Puccio family
Argentine criminal family
The Puccio family was an Argentine criminal family. Three of the Puccios were convicted of four kidnappings and three murders in the early 1980s.
Background
The family, which comprised father Arquímedes Puccio, mother Epifanía Calvo, and five children (three sons and two daughters) – Alejandro, Silvia, Daniel, Guillermo, and Adriana Puccio - lived in a large house in San Isidro, a wealthy suburb of Buenos Aires. Arquímedes is suspected to have been involved in forced disappearances during the Dirty War. Alejandro was a star rugby player, and Silvia was an art teacher.
Victims
Ricardo Manoukian, aged 23, who disappeared on 22 July 1982, was the Puccio family's first known kidnapping victim. Manoukian's family paid a ransom of $250,000; nevertheless, he was later killed with three shots to the neck. He had been introduced to Alejandro Puccio by friends in his neighbourhood, and the two often played tennis and football together.
Engineer Eduardo Aulet was kidnapped on 5 May 1983. Although his family paid $150,000 for his ransom, the Puccios killed him.
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