He was found dead in his home. Around midnight yesterday, a group of friends showed up at the home of Renowned and popular announcer and host Daniel ‘Tota’ Santillán (57), whose real name was Ricardo Daniel Carías. He had not responded to messages for several days and they thought something bad might be happening to him.
And they actually confirmed the news when the police managed to open the door of the house, located on the street Governor Luis Garcia at 1900, almost on the corner of Tucuman and Castelar. “It was locked, but They called the cell phone and you could hear it ringing. There They authorized to force the lock to open the door and he was found“, sources from the investigation specified.
“A flammable liquid would have been thrown and that would have started a fire there in the living room,” detailed sources of the investigation.
The farm was closed from the inside and with the power supply cut offThe corpse, whose autopsy will determine how long it was in that condition, had burns over much of its lengthAmid the commotion, his friends and relatives said that he had been suffering from severe depression in recent days.
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“He had problems with his job, his finances, and because of a conviction he received for gender-based violence. Last year he had already had a threat to cut his wrists, So everything indicates that it was a suicide”, added the spokesmen consulted by Primer Plano Online. The other hypothesis is a domestic accident, although The discovery of flammable material and matches near the body indicates that he caused the injuries.
The investigation is being conducted by the Prosecutor Patricio Ventricelli, from the 6th Prosecutor’s Office of Morón. Initially, the case was filed as an investigation into the causes of death. However, there are some details that indicate that third parties were not involved in the death: there was nothing disturbed in the house, no missing items or signs of violence. In any case, this is now the chapter that must be determined by the courts.
In 2023, ‘Tota’ had been sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison for acts of gender violence against his ex-partner and mother of his two minor daughters. According to the complaint against him, in addition to beating the woman, the host was also accused of threatening his ex-father-in-law and a former domestic employee. That was not all: the prosecutor also accused him of attempting to extort his former accountant and stealing his cell phone.
