The death of Roberto Wolfenson (71) was surprising.
First, two doctors said that he had been the result of a heart attack, but the autopsy was conclusive: the electronic engineer was
asphyxiated to death
.
A month without a motive, suspects or an accurate hypothesis of the crime ended with internal disagreements between Graciela Orlandi (70), Wolfenson's partner of 18 years.
And his children, the product of a previous relationship.
On Saturday, they raided the house of
Rosalía Soledad Paniagua
(34), a woman who worked in lot 397 of La Delfina since February 2.
The woman had arrived there recommended by a neighborhood doorman and she had to carry out tasks until February 29.
She was the last one to see Wolfenson alive and she ended up
arrested for the crime
after some of the stolen items were found in her house.
Esteban and Laura Wolfenson, who delegated their representation to the lawyer Tomás Farini Duggan, pointed out the economic motive and requested banking information and any possible inheritance from the businessman specialized in lithium batteries.
They requested bank transactions, accounts abroad and took documentation from the house that Orlande and Wolfenson shared.
But, far from reaching a successful conclusion, the cause ended up heading in another direction.
There was nothing to suspect the employee, especially after the autopsy determined that she died on February 23, while Paniagua had left La Delfina the day before.
But a series of clues ended up leading to his arrest and the conclusion that Wolfenson
was murdered on Thursday, February 22, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
, although there is still much to investigate.
Graciela Orlandi, the widow of engineer Roberto Wolfenson, murdered in the country La Delfina de Pilar.
Graciela Orlandi appeared to testify at the Germán Camafreita prosecutor's office along with her lawyer, Alejandro Broitman.
And he said: "We had already had some unpleasant situations when they wanted to attack him, he came with money, two boys grabbed us and pointed them at us and he defended himself well, he had a lot of strength, he didn't give up on anything."
It was shortly before they moved to Brazil and before living in La Delfina.
The woman acknowledged that they had disagreements regarding life in the country.
That
she had decided to move during the pandemic
, in search of more green space and "a house with a pool."
But she never adapted.
"I am depressed, I was depressed in the place, I lost a lot of contact with my family, the place is quiet but it is strange not to see children playing, it is very quiet," she said.
The woman told what the last hours were like before the crime in the country
Graciela explained that she saw her partner for the last time on February 17, before traveling to Villa Gesell with her daughter and grandson.
Roberto, she said, took her to Devoto's apartment and would pick her up on February 23 after her piano class, at 4:00 p.m.
"On Thursday he told me that the painters had cleaned the roof of the garage of the house and he told me 'I thought you would bring them some alfajores because they did a good job. So on Thursday we went out with my daughter to buy them. (...) I sent him the photo of the alfajores on Thursday the 22nd and
he answers me with a heart
No. It was 10:46", that heart would be the last message he would receive from his partner.
Roberto Eduardo Wolfenson Band was murdered in his home located in the gated community of La Delfina.
He was 71 years old.
Photo: Facebook
"Then I sent him a photo of a gardener they were recommending in the neighborhood, who was very good, neat, but he
no longer responds
. That was on Friday the 23rd," he clarified.
Consulted by Farini Duggan, the woman explained that she entered her husband's computer, once she knew that he had been murdered, to
"preserve" $8,500 and 58 thousand pesos
from a bank account.
"We entered because I have the bank's passwords and since I didn't understand very well, I made a money transfer, for preservation I did it, they had taken his cards, his phone, etc.
So I thought that they could get the money from the phone "
The money first went to my daughter's account and then to mine. It was money we had for a trip we were going to take. We did it for safety, not out of bad intentions," he declared.
The employee
Regarding the hiring of the – until now – only person accused of his partner's crime, Orlandi said that
José, the neighborhood doorman, recommended her to him
.
That he gave her "two names but that he chose this one based on budget."
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Roberto Wolfenson (71) was murdered in his home in the private neighborhood of La Delfina.
The domestic worker is arrested for the crime.
She also detailed: "I had told her since 9, but she asked me to work
from 8 to 13
because she had a small baby. I never asked her to stay more minutes. She cleaned better than the other girl who came from Quilmes. She told me that "He had already worked in the neighborhood but had not returned because he had not been paid, in theory in 2022."
The importance of the schedule is because, for investigators, Wolfenson could have been murdered
around 1:00 p.m. on Thursday
and, despite the fact that her schedule ended earlier,
the detained woman left La Delfina at 1:40 a.m.
, an hour later.
He also said that "he had not noticed any strange attitude" and that, since the painters were working, "he did not chat."
Once she learned that her husband had been murdered, she tried to contact the employee.
"I had sent her messages, she did not answer them. Then she called me and told me that she had just left the room where she had celebrated her son's one-year-old birthday party. I was with the police there, I put her on speakerphone and "The police went there. She told me that the man was making yogurt when she left," he concluded.
While they are trying to determine if Paniagua could have committed the crime alone, the expert reports are awaiting the results to find out if the woman's DNA matches the hairs found at the crime scene.
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