Overview

• Alexis Maldonado remains in custody after Judge Gladys Liliana Lami ordered a 15-day detention on aggravated homicide charges.
• The court rejected bail requests and formally added José Luis Acevedo and Nahuel Maldonado as co-suspects in the investigation.
• Forensic teams began extracting DNA from Ferrufino’s relatives and seized a Volkswagen Voyage for luminol testing this week.
• Luminol analysis of the vehicle uncovered blood residues in multiple compartments, supporting an economic-motive theory involving roughly 30 million pesos.
• Prosecutors are consolidating evidence to file charges under the ‘homicidio doblemente calificado por alevosía y ensañamiento, criminis causa’ statute, which carries a potential life sentence.