The initial investigations revealed that the old Miradorfn1 that Alejandra used as a bedroom had been locked from the inside by Alejandra herself. Then (although the amount of time that elapsed cannot be precisely determined by logical deduction) she killed her father with four bullets from a .32-caliber pistol. And finally, she poured gasoline around and set the Mirador on fire.
The tragedy, which shocked Buenos Aires because this old Argentine family had been a prominent one, appeared in the beginning to have been the consequence of a sudden attack of insanity. But a new element that alters this earlier reconstruction of events has now entered the picture. A curious “Report on the Blind,” which Fernando Vidal finished drafting on the very night of his death, was discovered in the Villa Devoto apartment that he had been living in under an assumed name. Those persons who have examined it agree that it is the manuscript of a paranoiac. Nonetheless it would appear that it lends itself to certain interpretations that throw light on the crime and make the hypothesis of an act of madness less plausible than another more sinister, more obscure explanation. If this line of reasoning is correct, it would explain why Alejandra did not commit suicide with one of the two bullets that remained in the pistol, choosing instead to burn herself alive.
[Excerpt from a police report published June 28, 1955, in La Razón, Buenos Aires.]