A family crime has shocked Argentina. The bodies of the sisters Esther and Sara Castro, 41 and 39 years old, were found 52 meters deep in a water well that is located in the patio of the house where they lived, in the city of Córdoba.
The chilling thing about the story is because the two arrested for being the alleged perpetrators of the crime are two sons of Esther. As if that were not enough, the authorities of that country are now looking for a third body, that of the father of the victims (and of the accused), since the young people would be the result of the violations to which he would have subjected his daughter.
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The women had been missing since September 24., when the men apparently beat and killed them with a firearm after having an argument. After that, the young people would have hidden the bodies with the help of their 17-year-old sister. The teenager, who is detained, provided information to the authorities that allowed the bodies to be located.
After 36 hours of rescue work, a team of firefighters and policemen were able to rescue the bodies of the two sisters. As for young people, identified as Ismael, 21, and Esteban Castro, 24, were captured on a highway as they tried to flee. to hide.
#Cordova In the house of horror, the police and firefighters found a body in the well-cistern of the house in the Autodromo de Córdoba neighborhood. The rescue tasks are carried out within the framework of the investigation into the double crime of the sisters. children as defendants pic.twitter.com/vnzhFsk8x6
– Ignacio González Prieto (@igonzalezprieto) October 4, 2022
Both men were arrested in Traslasierra, where they had fled with four minors. That was precisely what alerted the policemen who were guarding a route in that area, who detained them and asked a family member to remove them. The detainees provided Esther’s phone number (who was already dead by then) and that of an uncle, who was the one who picked them up.
Nevertheless, The man never imagined that when he arrived at the place to pick them up, his nephews would confess to him the murders they had committed. Ismael, the youngest of them, was the one who told his uncle that they had murdered and dismembered his mother and his aunt. However, the testimonies of the rescuers indicate that the bodies were whole.
The young people identified as guilty of the double murder were charged with the crime of qualified homicide. Meanwhile, the authorities continue to search for the victims’ father, also disappeared, and whom they knew as his grandfather.
Source: Elcomercio
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