More than a month after Venezuelan authorities reopened the case of Canserbero's death, her former manager Natalia Améstica confessed to the double murder of her husband Carlos Molnar and the rapper. Both musicians died on January 20, 2015 in circumstances that were previously considered confusing.
On November 23, the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, announced the exhumation of the body of Tirone José González Orama (the rapper's birth name) in order to find new data that would contribute to the development of the case. According to the official, the investigation was reopened “due to the need for justice of the victims' relatives” as well as “the outcry” of “Can” admirers.
At that time, Canserbero's former manager and Molnar's wife Natalia Améstica and her brother Guillermo Améstica were charged with alleged false statements and obstruction of justice. “We were surprised that the investigation revolved around the first statements of Natalia Améstica, Carlos Molnar's romantic partner; who acts as the only 'witness' to the events,” said Saab.
According to the public prosecutor's office, the investigation carried out in 2015 revealed what was previously considered the official version, according to which González had an argument with Molnar in his apartment due to a “psychotic breakdown”. In the middle of the episode, the rapper is said to have stabbed his colleague and then fell from the balcony of the apartment on the tenth floor. In this story, Natalia Améstica was the only person who would have witnessed the event.
This version of a murder-suicide was maintained for eight years, although it had several inconsistencies, such as the position in which Canserbero's body was left when he fell and suspicions that his only autopsy may have been altered.
Natalia Améstica's confession
On Tuesday, December 26, at 12:00 p.m., Prosecutor Saab offered a press conference in which he presented the new conclusions that the prosecution was able to reach thanks to its recent findings. “Today I will introduce to the Venezuelan people and the international public the two material and intellectual perpetrators of the heinous double murder of Tirone González and Carlos Molnar,” he began, adding that he would also mention the accomplices of the crimes.
The officer described that the Améstica brothers' initial statements were “incoherent” and did not match the forensic evidence found by the authority, but at midnight on the 19th of the current month, both defendants agreed to confess. Saab reported that during questioning, Natalia admitted to murdering Molnar for economic reasons and González out of “envy.”
Various Venezuelan media outlets broadcast an excerpt from the woman's statement in which she describes in detail how she prepared the murder of the two musicians and how her brother Guillermo helped her manipulate the crime scene. According to his statement, he offered them both tea with a sedative and when the drink took effect, he first attacked Molnar, inflicting a stab wound on his neck. The incident disturbed González, who felt sleepy and fell onto a sofa. At that moment she stabbed him twice in the side of his body.
“Not knowing what to do, in desperation I called my brother Guillermo to help me resolve the situation and he arrived at 11 at night accompanied by three officers of the… [Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional]”Says Améstica in the video statement, which includes the watermark of the public prosecutor's office. “They arranged the crime scene so that it was a murder-suicide.”
“To establish the murder-suicide hypothesis, Guillermo stabbed Molnar and hit Canserbero's body with a pipe, disfiguring his face, to simulate a fight between them,” the institution said in a statement to the press. “At 5 a.m. they threw the body out the window, after which Guillermo left and Natalia called the neighbors.”
When a commission of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigation Corps (CICPC) arrived at the scene to conduct the investigation and preliminary investigation, its members discovered that the crime scene had been tampered with, for which they would have accepted $10,000 in exchange for complicity and silence.
These new details about the deaths of Canserbero and his colleague Carlos Molnar were hailed by prosecutors as a “triumph of Venezuelan justice,” while the rapper's admirers celebrated finally clearing their idol's name.