2023-08-07 00:36:00
A woman was beaten to death by her husband, who before the police arrived tried to commit suicide. The event, which shocked the city of Salta, occurred this Saturday in a private neighborhood.
This Sunday the details of the autopsy on the body of Mercedes Kvedaras were known. The 37-year-old woman received a strong blow to her face before being choked and stabbed.
Kvedaras, who was studying to teach English at the Catholic University of Salta and was the mother of three children, She was found dead last Friday inside a car.along with her husband, José Eduardo Figueroa, who had sharp injuries.
The man remained hospitalized at the San Bernardo Hospital, where he underwent surgery, in custody, as the alleged perpetrator of the femicide.
According to sources of the investigation cited by El Tribuno, the woman received a “very strong blow” according to the results of the autopsy, which also revealed a superficial cut in the area where the back ends.
Femicide in a private neighborhood of Salta: how the events occurred
The discovery of the body and the injured man was in charge of a friend of the couple, who lives near the point of the private neighborhood El Tipal, located on Route 18.
Around noon on Friday, Figueroa, a lawyer by profession, sent a message via WhatsApp to a friend in which he revealed: “I can’t take this anymore” and testimonies were collected indicating that the marriage was going through a deep crisis.
In this sense, testimonies were collected from relatives who indicated that the woman she had told them that she was mistreated by her husband. According to the investigation, the crime would have been committed in the family home of the couple, in another sector of the same private neighborhood.
It is suspected that the man dragged his wife to the car and went to the place where he was found, where he harmed himself with the apparent intention of hiding the femicide.
At the time they were found, the car was full of bloodstains, so it was first suspected that the woman had been attacked with a knife, but later it was found that she had no sharp injuries, so it was inferred that the blood traces belonged to her husband.
As it was learned, the investigators of the case try to determine security camera footagewhile corroborating the content of the couple’s cell phones, which were kidnapped.
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