Martin Murano: “Yiya wanted to kill me too”

On April 27, 1979, Argentine society was moved to learn of the arrest of a woman named Maria de la Mercedes Bolla Aponte Murano, but for the police chronicle she was known as Yiya Murano, “the poisoner of Monserrat”. The murderer, born in Corrientes on May 20, 1930, was found guilty of the deaths of some friends: Nilda Gamba, Leila Formisano de Ayala and Carmen Zulema del Giorgio Venturini, who was her cousin. The events happened between Februar…