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One month after the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski (28), the Special Prosecutor Team (EFE) seems to have the case firmly on track to prove that it was a femicide in which members of the Sena clan were involved, especially César, who was young couple. There are a total of 198 pieces of evidence that were presented last Thursday in the request for preventive detention for the seven defendants. He himself maintains that there was a plan to kill the girl and that it actually came to fruition, even though her body has not yet been found.
“Without a body there is no crime, you have to deny everything,” César used to repeat as a joke to some friends when he was in confidence. That maxim (macabre), however, is not related to what the case says, which found a battery of elements to link the young man to the murder of his former partner. Even if the body does not appear, the investigators consider that they have elements to build the case.
Among the clues that could tell the story of what happened with Cecilia are a series of objects, the trace of cell phones and human remains. Everything is a matter of expert opinions to determine if they are related to the young woman and the terrible end.
The house of the Sena clan in Santa María de Oro 1460, where they believe Cecilia Strzyzowski was killed. Photo Juano Tesone / Special Envoy
Cecilia was last seen on June 2 at 9:14 a.m., when a security camera located in front of Emerenciano Sena’s house, at Santa María de Oro 1460, captured the moment she entered. She was never seen again and the prosecution believes that she was murdered that noon, when Emerenciano, César and Marcela Acuña were in the house.
The objects
While Chaco was going to the polls to vote in the PASO, in the Emerenciano neighborhood an anonymous call ignited the alert. On the outskirts, almost against one of the margins, there was a pile of clothes that had caught fire.
What was found were the remains of Cecilia’s suitcase, which she had packed with winter clothes to go with her partner to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. It is about the lie with which she was deceived to be able to kill him, according to the prosecution’s belief.
Chaco: the photos of the burned suitcase that could be Cecilia Strzyzowski and was found in the Emerenciano neighborhood courtesy NORTE GRANDE FEDERAL
This finding was decisive due to the number of items found: a ring, a chain, makeup, several medication blister packs, earrings, clothing, and cell phone casings.
In a line-up held on the 23rd, Gloria Romero, Cecilia’s mother, identified the ring, the chain, the suitcase and even the medicines that her daughter had taken.
In that same recognition operation, one of the most dramatic points took place: the pendant. It is a cross that Cecilia always carried with her and that was found on the banks of the Tragadero River on the 21st, in an operation in which they drained the water channel at the request of the repentant driver Gustavo Obregón. There they also found skeletal remains.
Dige: Caso Cecilia Strzyzowski
The cross pendant that Gloria could recognize. The same had been found in the bed of the Tragadero River
Recognizing that cross-shaped pendant and especially the clothes (pink, Cecilia’s favorite color) was a blow to the family. “We had to hold them because she was in shock,” one of the lawyers told Clarín at the time.
This Monday the National Gendarmerie delivered to the prosecutors the results of a series of raids carried out last Saturday the 24th at the Sena’s house, where they found what they believe to be Cecilia’s wallet. As it turned out, inside were some documents, such as cards, although it is expected that it will be recognized by the family in order to validate it. Part of a pink backpack was also found, which was used by the young woman to travel.
They had been burned in the Sena house. The report was delivered to prosecutors on Monday, but they are only scheduled to meet this Wednesday morning to assess the evidence they have and see how it stands. They trust that with the elements they have they can close the strongest stage of investigation.
The mobile phones
According to the case, on Tuesday, June 6, Marcela Acuña went with her son César to a Musimundo store to buy him a new telephone. It is that a large part of the clan had disposed of their cell phones after the operation to disappear Cecilia’s body. The devices were never found. However, the phones did talk.
The massive discarding did not prevent the prosecution from accessing the record of the movements made by the devices. Cell phones were essential to reconstruct part of the story that the Sena wanted to cover up.
First, through the impacts that the lines of César and Cecilia had on the Resistance antennas. In this way they were able to corroborate the route that the couple took in the previous hours until they arrived at Emerenciano’s house. Then, determine that the two phones began to move together after the time in which the prosecution located the crime.
Thus, the devices went together to the Emerenciano pig shop in Campo Rossi, where the body was dispatched. And they continued working until they were turned off on Monday the 5th, also in that place. It is that César used Cecilia’s telephones and his to give false clues to the family of her partner, and make them believe that they were in Ushuaia, according to the reconstruction that is made in the request for preventive prisons. He sent messages to Gloria, Mercedes (the grandmother), a friend and a cousin of Cecilia’s.
Another of the chats where, justice believes, Sena was trying to distract the family from Cecilia Strzyzowski’s cell phone
When that version did not run anymore, he wanted to install that she had gone with a lover in Buenos Aires. But it was late. The family recognized that she was not the girl she wrote about. These messages, crossed with the data from the antennas, would be one of the strongest clues that the prosecutorial team found to change the cover from ‘search for missing person’ to ‘femicide’. César, after trying to pass off that version as good, turned off the phones and discarded them.
The Justice accessed the phones of Cecilia and the seven defendants and they are being examined by the cybercrime department of the Chaco police, who was able to access the content stored in the cloud. From there they process the material and deliver the most outstanding data to the tax team.
This tip is one that is constantly being updated, as new items are found that are of interest to the cause. From these expert reports they hope to find conversations or data that allow them to reconstruct the day of the crime and the days before.
One of the desires of the complaint is to be able to reconstruct more precisely what role each of the three Sena had at the time the crime was committed based on the movement of the devices inside the house. For this they hope to be able to have a finer detail that even allows them to find out which room each one was in.
A screenshot of the search history made by César Sena’s phone after the crime of Cecilia Strzyzowski
But one of the most chilling finds the phones turned up was the latest Google searches for the devices. It is that Cecilia spent the last hours of her looking for where to eat chocolates once she is in Buenos Aires. César, in the days after the crime, searched for “what the mind of a murderer is like” or “what happens to a soul after a violent death”.
human remains
This Monday, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) received in Córdoba the samples of bone remains that had been found on June 22 in the Tragadero river, next to the Emerenciano Sena pig farm in Campo Rossi.
It is a series of skeletal remains that were charred for four days and thrown into the river. They are in several cases tiny. That is why there is great caution regarding the possibility of finding DNA traces inside that allow us to verify whether or not they correspond to Cecilia.
The Chaco Judiciary held on Tuesday, June 27, that “the bone samples analyzed belong to a single adult person, although it was not possible to determine sex, precise age, or cause of death because they are multi-fragmented and charred.”
Raking in the area of the Tragadero river, where the skeletal remains were found (Photo @hhp_notas)
The EAAF will carry out a genetic analysis of these samples and, if DNA is obtained, it will be compared with the genetic profile of Cecilia’s family. Last Friday the tests were taken through a salivary swab, which is much more effective than blood samples. As confirmed to Clarín, the analysis of the remains in Córdoba will begin next Monday the 10th and will yield results in just four weeks.
“There are many samples, all fragmented into various parts. But they are not repeated, which is why it was concluded that they are from a single human body,” judicial sources explained.
One of the remains is a bone that would correspond to the phalanx of a finger, which is 0.7 wide by 3.5 cm long. Also the phalanx of a toe, 1.3 by 3.5 cm. And the third of the metatarsus of a foot, 1.3 by 2.5 cm. They are the ones that yielded the best results to be identified.
The file also mentions a bone fragment that would be from a skull and dental pieces, but these were left as “doubtful.” That is, it could not be confirmed if they were human or animals according to the anthropological microscopic study, they added.
Although the prosecutor’s office mentioned that the teeth may not be able to provide relevant information, in the complaint they believe that it can be useful.
“The teeth have what is known as dentin inside, which has genetic material and is covered by a thicker layer that may have resisted the fire. That is why we believe that it can give us some information,” they tell Clarín. The forensic report indicates that they could be subjected to more complex studies such as microscopy and molecular biology (DNA).
The other point that can shed relevant information for the cause are the blood stains that were found among the furniture that left the Sena house towards the Emerenciano neighborhood.
In the Sena house they found bloodstains that are from an adult person and will be subjected to DNA tests. Photo Juano Tesone / Special Envoy
According to the investigators, in the days after the crime, a mattress, a bed, a sofa and two pieces of furniture were donated to a pregnant girl in the neighborhood. They were in the room where the femicide is believed to have occurred, located on the ground floor. The Sena ruled them out but they were kidnapped in an operation carried out on Thursday the 20th.
The stains appeared on the wooden frame of the bed and the mattress. According to the expertise, he tested positive for human blood. “This study has not yet been commissioned because it remains to be determined whether the samples found are sufficient to order a DNA test,” judicial sources confirmed. In that case, the samples will be analyzed by the Resistance Institute of Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IMCiF) and will be available “in a few weeks”.
All the clues are on the table, waiting to be able to find the pieces that allow us to reconstruct the story and close the case. For the tranquility of the family, for justice to be done.
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