Osvaldo Martínez.
The sole detainee of the La Plata quadruple murder, Osvaldo Martínez, claimed he is innocent and said he doesn’t feel imprisoned, but “kidnapped.”
“I don’t feel imprisoned, but kidnapped,” Martínez said in 12 page letter in which he also blasted public prosecutor Alvaro Garganta, whom he accused of “not searching for the truth, but what is convenient for him.”
He also criticized remise driver Marcelo Tagliaderro, who recognized Martínez after a identity parade- and said he was the man he saw the night of the crimes when he left a client in a house along street 28 in La Loma neighbourhood of La Plata.
“What he says has no logic. This man saw me in the newspaper and in all TC channels. I suggest a new identity parade, but only with voice, with faces hidden and naked torsos,” Martínez stated
Fernando Burlando, lawyer of the family of Marisol Pereyra, one of the murdered women, assured that investigators must look into the victims’ acquaintances to find the murderer. Burlando insisted that it is not up to him to find the murderer, but clarified what he considered a search hypothesis.
“I would analyze DNA samples of 40 million Argentines,” after the DNA samples collected from the crime scene failed to match those taken from Martínez, Tagliaterro and family members of the victims.
Judge Guillermo Atencio ordered preventive custody for Martínez, charging him a primary participant of the four crimes, although didn’t accuse him of being the perpetrator.
“We have certain doubts about the killer. These femicides were committed out of spite, as treason. The crime scene represents another matter, different of a person that worked to do so,” Burlando added.
Susana de Bártoli, her daughter Bárbara Santo, her granddaughter Micaela and family friend Marisol Pereyra were murdered November 27th.
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