The enigmatic suspect the Macarrón family points to and what will Nora Dalmasso's widower declare

Since Nora Dalmasso was murdered on November 26, 2006 at the country Villa Golf in Río Cuarto, her family has a secret that she hasn't revealed in the last 15 years: the name of the suspect they believe strangled her that night with his hands and the bow of a robe. After the first hearing of the oral trial against Marcelo Macarrón, accused of having paid to have his wife killed, Facundo, the youngest son of the victim and the accused, told the press that the suspect targeted by the family “was not formally under the magnifying glass of Justice.”

This Tuesday, the widower charged with the crime of “homicide qualified by the bond, alevosia and price or remuneratory promise”, in the absence of a last-minute change, will testify before the eight popular juries and before the technical judges of the Court of Rio Cuarto, Daniel Antonio Vaudagna; Natacha Irina García and Gustavo José Echenique Esteve, where the trial is made.

The maximum penalty that the accused could receive is life imprisonment. Something that terrifies the Macarons. Enigmatic, Facundo implied that when he testifies as a witness in the trial against his father he will delve into hypotheses that none of the prosecutors in the case followed in depth. It should be remembered that the first prosecutor, Javier Di Santo, even accused Nora's son of the crime until a judge dismissed him in 2012.

That hypothesis points to the suspect in the family. Infobae knows who it is, but for judicial reasons it cannot mention it. He is a low-profile, mysterious man and businessman. The coroner Osvaldo Raffo, who was hired by Macarrón to analyze the crime scene, also pointed to that person who had some closeness to the Macaron-Dalmassos.

Regardless of what the family thinks, about who is - in their opinion - the real murderer, this trial only takes into account the accusation against Macarrón, which was reached just as the case was about to be prescribed. “The real killer is on the loose,” Facundo and his father repeat. They feel distressed. But the fact that they passed the first day of the trial gave them more strength to face what is coming.

When he arrived at the courts of Rio Cuarto accompanied by his sons Facundo and Valentina, Macarrón was surrounded by two women who shook his hand and said: “We are with you”. Later, about 30 people showed banners and
supported the widower, and asked for Justice for the victim, as well as posing for photos with the children of the victim and the accused.

On his cell phone, Marcelo, who is a traumatologist, had the message of a patient who wished him well and showed him a flyer with the image of half the face of a doctor wearing a mask that said: “March to support our great doctor Dr. Macarrón. 3 pm in front of the Courts of Rio Cuarto. Our voice and presence is very important.”

“My dad is a beloved doctor in the city,” Facundo told a neighbor who came to support him and was surprised by the signs of affection received by the chief defendant. The widower felt empowered by that support. It is no less common for some people to believe in his innocence when the jury - who will decide whether or not he is guilty of having his wife killed by hiring a hit man - are eight residents of the city.

“Marcelo always wanted a popular jury because he thinks that people believe in his innocence and he saw closely the injustices that were committed to his son, how his wife's honor was tarnished and all the lies that were told. They even wanted to accompany him to the cemetery to leave flowers for her,” said one close to the Macarrón.

Some 300 witnesses will be paraded at the trial in three weekly hearings. The file has about 7,000 pages spread over 34 bodies, plus eight annexes of evidence.

What will Marcelo Macarrón say tomorrow Tuesday?

Although he may target a suspect or criticize the performance of prosecutors Daniel Miralles and Luis Pizarro, since for the first one a “ghost” plane was taken from Uruguay to kill his wife and returned on that same plane, and for the second, the murder was committed by a hit man hired by the widower; he will declare what he already said at the stage of instruction, perhaps with slight variations, when he did so first as a witness and then as an accused.

“The motivations for the prosecution are clear: marital disagreements and economic issues of the couple, he or the hit men previously agreed to the criminal plan with Macarron and his adlaters,” Pizarro argued in the rise to trial. He also believes that the murderer simulated a crime of another kind: that's why he didn't use a gun and strangled her. And that the widower's alibi was to travel to Punta del Este to play a golf tournament that he ended up winning.

For the prosecutor, there was no rape, but they did alter the crime scene to make it look like a sexual assault. The DNA found on the victim was of Macarrón lineage. The truth is that, while he was celebrating the victory and winning the golf cup, the killer hung Nora for three to five minutes with a force of 15 kilos. The prosecutor believes that the widower received the news of the hit man while he was in Uruguay.

But the widower revealed: “It was all horrible. When Daniel (Lacase, his lawyer and friend) told me the news, I got out of the car on the road, I started crying, the world fell apart.”

About the discovery of her DNA at the crime scene, she said that the last night she saw Nora, three days before the murder, she had sex with her. “They found traces of seminal fluid that corresponds to Marcelo and Nora's farewell night,” said Marcelo Brito, Macarrón's lawyer.

“No one could place me at the crime scene, I was 1,300 kilometers away, nor did they find anything strange with my bank movements, or anything strange. I went to play golf, a sport that I continue to practice. I loved my wife. His crime destroyed me. I just want justice done and they find the real killer,” Macarrón once declared.

Will you name the man you suspect? That is one of the many enigmas that Nora Dalmasso's crime has.

(Photos: Matias Tambone)

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