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When I was told they found five bullets in María Marta's head...

I couldn't believe it.

THEY SAID IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, BUT SHE WAS SHOT

I now had to add horror to the pain.

From that day on...

we didn't do anything,

from dusk till dawn,

but collaborate with Justice,

contributing with information,

investigating,

talking to experts,

with people who could help, with friends.

We shared everything, absolutely everything,

minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour,

with both the prosecutor and the police.

On Sunday, October 27th, María Marta García Belsunce

was found dead in the bathroom at her house.

It was assumed to be an accidental death

attributed to slipping in her bathtub.

I lay her on the bed, I was right next to her head and didn't notice.

The doctors who examined her didn't notice either!

Because when they decided

for her to be buried in La Recoleta,

the thought of an autopsy didn't even cross their minds.

They were positive it was an accident.

Could it be that pain makes you so stupid you don't notice?

OCT 27, 2002 - MARÍA MARTA'S MURDER DEC 2 - AUTOPSY

The autopsy performed on María Marta

determined there were five lead bullets lodged in her skull

and that a sixth bullet had bounced against her skull.

But they also found signs of struggle.

In the autopsy, María Marta's body

revealed marks consistent with a fight.

On her face, on her legs, on one of her arms.

Upon touching her head,

they describe it as if it was empty,

because there were four bullet holes...

so close one to the other...

that a whole piece of skull was lost.

According to the investigators, María Marta had been...

taken by surprise by a very violent and swift attack,

which was also fueled by rage.

It was shocking, no doubt about it.

I was frozen.

I thought, "Damn, what a mess...

No one can bring María back to me, I have nothing to do with it."

You know? Then your mind starts running wild.

Horacio called me and said, "There's something I need to tell you."

He said she was murdered and how. That she had five bullets in her head...

And I couldn't believe it, to be honest.

I could never really mourn María Marta's death.

Back then, we didn't imagine what would come next.

I think the first one I called was Molina Pico.

"Can you see, Horacio? We bought the accident thing.

María Marta was killed. What do we do now?"

"What do you mean, what do we do?

We investigate! What happened? Who did it?

That's what we have to do!"

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES

2001 - ONE YEAR BEFORE THE MURDER

Thieves, thieves, thieves, give back the savings!

You can still see people's discontent with bank withdrawal restrictions

and delayed payments.

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY COMES TO A HALT

2,000 PEOPLE LED INTO POVERTY EACH DAY

I have declared a state of siege across the nation.

We're starving!

The great crisis in trust

and socio-economic variables bleeding people dry.

Twenty-five deaths and hundreds of arrests.

Overwhelmed by the situation,

President De la Rúa tenders his resignation.

The former president left the Executive Office by helicopter

in view of a decimated people.

After the 2001 crisis,

the Argentinian people

JOURNALIST

became absolutely fed up with news about politics and the economy.

We'd all been overwrought by the crisis.

And some months after that crisis,

JOURNALIST

Argentina learns about this figure, Carlos Carrascosa,

a man who'd been a successful stockbroker for years.

He stopped working when he turned 50.

He'd done so well in the market,

he didn't need to work.

This alone already set him apart from the rest of society.

I always wanted to work until I was 50.

MARÍA MARTA'S WIDOWER

I thought any extra years were too much.

In stock exchange, there are many things.

You can put money in, get money out,

you can buy stock, you can buy bonds.

If you want to do any of that, you need an authorized broker.

Do stockbrokers make money?

I did well.

I was the top broker in sales volume...

in '92 and '93, if I'm not mistaken.

And I moved 11 vulture funds.

I didn't know they were vultures.

To me, they were canaries.

When I turned 50, in 1994,

the stock I bought for 100,000 dollars

was worth 2 million.

So, one night I get together with María Marta

and say, "I'm not making enough commission

to keep the money invested, it's not profitable anymore."

The next day, I went and sold it.

Two minutes.

Banco Provincia bought it from me, two million.

And I started to invest here in Carmel.

I bought the first plot, I think.

This is where the media have come multiple times.

but, for the first time ever, we're going in, not only to the community,

but to the house

where María Marta García Belsunce was murdered.

This is the main entrance to the house.

It's important to know that since the day María Marta died,

no one else ever lived here. It's almost a ghost house.

Right away, the publishers notice

that this case had a gruesome appeal.

It happened behind closed doors. It was a true Agatha Christie story.

This is a gated community, a club,

an isolated community.

Millionaire homeowners.

That's when all the prejudices

and the class hatred came into play.

The case made Clarín's headlines an entire month,

JOURNALIST

almost two months in a row.

And not for the lack of something worth publishing.

"This story is hot, get something on it."

ONE STEP FROM IMPUNITY

I can't recall a criminal case

SHE DIDN'T FIGHT BACK

A NEW ENIGMA

getting so much attention, or being in the public eye,

STRANGE LOSS OF EVIDENCE

at least in modern times.

It precipitated the public's morbid fascination.

It was a case that kept me up many nights.

I spent my time wondering

which witness was telling the truth, which one lied,

what had really happened

that evening at María Marta's house.

ATTACKED AT HER DOORSTEP

You always think twice about what you write, think, hear...

I am a lawyer. So, it's easy for me

to read a case file and analyze it.

And when I start reading it,

I'm dumbfounded.

And I'm shocked.

The case file

presented a completely different reality

to the one presented by the mass media.

PROSECUTION UNIT N°2 - PILAR, ARGENTINA

We went from an inquiry into the cause of death,

PROSECUTOR

meaning, finding out why someone died,

to investigating a murder.

The story line changes and so does what you're looking for.

When did it change? When the testimonies

didn't match the documentation.

DETAILS: HOMICIDE

OSDE Health Central.

It's about a patient's death in the Pilar area.

-Yes. -García Belsunce, María Marta.

-Yes. -The...

The thing is, she had a fractured skull and brain tissue loss.

Afterwards, just in case, when you have to do the paperwork for the mortuary,

if there's any problem...

-Was she beaten to death? -Look, I don't know.

I don't know. They're saying nothing happened intentionally.

But, truth is, I don't...

Around María Marta's body, according to Gauvry Gordon,

there was a big blood clot on the floor.

He says there were huge blood clots in the bathtub as well.

He says the water in the tub was completely red.

And he says, "This is a horrible scene.

I wouldn't like a family member of mine to be seen like this. Let's clean up."

There are different versions of what happened in the scene.

Gauvry Gordon says he had no doubt

that María Marta had suffered an accident.

SHE HAD FALLEN IN THE BATHTUB DOMESTIC ACCIDENT

And Santiago Biasi tells a whole different version.

Initially, he says

that she couldn't have had an accident in the tub.

I SAID IT WAS A VIOLENT AND DUBIOUS DEATH

And that's why he says he's surprised that Gauvry Gordon

and the masseuse cleaned the blood.

Because, to him, that was a crime scene

and shouldn't be altered before the investigators got there.

SHE STARTED CLEANING WITH BLEACH

The cleaning of the crime scene is no minor detail.

Because they were...

tampering with it to make it look like nothing happened.

Biasi says that he told Gauvry Gordon,

"Look, this death looks shady,

there should be a police investigation.

I won't sign the death certificate

because forensics are needed here."

So, the cause of death is suspicious?

I mean, it's not suspicious, but...

Are you calling the cops? How will you handle it?

No. I'll pronounce her dead and see how they handle it.

We don't think it's a suspicious death, but...

Yes.

We'll see how it unfolds.

None of the doctors that examine her

signs the death certificate.

Both say the funeral parlor should handle it.

By that moment, the Taylor family was already there.

Michael Taylor, his wife, Pichi Taylor, and their kids.

A huge drama. Everyone was desperate.

They were very close with María Marta, they loved her dearly.

They ask who'll go find

a mortuary open on a Sunday night

that will issue a death certificate.

To that Bártoli says, "I'll go." Michael Taylor says, "I'll go with you."

They went to a funeral home in Pilar, Ponce de León,

and they try to arrange María Marta's burial.

There was a problem there.

The funeral home didn't want to sign the death certificate

without first examining the body. So, they had to go elsewhere.

Then, Michael says, "Let's go to the capital, we have no choice."

DISTANCE TRAVELED

And he knew the famous Casa Sierra mortuary.

They arrive to Casa Sierra.

First thing they ask is, "Do you provide a full service?

Do you issue death certificates?"

"Yes, of course, we issue death certificates."

The problem was that the information on this death certificate was all false.

Instead of saying María Marta had died at Pilar Carmel Country Club,

it said María Marta had died in an apartment in Recoleta,

in Buenos Aires City.

The cause of death read "non traumatic cardiac arrest."

As if María Marta had had a heart attack

and not an accident, let alone been murdered.

We were able to reconstruct the actions taken during the night

and moments after the homicide,

especially that they had interfered with the arrival of the police.

Even instructions were given

to the president of Carmel to go to the main gate

to stop the police from getting in.

And if a bribe was needed, he was to bribe them.

It was like playing a game of telephone.

MARÍA MARTA'S BROTHER

The guard at Martinica, a community around the corner,

sees a police patrol go by

and warns his colleague at Carmel,

"Look out, the police are on their way."

This police car was heading somewhere else.

Or was just patrolling around as patrols do.

What does the guard think?

"Two ambulances went in.

They're clearly heading for the Carrascosa's.

What will we do when the police arrives?"

They notify the community president.

The community president calls María Marta's house

and warns them that the police

is coming to their house to see what happened.

According to the criminal investigation,

a neighbor of Carlos Carrascosa, who's also a close friend,

talks to the community president, Alberto White,

asking him to stop the police from entering Carmel Country Club.

That's when he told me, "No, the police can't...

CARMEL'S FORMER PRESIDENT

It can't come in.

If you need to bribe them, do it."

"If it comes to it, give them some money, pay them, bribe them,

just don't let the police in."

All through the night of the wake,

among the different people in attendance,

rumors circulated about the existence of a "shard"...

a "casing." They never said "bullet."

And that projectile

was flushed

down the toilet.

If I saw a bullet and went, "This is a bullet.

Okay, great. María Marta was killed. Let's flush it down," and do so,

I wouldn't go to the prosecutor 12 days later saying I flushed a "thingy."

OCT 27, 2002 - MARÍA MARTA'S MURDER DEC 2 - AUTOPSY

In the case file,

the first one to talk about the "thingy" with the authorities is Horacio.

Before the autopsy and all that, on November 12th. A little while later...

he takes John's testimony, and John speaks of it.

And John even draws a picture of it.

I spoke of it and drew a picture for the prosecutor.

I thought bullets couldn't lose their shape.

Frankly, I never thought it was a bullet... so, I flushed it.

I second guessed it, and the first thing I said was,

MARÍA MARTA'S BROTHER

"What if we threw away something important for the investigation?"

And later, when we found out,

when the autopsy reveals that it hadn't been an accident,

that's when we told Molina Pico,

"Do whatever it takes, but find that little piece of metal."

"I'll destroy the bathroom."

"Destroy the bathroom, the house, wreck the place."

FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHS - 2002

Since that bathroom led to a septic tank,

because there was no sewage in Carmel,

one day, Prosecutor Molina Pico said, "Let's go look for the 'thingy.'"

Molina Pico calls me and goes, "Can we go look for the 'thingy'?"

And I say, "Yes, sure."

Nine hours searching among shit.

I knew it was there. I knew it led to that tank.

I started searching, they let me.

One of the investigators swept a metal detector.

Over the last bucket, the alarm goes off,

and he finds the projectile.

I touched something, picked it up,

went to the sink, cleaned it, and said,

"I got it! Guys, we found it!"

During that search for the 'thingy,'

family members were present.

Nothing was done behind their back.

I did it on purpose.

What matters is...

we did find it in the septic tank...

and the fact that this projectile...

was the exact same caliber...

and was fired by the same weapon as the other five projectiles.

The ballistics expert confirmed that it was the tip of a deformed bullet,

that hit against something.

This was important

because the projectiles that were found were crushed.

Never in my life as a ballistics expert have I seen...

BALLISTICS EXPERT

something so deformed.

The only bullet that could tell us

the caliber and the gun, was the "thingy."

Because the ones in María's head were too buff.

The gun was not found, it couldn't be compared.

All we know is it was a .32 caliber long.

With metal detectors,

the investigators look for the homicide weapon

in a ditch adjacent to the García Belsunces' chalet.

They think the murderer could've left the .32 caliber behind

while escaping the crime scene.

They wanted to dredge it and even brought technical divers,

but the ditch was practically dry

and consequently, the operation was thwarted.

The investigators ask my authorization

to use what's now known by everyone,

but at that time was brand new, luminol.

It's a chemical reagent

FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHS

that has the ability to expose

biological traces.

In this case, blood.

The luminol was applied with a spray.

The lights were turned off, and automatically...

it revealed what was hidden on the walls.

What impressed me the most

was the dragging of four fingers on the wall.

What the Trace Division did

was draw a circle over the stain and then cut a piece with a cutter

and extract the whole paint block

to proceed to analyze it.

These are very important because they were positive.

These three stains.

They turned out positive.

We start with a stain, biological material,

GENETICS EXPERT

but we need to run DNA tests. And the DNA has to be of sufficient quantity

for me to see a profile.

Then I can compare it with what we call "a person of interest."

The forensic scientists examining the DNA

have confirmed that genetic patterns found at the crime scene

belong to one woman and two men,

one being a blood relative of María Marta's.

There are three DNAs. One complete female profile,

a male profile mixed with María Marta's blood.

Always referring to the place where the events took place.

Pepe Scelzi, who at the time was the lawyer that represented all of us,

tells me, "Careful, Molina Pico...

is deviating the investigation.

He believes you are responsible

and will call you for questioning."

"What?

Molina Pico will call me for questioning?

I'll smash his head open.

He's gone crazy."

"I'm warning you, it will happen." And it did.

Headline news.

Belsunce: the family?

Suspicion grows around María Marta's murder.

Now, her family is being investigated.

DEC 2, 2002 - AUTOPSY

JAN 15, 2003 - SUBPOENA FOR COVER-UP

When I believe I have enough elements of proof,

I call them for questioning under suspicion of cover-up.

He connects the dots.

The calls for the police not to enter the country club,

the fake death certificate,

finding a piece of lead, the "thingy,"

and flushing it down the toilet,

cleaning up the crime scene.

Everything that happened after her murder, for it is all connected.

Meaning, you can get...

to the bottom of a homicide through the cover-up.

The prosecutor has also taken into consideration

some new revealing testimonies.

Carrascosa's alibi had always been

that, at the time of María Marta's crime,

he had been at Guillermo Bártoli's house, his brother-in-law.

Boca vs. River was over,

and Bártoli tells he stayed with Carrascosa

watching the next game, Independiente vs. Rosario Central.

They say, "We watched it until Independiente scored,

and that's when Carrascosa decided to go home."

But testimonies of employees of Carmel's clubhouse

say that, once Boca vs. River was over

and before the time he said he found María Marta,

Carrascosa had been elsewhere,

which he never confessed to,

which was precisely Carmel's club house.

That made Carrascosa's alibi fall apart

because he always denied being at that place at that time that evening.

IRENE AND GUILLERMO

What exactly did the prosecutor have on Carrascosa?

A timeline.

And that timeline was proof

that when María Marta got home from her tennis match,

Carrascosa, along with at least two other people...

we believe a man and a woman, were inside the house already.

And that was when the crime took place.

I was at...

our lawyer at the time, at Scelzi's.

And then I watch on TV that there was an arrest warrant against me.

Prosecutor Molina Pico ordered Carlos Carrascosa's arrest

charged with aggravated murder.

CARRASCOSA ACCUSED

So, then I call my friend,

a neighbor of mine in Escobar...

back where I lived, and ask him.

He goes, "Yes, I'm here, with Molina Pico, who's here to arrest you."

"Okay, tell him I'll be there in a while."

I get in my van and drive from San Isidro to Escobar to turn myself in.

My friend, it was very nice of him...

knew I might be needing a whiskey.

So, he put...

a glass with ice...

filled to the top with whiskey.

And so, while they went on with the due diligence,

the arrest, the witnesses, all that stuff.

By then, there were 273 journalists at the door.

They were everywhere, you'd stumble on the cables, it was all a mess.

The decision to incarcerate Carrascosa falls on Magistrate Diego Barroetaveña.

JUSTICE WILL DETERMINE TODAY IF CARRASCOSA GETS PREVENTIVE PRISON

The magistrate had to...

rule preventive custody or not.

He tells me, "Carrascosa, have a seat.

I was wrong about you."

"How come?"

"My father was a criminal court judge and was always my idol.

I confirmed your preventive custody,

got home, sat by the piano, where I have my father's picture...

and the glass cracked.

It was a warning my father gave me."

"Well, what now?"

"Wait a few days, we'll fix this."

CARRASCOSA RELEASED

Carlos Carrascosa looks more relaxed, doesn't he?

He looks different.

Prosecutor Diego Molina Pico gathered enough evidence

to determine the involvement of Carlos Carrascosa.

But Magistrate Barroetaveña still isn't sure

and wants to follow other lines of investigation.

This was the main gate.

And this was the service gate.

Two men were at the security booth.

The cameras were located in this sector.

CARMEL FORMER ADMINISTRATOR

They were perimeter security cameras

placed at the fence, facing outside,

not from the fence in.

Getting in wasn't feasible

from the outside.

No one ever thought

that events could happen inside,

because it's not something that would occur to you.

And well, theoretically, it was a gated community with guards.

But, well...

There comes a time when you realize the one who keeps you safe is worse...

than anyone out on the streets.

MAIN GATE

I'm not saying it can't be done.

But one never stops to wonder which neighbor

will kill another neighbor

or will rob another house.

One of the girls said, "What if it was an attempted robbery

by the boy next door?"

Nicolás Pachelo was an unwanted neighbor at Carmel.

Someone the residents had learned to fear and hate

before María Marta's crime.

Golf clubs had gone missing.

Patio furniture had gone missing,

a computer had been stolen.

And, in this case, all the roads led, not to Rome, but to Pachelo.

I told you, María Marta was very reserved.

Nonetheless, one of the few things she told me

and only because I asked, "You seem worried, is something going on?"

That's when she tells me about the dog, about Tom.

Her dog had been stolen,

and she was sure that Pachelo had done it.

My dog Tom went missing.

A little later, they asked ransom for the dog.

And María Marta said, "Listen, this thief called me

to ask for ransom for Tom.

MARÍA MARTA'S FRIEND

I won't pay ransom for a dog, because next time...

they'll take Carlos and demand ransom for Carlos!

I'm not paying."

"Fine, María! Whatever." It was an anecdote, you know?

She didn't pay Tom's ransom.

I said, "María, what if I pay the ransom and then they kidnap you?"

I'm very cold that way.

Another member of the Ladies Commission, María Marta,

CHARITY GALA

working, of course, here at the office.

Well, here are some of the members.

María Eugenia, María Marta, Haydeé.

María Marta...

took our lockbox home every day.

FRIENDS OF PILAR CHARITY

We had to pay the power bill, at the time, or whatever,

but I needed the checkbook.

So, I went in with Carlos looking for it.

I went up to their room,

but we never found the lockbox.

We looked at each other and said,

"Someone must've stolen the lockbox."

In my opinion, someone was at the house,

a burglar,

and she recognized that person.

If Carlos had gone home, this would be the other way around.

María Marta would be alive, and Carlos would be dead.

The truth was plain to see, María Marta was murdered.

And... who did it? I don't know.

I know there are people who know.

I know there are people who know who did it.

MAID AT PILAR'S MYSTERIOUS CRIME SCENE

The enigmatic woman in pink began to be important

to the investigators around this time.

She was seen by the neighbors dressed in a pink maid uniform.

But that day, no service personnel worked at the residence.

She spent an hour and a half at the crime scene with the mourners.

She left, and no one knew who she was.

The whole "lady in pink" situation was brought to the case...

by Biasi, actually.

He says he saw, among the people at María Marta's house,

a person with... in a pink uniform.

No one said anything at the beginning,

until a very close friend of María Marta's said, "Yes...

I think I saw her."

And, by the end,

a composite sketch was made.

We tried to give that facial composite to the prosecutor.

When the prosecutor refuses to add the facial composite to the case file,

that's when I go on Mirtha Legrand's TV show.

And with our investigators and a computer,

putting together witness accounts, a facial composite sketch was made.

And I want to show it.

-Where's the sketch? -Here.

-Here, where? -Here.

I want to show it and ask people,

to whomever wants to help us find the murderer

and to find evidence to find out who the killer is.

If anyone has any idea of who the woman

I'm about to show you might be,

who was at María Marta's house that Sunday night

and no one seems to know...

They can help us by going to the prosecutor's office to say,

"I know that person." This is the facial composite.

-Do you know her? -I have no idea who she is.

Did anyone recognize her?

THIS WOMAN WAS AT MARÍA MARTA'S HOUSE

I don't think so.

They point the camera at Pachelo's wife walking next to him...

Spitting image.

Spitting image.

Pachelo is very upset, this is a low blow, a lie,

PACHELO'S LAWYER

I could say they're grasping at straws.

In this context, when María Marta's family

has already been charged with cover-up,

and, from the family lawyers' perspective,

Nicolás Pachelo starts to become a suspect,

that's when Pachelo's mother decides

to jump from a high floor at La Recoleta and commit suicide.

Some neighbors, leaving the building,

surprised by the number of reporters at the door.

The mother commits suicide.

She left letters to the prosecutor,

LETTERS THAT ASCRIBE RESPONSIBILITY

to the lawyers and such, where, allegedly,

"I LOVE YOU."

she claims her son is innocent

and blames the García Belsunce family for her suicide.

Through the side, Nicolás Pachelo dodges the reporters.

The prime suspect, according to the Belsunce family,

of María Marta García Belsunce's death.

Honestly, if what these people wanted

was to bring me down,

or put me in jail, trust me...

I swear, this is way worse than a lifetime in jail.

Because my mother was a good woman.

I think she was going to be called for questioning

the following day.

Because she ultimately provides an alibi

to her son because they were together at Paseo Alcorta mall.

This is disrespectful!

In silence, with his head down and surrounded by family and friends,

Nicolás Pachelo, says goodbye to his mother, Silvia Ryan,

buried this morning in the La Recoleta cemetery.

This added to a very high profile case for the media and the public

and created more bloodshed, more shock value.

This was relevant for the family, and they tried to claim

she had killed herself for she couldn't handle

A DEATH THAT HIDES A SECRET

what was happening with her son, yet another sign.

But, as far as the case file, the prosecutor focused on the family.

He was more than a misbehaved kid.

I mean, he had trouble with the law.

He was investigated.

And it was proven that Pachelo

was in the Capital City at the time the murder happened.

There was no connection between that theory and the death.

The only line of investigation that seemed seamless

was the one that involved her family and the people close to her.

It's all very mysterious, things are strange...

I feel that they aren't looking into the motive.

This shows that in this country, the rich and the poor get different justice.

Rich people. They buy it all, sell it all. It all comes to nothing.

One way or another...

only they know what happened.

Horacio, do you believe in your brother-in-law's innocence?

Would you leave me alone?

What does your silence mean?

-What will you tell the prosecutor? -No comment.

When a case like this blows up,

with such huge media impact and with such voracious readers--

Because the lies told by the media play an enormous role

because they did not check their sources.

But I also blame the people.

People consumed any piece of garbage the papers would feed them.

People were eager to consume anything.

So, crazy parallel stories began to emerge.

Our blessed Argentine journalism,

who judge you in the morning and sentence you in the afternoon.

They knew it was great for business.

And so it was. They made fortunes off our case.

But now, something new has come up,

which is lesbianism.

She hits here and here and bounces.

I can do it with a doll.

It's impossible with a human body.

There's a bit of everything, and now a medium has entered the scene.

At night, they could hear screams coming from their house,

weird noises, even moans.

According to this baffling hypothesis,

María Marta and Carlos Carrascosa would appear to be siblings.

They went on with their love affair, but agreed to no children.

Here are the first pictures.

Our house was brand new, impeccable.

María Marta and Carlos were very devoted spouses,

but each respected the other's individuality.

Remember, María Marta got married very young, at 19.

Thirty years of marriage, no kids, I never once saw them fight.

He had a career as a merchant seafarer.

He told her, very assertively, "I'm in love with you."

She said, "It's either me or the sea."

So, he started working in the financial market.

He did great and grew fast,

always working alongside María Marta.

María was so serious, and he was like a clown.

But they complemented each other.

They were never show-offs.

I remember that when they traveled...

María packed her suitcase and said, "Two jeans, three sweaters, that's all."

And they'd be gone three months.

He was always watchful if María Marta went out with a friend

or if we drove somewhere.

"Honey, where are you, everything okay?"

But he wasn't annoying or overbearing, so as not to--

But simply because... he loved her so much.

MATÍAS, COME BACK WE LOVE YOU, YOUR FAMILY

María Marta was somewhat well-known,

maybe not by the general public, but certainly by those of us in the press,

for her work with Missing Children in Argentina.

An organization that kidnaps children for trafficking

operates in the streets of Buenos Aires abducting little victims.

They look for blue-eyed, blonde kids

and snatch them from their mothers' arms.

Big companies could publish,

as they do in the USA, the pictures of these children

on a milk box or whatever.

To me, another important lead was María Marta's work

with Missing Children, for it was a complicated job.

And I always thought that line was worth investigating.

No, it didn't worry me.

It seemed an interesting job

that she did at Missing Children, looking for kids.

I never saw a dangerous side to it.

But I do know it did worry Carlos.

I get the social aspect of it and all that, great.

But she was on another level... dangerous.

They would give out their phone numbers, go on camera.

They'd stage protests at the Obelisk with pictures of the missing kids.

They'd deal with prosecutors, border police, the military.

It wasn't a job for a woman.

That's why it was what we first thought of

when we heard about the bullets in her head.

The more a kid's photo is seen,

the easier it is to find him.

She was in contact with journalists.

She was spreading, at all times,

information about missing kids or kids that were found,

along with Susan Murray, a friend of María Marta's

and President of Missing Children Argentina.

Where and when are you gathering? To tell people.

We're getting together today at 7:00 p.m., as every 27th,

at the gates of La Recoleta cemetery, which is where she's buried,

with candles.

-Susan, why the word "trial"? -Because that's our request.

We want them to do the rest of the DNA tests,

to go to court.

We aren't asking for vengeance or unfair accusations.

all we want is for justice to be served.

We never refused to give DNA samples.

FAMILY'S DNA SHOULD BE TESTED

We said, "We'll give you the DNA now.

But you put the DNA you found at the crime scene in the file."

I was afraid of giving my blood

and that Molina Pico would say, "I have María Marta's phone here

with blood traces."

And he could make up a story saying my blood was there.

And it was the judge himself, Barroetaveña, who told us,

"Not until the prosecutor

gives me the blood samples he took from the scene,

should you give him your blood."

At the same time, other people linked to the case,

and of whom the family circle viewed as possible suspects,

such as some of the private guards at Carmel,

offer voluntarily to give blood samples.

The García Belsunce case. The family still blames Nicolás Pachelo.

Nonetheless, the suspect offered voluntarily

to have his DNA tested as soon as possible.

Pachelo is willing, and we'll file a document

insisting we are willing to get his blood tested.

Pachelo went, gave his blood, and was ruled out.

Two guards were ruled out.

And we were made to look like the bad guys

for not wanting to get the DNA tests.

ACCORDING TO PROSECUTOR, THE DNA TEST IS KEY

That obviously damaged our public image.

The fact that it is not Pachelo's blood

and that the family insists on not getting their blood tested...

If I was a judge,

that would make me wonder, right?

"MARÍA MARTA'S FAMILY IS HIDING SOMETHING"

THE POLICE CLOSE IN

A battle begins.

There are hurdles going forward.

I mean, they kept challenging the rulings over and over.

We challenged the prosecutor on many occasions.

Because if you're the prosecutor, you must pursue

all possible lines of investigation.

The defense...

DEFENSE TARGETS THE PROSECUTOR

repeatedly petitioned to have me removed from the case.

IF MOLINA PICO IS REMOVED, THIS COULD DELAY THE INVESTIGATION

Look, at the time, I could have used many of my contacts.

I got many uncomfortable phone calls.

From people in high places. Indeed.

It was a family...

that was connected with every person

in power in this country.

All of them.

All of them.

-Was it amicable? -The court has to settle it.

I ask you, please... thank you.

Well, Prosecutor Molina Pico

leaves this hearing.

He keeps an unbreakable low profile.

Prosecutor Molina Pico never spoke to the journalists

during the investigation of the case.

I called him when the investigation began.

He hung up on me many times.

The first time Molina Pico agrees to speak to the press publicly

is when he decides

to turn Carrascosa's investigation into an oral trial.

And he gives a press conference.

The system itself

is closing the doors on this investigation,

which unfortunately has been going on for a year.

I explain to society the situation I'm in.

I'm faced with the impossibility to compare

the blood.

Is it essential? To me, it's paramount.

The one representing María Marta García Belsunce is me.

I'm the one who needs to determine who killed her.

In the Navy, it's called "the captain's lonely road."

The captain is always alone.

In this specific case,

loneliness...

was...

constant.

I was always in criminal law.

Before being a prosecutor, I was a military criminal attorney,

but it's the exact same thing.

I was the 15th or 16th generation in the armed forces.

My father was an officer in the Navy.

So were both my grandfathers.

And being at sea is an overwhelming experience.

Everyone who's in contact with the ocean...

is passionate.

I was in the Navy around ten years.

It was very relevant, in order to be prepared,

to make decisions on my own.

Why had Carrascosa,

together with two family members or acquaintances, killed María Marta?

The prosecutor zealously formulated a theory

way before the trial.

THE NARCO-WIDOWER?

For the prosecutor, they killed her for reasons

tied to money laundering and drug cartels.

The García Belsunce clan

is like Don Corleone's mafia.

They were all benefited with money

that allegedly came from a Mexican drug cartel,

the Juárez cartel.

The Mexican Juarez cartel controls the entry to the USA

of 50% of the cocaine consumed there.

To the DEA, it's one of the most powerful criminal organizations they're after.

There is evidence of the García Belsunce case

leading to the Juárez cartel.

The connection would be Nora Burgues Taylor's sister.

The case file mentions a sister of Nora Burgues Taylor,

"Pichi" to her friends, including María Marta García Belsunce.

Nora Taylor's sister seems to be the front for the businesses

that the Juarez cartel carries out in Argentina.

This intel got to the Banco General de Negocios,

owned by the Rohm brothers,

with whom Carlos Carrascosa had been associated for years.

Molina Pico, theorized as a possible explanation

that someone in the family used,

unbeknownst to her, the accounts of the charities

María Marta García Belsunce worked for

to launder money.

She might have discovered those transactions.

And she probably threatened to go to the authorities.

And so, someone decided to kill her.

What's more, Molina Pico adds that Carlos Carrascosa

had been present while the crime was committed

and then staged the crime scene himself.

He made these claims

as he asked that the case be sent to an oral and public trial.

Some were indicted only for the cover-up.

And only one, Carrascosa...

was charged for the cover-up and murder.

MARÍA MARTA'S HUSBAND GOES TO ORAL TRIAL FOR MURDER

Each lawyer demands the best for their client.

What the rest of the lawyers thought was,

"Send Carlos, he'll be found not guilty, and we're off the hook."

Carlos had to go to trial.

He had to take the DNA test and go to trial.

The other lawyers were dealing with misdemeanor charges,

it was different.

I didn't want to go, I didn't... I had small children.

I didn't want to put them through that.

So, I wanted to put it off for as long as I could.

Carlos wanted all of us to go together,

and I put my foot down and said, "No. We're good, but no way."

The rest wanted to avoid going to court.

If they won't go with me, I want to go.

I want this off my shoulders, I'm innocent.

Why should I continue to have fingers pointing at me?

I had nothing to do with it.

In this small room, for the next three months,

Carlos Carrascosa's fate will be decided

in a debate that will be witnessed by around 60 people,

but will not be televised.

The accused and the accuser

will meet eye to eye permanently.

Subtitle translation by: M. C.