There was nothing strange, neither for the family nor for the neighbors.
Roberto Eduardo Wolfenson (71)
had an ordinary day, at least in appearance.
Now they are trying to determine what happened to him between 2 and 5 p.m. on Friday when Wolfenson, an electronic engineer, retired and father of two children,
was murdered in his house in the La Delfina neighborhood, in Pilar.
Wolfenson's crime was surprising, due to its cruelty, but also due to the similarities with the
unpunished homicide of María Marta García Belsunce,
which also occurred 21 years ago in Pilar.
A closed neighborhood, the body discovered upon the arrival of the masseuse, in the case of the Carmel sociologist, a piano teacher, in La Delfina, the intervention of private security personnel and the first
suspicion of a natural death or an accident
, are some of the common points.
In addition to the intervention of the
prosecutor Andrés Quintana
, who brought Nicolás Pachelo to trial, accused of the García Belsunce crime and who that week was covering the prosecutor of Pilar Germán Camafreita.
Roberto Wolfenson had arrhythmia and his cardiac history did not stop him from having an active life and daily exercise.
Every day he ran inside the country, located at kilometer 50 of the Pilar branch.
The trees, the greenery, were the scenery that accompanied the walks of this businessman
specialized in the development of lithium batteries
who enjoyed his retirement with "quiet routines."
Entering the country La Delfina, where businessman Roberto Eduardo Wolfenson was murdered
But this Friday Roberto did not run.
No one saw him trotting through the streets of La Delfina but, until much later, no one caught any attention.
Wolfenson was alone in his house.
Around 2 p.m. he contacted his wife for the last time, who was in the City of Buenos Aires spending the day with his daughter, upon returning from a trip.
The woman who worked at the house had cleaned on Thursday.
For this reason, on Friday the engineer woke up -in principle- alone.
Around 5pm he had his piano class.
The professor announced himself at the entrance but when he arrived at the family mansion no one answered.
The man, who was the father of his usual teacher, knocked on the door insistently.
He was unable to get through to his phone and
alerted security.
They had to call the wife to authorize entry and they were the ones who found the body.
Wolfenson was lying on the ground.
Not from his room, but from a guest room.
He was expecting visitors, so everything looked resplendent.
The piano teacher, the security personnel and Wolfenson's wife called 911. "The doctor from the Buenos Aires forensic team said it was a
heart attack.
In the context of the medical history, no one was surprised. It was plausible. But
the autopsy
was ordered anyway ,"
sources from the investigation
explained to
Clarín .
The call from the coroner in charge of the investigation was surprising:
the businessman had been murdered.
On his hands there were signs compatible with the defense.
On his neck, marks that would coincide with mechanical asphyxiation.
They would have used a tanza or a thin thread.
"Luckily and despite the insistence of the Police doctor, action was taken - even before he arrived - according to the
crime scene protocol.
Fingerprints, fibers were lifted, and the scene was closed," sources in the case confided. consulted by
Clarín.
At the moment the cleaning lady, the piano teacher, the wife have testified, and then it will be the guards' turn.
There are two keys to these first steps of the investigation:
the record of the entries and exits to La Delfina and Wolfenson's cell phone.
The neighborhood's security system has a problem:
the search criteria for entries and exits is by name and not by date, which is why there is still no firm list of who entered the neighborhood that Friday.
They also do not rule out that it was a person who lives within La Delfina.
The cell phone is the other end of the ball.
Investigators subpoenaed call and message records to determine who Wolfenson spoke to before he died.
If she met someone or if she received calls from some unknown number.
After the crime, they confirmed
, the phone lost activity but at a certain point the messages "remained with a double accent."
Although they do not rule out any hypothesis, the researchers "are not oriented towards any lover or extramarital link."
They also
ruled out the piano teacher and the maid
, who was the last one to see him alive.
They also do not point to a robbery because in the house there was money, a safe, watches and other
valuable things that were not taken.
Who was Wolfenson?
Roberto Eduardo Wolfenson worked for 28 years at the Enersys company.
Last year, according to what he published on his LinkedIn account, he had participated in a seminar.
Before retiring he had been dedicated to training on battery technologies, professional team development, leadership and human resources.
He lived in Guarulhos, São Paulo, in Brazil, and in 2018 he returned to Argentina.
She studied electrical and electronic engineering at the University of Buenos Aires and completed a postgraduate degree at the University of San Andrés, where she specialized in Strategic Management.
He was married and lived with his wife
, they had a son together, a 33-year-old audiovisual producer, and they raised her daughter together.
“I went through many 'schools', in addition to the formal ones.
And so, I learned to think, to choose and to enjoy,” it was described in his Facebook biography.
S.C.