Tuesday May 2, 2023 | 3:30 p.m.
In a year of investigation for the murder of farmer Luis Omar Neis (68), several investigative lines were followed from the Investigating Court Three of Puerto Iguazú. Testimonial contributions from neighbors and relatives of the victim were added, who at the time focused the investigation on two alleged young criminals who, in different roles, were accused of committing the homicide in order to sell the farmer’s truck in Brazil. Even, at first, the responsibility for the crime was attributed to one of the children of the deceased.
However, the lack of strong evidence linking the suspects directly to the event did nothing but lead to their respective releases.
The aforementioned is a synthesis of the investigations that have been carried out up to now for the murder of the farmer from the Paraje Península de Comandante Andresito who on May 1 of last year was found lifeless on his farm by one of his neighbors.
The latter was surprised that the gate on the victim’s property had been open for several days. For this reason, he decided to go investigate, entered and found Neis without her hands -possibly due to the action of animals-, under a grapefruit tree, about 50 meters from the house.
The professionals detected a firearm injury that entered through the thorax, ammunition that was lodged in a rib. The projectile could be extracted and was seized in the framework of the investigation. Later it was determined that it had come from one of the weapons seized from the house.
The investigators seized a cell phone, a notebook with notes, a card, a cell phone chip from a Brazilian company, two Argentine chips, and an old driver’s license.
One of the details that did not go unnoticed by the investigators was that the victim’s Toyota Hilux truck was not on the farm and that the farmer’s oral prosthesis, split in four, was found in the garage.
lack of merit
A few days after the fact was known, based on the first inquiries made in Paraje Peninsula, the investigators found elements that led to the suspicion of the possible participation in the crime of one of Neis’s sons: Marcos Alejandro (29).
The first person targeted in the case was Marcos (29), son of the murdered farmer. Photo: Misiones Police
Apparently, a bad relationship that he had recently with his father would have made the investigations distrustful, although later in the file, Judge Martín Brites did not find sufficient elements to link him to the crime.
At the time of resolving his procedural situation, he was dictated by a lack of merit, when at one point it was believed that he would obtain preventive detention. As this medium opportunely reported, in his investigative statement the suspect gave his version of the facts and disassociated himself from the crime.
new track
The file had important news at the beginning of last January when a series of testimonials opened a new line of investigation in the case.
The alleged involvement of two young people in the event led to five raids carried out by order of the Justice in different homes in Andresito and where two suspects ended up in custody.
Before the Police, witnesses reconstructed that for four days, the alleged perpetrators, identified as Gabriel Alejandro G. (19) and Jorge “Jorgito” DS (19), would have carried out various tasks of monitoring and surveillance of Neis on his farm in El Paraje Andresito Peninsula.
Luis Omar (68) lived alone on his farm located in Paraje Península.
This allowed them to know which roads the victim used every time he left his property, which he used to do very few times a month, since according to what the farmer’s relatives described, Neis was considered a hermit and had little contact with his family. relatives.
Based on the investigations, the hypothesis was drawn up that the last time Neis left his property with a truck, he was seen by the two young men when he was refueling at a local service station, which was used by the alleged attackers to go ahead on the road and arrive before the farm.
In this line, after waiting for the owner of the house, both hiding in the garage, when parking the truck, the victim was shot, apparently before getting out of the vehicle.
Moments later, always in accordance with the investigative line that was used, the attackers removed the victim’s body and took it to another sector of the farm where days later it would be found lifeless by one of his neighbors.
What was believed is that once the homicide was completed, one of the youths drove the farmer’s Toyota Hilux along a dirt road until he reached the Cabure-í area, and from there he took National Route 101 to reach the town of San Antonio. .
At this last point, the offender would have taken care of dismantling the truck and several of the parts were taken to be sold in Brazil. This is where the third person involved in the case appears. For the investigators, the duo had had the collaboration of a 17-year-old teenager who apparently kept several parts of the scrapped truck.
For all this, both Gabriel G. (19) and the minor were arrested during the various raids. Although later the witnesses who revealed the alleged involvement of the young people in the plan to keep the truck did not ratify their statements in court.
In this way, again there were no compelling elements to link them to the murder, so like Neis’s son, they were also released.
