The body has been found lifeless in his own car today, right after dawn, by a woman going to the morning Mass. The victim is a priest, named Rodrigo Blanco. An early analysis suggests that the death occurred from eight to six hours before the retrieval. The cause of death seems to be asphyxia, induced by the car’s exhaust gases: the waste pipe was linked to the passenger compartment by a few metres long garden hose wedged between the window and the door. The car was still turned on when the police arrived, so the policemen had to wait some minutes before they could check the interior because the compartment was full of fumes. The clues and the circumstances seem to confirm the presumption of suicide: no signs of scuffle, no missing items in the car and the priest’s wallet, with money and documents, was still on his owner’s body.
As for the case of Seth Warner, who, according to recent information, probably knew the priest, many questions are still unsolved. There are no reasons to think that Father Blanco was depressed or somehow distressed. Moreover, the colleagues and the faithful of his Church describe him as a sensitive, careful and always helpful person.
Only an item has probably been moved: a souvenir of no intrinsic value found near a clean circular portion of the dusty dashboard, portion that, having the same size of the item, seems to be its former location.
Anyway, it is surely to discard the hypothesis that the item has been used to commit the presumptive suicide.
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