Trial for the crime of Nora Dalmasso: the victim's brother pointed at a lawyer and a businessman

Juan, Nora Dalmasso's brother, testified Tuesday at the resumption of the trial against Marcelo Macarrón, accused of instigating the femicide of his wife. The defendant's brother-in-law said that Justice and Police investigated hypotheses “wrong, superficially and with errors” throughout the process, which took 15 years since the crime, occurred in 2006. And he paid for the theory of defense, by pointing to businessman Miguel Rohrer.

As he began his presentation this morning before the popular jury and the technical tribunal of the Criminal and Correctional Chamber of the 1st Nomination of Río Cuarto, in the province of Córdoba, Juan Dalmasso considered that “from the beginning of the investigation, a bad path was taken with the theory of suicide” and, since then, “all roads have been wrong”, since there was “a lot of trial and error”.

Nora's brother argued that many of the photographs taken of his sister's marks on various parts of his body “were not analyzed in depth” and that, in addition, “evidence and the crime scene were minimized.” He also questioned that “(Daniel) Lacasse was not investigated”, the first lawyer who represented Macarrón, although he did not elaborate on the matter.

When asked by the prosecutor of the trial, Julio Rivero, about whether he knows what Macarrón is accused of, Dalmasso replied that “yes” and then said that he does not have any evidence he can provide in this regard to get to the truth of what happened. In addition , he said that he asked his brother-in-law and believed in his innocence.

Nora's brother was the first to testify during this day of the trial that began on March 14 and this afternoon the day continued with the testimony of Jorge Grassi, the victim's cousin, and his wife, Nana Malenka Gavazza; Silvia Magallanes, Lacasse's friend and wife, and neighbor Adrián Radaelli.

As has been the case in this first stage of the process, this fifth hearing continues to receive testimonies and documentary evidence associated with the chronology of events following the discovery of Dalmasso's body, about the people who were there, in addition to determining whether the protocols for the preservation of evidence.

Juan Dalmasso and his mother, Delia “Nené” Dalmasso, were the only complainants who had the file during the investigation of the case, although they eventually disagreed with the accusation against the accusation against the widower Macarrón, as stated by the victim's son, Facundo.

At the research stage, Juan Dalmasso had provided evidence of a notebook in which Nora kept notes related to her private life and stated that although her sister and Macarrón “had a lot of discussion”, they were “a good marriage” and had an “excellent relationship, at least in the sight of others”.

The five witnesses who will testify today were at the victim's home on November 26, 2006 once they became aware of the crime, observed the investigators' movements from the start, and witnessed the kidnapping of kidnapped items on the family property, located in the country Villa Golf of Río Cuarto.

In the case of Radaelli, who lived next to the house of marriage, he will testify to the sayings of his father, Pablo Radaelli, who received a telephone call from “Nené” Grassi, Nora's mother, asking her to come to her daughter's house because she did not answer her phone calls.

Radaelli Sr., the first to see Nora's body, will not testify at the trial for health reasons.

The trial has as its sole defendant the widower Macarrón, who faces charges for the crime of “homicide qualified by the bond, by alevosia and by price or remuneratory promise in ideal competition”, which provides for life imprisonment.

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