Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - The Chilling Case of Brenda Barattini Love, Betrayal, Violence and Justice in Argentina PART2 #2

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #truecrimecase #betrayalturnsviolent #argentinacrime #courtroomjustice #darkrelationships   Part 2 of the chilling Brenda Barattini case dives deeper into the aftermath of her violent act. It reveals how passion and betrayal escalated into a brutal crime, the shocking details uncovered in court, and the intense battle between justice and human emotion in Argentina.  horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrortales, truecrimecase, argentinastory, violentbetrayal, realjustice, crimeandpassion, courtroomdrama, shockingtruth, betrayalstory, violentlove, trueevent, realcrime, argentinajustice, crimeuncovered, darklove  

Brenda Baratini, Scissors, Secrets, and a story that shook Argentina. When Sergio Fernandez was finally stable enough to talk, he sat down with authorities and gave his version of events. His account helped investigators reconstruct that Bloody Night, though his words were as much about shame as they were about pain. Sergio insisted that after the attack, before even facing doctors, he had phoned Marianella, his girlfriend at the time. He claimed he wanted to confess everything, the betrayal, the affair, the ugly truth. According to him, he asked her for forgiveness and even begged her to come find him at the hospital. But Marianella told a different story. According to her, Sergio never called.

She said that it was actually a mutual friend who alerted her that something terrible had happened. Worried, she called Sergio's phone over and over until he finally answered. Two different versions, right from the start. And that was just the beginning of the contradictions. Brenda's first story. When Brenda Baratini's turn came to explain herself, she didn't deny what she had done. There was no way to hide it, blood, scissors, neighbors, doctors, police. But she stuck to her story, this wasn't some cold-blooded act of revenge, it was self-defense.

She told investigators that Sergio had shown up that evening around 9 p.m. He hadn't run the buzzer, she claimed, because the front door of the building had been left ajar earlier. He went straight up to the sixth floor and knocked. Brenda, who was about to head out to a birthday party with her boyfriend Gonzalo, opened the door. She said she had just stepped out of the shower and was still getting ready. But according to Brenda, the visit turned ugly fast. Sergio noticed that her pets had scratched a musical instrument he had left in her apartment. That sparked an argument.

He raised his voice, got aggressive, and then noticed a photo of Brenda with Gonzalo. At that moment, Brenda said, everything snapped, Sergio went into a jealous rage. She described how he lunged at her, how his anger spilled into something darker, an attempted sexual assault. She insisted he had no idea Gonzalo even existed until that night, and the shock made him furious. In the chaos, she said she remembered something. Under her bed, she kept a box of tools, including gardening scissors she bought for her balcony plants. While Sergio attacked her, she managed to reach under, grabbed the scissors by the handle, and with the strength of one hand

and the push of her leg, she made the cut that changed everything. Brenda also pointed to bruises on her arms, claiming they were proof of his violence. Holes and her story But investigators quickly noticed cracks in her version. For one, Sergio had been wearing a blindfold when neighbors found him bleeding in the hallway. Why would a man attempting to rape her put on an eye mask? Then there was the question of the scissors. Brenda said she kept them under her bed because her apartment was

was small and she had to store things wherever she could. But the explanation felt flimsy, especially when matched against other evidence. Her lawyer argued that the attack couldn't have been premeditated. After all, when police searched the apartment, they found clothes on the bed, outfits she was supposedly trying on to wear to the birthday party. Why would she plan an ambush if she was about to go out? The defense also admitted that Brenda and Sergio had been romantically involved, but insisted she had broken it off months earlier. According to them, Sergio had been obsessed, constantly looking for excuses to show up at her place. A mother's defense. Through all of this, Brenda's mother, Laura Herrera, stood firmly

by her side. She told reporters her daughter was being unfairly demonized, that Brenda was the victim here. My daughter is the light of my eyes, she said, voice shaking with anger and tears. I feel so much pain, so much helplessness, so much injustice for the way they're staining her name. I'm a lioness, and I'll defend her to the end. Laura insisted Brenda had injuries from Sergio's attack. Her little arms are covered in bruises, she said. She even added that Brenda and Gonzalo had been about to get married in start a business together, hardly the life of a woman plotting a violent crime, she argued. The prosecution pushes back. But the prosecutor wasn't buying it. She stood in front of cameras

and declared, this was not about sexual assault. Nothing in the investigation suggested Sergio had tried to rape Brenda that night. And then things got even more complicated. Brenda's second story Not long after, Brenda changed her version. In a new statement, she claimed her true motive that night was Sergio's phone. She said he had filmed their intimate encounters and shared them with his friends. This, she explained, had devastated her emotionally. She just wanted to grab his phone and erase the humiliating material.

That was her whole intention. But when investigators asked Sergio about this, his answers were muddy. He wasn't clear. Sometimes he hinted maybe there were private recordings. But he never specified whether it was photos or videos, whether he had sent them to one friend or many. And despite police digging through every piece of digital evidence, nothing ever surfaced. No pictures.

No videos. No proof. The smoking gun, internet searches. Then came the bombshell. Investigators finally got the results from Brenda's laptop. What they found flipped the entire case upside down. In the days leading up to the attack, Brenda had been googling some very disturbing things. Searches like, How to Cut Off a Man's Penis.

She had even read an article about a woman arrested for trying exactly that on her partner. And just 48 hours before her own attack, she had looked up how successful surgeries were in reattaching male genitalia. That wasn't the behavior of a woman desperately defending herself in a moment of chaos. It looked an awful lot like planning. To be continued.