Overview
- The hearing began Monday at 9:30 a.m. before San Isidro’s Oral Criminal Court No. 4, with Judges Esteban Andrejin and Osvaldo Rossi and prosecutor Laura Capra presiding.
- Rosalía Soledad Paniagua is charged with aggravated robbery in real concurrence with homicide criminis causa, a count that carries a potential life sentence.
- The autopsy found ligature strangulation and documented injuries consistent with a violent struggle and defensive wounds.
- Forensic reports detected Paniagua’s DNA under two of the victim’s fingernails and in three hairs on the body, while cameras showed her handling the victim’s phone; a missing speaker was seized at her home and her partner admitted selling a seven‑arm candelabrum.
- Paniagua denies the killing and is expected to repeat an uncorroborated claim about a man called “Félix,” as a separate case proceeds against early medical examiners whose initial natural-death assessment delayed the homicide inquiry.