Two women who were wanted in the province of Santiago del Estero since Tuesday they were found dead during the last hours in the rural area of Robles. Were stabbed to death inside a car, where their bodies were found as part of a police operation. In the case, she is detained the partner of one of them.
The victims of the double femicide were identified as Morena Marcela Banegas, 20, and Luz Nahir Banegas, 23. They were a niece and aunt, respectively, and they studied together in the Primary Education teaching staff, where they left school around 9:45 p.m.
Their families had been desperately searching for them since Tuesday night. They became concerned later that neither of them reported when they returned from school, a custom they had to let them know that they had arrived safely. Given this situation, they tried to contact them by all means. But having no news, close to 3 in the morning they decided to file a complaint of his disappearance before the police, according to sources in the case Infobae.
Consequently, a police operation was deployed that took place that same night and early Wednesday morning. It was carried out between the city of La Banda and various places in Robles. And it was shortly before 6 in the morning that the discovery of a gray Gol brand vehicle similar to the one used by Luz, one of the victims, was reported. She was about 150 meters from the asphalt.
As he approached, he found the two victims inside: Morena was lying in the passenger seat with all her clothes stained with blood, while her aunt was just as injured, but lying outside the car, among the grass. Both had signs of having been stabbed, given that they had injuries allegedly caused by a knife in various parts of their bodies.
The same night that the young women disappeared, a man showed up at the Comprehensive Health Center in the city of La Banda requesting medical assistance for an injury to one of his hands. It was cut and entered with a lot of blood.
He was identified as Gabriel Cejas, Morena Banegas’ boyfriend, who explained to the police present at the establishment that he had been the victim of a robbery. According to the local media The Liberalthe young man said that they had three hooded men assaulted and that they had taken his motorcycle, his cell phone and his jacket.
The agents acted on this complaint and set out to search for the alleged thieves. Also the belongings of the alleged victim. In this context, the troops found his jacket and also a diver, which was near a canal and full of blood.
In parallel, a complaint is being made to find out the whereabouts of the two missing women. And when this situation became known, the Prosecutor’s Office set off the alarms and began to suspect Cejas’ story.
The young women were found murdered after a few hours. And upon verifying the close bond that the man had with one of the victims of the femicide, The agents proceeded to arrest him as the main suspect in the crime.
Prosecutors Natalia Saavedra and Álvaro Yagüe intervened in the case, who are in charge of the investigation to clarify the causes of the femicide. Within the framework of the tasks carried out at the crime scene, they proceeded to obtain samples from the car and swabs that were carried out both inside and outside the vehicle, according to what was reported by The Liberal.
Likewise, they found the marks of some sneakers in the car, which will be compared with those of Cejas. The bodies of Luz and Morena Banegas, for their part, were transferred to the morgue where the results of the autopsy are still awaited.
