Rosalía Soledad Paniagua (34)
asked to testify.
On Saturday she was arrested for the murder of
Roberto Eduardo Wolfenson (71)
, an electronic engineer murdered in her house in the La Delfina neighborhood of
Pilar
.
This Tuesday she decided to tell her version and targeted "Félix", an alleged neighbor and lover of the victim to get away from the incident.
Far from benefiting her,
her statement ended up placing her at the crime scene
.
Additionally, she confessed to the theft of the victim's cell phone and other valuables that she took from the house.
The woman remains detained at the Parque Industrial Pilar police station.
First she asked that her lawyers, from the Pilar Investigative Ombudsman's Office, listen to her story.
Later, they requested the hearing to expand the investigation and gave the unusual version of it.
Paniagua has two children, including a baby who turned one year old and who celebrated the Saturday after Wolfenson's crime.
She was leaving that celebration when the police called her to find out what had happened on Thursday, when she left the house on lot 397 in Pilar.
It took investigators a month to find evidence that incriminated the maid, who had started working on February 2 at the Wolfenson chalet,
on the recommendation of the neighborhood doorman
and to cover the vacations of the property's permanent staff. .
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The substitute domestic employee is the main accused of the murder of Roberto Wolfenson.
The woman said she arrived at the house on Thursday, February 22 at eight in the morning, just as the neighborhood security had recorded.
She entered through the laundry room door, "which was always open" and changed her clothes.
"I changed and then the man told me he was going to take a shower. I told him yes, I didn't see him at that time. He went in to take a shower, it didn't take long. I went to the kitchen, I ran into a man who told me: '
Hello, good morning, who are you?
' I answered '
I'm the employee
' and he said: '
Today it's your turn to do everything I tell you
.' I told him yes, I thought it was his son, someone in the family. "I didn't give it any importance," he said about the supposed man who accompanied Wolfenson that morning and about whom nothing was known until now.
He described him as "tall, 1.80 meters tall, taller than Mr. Roberto" and added that he had "gray jeans, black sneakers, a black T-shirt with a sweater collar" and that he had "brown skin, not so black hair cut short." machine", young, "not even 40 years old, without a beard, with light eyes, a nose that was neither big nor small, a fairly skinny face" and that "he was cute".
"
He didn't look like a neighborhood worker, he was clean
," he said.
It is the first time that the woman talks about this supposed visit and that she says that there was someone else in the house.
She did not do so when she was called to testify as a witness, when it was still unclear what had happened to Wolfenson, nor when she was arrested last Saturday, a month after the crime.
"When I went out to look for a cloth to clean the window, I looked out,
at the door I saw that they kissed,
there at the door to leave. They didn't see me,
I saw them kissing
. Then I went back, I continued in the bathroom,
I was shocked
," said the woman, who admitted having wanted to film the sequence to show the engineer's partner, Graciela Orlandi (70), what was happening.
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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.
Orlandi was the one who hired Paniagua to replace Gladis, the regular employee in the couple's home.
It was on the recommendation of José, a doorman who has been working in the neighborhood for more than 20 years and who was also raided in search of any possible connection with the woman.
"'
He told me '
Soledad, don't tell anyone about what you see today
'
, because of the boy. I went back to the bathroom, he started coughing. I asked him if he felt okay, he told me it was because of the wind coming from the window. opened. He went to look for a white handkerchief in the boys' closet. He stretched it out and started coughing there. He went to his closet to look for the handkerchief. He covered his mouth with the handkerchief," the woman commented.
He also reported seeing Wolfenson and this person "working on the computer" and discussing an alleged separation.
In addition, he alluded to an alleged exchange between them and said: "I went down to change the water. I heard the boy say
'
you told me you were going to leave you with the lady
'
. The man told him
'
I had already told you no.'
"(...) I was downstairs and they stayed upstairs.
Since I arrived, the boy was wearing white latex gloves, typical hairdressing gloves.
"
Graciela Orlandi, the widow of engineer Roberto Wolfenson, murdered in the country La Delfina de Pilar.
Despite the doubts surrounding the woman's story and the fact that there is no other evidence that indicates the presence of a third person at the crime scene, her story places her on the day of the incident where everything happened and she tries, clumsily, install a possible version of the homicide.
Because the story, which could have ended there, continued until it made express reference to the homicide.
"Enough Felix, enough Felix!"
The woman stated that she was in a hallway, entering the kitchen when she heard someone say "
eh, hey
."
It was there that she turned around and they "hit her in the face, in the nose," always according to her statement before
prosecutor Germán Camafreita
, from Prosecutor's Office No. 3 of Pilar.
"I fell, blood came out. Not much, but it stayed on the floor.
I fainted, I was unconscious
, I was lying there in the middle of the laundry room and kitchen. I stained the floor with blood, I stayed there asleep for a second. When I woke up I was tied up with thick transparent tape over his mouth and hands," he said about the alleged attack.
All this, always according to his story, would have been shortly before his work day ended, at 1:15 p.m.
This detail is not minor: the woman was recorded leaving La Delfina around 2 p.m., almost an hour later than usual.
For investigators, according to various indications, the crime would have been committed between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursday, February 22.
The Wolfenson family house in La Delfina, by Pilar
"There I was wearing the little pink dress. I was lying on the floor tied up, I don't know if I stained my dress. Yes, there was blood on the floor. When I woke up, I heard Mr. Roberto saying: '
Enough
Félix, enough Félix!
' , like three or four times. It occurred to me that the boy mentioned before that that house from here is two blocks away," he noted.
She then emphasized that this alleged man who had attacked her offered her money in exchange for her silence and that he told her: "
I know that you have a small baby, that's why I'm not going to kill you, the boys are not to blame
."
"
You had to be in the wrong place
," the alleged aggressor who "was furious" would have told him.
"He told me how much money do you want to keep quiet, how much money do you want, I have a lot of money," paraphrased Paniagua, who is in a relationship and, at the time of his arrest, was at his home in William Morris.
Roberto Wolfenson, murdered in 2024, in the country La Delfina de Pilar, and María Marta García Belsunce, murdered in 2002 in the country El Carmel, also in Pilar.
According to him, at that moment he remembered that "there were only two people who knew in that neighborhood that he had a small baby" and that since he did not accept the money "even though he needed it,"
the alleged attacker put "a lot of things" in his backpack. .
Among those things was the victim's cell phone, the red speaker that had been seized from his house during the raid, wireless headphones, "a little silver thing with a sailboat on it" and a "little bag of candy."
After that episode, always according to his story, he went to take the bus and the train to return home.
And she didn't tell her husband anything, but she did say that she had stolen the cell phone and the valuables that were sold in different places.
A version that further complicates the accused
The woman's story has some characteristics that, despite introducing an alleged murderer, complicate it much more.
Paniagua is accused of "
aggravated robbery and homicide criminis causae
" (a crime to conceal another crime, in this case robbery).
The autopsy established that Wolfenson was murdered on Friday, February 23, but a series of indications narrowed that possibility and allowed us to infer that the crime occurred on Thursday morning.
It was at that same time that Paniagua placed the attack in the same period of time.
Although she did not see it, she gave indications that it would have occurred at that time, while she was in the house.
She said that this person supposedly named "Felix" had "blood-stained gloves and a knife."
This is how
it was placed at the crime scene
at the time the events are believed to have occurred.
Furthermore, he admitted to having stolen valuable items from the house that were seized from his home, although he held this person responsible for giving them to him so that he would remain silent.
She also admitted to having tried to open Wolfenson's phone at the Derqui station, shortly after the crime, where
she is seen offering the phone to a passerby
.
She later said that she threw the cell phone's SIM card onto the tracks, although that is not seen in the Trenes Argentinos footage.
"The woman told us how the crime occurred and anticipated what they could find in the investigations," said one of the lawyers for the victim's family.
The country La Delfina de Pilar, where the crime of businessman Roberto Eduardo Wolfenson (71) occurred.
For the lawyers, who ended up surprised by the suspect's strategy when declaring this version, the woman may have wanted to "get around the aggravating factors of premeditation, the participation of more people and treachery," although
clumsily
.
As he has a small son, another possibility is that he seeks to demonstrate collaboration with the Justice Department to request a mitigation of the confinement situation and obtain house arrest until the investigation progresses or goes to trial.
"It is a (Nicolás) Pachelo style, bridging the gap, who believes that he is smarter than everyone and that with a good chamuyo he wins you over," speculated sources with access to the file, linking the case with the crime of María Marta García Belsunce , the sociologist murdered on October 27, 2002, who remains unpunished.
EMJ