Missing man found buried in partner's yard in San Nicolás

The body of José Manuel Andino, a 60-year-old man who had been missing for three days, was discovered buried in the backyard of his girlfriend's residence in San Nicolás, Buenos Aires province. The grim discovery followed a report by one of Andino's sons, who had been unable to contact his father. Crucially, the son informed investigators that his father had recently had a significant argument with his girlfriend, who is thirty years his junior.

This information prompted an urgent search of a property on Necochea Street, where police found bloodstains, a mallet with blood residue, and a disturbed patch of earth in the yard. Excavation at this site revealed Andino's corpse. According to the local newspaper El Norte, an autopsy confirmed that Andino had been subjected to a violent assault, exhibiting multiple blows, a fracture, and severe cranial trauma, leading to cerebral hemorrhage. These injuries align with the bloody mallet discovered at the scene.

Andino's 30-year-old girlfriend, identified as Virginia Marlene Alviso, has been detained in connection with the case. She is being held as part of a homicide investigation led by prosecutor Belén Baños of Unitary Functional Instruction (UFI) N° 12. The investigation initially began as a missing person case when Andino's son approached the police due to the lack of communication and knowledge of his father's whereabouts.

Alviso initially claimed that Andino had left her house on the night of Thursday, August 13, and she had no further information. However, suspicions from family members and reports of potential domestic violence led the prosecution to order an immediate inspection of the property. During the inspection, law enforcement and forensic teams detected bloodstains inside the home and found the aforementioned mallet. The recently disturbed soil in the backyard further fueled suspicions, culminating in the discovery of Andino's body.

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the most important thing is that people and property are safe, and that the firefighters reacted extremely quickly and professionally.