The province of Córdoba is shaken once more by a new murder.
On this occasion, a woman was arrested accused of having murdered her mother. The drama happened in the town of Capilla del Monte, in the Punilla valley. The victim lay in a bed and had been bedridden for two years.
The case is being investigated by Investigative personnel from the Punilla Norte Department under the directives of the Cosquín prosecutor’s office.
Everything became known on Wednesday night when the local police station received a call from a person reporting a crime following “a family discussion.”
When the police officers arrived at the address in question, at Calle Richieri and Calle 3, they found a woman who confessed to having murdered her mother with a pillow.
He said he had suffocated her following an argument.
In the bed of the house lay the body of the victim and nothing was left to do.
The victim was identified as María Rosa Ravetti, who was 59 years old.
Meanwhile, the defendant was identified as Celeste Rodríguez, 30, who was detained.
By order of the Cosquín investigative prosecutor, Paula Kelm, the defendant was charged with qualified homicide for the link. This crime is punishable by life imprisonment.
The case logically caused shock and consternation in the population.
The house was cordoned off for the work of forensic experts.
The woman’s body was sent to the morgue for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Everything is under investigation and the investigations collect testimonies.
“The mother had been bedridden for two years and, we understand, that there were permanent discussions,” said a source with access to the case.
In any case, there remains an extensive judicial and expert path to clarify how everything happened.
“They lived alone in a humble house. The mother was bedridden and we still don’t know why. There was an argument, we don’t know why either. He would have suffocated her with a pillow. She herself notified the local Police ”, she indicated to The voice another source of the cause.
The defendant was transferred to the Penitentiary Establishment (EP 9) of Córdoba.
Prosecutor Kelm has ordered a series of investigative measures aimed at completely shedding light on this new horror story that is now shaking Córdoba.
Among the measures that will also be available, in the next few hours, will be the performance of psychiatric expert reports on the apprehended to determine if she understood the criminality of her acts and verify whether or not she is attributable to the upcoming criminal process.
13 murders in 2023
With this case, there are 13 murders committed in the province of Córdoba so far in 2023.
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In 2022, two women were murdered by their children in the province of Córdoba. The dramas occurred in the Capital.
According to records of The voiceIn January of that year, a 48-year-old woman was shot to death by her son in the Villa Urquiza neighborhood.
In September, meanwhile, two sisters were murdered and thrown into a well in a house in the Autódromo neighborhood. Two men and a young woman were arrested. One of the men was the son of one of the women. The psychiatric experts determined that the defendants are unimputable.
