There are 357 pages that, in some ways, bring closure to one of the most shocking crimes of recent years: a rape and subsequent death within an upper-class Córdoba family, whose judicial investigation was so embarrassing that in 2026 three prosecutors will be indicted for their actions in the case.
It is a very detailed report – full of testimonies, expertise and documentary evidence – with which the Cordoba prosecutor, Pablo Jávega, concluded the investigation phase of the crime Nora Dalmasso (51). In the same document he requested that he be brought to justice as the sole responsible party. Roberto Barzola (45). The man worked as Parquetist was in the victim’s house when she was murdered and had a heated argument with her.
Bárzola – not officially charged until the end of 2024 – did not spend a single day in prison as the statute of limitations on the charges against him is still being examined. The matter is currently being investigated by Chamber I of the Supreme Court of Cordoba following an appeal by the widower. Marcelo Macarron (66) and his children Facundo (38) and Valentina (35).
While this is due to a separate incident, Jávega decided to move forward and requested from the Chairman of the Criminal and Correctional Chamber that Bárzola be tried either in a regular oral procedure or at least in a trial based on the truth. If the defense objects (which is a given), everything falls to the judge.
And in this case, the judge will certainly wait to see what the Supreme Court decides on the statute of limitations before making his opinion. At the moment the judge has already said that according to his vision a Testing by the truth.
The important, the transcendent thing about what happened that Tuesday was that, after absurd conspiracy theories that always pointed to Nora’s family, For the first time in 19 years, the judiciary is listing the evidence against a specific suspect individually. And they are powerful. Most importantly, Barzola’s DNA was found in 8 different places on the waistband of the bathrobe used to hang Dalmasso, and a pubic hair found on the victim’s genitals also belonged to him.
So why wasn’t Barzola brought to trial sooner?
The answer is scandalous: the first three prosecutors in the case systematically refused to take genetic samples as requested by the Macarrón family. This only happened after the acquittal of widower Marcelo Macarrón in 2022.
This is the reconstruction that prosecutor Jávega made of how she would have been murdered:
For prosecutor Barzola, the work was “motivated by a stereotype of gender superiority, in which the female collective, because of its gender, is denied human rights inherent in such a condition, including the right to choose with whom to associate.”
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