Peggy’s partner told neighbors they found her hanging from a hammock, but then fled the scene.
In Guayaquil, an alleged femicide is being investigated that would have been passed off as a suicide. On the streets 14 and García Goyena this Saturday the body of Peggy Orrala, 44 years old, was discovered.
He allegedly hanged himself with a hammock in the house he shared with his partner, however, the victim’s family filed a complaint for the crime of femicide, since they consider that the subject, identified as Iter Ricardo HC, killed her.
The family said the autopsy revealed that Peggy died of “asphyxia from strangulation.”
They report that the suspect fled the scene after going out to ask for help and allegedly running to find an ambulance. “He did not return home,” says an aunt of the deceased at the wake held in La Chala.
“He told the neighbors that he found her hanging, that he took her down and put her on the bed,” she explained.
When Peggy’s family arrived, the woman was on the bed, in her underwear.
Criminalistics lifted the body and the Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation.
The Orrala family hopes that the suspect will soon be arrested. They mentioned that they had a four-year relationship and that Peggy had four grown children from her first marriage.
So far in 2021, 105 women have been victims of femicide nationwide, according to the Center for the Promotion and Action of Women (Cepam). (I)
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