Overview
- Virginia Franco, 68, was found dead in her City Bell house; the autopsy determined hypovolemic shock from a deep neck cut with defensive wounds, and the case was recategorized as homicide during a robbery.
- Investigators noted forced entry, a ransacked property and missing items including her cellphone, and prosecutor Álvaro Garganta of UFI No. 11 ordered CCTV and antenna analyses and seized a witness’s phone.
- The man who discovered the body, Pablo Adrián Bozza, called 911, was briefly held for questioning, then released as a witness, and there were no formal detentions of perpetrators reported.
- In Palermo, a suspect accused of drugging and robbing a psychologist surrendered and was detained after City Police seized four phones and medication blister packs allegedly used in the attack.
- Parallel investigations continue in Mar del Plata—where Facundo Almada and another man died in a street shooting captured on cameras—and in Esteban Echeverría, where Nazareno Tobías Isern, 21, was fatally shot during a bicycle robbery.