Netflix has once again revolutionized the audiovisual panorama with the series The Asunta Case. The fiction, based on the high-profile crime of Asunta Basterra, premiered last Friday, April 26 on the streaming platform and since then, the case has once again been at the center of the media focus.
The little girl, just 12 years old, was murdered in the Galician municipality of Teo. Her parents, Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra, reported the little girl’s disappearance hours before she was found. However, the case took a radical turn a few days later when the evidence found by investigators pointed to the little girl’s parents as the main suspects in the crime. Finally, the court sentenced Porto and Basterra to 18 years in prison.
Although more than ten years have passed since the crime, to this day there are still unknowns and questions that were never answered, such as the reason that led the lawyer and the journalist to end their daughter’s life. In addition to investigating the murder of Asunta Basterra, investigators began to investigate Rosario Porto’s family life, since her parents, Francisco Porto and Socorro Ortega, died suddenly, first she and then him, with a difference of eight months. , between December 2011 and July 2012.
The death, which was initially due to natural causes, was not investigated until the Asunta Basterra crime occurred. From that moment on, mistrust arose around the death of her grandparents. However, investigators could do little to clarify the facts, since the bodies of Francisco Porto and Socorro Ortega were cremated without performing an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
The main hypothesis that the researchers considered was the economic motive since Asunta’s parents were going through a difficult economic time. To this hypothesis he added the rumor that the little girl could be the heir to the entire fortune of her grandparents. Something that was denied over time when a document was found that accredited Rosario Porto as the sole heir.
But everything changed on November 18, 2020 when it came to light that the lawyer had taken her life in her cell. Her inheritance, valued at more than 3 million euros, was made up of four homes and several jewels.
After her death, Rosario Porto’s estate ended up in the hands of her close friend named Teresa after her lawyers renounced their share of the inheritance. However, the lawyer specified in her will that part of her estate should be allocated to three charities: Amnesty International, SOS prisoners of Galicia and Human Rights Watch.
