Buenos Aires, November 25 (NA) -- November 26 marks the 19th anniversary of the murder of Nora Dalmasso in 2006. Her naked body was found in her daughter's bedroom in a mansion in the Villa Golf neighborhood of Río Cuarto. However, to date, there has been only one accused, who was acquitted, and the victim's family intends to appeal the latest judicial decision.
According to information from the Argentine News Agency, the accused, 45-year-old Roberto Barzola, was charged in 2024 as the main suspect after DNA tests linked him to traces found at the crime scene. According to the autopsy results, the killer left fingerprints on the woman's neck, whom he manually strangled by compression, and also strangled her with the belt of her bathrobe.
However, the Criminal, Correctional and Accusatory Chamber of the Second Nomination of Río Cuarto ruled that almost 19 years had passed since the homicide, a period that exceeds the 15-year maximum established in the Penal Code for that crime.
Nevertheless, the prosecution considered that the resolution does not take into account that the case has a "high probative weight," and last October, they announced that they will file a cassation appeal before the Superior Court of Justice of Córdoba, while also considering resorting to international instances if necessary.
The victim was married to Marcelo Macarrón, who found out about an affair she had with Miguel "the French" Rohrer, a self-proclaimed "grain" businessman and a powerful "drug" merchant.
h7VCCw In previous years, investigators' hypothesis pointed to a supposed femicide by Macarron, who in 2022 was acquitted by a jury's decision of the charge of ordering the murder of his wife, Nora Dalmasso.
Nineteen years after the crime, the case remains marked by judicial back-and-forth: during this time, there have been discarded hypotheses, closed lines of investigation with no results, and different prosecutors who intervened without being able to move towards a solid accusation.
