September 21, 2013 was a day that would be marked in the pages of Spanish news. It was the early hours of that Saturday to Sunday when Asunta Basterra was found dead in a wooded area on the outskirts of Teo, in the province of A Coruña. After a complex investigation, the girl’s adoptive parents, Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra, were sentenced to prison terms for murder.
Rosario would end up committing suicide in 2020, while Alfonso continues serving his sentence until 2031. These elements have served as an inspiration for the Netflix series The Asunta Case, starring Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa. Its premiere has been a success and has allowed the topic to be revived on television programs and social networks. Some of its most relevant figures have also spoken again about it.
José Antonio Vázquez Taín, investigating judge of the investigation and regular collaborator of TardeAR, shared an interview with Ana Rosa Quintana and her set colleagues during the program broadcast this Wednesday. The person responsible for the case, whom the presenter has also described as the man who was in charge of solving it, has shed light on several issues in this regard, such as the possible involvement of a third person.
An option that had re-emerged as current news, but in reality was already present from the first investigations. José Luis Gutiérrez Aranguren, defense attorney for Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto, maintained this position from the beginning. Vázquez Taín also reminded viewers that he arrived at the instruction some time later, after the resignation of Porto’s first defender after feeling overwhelmed.
Likewise, he confirmed that there was a stain of Asunta’s saliva on the girl’s well-known shirt, which ended up contaminated during the investigation process. Her DNA sample appeared on her immediately, as well as traces of the civil guards who were in charge of managing her. Taín also added the possible rehearsal of the murder months before, taking into account the assault on Asunta in her room and the orphids in her body.
These statements are complemented by those of María Fe, a nun who cared for Porto during her days in prison: “In my opinion she thought a lot about herself because she was always worried about what the press said about her, what television said about her. she. And very rarely did she think about others. She did not communicate with the rest of the girls who talk there about everything, the weather, what happened in prison last week, what they say, what they don’t say, health, illness, of everything”.
