Although the case is resolved for the investigators, the crime of the musician who appeared stabbed to death and with his genitals severed in an apartment in La Plata still has a big question mark: What will happen to his partner, the only one arrested for the bloody murder discovered this Thursday?
The prosecutor’s office awaits the results of the psychiatric tests on the woman, who hours after her arrest was admitted to the San Martín Hospital. As already reported 0221.com.arAccording to what the researchers were able to reconstruct, the 41-year-old woman, identified as Florence Beloved Cattáneo; he attacked Pedro Zarate50, stabbing her, causing several cuts on her body, a deep wound on her chest and mutilating her genitals, to later go to her mother’s house in Gonnet, where she was finally arrested.
After the arrest, “she was admitted yesterday to the San Martín de La Plata Hospital,” according to a police source, she told this outlet. However, the researchers told the agency telam that “It cannot be said if he is not impeachable or not, but what is certain is that at the moment he is not in a position to submit to criminal proceedings”.
Determining the degree of imputability will be decisive for the progress of the case and that is why the prosecutor Anna Medina awaits the result of medical and psychological expertise that will be key. Police versions indicate in this sense that up to now Cattaneo has always expressed himself with “delusional ideas.”
THE TERRIBLE MURDER
The case became known when the victim’s sister-in-law (sister of his alleged murderer) found Zárate mutilated and murdered when she went to look for him at his house, worried because she hadn’t heard from him since Sunday and he hadn’t answered his phone calls. Upon entering the apartment located on a high floor at 81 and 28, the woman found him lying on the bed, with stab wounds to the chest and other parts of his body and with his genitals severed, the spokespersons detailed.
After the discovery, the woman notified the police, who informed her that last Tuesday her sister Florencia had appeared at her mother’s house with her hands stained with blood. Immediately, the investigation focused on the victim’s wife and it was established that the defendant had fled the place in her blue Fiat Palio vehicle, which was later found abandoned in the vicinity of Parque Saavedra, on Calle 12, between 65 and 66. It is believed that from that place the suspect boarded a taxi that took her to her mother’s house, located at 490 al 1900, between 14 and 14 bis; where she was apprehended and made available to the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 1 of La Plata.
WHO WAS PEDRO ZARATE?
Pedro Zárate, known as Peter among his friends and acquaintances; he was a native of the province of Córdoba, but had lived in the city for a long time. In addition to being a trumpeter, he was an actor and a fervent activist for Human Rights, having been part of the “Teatro x la identidad” cycle, while now he was linked to the cultural center of the Provincial Station, in Meridiano V.
According to his profiles on social networks, he was also married to the alleged murderer since 2011 and had a 6-year-old son with her, who, it is worth noting, was not in the place when everything happened since he was being cared for. of his paternal grandparents.
Zárate’s death led to an innumerable number of messages on social networks remembering him. “I still do not fall, in shock and I think we will never understand. I want to remind you between cables, consoles, speakers and artists, just as we have lived together for the last 15 years. Years and years of sound assembly to carry out dreams, projects and delusions in the Provincial Station, hundreds of fair Sundays next to the circus arena, countless shows, there they go and will remain on the cobblestones and memories of those who were there”It was one of those messages that moved everyone on social networks. The publication is accompanied by images of Zárate enjoying the activities that he promoted in the iconic building at 17 and 71.
