Autopsies of the Victims of Argentinian Triple 'Narco-Femicide'

TheCruxofBag · #1 ● 10-21-2025, 12:18 AM

In September 2025, the bodies of cousins Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo (both aged 20), and a teenager, Lara Gutierrez, were found buried in the yard of a house in a southern suburb of Buenos Aires, five days after they went missing.

The three were tortured and killed on a closed social media group of 45 users as a "warning" over an alleged drug theft, according to Buenos Aires Security Minister Javier Alonso. It was initially reported the livestream was transmitted over Instagram, but Alonso has since clarified it was an unspecified "different" platform.

Alonso added that during the livestream, a voice could be heard saying "this is what happens to those who steal drugs from me".

CCTV footage of them getting into a van with fake number plates enabled police to track them to the house where they were murdered.

Argentine police arrested seven suspects in the days following the crime - including the man suspected of digging the hole in which the women were buried and a man and his niece, who police say drove the car in which the victims were taken to the house.

Earlier this month, 20-year-old Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, nicknamed 'Little J', believed to operate a drug gang in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Zavaleta, and thought to have ordered the killings, was arrested on a motorway 70km south of Peru's capital, Lima, hidden in a van transporting fish.

In a separate operation, Peruvian police also detained a 28-year-old Argentine man, Matías Ozorio, who they say is Mr Valverde's right-hand man.