-10/27/2002: María Marta García Belsunce (50) was found dead by her husband, Carlos Carrascosa, in an alleged accident in the bathtub of their home at the Carmel Country Club, in Pilar.
-02/12/2002: The body was exhumed 36 days after death and the autopsy revealed that the woman had been killed by five .32 caliber bullets to her head and that a sixth grazed her scalp.
-12/11/2002: The case becomes public, the hypotheses surrounding the murderer begin and the first suspect for the victim's family is the neighbor Nicolás Pachelo.
The prosecutor, however, suspects the widower and his family.
The police operation in the country after María Marta García Belsunce was found dead.
-04/11/2003: At the request of prosecutor Diego Molina Pico, Carrascosa was arrested as the alleged murderer of his wife.
-05/23/2003: The widower regained his freedom with a reduction in preventive detention and after paying 100,000 pesos in bail.
The chalet where the homicide occurred.
-02/16/2004: Molina Pico brought the case to oral trial and considered that the crime occurred in the middle of a discussion over financial issues related to illegitimate money linked to money laundering.
-07/12/2007: In the trial before the TOC 6 of San Isidro, Carrascosa was acquitted of the murder of his wife, but was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for having been found guilty of covering it up.
Horacio García Belsunce (h), brother of the victim.
-06/18/2009: Chamber I of the Buenos Aires Criminal Court of Cassation sentenced Carrascosa to life imprisonment as "
co-author of the crime of homicide aggravated by the link
."
-06/19/2009: The widower was detained at a friend's house in a country in Escobar to begin serving his sentence.
He went to Unit 41 in Campana.
The arrest of the widower.
-05/12/2011: The prosecutors of Pilar Daniel Márquez and Leonardo Loiterstein requested the arrest and investigation of Irene Hurtig for the murder of her half-sister María Marta García Belsunce.
With this, she was disqualified from being a witness in the trial for covering up her relatives.
-05/17/2011: The judge of Guarantees 1 of San Isidro, Ricardo Costa, rejected the arrest of Irene Hurtig for the crime of her stepsister, considering that there is no evidence to accuse her of homicide.
John and Irene Hurtig, half-siblings of María Marta.
-11/4/2011: The TOC 1 of San Isidro, in charge of the trial for the "
cover-up
" of the case, handed down the following sentences: 5 years in prison for Guillermo Bártoli;
4 for Horacio García Belsunce (h);
3 and a half for Juan Hurtig;
and 3 for Gauvry Gordon and Sergio Binello.
He ordered immediate arrest for all of them, while he acquitted the masseuse Beatriz Michelini.
-11/28/2014: The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ordered a "comprehensive review" of the widower's sentence.
The acquittal verdict against Pachelo for the homicide, in December 2022. Photo Guillermo Rodriguez Adami.
-02/05/2015: Carrascosa left the Campana prison after the TOC 6 of San Isidro granted him house arrest monitored with an electronic anklet.
-12/20/2016: A transition chamber of the Buenos Aires Court of Cassation annulled the conviction after discovering serious irregularities in the investigation and acquitted Carrascosa.
Carrascosa, acquitted.
-12/22/2016: With Carrascosa's acquittal and as the case expired in October 2017, the San Isidro Attorney General's Office decided to assemble a team of prosecutors to carry out a reinvestigation.
-06/10/2017: Nicolás Pachelo and his ex-wife, Inés Dávalos, were summoned for investigation as suspects in María Marta's crime.
For the new prosecutors, the motive was robbery.
-04/07/2018: Pachelo was arrested accused of robbing five houses in the Tortugas de Pilar country during Holy Week.
Pachelo, arrested for robberies from countries.
-05/26/2020: The TOC 1 of San Isidro acquitted María Marta's brothers, Horacio García Belsunce and John Hurtig, and the neighbor Binello, of the cover-up, by declaring the criminal action extinguished due to the prescription of that part of the case .
-10/12/2020: The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation definitively confirmed the acquittal of Carrascosa in the crime of his wife.
Carlos Carrascosa and María Marta García Belsunce.
Photo: Netflix
-07/13/2022: The TOC 4 of San Isidro began to judge Pachelo and the former guards José Ortiz and Norberto Glennon, as alleged co-authors of the García Belsunce crime.
-07/28/2022: Pachelo said in court that he was "totally unrelated" to the event.
Nicolás Pachelo, at the trial.
Photo Lucía Merle
-08/26/2022: The widower Carrascosa declared for the first time as a private victim in a trial for the case and said: "I have been waiting for twenty years to be in front of my wife's murderer."
-09/13/2022: At the request of the trial prosecutors, the San Isidro Justice reopened the case for the death of Pachelo's father in January 1996, to investigate whether he was murdered by his own son.
Carrascosa., in the trial against Pachelo.
Photo Luciano Thieberger.
-10/21/2022: In his last statement before the allegations, Pachelo again assured that he was innocent.
"I did not kill María Marta, I did not steal from her, I was not a campaigner nor did I hate her; I am totally oblivious to that," he said.
-12/2/2022: Pachelo was acquitted in a split ruling for the homicide of the sociologist.
He was sentenced to 9 and a half years for a series of robberies at countries in the GBA in 2017 and 2018.
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In a majority ruling, the judges considered that there was no evidence that the accused killed her in country Carmel, 20 years ago.
-3/27/2024: The Buenos Aires Cassation Chamber I reversed the acquittal ruling for the murder of García Belsunce and sentenced Pachelo to life imprisonment.
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