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The Clues Behind Julia Chuñil’s Crime: “Her Son Javier Took Her with His Own Hands Until She Was Killed by Asphyxiation”

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The scene of the death of Julia Chuñil, a 73-year-old Mapuche farmer who has been missing for 14 months, cannot be more difficult. Investigations by the Los Ríos Regional Prosecutor’s Office point to the fact that the woman may have been murdered by one of her children, Javier Omar Troncoso Chuñil, after a strong fight on the night of November 8, 2024. “Javier took Julia with his own hands until he was killed by asphyxiation,” confessed one of t…

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The scene of the death of Julia Chuñil, a 73-year-old Mapuche farmer who has been missing for 14 months, cannot be more difficult. Investigations by the Los Ríos Regional Prosecutor’s Office point to the fact that the woman may have been murdered by one of her children, Javier Omar Troncoso Chuñil, after a strong fight on the night of November 8, 2024. “Javier took Julia with his own hands until he was killed by asphyxiation,” confessed one of t…

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Julia Chuñil's death, according to the Regional Prosecutor's Office of Los Ríos, has a previous conflict that led to her death. According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Chuñil's son, Javier Troncoso, took her life after she tried to defend an adult older than 90 years of initials N.G.P. from whom she wanted to steal money. Likewise, the prosecuting entity is also formalizing Javier Troncoso for the crime of robbery with violence, after the n…

·Chile
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On August 15, 2017, Mariela Aceituno Torres stabbed a woman and her daughter in the commune of San Bernardo, Chile. One of the victims suffered “definitive neurological damage.” The aggressor was charged with “very serious injuries.” When the Justice ordered her arrest, she could not be located. Without trace of her whereabouts and on suspicion that she had crossed the border, in January 2022 her international arrest was ordered and Interpol pub…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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When Julia del Carmen Chuñil Catricura disappeared on November 8, 2024, she lived with her daughter, Jeannette Troncoso...

·Chile
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The businessman Juan Carlos Morstadt, has been pointed out by the family as the main suspect, while the Prosecutor's Office blames several members of Chuñil's family

The justice of the Los Ríos Region handed over this Friday the first procedural definitions regarding the crime of Julia Chuñil, the Mapuche leader who remained missing since November 8 in the municipality of Máfil. After an extensive hearing in the Los Lagos Guarantee Court, the court determined that [...] The entry A son of Julia Chuñil remains in pretrial detention accused of parricide was first published in Desenfoque.cl.

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cambio21.cl broke the news in on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.
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