Tomaselli atending today a court hearing today.
The La Pampa judiciary asked today for the preventive custody of Marcelo Tomaselli accused of stabbing his wife to death in the La Pampa city of General Pico.
The case has caused outrage in the population after it was found that before marrying the victim, the man had raped her and gone to jail, but was pardoned by the woman who later agreed to become his wife.
Public prosecutor Alejandro Gilardenghi asked for the formalization of the request for preventive custody as the suspect was formally accused of homicide aggravated by relationship to the victim” for the murder of nineteen year-old Carla Figueroa.
Besides the preventive custody, psychological studies, genetic analysis, cellphone tracking, among other evaluations were ordered by the court
Before being questioned by the police tried Tomaselli to commit suicide in his cell, police informed. Tomaselli intended to hang himself with his trousers a few hours after being arrested.
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