Overview
- Investigators added videos from a Tuesday forensic extraction of Rocío Alvarito’s phone that show her accusing her partner of violence, displaying arm marks, and filming a wrecked apartment.
- Prosecutors are weighing a move from the current counts to aggravated homicide for gender-based violence, a femicide charge that sources say the new evidence now supports.
- Marcos Ariel García remains in custody as his defense seeks house arrest, with court-ordered psychological and psychiatric exams scheduled between May 21 and July 3.
- Technicians reported they could not unlock García’s phone because the password provided was wrong, leaving a gap in the digital record from the accused.
- Witness statements in the case file describe loud crashes, a woman saying she wanted to leave, a man telling her to stay, and the victim hanging from a second-floor balcony before her January 29th fall and death at Hospital Rossi.