two served pods, one found near Suárez's body and the other in the shed, where he killed Ignacio, and both "are matching the firing pin used by the carbine."
"It can be determined, by looking at the optical microscope, that those two served pods were fired with the hijacked carbine. The barrel had two internal grooves that were worn, which means that the projectile, when propelled, has a punctual and particular mark. That punctual and particular mark turns out to coincide with the lead that we recovered from Diego Reddy," the prosecutor explained.
The Mahely .22 caliber rifle found behind the seat of the truck of Francisco Reddy, accused of the Chascomús massacre.
In addition, Robert indicated that "the demotest, the sweep test to detect the presence of gunpowder, came back positive, as he had traces of gunpowder deflagration on his hands and arms."
Another important result for the case was the count of the cattle that were in the Los Pinos ranch, 10 kilometers from Route 2, on the Bajada Puerta del Diablo road, where Diego Reddy was the stallholder and which was the scene of the triple crime.
In October, the National Service of Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa) carried out a vaccination report in the field, which yielded a total of 233 animals.
On Thursday, police counted cattle and found 155 animals. Therefore, "from mid-October, when the vaccination was carried out, to January 9, there was a shortage of 80 cows," Robert said.
Francisco Reddy, accused of the Chascomús massacre, during a reining test in Dolores, in March 2020. Photo: María Barragán
What has been proven so far is that the policeman - who was on leave and had to rejoin the police on the same day of the triple crime, that is, December 29 - sold 20 Aberdeen Angus breeding cows on December 28, at half price (3,400.00 pesos) and in black, which belonged to his father.
"The other 60 we don't know if he was selling them before or not," the prosecutor said.
Another complication for the accused is that his private defense lawyer, Osvaldo García Aguerre, from Mar de Ajó, resigned, who only came to assist him telematically in the second inquiry (he refused to testify on both occasions) and now he is assisted by an official defender.
In the coming days, the prosecutor will ask the Judge of Guarantees to open the defendant's cell phone, which may also yield important results for the investigation.
The crime he is accused of carries a sentence of life imprisonment: "qualified homicide by treachery, in real competition with homicide, in real competition with homicide qualified by the link".
How was the triple crime of Chascomús?
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Man, will you lend me the rifle? I want to go pig hunting in a field on the coast." It was noon on Dec. 29 whenFrancisco Reddy, who had turned 20 seven days earlier, went to the home of one of his father's two brothers.
Fran's real plans were different. Hours later he would commit the Chascomús massacre, a family massacre that no one can assimilate or understand.
At times "shy". At times "raptured". This is how those who know him define Francisco, who just eight months after graduating as a police officer asked for leave due to a "work" accident.
Diego and Ignacio Reddy, along with María Eugenia Suárez, the victims of the Chascomús massacre.
Reddy, who was preemptively displaced by the General Audit of Internal Affairs of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security, had been in the provincial force for one year and eight months.
According to Clarín, he entered the Juan Vucetich Police Training School of the Coast Party on April 18, 2022 and graduated as an officer on March 30, 2023, at the age of 19.
On April 5, he was transferred to his first destination, the Tactical Unit of Immediate Operations (UTOI) in Dolores, a city where he lived, at times with a girlfriend of General Guido, at times alone. He was then referred to the Intensive Preventive Division (DPI).
On December 1, 2023, he took leave for an "internal knee injury" that he said he suffered while working. He was given 29 days of rest. On December 29, he was due to appear before a medical board to return to his job. That is, on the same day he committed the massacre.
Prosecutor Jonatan Robert investigates the massacre in a field in Cañuelas.
As for the motive for the triple crime, the latest evidence reinforces an economic motive. On December 28, "Fran" sold 20 cows at half price and behind his father's back.
The next day, at noon, in another operation that also took place three weeks earlier, he bought a 10 Chevrolet S2008 pickup truck from a neighbor in Ayacucho whom he contacted on Facebook. The final offer that convinced the seller was a swap for a 2007 Suzuki Fun, plus five cows that he never delivered.
The young man had suffered greatly from his parents' divorce when he was very young. "He went to live with his father, who included him in all the activities in the fields and taught him, he wanted him to do well," a family member told this newspaper.
Diego Reddy was a stall keeper at Estancia Los Pinos. Their patrons learned of the massacre while they were traveling through Egypt. They had to bring forward their return.
According to his family, Diego "gave what he had" for his two sons "and it was for them that he worked and invested."
The Chascomús Triple Crime Sequence
What is known so far is that, on Friday the 29th, between 18 and 19:30 p.m., Francisco killed Eugenia from behind, while she was cooking a chicken. He put the rifle within 25 centimeters of the back of his head and fired. "She may never have found out," prosecutor Robert said.
The woman had two other children (a boy and a girl) from a previous marriage.
Then the policeman went to the shed, where Ignacio was. He first shot him in the abdomen and destroyed his spleen and left kidney. Not satisfied with that, he brutally attacked him with blows to the head with a "blunt and blunt element" that did not appear.
The boy, who lost several teeth and ended up with a disfigured face, died shortly afterwards at the San Vicente de Paul hospital in Chascomús.
Diego Reddy, his partner and their youngest son were murdered in Chascomús. For the triple crime, the man's eldest son was arrested as the main suspect.
Everything was discovered by the man who also lives on the ranch and has been in charge of the camp for three years. Around 20:30 p.m., his son and girlfriend came to visit him. He was struck by the fact that a tractor was running in the shed. When he went to see, there was the dying body of "Nacho."
Diego's body, which at first was believed to be a suspect despite the fact that he had no history of violence, was found on December 31, in some pastures, about 200 meters from the house. They suspect that his son killed him in the middle of the countryside because he was trying to escape or hide. I was cooking half a suckling pig on the spit.
The man had a defensive wound in his left forearm, the result of a bullet that ended up hitting the chest and lodged in the right armpit. A second bullet, which was fired at the back of the head, blew his head off. They found him lying face down.
The False Alibi of the Triple Murderer
Francisco has three other siblings, the result of another bond with his mother. Photos of the four of them together can be seen on social media. He was an expert rider with horses and used to go to dressage. In Dolores he was portrayed in the Reins Test and also in the Guitar Festival.
After the crimes, while they were still looking for Diego, the young man invented that they called him to demand seven million pesos for the kidnapping for extortion of his father. A communication that, as it turned out, never existed.
The transfer of Francisco Reddy, perpetrator of the Chascomús massacre, to a police station in Avellaneda.
He also asked a colleague from Buenos Aires to have another police officer call him on his cell phone "putting on a man's voice and asking him for money." A false alibi that quickly vanished.
On the day of the incident, the truck driven by the officer was recorded three times by a security camera on the road leading to the Los Pinos ranch:
1-At 17.31 p.m., in the direction of Route 2.
2-At 17.59 p.m., in the direction of Estancia Los Pinos.
3-At 19.43 p.m., in the direction of Route 2.
The passage of the van driven by Francisco Reddy at 19:43 p.m. on December 29, in the direction of Route 2. He had already committed the massacre of Chascomús.
Another piece of evidence that complicates it is a handprint on his father's 10 Chevrolet S2015, which was in the shed, centimeters from where the boy was found dying. They believe that he leaned on it to complete his terrifying work.
Ignacio, barely 11 years old, was the victim who suffered his greatest fury. "He could never bear his coming," was the conclusion of one person who knew him.
EMJ