Bernardo Uglione Boldrini was murdered in 2014 when he was 11 years old. The crime happened in Três Passos, in the northwest of Rio Grande do Sul. More than a decade later, None of the four accused of the boy’s death is in a closed sentence the.
On Tuesday (22), the Rio Grande do Sul Penal Police reported that Edelvânia Wirganovicz, convicted of involvement in the crime, was found dead at the Porto Alegre Women’s Penal Institute. She was serving sentence in semi -open regime. The suspicion is suicide.
In 2019, father, Leandro Boldrini, his stepmother, Graciele Ugulini, her friend Edelvânia Wirganovicz, and Edelvânia’s brother Evandro Wirganovicz were sentenced by the popular jury.
Leandro Boldrini fulfills a sentence in the semi -open regime. Initially, he was sentenced to 33 years and eight months imprisonment for quadruple -qualified homicide – clumsy and futile motives, the use of poison and appeal that made it difficult to defend the victim – ideological falsehood and concealment of corpse. However, in a second jury, held in 2023, he was acquitted of the accusation of concealment of corpse. With this, the penalty was 31 years and eight months in prison.
The first jury was annulled in 2021, when the court considered that the parity of weapons was breached – that is, equal treatment between the parts of the case – during the interrogation of the defendant.
Last year Boldrini was selected for a medical residency place at the University Hospital of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). However, in February of this year, the medical record was revoked by the Regional Council of Medicine of Rio Grande do Sul (Crems) and was disconnected from the hospital.
Graciele Ugulini received a sentence of 34 years and seven months in prison. She was sentenced by quadruple -qualified homicide and corpse concealment. Last Thursday (17), the court authorized the stepmother to go to the semi-open regime.
Edelvânia Wirganovicz was sentenced to 22 years and 10 months in prison for triple -qualified homicide and concealment of corpse. She was a friend of Bernardo’s stepmother and, in addition to admitting the crime, pointed out where the child was buried.
Edelvânia served sentence in semi -open regime at the Porto Alegre Women’s Penal Institute, where she was found dead yesterday (22). According to information from the Penal Police, she had “signs of hanging and the preliminary evidence point to the inmate herself committed the act.” The Civil Police and the General Institute of Expertise will investigate the cause of death. The General Corregedoria of the Penitentiary System also follows the investigation of the case.
In 2022, Edelvânia began to serve sentence in semi -open regime. The following year, in 2023, it was determined by the court to comply with a sentence on a home regime, with the use of an electronic anklet, due to the lack of vacancies in the prison system.
However, in February this year, a decision of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) ordered her to return to the semi -open. The determination occurred after a complaint from the Rio Grande do Sul Public Prosecution Service (MPRS), which claimed that Edelvânia could not receive the regime benefit for being pending 50% of the sentence.
Evandro Wirganovicz, Edelvânia’s brother, was sentenced to nine years and six months in a semi -open regime for simple homicide and corpse concealment. He served a sentence and is loose.
Remember the crime
Bernardo Boldrini was 11 years old when he disappeared in Três Passos in April 2014. The body was found ten days later, buried in a grave on a property on the banks of the Mico River in the neighboring city, Frederico Westphalen.
On the same day, his father, Leandro Boldrini, and his stepmother, Graciele Ugulini, were arrested, suspected of being the intellectual mentor and the perpetrator of the crime. They would also have contact with the help of Graciele’s friend, Edelvania Wirganovicz, found dead.
Days later, Evandro Wirganovicz, Edelvania’s brother, was arrested, suspected of being the person who prepared the pit where the boy was buried. The four were submitted to a popular jury and convicted by the Jury Court. At the time, Boldrini had the trial annulled and was again submitted to a popular jury in 2023.
Check out the penalties:
- Graciele Ugulini, the stepmother, received a sentence of 34 years and 7 months in prison.
- Leandro Boldrini, his father, was sentenced to 33 years and 8 months in jail.
- Edelvânia Wirganovicz, her friend, was sentenced to 22 years and 10 months in prison.
- Evandro Wirganovicz, his friend’s brother, was sentenced to 9 years and 6 months in semi -open regime.
This content was originally published in case Bernardo: see how the convicted 11 years after the crime on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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