Civil Guard made several trips on time find and stop Rapist and murderer of Elisa Abruñedo In Lavandeira (A Coruña). The crime was committed on September 1, 2013. Until Roger Serafín Rodríguez was arrested last Tuesday, accused of being the perpetrator of the crime, investigators from the UCO and the A Coruña command resorted to the most innovative DNA techniques. He was present when the woman was killed.
Moreover, as CASO ABIERTO, Prensa Ibérica’s investigative and events channel, has learned, the investigation led them to the following conclusion: Historical records of the Church at the Mondoñedo Diocesan Archives (Lugo), they consulted here genealogical trace of several dozen families. On this tour, they even consulted documents from the time of the Council of Trent in the 16th century to research the criminal’s genealogy.
Operation Lavandeira The hunt for Elisa Abruñedo’s killer began in traditional fashion. The criminal, who was raped and stabbed three times in the chest, left traces of DNA on his victim’s body. This genetic fingerprint has been compared for the first time sex offenders booked. It didn’t work. Later, dozens of people in the area were checked. Eyewitnesses mentioned a car. a Citroen ZX. The owners of that vehicle, which is quite common in that part of Galicia, were also searched.
A volunteer DNA
The first clue to solving the case emerged in 2021, more than seven years after the murder. Civil Guard was organized some DNA tests Among the residents, first in the municipality of Cabanas, then in other neighborhoods and municipal buildings near Ferrol. Adult males were asked to voluntarily provide DNA samples.
The murderer was not revealed, but according to sources on the case, a relative of his, a distant relative who was not of the first generation, did. “This DNA tested positive, but a small percentage. What I meant was a distant relative of that man “The person who emerged among the volunteers was Elisa’s killer,” explains sources related to the case.
journey to the past
A journey into the past has begun by researchers. Civil guards who traced the ancestry of this volunteer and his possible ancestors, including the most distant, Mondoñedo Diocesan Archive. The history and lives, baptisms, births and funerals of all the parishioners and their families in the area are kept here. Stores everything from 9th-century scrolls to microfilmed backgrounds and more 15,000 story coins from the families of the community.
Civil guards, some of those investigating the murder of Diana Quer, consulted historical documents from parishioners there, tracing that family back to the past when a 21st-century murderer was found. They tracked down hundreds of men born in the diocese and consulted 16th-century documents from the time of the Council of Trent.
bastards
You had to follow the DNA and it took years bastard or unrecognized childrenIt wasn’t always easy. They were always cooperative with the church and were surprised by its meticulousness in historical records. In documents dating back decades, it was stated that after the birth of the baby, there were doubts about who the real father could be or who he could be. This goal was achieved at the beginning of 2022 rebuild the lineage Where the killer might belong.
red-headed
In parallel with this historical research, the latest scientific developments were used. HE Luis Concheiro Institute of Forensic SciencesA research team at the University of Santiago de Compostela, a pioneer in genetic research and criminal cases, obtained an extension of the killer’s DNA found on the body of 2013 victim Elisa. Science is your killer a red-haired manmelanocortin 1 receptor due to its properties in the MC1R gene.
When all this data was crossed: red-haired male, distantly related to the family of a volunteer, owner of a Citroen in 2013, a name emerged as the target of the Lavandeira operation after the summer. Roger Serafín Rodríguez, 49 years old, He had no criminal record and had not committed any crimes before allegedly attacking and killing Elisa Abruñedo. A year after the crime, after leaving his workplace at the Navantia assembly line in Ferrol, he began a relationship with a woman who remained his partner until his arrest.
Loner and unsociable, an enigma to investigators who loved hunting and horses, Rodriguez had not been investigated for any other violent crimes in the past decade. Investigators are now checking to see if he was involved in other crimes.