Less than 60 days ago, when the investigation began, it was suspected that Matías Jurado He had killed five homeless men who were missing in San Salvador de Jujuy. This afternoon, the prosecutor Guillermo Beller announced that DNA tests confirmed the fifth missing victim: “There are five out of five,” he said.
It is about Juan Carlos González (60). Previously, the deaths of Sergio Sosa (25), Jergege Achachuri (68), Juan Jose Ponce (51) y Miguel Ángel Quispe (60).
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The five had been reported missing and various evidence led investigators to the home of Matías Jurado, known today as “the house of terror”, located in the Alto Comedero neighborhood of the capital of Jujuy.
To announce it, Beller gave a press conference in the company of Sergio Lello Sánchezthe attorney general of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. There he explained that there are still two more genetic profiles pending to be compared and about 200 blood samples found at the defendant’s home.
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“We still have evidence in the laboratory to put together more genetic profiles, but up to this point we can say that there are five of the five victims we had originally talked about,” Beller said.
In this way, he added: “We are beginning to close a circle, but not the investigation, which has not even been going on for 60 days but already has a lot of evidence. We still have to analyze many hours of cameras from the 911 system.”
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Regarding Jurado’s situation, Sánchez announced that the accusation would be modified to five acts of homicide aggravated by cruelty, treachery and pleasure in real competition, a crime that carries a penalty of life imprisonment.