On the night of April 22, Ramón Gregorio Britez grabbed a blade at least five centimeters wide in his hands and stabbed his wife, Nora Laura Escobar, 17 times. in the house they both shared in Liniers 1781 in the city of Grenadier Baigorria. Of those spikes, five or six were hit in the back of the woman who had no chance of defense and fell lifeless due to the serious cardiopulmonary injuries received. After that, the man dug a well in the backyard of the property where he dumped the body and then “in order to avoid any seepage to the surface, built a slab about 60 centimeters wide and two meters long above the corpse and another of equal size vertically” as a foundation. Thirteen days later, Karen G., Nora’s daughter, filed a complaint to find out her whereabouts upon learning that her mother had been unexpectedly absent from the place where she worked and that since that tragic April 22, the telephone number of she had faded. After knowing the judicial presentation of the young woman, and after a first interview with the investigators, Ramón left the house.
Thus, in the framework of the research that began with a first procedure in the house that only yielded superfluous data and a false statement by Britez, Intentional Homicide Prosecutor Marisol Fabbro ordered a exhaustive search of the property where the couple lived and after lifting the patio tiles and with the help of sniffer dogs, they found Nora’s body Last Tuesday. Without wasting time, the representative of the Public Ministry of the Accusation issued the national and international arrest warrant for Ramón. He was caught by the National Gendarmerie on Thursday when he was trying to leave the country for Paraguay through the international bridge that connects the cities of Posadas and Encarnación. Yesterday, at the impeachment hearing, they blamed the man for the crimes of homicide doubly qualified by the link and femicide mediating context of gender violence against women as perpetratorsso Judge Hernán Postma issued the prison preventive for the term of law in the framework of a crime that contemplates the penalty of life imprisonment.
But not only did Ramon Gregorio Britez stay behind bars. Your lifelong friend, Alberto Antonio L., was also detained for the term of law accused of the aggravated cover-up of the doubly qualified homicide. is that this man provided the murderer with his old Renault 6 “to remove belongings with blood stains” from the criminal scene and repeatedly went to his friend’s home “to help you with the preparation of the pit and the cleaning of the house” in addition to collaborating to “evade the investigations by contributing cash in order for Britez to undertake the flight to Paraguay en masse on 9 May”.
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The story of the macabre femicide began to unravel on May 5, when Karen reported that her 43-year-old mother, with whom she had little communication because they were not very close, although they had no problems, had disappeared. She then recounted that her grandmother told her that the owners of the three houses where Nora worked as a domestic had told her that two weeks ago he hadn’t shown up to do his homework And they didn’t answer his phone calls either. They even told her that the last time any of them had seen her was on April 21 and that when she said goodbye to her, she did so kindly saying that she would come back and that she was excited because on Sunday the 24th she was going to run a marathon in the Puerto Norte area since she was a running practitioner. Even on Friday the 22nd Nora managed to talk to her coach to get ready for that competition in what was one of her last contacts with people she knew.
Given all these data, Karen went to her mother’s house and talked to Britez, but The man told him that “Nora had not lived with him for three months, that she had taken all her things and that they had fought because he found her messages with another man.” and that she did not know where she was living even though she had left her the dog, which surprised Norma’s daughter a lot because her mother loved the animal and would not go anywhere without her. The young woman also stated in her complaint that she was afraid of what might have happened since Britez “is a violent man who once broke his mother’s hand and again her nose for what she had denounced him for, although they always got back together” despite the perimeter restraining order that the couple had since mid-2021.
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The first raid on the house in Calle Liniers 1781 was carried out on May 6 and the police officers who arrived at the scene spoke with Britez, who told them that his wife, with whom he had been married for four years, had left the house and that they have been “de facto separated since October of last year ” and that it was “the ninth time that they separated”. He even said that Nora had taken several of her belongings on a freight and that she never saw her again. The investigators entered the house, made an inspection and said they obtained “negative results”. Although They admitted that in the patio “there is a canvas pool and adjoining this is a recently dated “L”-shaped subfloor that Britez said he had built with leftover material that he reuses to complete the entire perimeter of the patio”. Search dogs of the Sapper Firefighters participated in this procedure and found no traces of the body since, as sources of the case explained, their sense of smell does not locate what is hidden under such thick pottery.
Once Nora’s whereabouts request was made public with her daughter’s phone number to provide data began to arrive messages from neighbors of the house of Granadero Baigorria that began to give new clues to the investigation. One of them maintained: “Hello, how are you? Are you Nora’s daughter? We are neighbors of her and Gregorio. Until two weeks ago we heard screams, noise of glass and then we found out that Nora moved. I know they were building in her house. It’s weird, her dog isn’t here anymore either.”
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Added to all this was the work done by the Undersecretary of Gender and Diversity of Granadero Baigorria who started helping Karen in search of his mother and that prompted a mobilization asking for speed in the investigation which took place on Monday 9 in the streets of the neighboring city. Y a fact that allowed to open a window that would lead to the macabre discovery: Karen contributed to the investigations of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) the access code to her mother’s Facebook profile. The analysis of this social network indicated that women had been in the house on Calle Liniers until April 22, exactly the day of his crime, and that since that day the cell phone has been deactivated. All this led to the confirmation that Britez was lying and that a new search of the house was necessary where he lived with who was his wife.
That last raid was ordered by Judge Silvia Castelli at the request of prosecutor Marisol Fabbro on May 10.. The investigations that reached the house found it closed, with a chain with a padlock on the outside. Once inside and with tests carried out with Luminol (a chemical product that allows blood to be detected on different surfaces that are still clean), it was found that there were blood stains in all rooms and when lifting all the pottery in the patio they found the woman’s body.
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At the same time at the house of Britez’s friend, in the La Cerámica neighborhood, another raid was carried out. There, Alberto Antonio L. maintained that he had been with the accused on May 1 at the house in Baigorria eating a locro, that he had not noticed anything unusual, although Britez told him that his wife had left once again and that he had taken several belongings. After that, The men met again on the 9th of this month at L.’s house, according to his statement, as far as his friend went to tell him that “he was going to Paraguay, he asked for a suitcase to put some things and money” for which He lent him 5 thousand pesos. In addition, he said that when asked why he was leaving, Britez replied that he had been talking to a lawyer, that he told him how the story was and that he recommended he go to Paraguay, which I do not know if he did because I had no more contact since he went”.