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Having spent his first night at the Department of Investigations...

5 YEARS AFTER THE MURDER

...Carlos Carrascosa was transferred to the Seventh Precinct,

located a few streets away from where he was first arrested.

This, after being sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

Dr. Ferrari, his lawyer,

visited him and spoke about a petition to court

to get him an early supervised release.

The justice system had a pleasant surprise in store for Carlos Carrascosa.

CARRASCOSA BAILED HIMSELF OUT

The money needed for his bail was quickly deposited by his attorneys.

When Prosecutor Molina Pico

appeals the cover-up sentence against Carrascosa...

HIS FREEDOM IS NOT FINAL

...the case goes to the Provincial Penal Cassation Court.

And what the judges do there is say,

"The evidence used in the trial

to convict Carrascosa of covering up the murder

is actually the same evidence that can prove Carlos Carrascosa...

JOURNALIST

...is María Marta's murderer."

The evidence is clear.

PROSECUTOR

The evidence is conclusive, for it proves Carrascosa

committed the crime, alongside other people.

And finally, years later...

JOURNALIST

...a ruling by the Cassation Court

found Carrascosa guilty as charged.

Almost two years after Carlos Carrascosa was convicted

to five and a half years in prison for covering up his wife's crime,

the Cassation Court of Buenos Aires

sentenced the widower to life imprisonment.

The ruling was made after an appeal by Prosecutor Diego Molina Pico,

who accused the widower of being the co-author of the homicide.

Are you happy now, Prosecutor?

I was convicted...

of murder.

And I was sentenced to life imprisonment.

LIFE IMPRISONMENT

Before Carrascosa, there was no precedent of a Cassation Court

convicting someone directly or ordering their immediate detention.

7 YEARS AFTER THE MURDER

I stayed home that night, a friend of mine and her husband came.

We were there, had a barbecue.

"The Last Supper."

Clear the way, guys.

And the next morning...

they came to get me.

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES

-Wait till he comes, guys! -He'll be down any second.

-Who could've done it? -You're the prime suspect.

His demeanor remains the same.

Carrascosa, who could've killed María Marta?

Why didn't you report the burglary?

This case was big, not only because of the murder...

WRITER

...but also because it unveiled a lifestyle

that wasn't so well-known back then, you know?

What caught my attention the most was the media scandal around the case.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

I'm surprised by the fact that what immediately comes into play

was the powers that be.

The family's wealth, its power, its prestige.

The fact she could be buried at La Recoleta cemetery.

This element of power

skews the hypotheses going around...

and makes the case more interesting.

Crimes are always unsettling when they happen in places

where there shouldn't be a crime.

Everything seems to lead to a murder mystery story

that would be interesting for me to write about...

WRITER

...as a crime where everyone is the murderer,

a crime where everyone is the victim.

In reality, crimes go unpunished. In a murder mystery, one knows who did it.

I think what the murder mystery does is actually unveil the truth.

Walsh said it, "If there's no justice, at least let there be truth."

It also had this amazing comedic quality to it.

It's great, the "thingy" that was found

in the country club's septic tank.

A crime that the upper-class tries to cover up,

and its most fundamental piece of evidence is buried in a septic tank.

Regardless of their status,

or their economic power...

PROSECUTOR

...regardless, we got there."

"HE KILLED HER"

I divided the country in two halves at the time.

Maybe 60% were against me...

MARÍA MARTA'S WIDOWER

...around 20% were on my side and 20% were uncertain.

Piglia's theory, which I love, of the paranoid conspiracy

says that we need to know who killed her and why.

And we become impatient. So, we blame anyone

because we can't stand the uncertainty of not knowing.

NO ONE DID IT

The media need to sell.

I wouldn't say their job is telling the truth.

The truth came second to the ratings...

THE BLACK WIDOWER

...to sensationalism.

A SHAMEFUL CRIME?

To be walking and have the garbage truck stop,

not to shake my hand,

but to hug me and kiss me.

What sold was gruesomeness...

MARÍA MARTA'S SISTER

...a mobster family, they'd say anything.

"THEY'RE A MOBSTER FAMILY"

I don't know how many murders were committed in 2002,

but surely María Marta wasn't the only homicide victim...

CARRASCOSA'S LAWYER

...and no one knows about the other victims.

It's in our radar because the media put it there.

We were like Dynasty.

MARÍA MARTA'S BROTHER

It was all people talked about in Argentina.

It was all good business for the media.

A huge boost for ratings.

Sixty days on the front page of Argentina's top two newspapers.

Molina Pico adds that Carlos Carrascosa...

Carlos Carrascosa is being moved right now

from the Seventh Precinct in San Isidro.

They'll take him to the Campana Penal Unit 41 prison.

In prison,

hierarchy depends on the crime committed.

It doesn't matter if you're innocent or guilty,

what matters is the charge.

You have a better status if you killed a cop.

Then come the ones who killed their wives.

Because all inmates say,

"Who hasn't wanted to kill his wife at some point?"

The Cassation Court ordered the investigation of two people

who were close to the family.

They are Guillermo Bártoli and the victim's half-sister,

Irene Hurtig.

THE SISTER TELLS IT ALL

When in 2009

the appeal turns around Carlos's sentence and convicts him of murder,

it upholds Molina Pico's theory of a functional co-authorship

and refers directly to Guillermo and me.

There was no cover-up, I didn't kill her, and neither did Carlos.

Where you there when she was killed?

No! Are you kidding me?

No, I'm telling you there's an ongoing investigation

that involves you, and not only in a cover up!

But I haven't been called in for interrogation!

-Fine. -I mean...

I ask for Irene to be investigated,

for being at the crime scene at the time of its occurrence.

We have to remember it wasn't only Carrascosa.

There was Guillermo Bártoli

and Irene Hurtig at some point...

JOURNALIST

...also indicted as an accessory to murder.

HER BROTHER-IN-LAW AND SISTER UNDER INVESTIGATION

When the Cassation Court did this,

we were waiting for me to be called in for interrogation

and for them to change Guillermo's charges and call him in, too.

None of that happened.

The investigation stopped there.

PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY

One of the co-authors of the murder was found, which was Carrascosa.

There were supposedly two more to be found.

And we entered a stage where... nothing happened.

We didn't participate anymore, and the case wasn't investigated further.

I've been involved with the case from the beginning.

I always took an interest in this case...

ANESTHESIOLOGIST

...because of all the media coverage it had.

Mostly because I couldn't understand

how an entire family could take part...

in something like that.

I was sure Carlos Carrascosa was guilty,

that her step-siblings were guilty, too, and her in-law...

The one I could never truly believe was guilty was Horacio.

"He's a liar, I'm outraged." Elsa from Podestá.

"Stop acting, no one believes you." María from Avellaneda.

"You can even see Belsunce's guilt on his expressions."

Silvia from Villa Urquiza.

Why don't they believe you, Horacio?

I'm a journalist.

I've worked as such for 11 years...

JOURNALIST

...on radio and television as a producer and investigator.

I worked with Horacio García Belsunce.

An excellent boss, an excellent person.

I knew...

Horacio had nothing to do with it.

If Carlos Carrascosa had been María Marta's murderer,

Horacio García Belsunce would've accused him without hesitation.

And that, I know.

Carlos's detention is absolutely unfair.

So, it's time to go out and tell people

to at least help us find the murderer.

And once again, a media strategy from the defense begins

which includes hosting his own radio show from prison...

Today is the day we celebrate God's best invention: women.

RADIO SHOW - CAMPANA PRISON

What man who values his manliness

hasn't walked in life under the influence of a woman?

That wonderful being that gives us life, that gives us love...

and pleasure.

He even gave interviews where he spoke about health issues he was having.

My clogged carotid artery here...

it's not a product of me not giving a damn.

Right now, I'm doing

everything I can to carry on

and attend to my health as much as I can.

And that way, somehow, he begins to have a favorable public image

that produces empathy in many sectors of the audience.

If the person accused of murder

is like me, talks like me,

then he couldn't have killed anyone.

The guys here, the wardens, say to me, "Listen,

how could you kill someone and still have their brother visit you,

and the parents write you letters? What is this?"

The media...

have always won.

No prosecutor has ever followed the leads we've given to them.

It's horrible to feel that, on top of needing to know who killed María,

I have nobody looking for the murderer.

When I saw Carlos Carrascosa in an interview,

I got a feeling from him...

he had so much pain and deep sadness.

The next day, I reached out to Horacio.

I called him, started crying and said,

"I can't believe what's happening to you.

It's a nightmare, I know, I'm here for you."

One night, there was this show on TV

about the family on the Susana Giménez show,

I never get nervous, I've been doing this show for 24 years, but...

this whole case is so terrible,

that I'm going to be the voice of the people.

And at one point they said

that the perimeter alarm wasn't working that day,

that there was a car with an unknown license plate

that was never investigated...

What we do know for sure, is there's a lot of leads to investigate.

For example, the security cameras were off that day.

María Marta's house was partly enclosed by the boundary fence.

The cameras were off.

An unknown car with a fake plate got in.

The clues are there, but they were never investigated.

I was with my mom, I looked at her and said, "But then...

what happened? Are they innocent?"

That day, a chill went down my spine,

and I felt like my eyes were opening, like the cover fell off my eyes,

and I could see the truth.

And when I'd spent three years locked up,

that's when they started the blog.

Well, these are the headquarters.

GARCÍA BELSUNCE'S CASE BLOG

GARCÍA BELSUNCE'S CASE

On one of the interviews Carlos did at the time, he mentioned the blog.

And that day, 10,000 people visited the blog.

CARRASCOSA TALKS ON BLOG

And from then on, they didn't stop visiting.

There's 237,085 hits to this day.

We digitized the entire case file,

so people could read the statements

from Carlos's entire trial.

I believe Malú and I took on a role,

without being lawyers, but as a defense of sorts.

Here's a meter that counts how long it has been

since María Marta's death.

17 YEARS - 236 DAYS

What do you think happened?

My hypothesis of what happened...

is very simple. It was a burglary.

Bank accounts were all frozen. No one put their money in the bank,

everyone kept it at home.

It was a day when...

everyone would be watching the game at someone's house.

They went to get the money, which was rumored to be around a million dollars.

I think they went in to steal the money that they thought was there,

and María Marta got back earlier unexpectedly.

I think that day she went to play tennis, as usual.

A storm breaks, which interrupts her tennis match.

She goes to the Bártolis'.

On her bike.

And María Marta decides to leave

and went straight home.

And I think that's when she finds them or hears noises...

inside the house, and there, in the hall,

I believe was her first confrontation with the aggressors.

Not only did she see them, she recognized them.

It's very likely that's when they shot her first,

which would be the famous projectile referred to as "thingy"

that got stuck in her hair.

And they corner her between the bidet and the toilet.

To me, they threw her in the bathtub and, well... left.

The year 2009 went by.

Then, 2010 went by.

I'm subpoenaed for the cover-up trial

in May 2011.

A part of María Marta's family

went to trial long after Carrascosa was sentenced.

This week, on Wednesday to be precise,

the second trial begins.

We're talking about María Marta García Belsunce's murder.

The case will be presented by Prosecutor Laura Zyseskind.

I was just back from vacation.

PROSECUTOR OF THE COVER-UP TRIAL

I get an official notification,

that I'd been assigned, along with two other prosecutors,

to the oral and public trial for the cover-up crime

that would take place at Criminal Courthouse Number 1.

Carlos was in prison,

and Horacio was facing a trial for cover-up

along with the rest of the family, the doctor and the masseuse.

The cover-up charges had nothing to do

with helping a specific person

but with having hidden that the victim suffered a violent death...

THEY GOT A FAKE DEATH CERTIFICATE

HORACIO: "GET RID OF COPS"

...both from the police and the prosecutor

by altering the crime scene...

DOCTOR ORDERED TO CLEAN

...and discarding evidence from the crime scene.

A week before the trial,

they decide to arrest me

charged with homicide,

aggravated murder, as co-author...

based on Molina Pico's theory.

The law ordered Irene Hurtig's arrest.

She's María Marta García Belsunce's half-sister.

I mean, are they crazy?

There's no need to arrest me.

They could've just subpoenaed me. Well...

The supervising judge who rules in the matter

sees that this doesn't make any sense.

He annuls the warrant for my arrest

and tells them to call me in for questioning,

which never happened.

That's when this whole co-authorship theory fell apart.

It was over with.

We're beginning a second trial for this case.

The same prosecutors that tried to have me arrested

like the mafia, in a nasty way, for the lack of a better word,

called the media so as to throw a red herring.

You know they did it to throw a red herring.

Present for the debate at San Isidro's Criminal Courthouse Number 1

are the victim's brother, Horacio García Belsunce,

her half-brother, John Hurtig, the brother-in-law, Guillermo Bártoli,

a neighbor, Sergio Binello,

the masseuse who cleaned up the blood, Beatriz Michelini,

and Doctor Juan Ramón Gauvry Gordon.

My sister was killed, and I am here,

in for covering up my own sister's murder?

You'd have to have a pretty sick mind to think of something like that.

And while the cameras were inside the courtroom,

Beatriz Michelini covered her face.

Beatriz Michelini was brought to trial

for her involvement, having cleaned the scene.

We were able to establish at what time she entered,

which the family initially led us to believe

occurred from the very beginning, close to the time Mr. Carrascosa entered

and found the victim in the tub.

Carmel Country Club, in Pilar. Kilometer 55, I think.

-Down the Panamericana? -Yes.

-Kilometer 55? -Yes, out the Pilar exit.

Any landmark to guide us there?

It's the entrance to...

But with the analysis of the phone calls,

they find that, at that time,

Michelini was at the entrance gate waiting to be let in.

MAIN GATE

Beatriz Michelini, the masseuse, just told the court

that when the call to the ambulance was made, at 19:07,

she wasn't at the house.

I heard on the radio

the masseuse's testimony

that she hadn't arrived at 7:00 p.m.

They had changed her whole story.

Because this didn't match at all

her previous testimony

taken a few days after María's death.

She said she found me there at 7:00 p.m.

She did clean up.

But the reason she did it

had nothing to do with concealing or covering-up the crime's evidence.

She didn't know what had happened

because she stepped into a staged scene.

A CAREFULLY STAGED SCENE

Truth is, until now, the only thing that's been proven

is that Belsunce was murdered,

and that her widower, Carlos Carrascosa,

was convicted as the author of this crime.

The alleged silence pact and cover-up by the family

is being judged right now,

though the motive, the reason why they did it,

remains a mystery.

Tell us the story of the medium.

-Sorry. -Want some water?

Yes. This makes me nervous.

I, being

the resourceful type...

thought,

"I'll get a medium,

go to María Marta's house with Carlos's permission,

and leave her there for her to tell me what happened."

Nobody knows this.

We went into the house at midnight together.

She didn't let me turn the lights on.

I didn't know the house.

It was pretty... scary.

She started feeling things.

She followed the same path as María Marta

on the day she was killed.

She thought she was there to rid the house of some spirits,

until she got to the bedroom and started screaming...

desperately.

She told me, "A woman was killed here.

She drowned."

She told me the first thing they did to María was grab her by the neck.

She mentioned a man at the scene.

With bangs, hair kind of long, young.

And... four other people.

The date has been set for the ruling. It will be November fourth.

Then we'll know if the law acquits or convicts the six accused

for covering up María Marta García Belsunce's murder.

The media has great influence on the judges' rulings.

It's not just an observation of mine, I know it through friends who are judges.

One feels calm

thinking that the judges will rule

strictly based on what happens in court.

Not on information said elsewhere.

With the exception, as in this case, of the introduction of evidence

from the declarations made by the accused to the press.

And we used an interview that the family gave on a TV show.

One of them in particular said that the weapon used

to murder María Marta was an old gun.

It was .32 long. But it was an old gun.

And they shot her from a point-blank range.

There was no other way

to explain how they knew exactly what kind of gun it was.

So, the judges didn't rule based on what they heard on TV,

but because that particular interview

was brought in as evidence for the trial.

There's an investigation report that said the gun was old.

MARÍA MARTA'S BROTHER

That the bullets they extracted from María Marta's skull

couldn't be tested because they were from an old gun.

There were tests by experts, reports, audio analyses...

Well, finally the verdict was pronounced.

After over four months of arguments,

the second trial for María Marta's murder comes to an end.

I obviously wanted to know

what the ruling was, the verdict on that case.

It's fantastic that someone unrelated to me,

with whom I never spoke or met before, followed the case.

And when they read the judgment

it was a surprise to me.

By unanimity...

a conviction of four years in prison,

court costs and legal expenses,

as the authors criminally responsible

for aggravated cover-up,

as the aforementioned is an especially serious crime.

We order the immediate detention of Juan Ramón Gauvry Gordon,

Juan Carlos Hurtig, Sergio Rafael Binello,

Horacio Carlos García Belsunce, and Guillermo Bártoli.

Mr. Hurtig!

Sit down, please.

They took us out in cuffs.

They took our shoes, our belts,

our wallets, everything.

And took us out the back to a cell.

Yeah, it was very hard.

Of course it was very important to me,

because it proved that every accusation leveled at me then and even now,

claiming I fixated on the family and didn't see beyond that,

that I was biased

and didn't pursue every possible lead in the investigation...

When it was in the hands

of someone else,

that person followed my path

and got them all convicted.

Except Michelini, who was acquitted.

We're innocent.

My siblings are innocent, my husband is innocent.

When they imprisoned all the family members,

we held a protest at Plaza de Mayo square.

With all the youth who loves Carlos,

who are the children of María Marta and Carlos's friends.

This was proposed by the youngsters.

And I am proud that our youth,

who feel that having values is worth something.

My bail was set at... I think it was...

around 400,000 pesos, which I didn't have.

And my friends gathered the money in 24 hours and got me out.

Look, I don't wish it on anybody.

Some say, "It was just 15 days."

"Oh, you think 15 in prison isn't much?

Take one, and then we'll talk."

Do you think there could be any change in your situation?

I won't talk.

THE FIVE DETAINEES WALK FREE

Well, as we said, Eduardo.

-They had the cars ready. -The situation won't change.

They've been convicted, that hasn't changed.

At least for now, that hasn't changed.

I've only ever fought with two people: with my sister and with María Marta.

MARÍA MARTA'S FRIEND

You don't often fight with friends, fights are for siblings,

and you make up later.

So, I think the bond we had was mostly like a sisterly bond.

Speaking of "paying", we didn't pay. I don't know where this woman got that.

Let's see, Pichi, as I stated and ratify,

you said you paid to do what Carlos wanted.

For her not to undergo an autopsy and to be buried at the latest hour.

Are you sure Pichi Taylor said that to you that evening?

TRIAL - 2007

I'm convinced. I'll stand by it until the day I die.

Inés went to visit me in prison.

For me, it was a very painful situation

seeing Carlos convicted.

But I could always look at Carlos in the eye.

They tell me that she wants to see me.

I say, "Okay.

Let her come."

Before I could put the mate on the table...

I said,

"Go ahead, tell me why you're here."

I thought she'd apologize, you know? I thought she would.

"I didn't mean to." I don't know, something.

I've known her since she was born.

She was the same age as María, nine or ten.

And it was very hard for the both of us, I think,

but it was good for me

seeing him and being able to have a talk.

I had told him everything I had to say.

And I didn't get the answers I wanted.

So, it didn't make sense anymore.

"I wanted to see you were okay," she said.

"Okay, that's it? Okay then.

Bye."

And when I left, I said, "I don't think I'll ever come to see you again."

And it was hard.

But I stood by it.

I never went to see him again.

I turned 70.

And that's when I asked for house arrest.

The law states that, if you turn 70

or if you suffer from a terminal disease,

you can apply for this benefit and qualify for house arrest.

In this case, he met one of the requirements

and was granted the benefit.

So, minutes after 5:30, he leaves the Campana Penal Unit in that van.

He looked calm during the pickup.

They give you an ankle bracelet that allows you a 14-meter diameter.

Had I had a family, children, a wife,

it's different, for you go home to your family.

So, being alone in a house all day, not being able to move...

I would've rather stayed in prison.

In prison we had our radio show,

you could play truco, a card game, if you wanted.

You could play chinchón if you felt like it.

If I wanted to smoke a joint, I could.

They're bars, too.

Just not made of iron, but of greenery.

You've been convicted as the co-author of a woman's murder.

And you have nothing to say today?

With all the feminicides going on one every 30 hours.

Do feminicides matter to you or not?

Of course they matter to me. But you...

-Your questions are honestly... -I could ask you what you want.

The concept "feminicide" didn't exist at the time.

It's a more modern concept.

We would've probably treated it not only as feminicide,

but also gender-responsive.

The crime of passion hypothesis...

The victim of a crime of passion?

The theory of the crime of passion is reinforced again...

When this case began, there were so many theories.

The term "passion" was used without knowing what it meant

or who was accused of what "passion."

Fortunately, the term has been banished.

The mislabeled "crimes of passion."

We've explained thoroughly that "crime of passion" is not to be used.

It's a wrong term.

The thing here is that the husband is under scrutiny.

A feminicide is often mistaken

for what used to be called a "crime of passion."

There's no passion there, but hate, death, murder.

If you read the entire García Belsunce case file,

there's not a single testimony

that speaks of marital disagreements or trouble in the marriage,

arguments, infidelities, insults, nothing.

Maybe when we talked about finding the motive,

we could've dug deeper.

Had we looked further into the victim,

we might've found the motive.

The difference is that the argument

which started verbally, escalated.

When the prosecutor presents his argument, he says the motive was a fight...

a spousal argument,

without showing evidence to support that hypothesis.

It wasn't proven by the prosecution, by any means. It's not like...

they had three witnesses that saw them arguing and Carlos hitting her.

Nothing. He thought it could be due to a fight, but had no evidence.

After a while, I asked...

14 YEARS AFTER THE MURDER

...to appeal to the National Court.

The National Supreme Court

ordered what I petitioned: for the case to be reexamined.

The National Supreme Court

orders the Buenos Aires Supreme Court to revise the verdict.

The provincial Supreme Court says, "I won't revise it.

Let Cassation do it again."

So, I was sent back to the Cassation Court,

to a court that hadn't intervened in any of our cases.

Neither in my family's cover-up case, nor in my case.

There's a Court ruling here that questions

the conviction ruling.

That needs to be reviewed.

If it's not a solid ruling, why is Carrascosa in jail?

A COURT RULING COULD FREE CARRASCOSA

There's a very important development

that took place in the 2011 trial

brought by Dr. Moreira, one of the doctors who conducted the autopsy.

He pointed out that María Marta's rib fractures

didn't occur while she was alive

but during the CPR efforts.

Those fractured ribs had no blood, which showed

that the homicide happened at least an hour before, around 6:30 p.m.

CHAMBER I OF THE PENAL CASSATION COURT

DEAD AT LEAST AN HOUR EARLIER

THE VICTIM WAS MURDERED AT 6:30, AT THE LATEST

Everything that happened in the guys' trial

was very useful for Carlos.

María Marta's time of death, according to the doctors,

the approximate time of death,

doesn't match at all the time Carrascosa was there,

when he was entering or leaving. That's the truth.

So, Carrascosa can't be placed at the scene of the crime.

By determining that María Marta had died at 6:30 p.m.,

it was clear that Carlos couldn't have been at the house.

Why? Because...

For one, he was at my house,

but according to Molina Pico, he was at the clubhouse.

So, he definitely wasn't home.

And that's when this new session begins where,

with the same evidence and adding evidence from the other files,

that is, the cover-up case file,

they decide to dismiss Carlos Carrascosa and declare him innocent.

VERDICT: CARLOS ALBERTO CARRASCOSA IS ACQUITTED

CARRASCOSA GOES FREE

Carlos Carrascosa's acquittal.

Carlos Carrascosa is acquitted.

Carlos Carrascosa gets acquitted.

Carrascosa was locked up for seven years.

The last two, under house arrest.

Good evening.

First of all, I want to apologize

for it has been a very emotional day for me.

NO ONE KILLED MARÍA MARTA

AFTER 14 YEARS, WIDOWER AND CONVICTED FELON IS ACQUITTED

You're penniless.

Do you know what you'll do now that you're free?

To be honest, today, I don't.

WHO KILLED MARÍA MARTA?

Do you think María Marta recognized her killers?

For sure... that's why they killed her.

Carlos said at the time

that María Marta sent angels to him, us two.

And I think that, in some way,

I felt...

along with Malú, like a savior angel.

Do you resent anyone, Carrascosa?

As Mandela said...

"When you get out of prison,

forget who you are and who your enemy once was."

Let's see. Carrascosa's acquittal follows the rules of the game.

If I thought justice didn't exist, although many times...

it makes me feel at odds with myself,

I wouldn't work in the justice system.

What the Buenos Aires Court already gave me,

the Attorney General opposed.

I'm still acquitted.

But that doesn't mean this is over.

No one wants to grant me the final acquittal.

Because the justice system is a corporation.

The second I get the final acquittal,

I can press charges against everyone who misjudged me.

And they cover for each other.

JUDICIAL AUTHORITY

When you have a set of evidence that you've collected,

each and every time...

there will be more than one hypothesis that fits the bill.

It's not unusual, and it happens all the time,

for different human beings, the judges and magistrates,

to interpret the facts in different ways

and believe in different hypothesis,

both being consistent with what's known, because what's known is very little.

A prosecutor or the defense attorney want to convince the judge or the jury.

What they try to do is build a coherent narrative.

GARCÍA BELSUNCE - (GUARDS)

There's the aesthetics of the arguments.

The theories one would rather believe, right?

The hypothesis that Pachelo is a thief

is less glamorous, less interesting

than the family conspiracy hypothesis.

So, I think that influenced

the prosecution's investigation.

PACHELO, NICOLÁS ROBERTO QUALIFIED THEFT PER VIOLATION

Nicolás Pachelo

has a very interesting story,

and also tragic.

He's the son of a race car driver, Roberto Pachelo.

A playboy in the 70's.

He's Roberto's son from his marriage to Silvia Ryan,

a marriage that didn't last long.

He grew up among the Buenos Aires upper class.

He went to a very expensive school in Pilar,

and he exhibited quite recurring violent behavior.

His friends say he trashed the cars when he went out clubbing.

He picked up fights.

His father, Roberto Pachelo,

is thought to have killed himself in a house near a tide pool in Pilar.

His mother was a very...

complicated woman, psychologically, she had suffered a lot.

Nicolás was mostly raised by his father's second wife,

because his mother couldn't really handle him.

His mother commits suicide in the middle of the García Belsunce case.

I always said I had nothing to do with it,

but I had to wait for what the judges had to say.

You weren't detained for that cause?

No, not at all. Not detained, nor arrested, nor indicted.

I was only called in as a witness.

Nicolás Pachelo somehow...

rebuilt himself.

Patience, coffee, music,

and a bit of luck helped to win the first prize.

He became a well-known poker player.

He won a prize worth 63,000 dollars in Punta del Este.

He always had a lot of money at his disposal and squandered it fast.

I don't know if "justice" is the right word, but...

the dough is here.

While Carrascosa was in prison, a new Pachelo arose.

Maybe at the time, he thought that was in the past

and that there wouldn't be

any chance of getting drawn back into the case.

BREAKING NEWS

They were all detained

during a party involving drugs

where Nicolás Pachelo was also detained.

Nicolás Pachelo was involved in other investigations.

For example, one that connected him with selling drugs at raves.

And another investigation

which is reminiscent of María Marta's case,

because it has to do with burglaries happening in gated communities.

PACHELO IDENTIFIED IN BURGLARY

This person we see on screen, plaintiffs claim is Nicolás Pachelo.

He's detained for another burglary case

in another country club,

in which he was caught on camera

and was recognized through the footage

by his half-siblings from whom he was estranged.

He's been convicted for burglaries.

He's admitted to burglarizing houses with a similar M.O.

to that of the Tortugas burglaries.

That doesn't mean he's burglarized every house in the world.

PACHELO'S LAWYER

New prosecutors appeared and decided to start an investigation

with Nicolás Pachelo as the only suspect.

There's two prosecutors that want to find out the truth.

And if there had been anything pointing our way, they would've followed it.

But when they saw the case file, everything pointed to Pachelo.

The man who's always been named as a suspect by the family

who was never investigated

and was only called in as a witness

is called in today, subpoenaed as a suspect of felony murder.

Nicolás Pachelo, a neighbor in Camel.

I covered this case and today,

sixteen years later, here we are again

in what, if it weren't for María Marta's tragic death,

would be a police procedural episode with no conclusion as of yet.

The seven DNA tests

they ran on Pachelo's blood--

Carlos Carrascosa was the one

who was acquitted after spending almost eight years in prison.

He's come to his old community to open the door to his house to--

I'm content we could take Pachelo to court,

along with two guards.

I'm not saying it's overwhelming, conclusive evidence,

but it's sufficient

to investigate him and then take him to court.

SECURITY CAMERAS EVIDENCE OF THE PLAINTIFF

And now, the evidence that we collected...

PACHELO LEAVES WITH A MINOR

...has to be sufficiently solid to rule them guilty.

There's a problem: Carrascosa.

Everyone thinks Carrascosa has been acquitted, which isn't true.

Altuve, the head prosecutor who's superior to these prosecutors, appealed.

So, it's a strange circumstance, never in my life had I seen this,

in which they'd be co-authors of the crime, it's preposterous.

Those involved in the trial will have to dig deep,

because it is known that the key to solving a murder

is going back to the first instants. In this case, those moments were lost.

TURBULENT HEARING FOR THE MURDER OF MARÍA MARTA

Now, as we approach the beginning of the trial against Nicolás Pachelo,

there doesn't seem to be evidence of Pachelo murdering her

and then forcing the victim's family

to stop the police from entering,

to get a counterfeit death certificate,

to flush one of the bullets that supposedly Pachelo shot

down the toilet to hide it,

to clean the crime scene he allegedly created.

We lack evidence of any of that.

It really doesn't add up, if Pachelo was the murderer,

that so many people did things

to erase the clues that led back to him.

Whether they say Carrascosa or Pachelo was the murderer,

there will surely exist evidence to the contrary

and people who are unsatisfied with the answer.

Hello. Welcome!

How are you? Friday at last.

How's your day going?

I'm Horacio García Belsunce, and here I am, as usual.

Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.,

at Radio X Pilar, FM 100.3...

Today I'm very different from how I was some years ago.

Always ranting about everything.

And I'm in another place, you know?

I stopped victimizing myself and keeping...

busy with my radio show,

looking for a new way to get into the media again.

I'm in a different place.

I've changed, I got over the victimization.

Which was real! But pointless.

This case caused me...

a lot of trouble.

It upset my spirit.

THIS IS HOW THE GATED COMMUNITY JUSTICE WORKS

MOLINA PICO, INSANE OR VIGILANTE?

I'm not looking for revenge, I have nothing to avenge.

Because I was just doing my job.

Beyond the initial blunder,

which took a long time to forgive myself for,

I did it right.

THE CASE MARKED HIS CAREER

Since I went there but didn't stop the wake,

and didn't order an autopsy right then,

they try to tarnish the entire procedure

because of that initial blunter.

It made me very sad

to imagine...

that the last faces María Marta saw were familiar to her.

I have a longing for brewing her mate every morning, or her coffee.

I miss the little things, you know? The routine...

And the trips and daring to do new things.

She took care of me, and I took care of her. It's like...

I don't know if "longing" is the right word.

I "miss" her.

I mean, I can feel she's missing.

I never spent another night in this house.

And at the beginning of April, I sold it.

The buyer is a friend.

And besides, I told him, "I'm happy it was you who bought it

because this will mean continuity for me."

Besides, he'll let me visit whenever I want.

I was thinking about buying a house.

It came up, speaking with Carlos, that he was about to sell,

he was selling, he was negotiating, but it hadn't worked out.

I told him, "I'm interested."

So, I made up my mind, we settled in two minutes.

And well, we went through with it.

Really, in the last 15 years, the only reason I re-think the story

is to see if I find some new detail which confirms what I always thought.

I may find it here.

I'd like...

for this to have an end,

a ruling, a conviction, something,

for the sake of Argentina.

Now, personally, I don't need it.

Personally, I made a nice package, put a cute bow on it,

and sent it out to the universe.

Truth is, that after 17 years,

it'd be strange if we could get--

Although there is evidence, I don't know, I don't. I hope so.

Honestly, we...

we were left with a bitter feeling

of not knowing if we'll ever know what happened.

For the truth to come out? Yes, I ask God for that every day.

I ask God and the Holy Spirit, every day. Let it be so.

My goal is to know who did it.

That's what I'm living for.

I think the day I don't have that goal anymore,

you know...

People are so confused,

they wonder, "Will we ever know?"

When in fact it is known.

We know who did it

and what each and every one of the accused did.

So, will we know? We do know.

Who killed María Marta, and why was she murdered?

The comings and goings,

the different stories and lies around María Marta García Belsunce's murder,

are in here.

The event was interpreted as an accidental death

attributed to a slip in a tub.

I always thought María Marta's death was an accident.

I couldn't imagine anything else. The doctor confirmed it.

Doubts. More and more doubts.

The doctor who then told the family

it wasn't an accidental death...

The body had six gunshot wounds to the head.

Which walls were washed?

The investigation conducted on December 16th at Maria Marta's house

showed that there was no blood on the walls in the house.

They noticed blood stains on the walls, which had been washed.

A family under suspicion.

I find the famous "thingy."

If a house was open, he went in and burglarized it.

The lead pointing to the guards.

There are suspicions about Pachelo's involvement.

This is a crime of passion within the family.

There was an omertá here, a pact of silence.

She came back before she was supposed to,

she found the burglar, and that cost her her life.

I heard the .32 caliber had a six-bullet magazine.

This means they emptied the magazine into her head.

Some hypotheses are stronger than others.

Each and every alibi they're presenting,

and there's lots of them, fade like ghosts.

Didn't anyone hear the gunshots?

Horacio García Belsunce Jr., John Hurtig, and Sergio Binello,

convicted for cover-up, appealed their convictions.

They were acquitted in February 2020

due to delays in the system to work out their appeals.

Dr. Juan Ramón Gauvry Gordon was acquitted in 2015.

Guillermo Bártoli, convicted for cover-up,

passed away in 2014, before his appeal could be resolved.

Irene Hurtig studied criminal law

and, after her husband's death, she focused on her career.

She was never subjected to trial.

John Hurtig lives in the hills of Córdoba.

Horacio García Belsunce Jr. lives in Pilar and has a local radio show.

Carlos Carrascosa's acquittal has been appealed

by the Buenos Aires Province Public Prosecution Ministry.

Diego Molina Pico is still a prosecutor

in the judicial department of San Isidro.

A new trial will be held for the murder of María Marta,

with Nicolás Pachelo and two watchmen as the main defendants.

Subtitle translation by: M. C.