Mystery and confusion have shaken Chilean news since last Monday the body of a nun appeared in a neighborhood in the center of the capital inside a suitcase, in a bizarre event as more details become known. The first information, on Monday, pointed to a possible act of organized crime, but on Wednesday prosecutor Francisco Lanas, of the Eastern Metropolitan Prosecutor's Office, revealed that it is a case of "illegal burial" apparently resulting from an agreement between two nuns who possibly had agreed to be buried together.
The investigations of the Investigative Police (PDI) are now advancing on that path after the examination of images from security cameras showed a person dressed in what looked like a religious habit leaving the suspicious suitcase next to the road, on the street. Las Talaveras, in the commune of Ñuñoa.
Inside is where the remains of a 58-year-old woman, who died more than a year ago, were found. The hypothesis being used is that the 80-year-old nun hid her friend's body for a year in a cellar inside her home, without burying it or notifying the authorities, and that later a person close to her abandoned it in full public street after instilling suspicion.
"They make this kind of pact to isolate themselves from the world, they had an aspiration to be like cloister nuns, to not have further contact with the outside (...) they make this kind of pact, in the event of the death of one or the other, not reporting to the authority and taking care of themselves until the last moment," the prosecutor explained.
"In the external examination of the body there are no signs of violence or fracture. We have to completely discard what was said at the beginning, that the body was dismembered, dismembered. There is nothing of that today. There are no signs of participation of third parties. It would be preliminary natural death," he added.
Along the same lines, Subprefect Juan Fonseca, of the Metropolitan Homicide Brigade, assured that the other person went to the home of the other consecrated lay nun, as she indicates, moved her in a suitcase, and kept her for a year in an outbuilding. from his house.
The subprefect added that it is possible that the octogenarian came to her senses after her daughter's arrival at the house and decided to dispose of her friend's body. After a series of raids, audiovisual investigations and interviews with alleged suspects carried out in the last few hours, the prosecution decided to order the arrest of the octogenarian and her daughter, as defendants.
