Overview

• Authorities took blood from Ángel Custodio Sánchez, Osvaldo Alfredo Sissi and José Luis Morillo at the Mar del Plata forensic office under a Federal Police security operation.
• The samples will be compared with a fifth genetic profile detected on Natalia Melmann’s body in forensic tests that documented multiple contributors.
• Natalia’s parents waited outside after a defense motion barred their entry, while a family-appointed expert witnessed the procedure.
• Four prior extractions from excomisario Merillo, sargento Borra, comisario mayor Oroz Mieres and Enrique Diez remain pending laboratory processing, according to case reports.
• Two other officers, Leonardo Oviedo and Juan Carlos Torrente, were excluded from testing by an appellate ruling, as four convicted officers serve life sentences with recent parole requests denied for two of them.