Unopened Christmas presents finished worrying a niece of the 80-year-old man. The examination of the PDI does not reveal the intervention of third parties, but this must be confirmed or ruled out by the SML.
Mario Olivares López, 80, was found dead at his home in Villa Dominante, in the Coquimbo commune.
Relatives found his body on Wednesday, according to The dayafter going to the property after a notice delivered by a niece of the agricultural worker, a native of Antofagasta.
According to his story, the last time she saw him alive was in September 2021.
Preliminary information at the close of this edition indicates that the death data is approximately 12 months.
Although the external examination carried out by the detectives did not throw intervention of third partiesthe precise cause of death must be determined by the Legal Medical Service (SML).
The victim lived alone at this address. and was found by relatives who had not seen him for several months (…) we are awaiting the result of the forensic medical report in order to establish the cause of death of this person”, commented Deputy Prefect José Cáceres, head of the Brigade of Homicides of the PDI of La Serena.
Unopened Christmas gifts: the key to this find in Coquimbo
The same niece assured that, last December, she went to the old man’s house to give him his Christmas gifts. Since she didn’t find it, she left them there.
After returning to the house after several months, and seeing from the window that the gifts were kept intactthe woman became concerned and started the chain of events that led to finding the remains.
In this case, the regional director of the National Service for the Elderly (Senama), Eduardo Lara, insisted on the need for society to remain alert and vigilant against older adults who live alone.
“Sometimes in older people the deterioration can come very abruptly, for example, due to a home accident such as a fall or for some health reason,” he warned.
“In this sense, it should be taken into account that any person over 70 years of age will always suffer some physical deterioration as a result of it, because their bodies are no longer in a position to withstand strong impacts,” he added.
According to Lara, cases of abandonment or violation of the rights of older people “are not rare.”
“For example, the issue of abuse of the elderly is recurrent at the regional and national levels. And that is a tremendous debt that we owe as a society to older people,” she assured.
And the vulnerability of this age group is clear in the official numbers: In the Province of Elqui alone there are 91,542 adults over 60 years of age, 55,043 of whom are people who are located in the sections of maximum vulnerability.