Overview
- Officers secured the area at Calle 36 and the shore after a report of a suspicious jar, and Policía Científica verified the contents were a human phalange.
- A neighbor told investigators she saw a woman with a bandaged hand carrying the jar who said she had suffered a domestic accident and planned a ritual offering at sea.
- The municipal hospital confirmed the previous day the same woman received treatment for an amputated finger and was discharged with the severed phalange in her possession.
- Police identified the person as the figure known locally as “la mujer de los cuchillos,” previously involved in a Villa Gesell incident where she resisted officers with a large blade and they fired warning shots.
- The Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered preliminary “averiguación de ilícito” proceedings, and authorities have not reported additional measures or charges.