The family of a 29-year-old woman from Córdoba who was murdered in Brazil, near the border with our country, requested help from the Argentine Consulate in the last few hours to be able to repatriate the body, while rejecting the theft hypothesis handled by the Brazilian Justice. and they suggested that it could be a femicide.
The victim, María Sol Goyenechea, was beaten to death in a vacant lot in the city of Uruguayana and a cyclist found her body last Saturday in a vacant lot located at the entrance to the Mascarenhas de Moraes neighborhood, on the border with Paso de los Libres.
Local media indicated that he showed signs of a brutal beating and had his pants down.
In the last few hours, the Police arrested a 37-year-old suspect. The man, who has a criminal record and was detained for rape, refused to testify or provide genetic material.
Family suspicions
Hernán Goyenechea, María Sol’s uncle, told TN The family suspects his last partner.
“The Police say that they have the case solved, that it was a robbery, but there are no arrests. We target his boyfriend because we know that he is a violent person and many of his attitudes seem strange to us,” said the man who traveled to Brazil with his brother, the victim’s father.
And, he added when referring to the hours before the crime: “At that moment we know that she was with her boyfriend, but he let her go alone. We find it suspicious that he let her go and he stayed. Furthermore, the Police told us that, after the crime, they saw a person crossing the bridge towards Argentina, who seems to be him. “The situation is very strange.”
“They separated him from the case because they had no evidence, but we contributed many things that are relevant to investigate,” he concluded.
Who was María Sol Goyenechea, the woman from Córdoba murdered in Brazil
María Sol Goyenechea was born in Paraguay, but lived her entire life in Córdoba, relatives said. She was part of a backpacking family and she had an 8 year old son.
“We are a family of travelers, but we reside in Argentina. She has a Paraguayan ID because she was born there, but she always lived in Córdoba,” Hernán said.
Although he was currently in Brazil and was staying in the municipality of Uruguayana, he was returning to Córdoba, where he lived with his mother.
“We need help from the Consulate to be able to repatriate the body, because we want to bury her in Argentina. Now we are watching her in Brazil because we have no other option. We also ask the Police for collaboration to give us a response, they left us alone,” concluded the victim’s uncle.
