One week after the body of Sweet Maria Candiathe 17-year-old teenager who was missing, was found at a construction site in eldoradoprovince of Missionsthe only person arrested in the case was charged with femicide.
It is about MAYthe 46-year-old driver, who had been arrested on Monday in the June 20 neighborhood, at kilometer 3 of the city. During an indictment hearing held this Friday, the defendant refused to answer questions or offer any statement.
As a result of this position, the Investigating Judge No. 1 of Eldorado, Maria Laura Rodriguezformalized the accusation of femicide. The decision was based on telephone records that located his cell phone in the vicinity of the place where the victim’s body was found, according to information from The Coast.
Hours later, a raid was carried out on a home located on Iturbe Street. According to Eldópolis Networkthey were kidnapped electronic devices and SIM cards that could provide relevant information. Furthermore, they confiscated a Motorola cell phone casea LG phone and a infinix phonewhich will be subjected to technical expertise.
The suspect had been arrested on Monday morning during an operation led by the Director General of Security, Commissioner General Raúl Maslowski, along with personnel from Regional Unit III, the Homicide Directorate and the Support Secretariat for Complex Investigations.
The investigation began with the disappearance report filed on May 27 by the teenager’s mother at the Eldorado Women’s Police Station. However, it was indicated that the minor had been missing for several days before the incident was reported to the authorities.
From that moment, the search protocol for minors was activated and multiple lines of investigation were deployed. Different police agencies and specialized areas participated in the operation. Despite this, neighbors and relatives criticized the lack of official dissemination and state inaction. “They never raised an alert for the girl’s disappearance. They never did Sofia Alert for her“They left it like this, as something normal,” said a resident of Eldorado.
Thus, on May 28, one day after the complaint, the young woman’s body was found in a abandoned construction from the El Tucán neighborhood, a few blocks from the place where he had disappeared. As it turned out, the identification was made through photographic recognition by a direct family member.
From this, the scene was preserved by the police officers, who notified the investigating judge and coordinated the expertise with the personnel of the Scientific Police Division and Volunteer Firefighters of Eldorado, responsible for the extraction of the body.
Shortly after, the autopsy determined that the cause of death was mechanical asphyxiationwhich guided the investigation towards a possible homicide in the first hours. Likewise, the investigation advanced with surveys in the areaanalysis of records, expertise and interviews.
These procedures made it possible to reconstruct the victim’s last movements and gather fundamental tests. As a result of these elements, the judge Rodriguez ordered the arrest of the driver, who will remain at the disposal of Justice while the investigation continues.
One of the central points of the research is the expert analysis of two cell phones kidnapped during the procedure. The results provided decisive elements, because the results allowed the suspect to be located in the vicinity of the scene.
The case sparked a strong reaction in the Eldorado community. A source consulted by The Territory He criticized: “I was on the street day and night, they never did anything here.” For their part, residents of the Avanti neighborhood highlighted the lack of services in the area: “In that entire neighborhood there are no lights, it is a jurisdiction that includes 7 different neighborhoods and it is a disaster full of people with problematic consumption, thieves.”
For this reason, neighbors and relatives expressed concern about security and denounced the lack of state presence in the area. At the same time, they demanded improvements in infrastructure and controls to prevent similar events.
