The commotion runs through the streets of Santiago del Estero after a double feminicide against a 20-year-old girl and her 23-year-old aunt. This is a “bloody” case in which the murderer tried to decapitate one of his victims and slit the throat of the other, in addition to stabbing both. He ex-boyfriend of one of them He was arrested for the incident and is currently the main suspect.
Luz Nair Banegas and Morena Banegasaunt and niece respectively, were found inside a car in a rural zone of that province, between Santa Elena and Villa Hipólita, about 40 kilometers from the provincial capital. According to what was reported by the newspaper The Liberal from Santiago del Estero, the largest received around twenty stab wounds and the youngest, ten.
The women had been missing since Tuesday, when their relatives began to worry after neither reported back from work. Primary Education teachers, where they attended together. Following the police report, a police operation was deployed between the city of La Banda and several areas of Robles, which led to the discovery early Wednesday morning.
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At the crime scene, a gray VW Gol car was found, located approximately 150 meters from Route No. 5, in which the murdered women were found with serious signs of violence. Sources close to the investigation told the local media that they are still shocked by the ruthless aggression. “Very bloody”; “macabre” were some of the adjectives they used to describe what was found.
The main and only suspect arrested so far was identified as Gabriel Cejas and he was the boyfriend of Morena Banegas, with whom he had the link ended two months ago, after a five-year relationship. The young man was found with blood and assured that he had been the victim of a robbery by three hooded men who took his motorcycle, cell phone and jacket.
The reconstruction of the double femicide in Santiago del Estero
Investigators believe that Cejas is responsible and suspect that he was traveling in the back seat of the car, while Luz was driving and Morena was a passenger. According to a first reconstruction of the event, the man stabbed his ex-girlfriend at first and, faced with the attack, the young woman’s aunt got out of the car to try to run away and ask for helpreported The Liberal.
After that, Cejas went after Luz and managed to reach her about 7 meters away. There he hurt her and tied her hands and feet.. Immediately afterwards, the aggressor returned to where Morena was and continued wounding her. “He almost decapitated her,” one of the sources told the local media, revealing that he only needed to cut the vertebrae of the spine.
Likewise, people close to the investigation indicated that Cejas, after murdering his ex-girlfriend with multiple stab wounds, went in search of Luz again. He cut her throat. “She gave him a clinear cut of more than 30 centimeters on the neckin addition to the points,” they indicated.
Morena’s body was found on the passenger side, between the floor of the car and the ground. Both young women were immersed in puddles of reddish liquid and they would have bled for more than eight hours in the middle of the undergrowth where cotton flakes predominate.
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The alibi that was not and the ex-boyfriend as the main suspect
On Tuesday night, while the women were missing, the 21-year-old Cejas showed up at Comprehensive Health Center of the city of Banda seeking medical attention for a wound in one of his hands, since he was cut and was admitted with a lot of blood.
At that time, the young man assured that had been the victim of a robbery by three hooded men who took his motorcycle, cell phone and jacket. The police set out to look for the alleged thieves and They found his jacket and a diverwhich was near a canal, with blood stains.
As the report was made simultaneously to find out the whereabouts of the two missing women, Cejas was arrested and accused of being the main suspect in the double femicide. For this reason, computer experts will look for extract all possible information from mobile devices of the young women and the suspect to see if there was any contact between them.
Investigators are seeking to determine if Cejas communicated with any of them before they were mercilessly murdered, or if he summoned them under some type of pretext. It is worth noting that her family told the investigators that The young man followed in the footsteps of Morena, whom he also physically attacked. She would never have reported him.
Furthermore, after the first searches, the investigators are awaiting the results of the tests that will be carried out on the clothing – a T-shirt and a jogging suit – seized from the home of the young man with remains of reddish stains which could be blood. It should be noted that Cejas worked in his uncle’s butcher shop, where he dedicated himself to slaughtering animals.
However, despite the secrecy with which researchers work, The Liberal learned that during the raking Cejas’ motorcycle was found about 600 meters from the location of the body, which according to him had been stolen by three criminals, according to the complaint he made at Police Station 14. The motorcycle was intact, and although it had no traces of blood, at the location A large number of reddish spots.
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