Overview
- The Instituto Médico Forense of Corrientes told the victim’s family by videoconference Thursday that the necropsy described an “extremely violent” death with some wounds inflicted while she was still alive.
- Examiners documented multiple puncture wounds across the body and injuries on an forearm consistent with defensive fighting, with the pattern of wounds suggesting the use of more than one weapon.
- Authorities have detained five people in the investigation and local reports say three are formally accused of femicide, with formal criminal proceedings being led by the UFIC of Esquina.
- Forensic teams could not determine in the initial exam whether sexual violence occurred because of the body’s condition, so officials sent biological samples to the UNNE genomics lab and requested entomology analysis from Córdoba to help fix time of death and link DNA evidence to suspects.
- Family lawyers described the killing as brutal and stressed the importance of the pending tests for charging decisions and for giving relatives clearer answers about what happened.