translated from Spanish: Mar del Plata: they found a decapitated and handless corpse in an apartment

The decapitated body of a man who was also missing his hands was found this Friday inside an apartment located in the center of Mar del Plata.The discovery occurred at noon on the 18th floor of a building located on Corrientes Street at 1500. At the moment the body could not be identified although it is believed that it may be a retiree whose whereabouts are unknown since last summer, and it could be established that the death dated from several months. According to the information provided by the investigators, around noon personnel from a cleaning company entered the apartment, which had been abandoned and usurped until a few months ago, with the mission of reconditioning it. However, to their surprise the employees encountered the horror: the body of a man lying in the dining room, practically mummified. The first inquiries indicated that the date of death of the man would date from a date similar to the one that ended the usurpation of the property. As it was known, once the Police went to the place, the identity document of a person who would have lived illegally in the apartment was found. However, it is expected to verify the identity of the deceased through DNA tests and other scientific techniques. Prosecutor Leandro Arévalo, of the Judicial Department of Mar del Plata, intervened in the case, who ordered that the autopsy of the body be carried out in order to collect a greater amount of data to clarify the fact. Meanwhile, investigators were focusing on the possibility that a homicide was committed. In turn, the expertise and investigations are in charge of the Scientific Police and the local Departmental Delegation of Investigations (DDI). Among the first investigative tasks, testimony was taken from several neighbors and the person in charge of the building, to determine in a reliable way who had been the last person to occupy the apartment, in addition to their relationship with the environment. The focus of the investigators is now to locate two people linked to the retiree and who would have left the “house of horror” last fall. So far it has been possible to reconstruct that the property was occupied during the past year by a couple composed of a 75-year-old man and a 72-year-old woman. In the months leading up to the end of the year the man suffered an accident, and was unable to leave the building. What is now being investigated is whether the plot involves gravitating a well-known man from the center of Marplatense, somewhat younger than the couple, and who would have begun to frequent the house according to La Capital.La owner of the apartment, a woman of almost 90 years from the City of Buenos Aires, stopped receiving the rent and that is why she intimated the occupants of the place to leave there. Although this would only have happened last March, and since then the property was closed.

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