Saturday, January 7, 2023 | 4:47 p.m.
In a radius of 1,500 square meters, the search for Santiago and Lucía, the 7 and 3-year-old siblings whose mother, shortly before noon yesterday, claimed to have thrown them into the water to kill them with the subsequent intention to take his own life.
Tactical divers from the Naval Prefecture rake the bottom supported by the force vessels on the surface, while uniformed men, scientific experts from the Regional Unit III of the Misiones Police and baqueanos, advance by land checking every meter of the shore in looking for some vestige that guides the investigation that also extended to the towns of Puerto Piray, Montecarlo and Caraguatay.
In this sense, sources from the Prefecture reported that during this second day of work they found “personal effects of minors”, without giving details if it is a toy or items of daily use. The discovery ran the epicenter of the search but so far the bodies have not been found.
Commotion in Eldorado
It should be remembered that everything happened in the area known as 200 Steps of the waterfront of Kilometer 1 of Eldorado.
After being rescued from the waters of the Paraná by a canoeist and before a Prefectural patrol that finally brought her to safety, the woman, identified as Mirian Z. (34), revealed that she intended to take her own life and that a while before she had thrown her two children into the mighty river, assuring that they “disappeared from the surface”.
Immediately, both the federal and the provincial forces organized the search operation, both in the riverside area and in the depths, including running downstream. In parallel, details of this tragic decision became known.
According to some of her relatives, the woman now suspected of double aggravated homicide was not in a good state of mental health, she was noted to be quite depressed and in recent years she required psychiatric treatment, even more so since her children were born, for which reason the father of the children was the one who was in charge of their care.
The information provided by police sources also indicates that according to the testimony of the couple, Pablo V. (38), the woman would have left a farewell letter and in this context she told that she suffers from acute schizophrenia, a state that could have influenced the tragic decision.
The police doctors who examined her found that she was a person with a history of psychiatric pathology, who was on medication and who was treated by Mental Health some time ago.
She remains detained in police custody and at the disposal of the Second Investigating Court of Eldorado.
