Pregnant woman stabbed, burned in satanic ritual, ex-boyfriend among three suspects Published

The victim, Fernanda Pereyra

A heavily pregnant woman was stabbed to
death and burned to ashes in a suspected
satanic ritual, police say.
Fernanda Pereyra, 26, was barbarically killed
before her body was burned in a fire so hot
she could only be identified by her necklace,
reports say.
Her ashes were found in an Argentinian
wasteland on mile three of Route Six near the
town of Rincon de los Sauces.
The killers reportedly used a large amount of
fuel to burn her body and then transported it
in a Renault Kangoo van.

When recovered, the van appeared to have
been cleaned, but traces of blood and hair
from the victim — who was six months
pregnant — remained, according to
prosecutors.

Police have arrested three people in
connection with the killing: her former
boyfriend Luciano Hernandez and his two
friends Osvaldo Castillo and Diego Marillan.

The suspects have also been linked with drug
trafficking and are thought to practice
satanism and unidentified African religions.
A suspect’s house contained “satanic” music
and images featuring tridents and women in
flames.
San La Muerte (Saint Death), the patron saint
of drug traffickers, and “Destranca Rua,” an
entity linked with the Angolan “kimbanda”
religion, featured in the alleged ritual,
according to police.
Police also found a sheep in the courtyard of
one of their properties.

Police say the victim’s boyfriend slaughtered
her because she got pregnant by another man.
But other investigators claim the murder was
made as a warning to other citizens against
interfering with drug-dealing gangs.
Lawyer Marcelo Henriksen Velasco said: “In
my opinion, this is not a domestic violence
case, this is a crime linked with drug
trafficking.”
Pereyra had suffered other abuse before being
murdered.
Another former boyfriend, boxer Ademar
Maraguel, once beat her brutally while she
was taking money from an ATM.

Maraguel, the father of her children, was
arrested but later released.
Two years later, in November 2016, she
witnessed a crime in which Franco Orellano, a
teenager, was killed by a drug trafficker.
After that incident, she received several death
threats, but police do not believe they are
linked to her eventual murder.
Judge Pablo Yancarelli has put the three
suspects in preventive prison for six months
while the investigation continues, though
police have warned it could take even longer,
The New York Post reports.

Source: punchng