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They confirmed the court for the jury trial of Del Rio, the double parricide

The alleged aggressor will be brought to trial for the quadruply aggravated double homicide of his parents that occurred in August 2022, in what will be the first preliminary hearing between the parties.

  • 27/10/2023 • 09:05

The Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 7 of San Isidro was drawn to take charge of the jury trial to which the alleged parricide Martín Del Rio will be subjected for the quadruply aggravated double homicide of his parents, which occurred in August 2022 in the district Vicente López, Buenos Aires, and within a month he will be face to face with the judge who will moderate the debate, in what will be the first preliminary hearing between the parties. Judicial sources informed Télam this Wednesday that after the judge of Guarantees 1 of San Isidro, Ricardo Costa, elevated the case to an oral trial on August 24, the draw was made and TOC 7 was designated for the trial. As this is a trial by jury - and not a traditional one with a collegiate court of three members -, the magistrate who will be in charge of directing it was also drawn within TOC 7 and, in this case, it will be Judge María Coelho. This San Isidro court, with Coelho as a member, had another resonant case for a double patricide like that of the victims José Enrique Del Rio (75) and María Mercedes Alonso (72), which culminated in two being sentenced to life imprisonment, although later one of them had his sentence reduced. This is the so-called double patricide of Pilar, which occurred on September 2, 2015, when Ricardo Klein (54) and his wife Miryam Kowalczuck (52) were shot to death by their own children, dismembered, incinerated and their remains discarded in 16 bags of garbage in a wasteland. For this fact, TOC 7 sentenced the stepbrothers and then couple, Leandro Acosta and Karen Klein - he was the woman's son and she was the man's son - to life in prison, although the Court of Cassation later ordered to reduce their sentence. punishment for the young woman because she was not considered a co-author, but rather a secondary participant, and she was sentenced to 14 years in prison.