A pregnant woman whose ashes were found on wasteland on kilometre six of of Route Six near the town of Rincon de los Sauces, in the western Argentine province of Neuquen, is thought to have been murdered in a Satanic ritual.
It's believed that Fernanda Pereyra, 26, who was six months pregnant, was stabbed to death before being burned in a fire so hot that only a necklace was left to identify her.
Investigators think the three sixes were chosen on purpose to represent the number 666 and say the killers used a large amount of petrol to burn the body to ash.
The victim was transported in a Renault Kangoo van which was found to have been cleaned but traces of blood and hair from the victim remained, according to prosecutors Agustin Garcia and Fabian Flores.
Police have arrested three people in connection with Pereyra's murder, her former boyfriend Luciano Hernandez and father of one of her three children and his two friends Osvaldo Castillo and Diego Marillan.
The suspects have also been linked with drug trafficking and are thought to practice Satanism and unidentified African religions.
A sheep in the courtyard was also suspected to have been used in the trio's Satanic rituals.
Pereyra had suffered abuse before being murdered. Police say they have two hypotheses for the murder's motivation beyond its religious significance.
The first is that Pereryra was murdered by her boyfriend because she got pregnant by another man.
The other is that it was to warn other citizens against interfering with drug-dealing gangs.
Source - Metro
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