They called Magdalena, they sent her messages. They also knocked on her door and clapped on the sidewalk, waiting for someone to come out. A worried friend was the one who entered the house and found her: she was dead on top of the bed, along with her 4-year-old daughter. The crime occurred in the early hours of Saturday.
Police interviewed neighbors who heard screaming. Thus they reached the couple of María Magdalena Figueredo (23), a Paraguayan mason who, they suspect, went to breakfast at the house of a co-worker after the double murder.
It all started during the first hours of Saturday, when Jacinto Javier Apodaca Ferreira (24), who lived in the house on Calle Juana Azurduy, between Cuyo and Ireland, on the border of La Reja and Francisco Álvarez, in Moreno, argued with his couple.
Neighbors acknowledged hearing the screams and beatings, but none called the police. Hours later, concerned about the young woman’s lack of response, they found the bodies.
Jacinto Javier Apodaca Ferreira (24) is detained and this Monday he will be investigated for aggravated double femicide.
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Magdalena was an immigrant and had arrived a few years ago in Buenos Aires from the department of Yuty, Paraguay, in the department of Caazapá. Luz Emily was her daughter, the product of a previous relationship, and would have wanted to separate from Apodaca, who. harassed her.
Although the young woman had not made complaints about the mistreatment, neighbors and witnesses stated that the man was violent towards her.
The experts confirmed that the crime was committed between 3 and 10 a.m. on Saturday. Although they await the result of the autopsy to confirm a brutal suspicion.
It is believed that Apodaca, who is a bricklayer, left the house where he would have committed the crime and went to a colleague’s. As if nothing had happened, she had breakfast with him around 6 and together they left for a construction site where they were working.
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That partner is the victim’s brother-in-law, partner of Magdalena’s sister. To them he told them that the young woman and her daughter were sleepingSo they presume that he tried to create an alibi to avoid being identified as the murderer.
In addition, the accused took a television and a cell phone from the house to simulate a robbery and cover up the double femicide. This Monday they will investigate it.
After interviewing Magdalena’s neighbors and friends, they went to look for her partner and detained him at the construction site. Now he was available to the prosecutor Federico So Señora, who accused him of “double homicide classified by the bond and by mediating gender violence“.
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With the result of the autopsy, they hope to have more certainty about the time that the double crime could have been committed to confirm the suspicion of the investigators and advance the accusation against Apodaca.
Sources of the case confirmed to Telam neither Magdalena nor her little daughter had signs of defense. So they presume that they were attacked while sleeping.
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The woman would have been strangled with a bow and the girl with her hands.
Since the social, preventive and compulsory isolation began on March 20, there have been 75 femicides and linked femicides (when the murderer kills relatives or close friends of the woman to harm her).
According to data from the Adriana Zambrano Observatory of the Casa del Encuentro organization, most crimes against women during this period were committed in the province of Buenos Aires.
In 71% of the cases, the women were murdered and, as in Magdalena, 65% of the femicides were committed by couples or ex-partners.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours. According to statistics from the Supreme Court’s Office of Domestic Violence, in 2018 alone there were 278. The majority of murders occur in the houses of the victims and are committed by couples or ex.
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Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
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