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Two Sons Detained in Separate Argentine Parricide Probes After Autopsy Revelations

Forensic findings led prosecutors to treat both deaths as homicides, with the adult sons now in custody.

Los peritos trabajando en el lugar.
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Averiguación de homicidio en Guaymallén.

Overview

  • In Resistencia, Chaco, police found 65-year-old Rogelio Gauna inside a freezer, and his son Marcos Antonio Gauna, 27, confessed to strangling him after a dispute over selling family belongings to buy drugs.
  • Prosecutor Candela Valdez ordered the Móvil Tanatológico and the Judicial Scientific Cabinet to intervene, sent the body to IMCIF for autopsy, and tasked cybercrime officers with retrieving security camera footage.
  • In Guaymallén, Mendoza, the death of 85-year-old Hugo Antonio Olguín Escudero was reclassified when an autopsy revealed a cranial fracture and injuries incompatible with a natural death.
  • A second inspection at the Mendoza home uncovered two bloodstained pieces of wood in a churrasquera, investigators noted swelling on the 56-year-old son's right hand, and Prosecutor Andrea Lazo ordered his detention.
  • Police seized the Mendoza suspect's phone, clothing and shoes, and a wallet containing the father's bank cards during a search, and forensic analyses of the items are ongoing.