A little over a year ago, the actor Luis Lorenzo and his wife, Arancha Palomino, became absolute protagonists of today when they were accused of allegedly having murdered María Isabel Suárez, the latter’s aunt. The 85-year-old woman died in the house that the couple owns in Arganda del Rey (Madrid) on June 28, 2021.
It was one of the deceased’s brothers who would denounce the couple to the authorities, accusing them of having poisoned the old woman with heavy metals (namely, cadmium and manganese), to get part of her inheritance. Both Lorenzo and Palomino defended their innocence from the outset, and it seems that time will prove them right, because the final forensic report of the investigation, still open, states that the high concentrations of cadmium and manganese detected in the autopsy of Isabel Suárez they may be due to “postmortem diffusion phenomena” and therefore she did not die of poisoning.
Two experts, Dr. Maria Teresa Agüero and Dr. Javier Díaz have analyzed, at the request of the judge in charge of the case, the autopsy that was performed on the old woman after she died in June 2021 and they conclude that there was no poisoning, in addition to the fact that it cannot be Intoxication due to the other medications that the woman regularly took was demonstrated.
“The forensic doctor who performed the autopsy came to the conclusion of acute poisoning by heavy metals, taking into account only the results obtained from the blood sample (from the victim), whose reference values ??have been established for living adults,” the investigators state. experts, who add that “postmortem results vary with respect to the sampling location and the interval between death and sampling and the phenomena of postmortem diffusion and redistribution”.
The experts have also studied the toxicological analyzes that determined that the woman had high concentrations of cadmium and manganese in her blood, well above normal levels, in addition to her medical history. This new report also contradicts the accusations of mistreatment of the couple towards the elderly woman, since the experts affirm that in the body of the woman only “physical injuries compatible with a fall and according to the pathological history (repeated falls) are observed.” “.
Their conclusions contradict those of the coroner who performed the autopsy on the woman, in addition to the reports drawn up by the Civil Guard, who affirmed after collecting the testimony of witnesses (neighbors, relatives) that Lorenzo and Palomino transferred the old woman from Asturias to Madrid to “plunder her financially” and, when they were unable to do so, they began to mistreat and isolate her to the point of death. Also his suspicions that the woman had been poisoned with shoe dye.
This new report, however, does support the thesis of the defense of the defendants, who have always affirmed that there was optional follow-up regarding the pharmacological regimens and pathologies suffered by the woman.
The investigating court number 9 of Arganda del Rey keeps the interpreter and his wife under investigation, but in the next few days, the couple’s lawyer will request the file of the case.
Both Palomino and Lorenzo have always described the investigation as “botch” and have defended their innocence from the outset, convinced that the accusation “had to be a mistake.” Now, time proves them right.
