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Flow’s ‘Yiya’ Revives Yiya Murano Case With Fresh Focus on Her Final Years

The release has prompted fresh reporting on Murano’s guarded final years, including her burial under an alias.

Overview

  • Flow premiered a five-part miniseries titled Yiya on Nov. 13, starring Julieta Zylberberg and Cristina Banegas, directed by Mariano Hueter with a script by Marcos Carnevale.
  • Murano was arrested on April 27, 1979, reconvicted in 1985 for three killings by cyanide tied to a lending scheme, and freed on Nov. 20, 1995 under the “dos por uno” law.
  • Forensic findings cited cyanide recovered in Murano’s home, and the victims—Carmen Zulema del Giorgio de Venturini, Nilda Gamba, and Lelia “Chicha” Formisano de Ayala—were documented as her creditors.
  • After her release she maintained a media presence, remarried in 1998, appeared on television, and continued to assert innocence until her death in 2014 in a Belgrano nursing home.
  • Recent coverage details that relatives restricted access citing senile dementia and that she was buried as “Mercedes Bolla” to discourage public curiosity, a fact her son later disclosed.