«Between heaven and earth, your perpetual heartbeat will be heard, begging to return to life, freedom, love, and knowledge,» states the announcement released by Laura Calampuca and Gustavo Melmann. On August 28, 2025, officers Ángel Sánchez Custodio, Osvaldo Alfredo Sissi, and José Luis Morillo appeared at the Mar del Plata Forensic Advisory, located at Almirante Brown 1762, to have their blood drawn, whose analysis will be key to determining the name of the fifth murderer. Sergeant Borra, Sergeant Enrique Diez, former Commissioner Merillo, and Major Commissioner Oroz Mieres are the other police officers who underwent the study, while officers Oviedo and Torrente have not yet been subjected to the comparison. The femicide: Natalia Melmann was found on February 4, 2001, under a mound of leaves in the “Florentino Ameghino” nursery in the coastal city of Miramar, and the autopsy revealed she was strangled with the cord of her sneakers, although at first glance the body showed bruises, burns, fractures, and a blow to the skull. In response, it was determined that she was sexually abused with penetration by five men, including Ricardo Anselmini, Ricardo Suárez, and Oscar Echenique, sentenced to life imprisonment for the crimes of “kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse with penetration by multiple persons and homicide to conceal a crime.” The ex-convict Gustavo “Gallo” Fernández received 25 years for his participation in the kidnapping, although the sentence was reduced to ten years. Ricardo Panadero had been acquitted twice “for lack of evidence,” although the Provincial Court of Cassation decided in 2019 to annul the ruling and announced that the fourth officer from the Bonaerense must be tried for his participation in the crime. Finally, on November 13, 2019, the III Chamber of the Bonaerense Court of Cassation annulled that dismissal and ordered that a new process be carried out, which took place in 2023 where Panadero was found guilty of the crimes of “aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty, aggravated sexual abuse and doubly aggravated homicide, by the premeditated agreement of two or more people and for being committed to ensure impunity” and received life imprisonment. The family of Natalia Melmann, the teenager who was brutally murdered by Bonaerense police in the coastal city of Miramar, has called for a march for next February 4, the day that 25 years of the femicide will be fulfilled, to demand the detention of the fifth author of the crime. The victim's parents informed Noticias Argentinas that the demonstration will take place on 21 and 28 streets at 21:00, where they will demand the confirmation of the identity of the DNA found on the body. “25 years of love, pain, and struggle.”
