Cecilia Strzyzowski case: anthropologists will look for DNA in the skeletal remains found in the river

2023-07-03 21:58:22

The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) will be in charge of trying to determine if the skeletal remains found on June 20 in the Tragadero River belong to Cecilia Strzyzowski.

As reported by the Judiciary of the province of Chaco, the samples are already in the hands of the team of professionals and they hope to obtain the DNA for genetic matching. However, they assure that the process will not be an easy task since they suffered the action of the fire.

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The samples were selected by the Interdisciplinary Team of Forensic Anthropology and from the reference genetic profiles extracted in the Laboratory of the Institute of Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IMCIF).

“Prosecutor Nelia Velázquez, a member of the Special Prosecutor Team formed for the case, remarked that the chain of custody was preserved at all times, since the commander of the National Gendarmerie Javier Alejandro Gavilán (head of the Criminalistics and Forensic Studies Unit of the Group XVIII Chaco) accompanied the entourage that she led with this objective, ”said official sources.

The discovery of the remains materialized after the key statement of one of the seven detainees in the case, Gustavo Obregón, driver of the social leader Emerenciano Sena, also imprisoned with his wife, Marcela Acuña, and their son, César Sena.

Marcela Acuña, Emerenciano Sena and César Sena, the three most complicated suspects for the disappearance and femicide of Cecilia. (Photo: Facebook)

The defendant marked the place where they would have discarded some remains of Strzyzowski’s body, near the Sena pig shop. What they found were three crushed and incinerated human finger parts. There was also a pendant there that the victim’s mother, Gloria Romero, recognized as belonging to her daughter.

In this sense, the Chaco judiciary confirmed last week that “the bone samples analyzed belong to a single adult person, although it was not possible to determine sex, precise age or cause of death because they are multi-fragmented and charred.”

The EAAF will carry out a genetic analysis of these samples and, if DNA is obtained, it will be compared with the genetic profile of Cecilia’s mother. Knowing the results in a normal sample takes about a month, but in this case they are burned parts, which could make the task difficult.

Acuña accused her son of Cecilia’s femicide in a letter

Marcela Acuña, the wife of Emerenciano Sena and one of the suspects in the femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski, wrote a letter from jail and accused her own son of having committed the crime against the young woman from Chaco.

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“Cecilia’s femicide is one thing, reprehensible from every point of view, and another is wanting to accuse us from a prosecutor’s office that without evidence not only has us locked up, walking around like trophies with wives like criminals, but also puts us in a case with a cover that does not hold up to us with evidence, only with assumptions.

Then, the political leader directly accused her son of the crime of the chaco: “Why, if César (my son) was responsible, do they incriminate us? I think that for many reasons, mainly the crack that we experience as a homeland, we are part of a new generation together with Emerenciano”.

Along the same lines, she continued with a message focused on politics to try to separate herself from her husband, Emerenciano Sena. “We have given dignity together with a national and popular project that allowed us to do it, not only to us, but to hundreds of leaders who began looking at us on the path of self-management.”