The family of the woman allegedly poisoned by her niece and the actor Luis Lorenzo: "Isabel was afraid of them"

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Two obituaries were dedicated to

, for whose death her niece

and actor

were arrested this Friday and released with charges.

One her brothers and another Arancha herself.

"An extraordinary woman who knew how to live and die with dignity, leaving the best of herself in each one of us," her niece said of her.

"Great woman, good wife and best friend. Those of us who were lucky enough to live with you and accompany you until the end will always remember you and carry you in our hearts," she added.

Chelo

is the sister-in-law of the deceased.

She is married to

, one of María Isabel's brothers, and she knows firsthand what has happened in recent months and the relationship that María Isabel had with Arancha and the actor.

She answers our questions by phone from

, where she lives.

When did María Isabel move to Madrid to live with Arancha and Luis? Isabel did not move to Madrid at all.

She was in her apartment in Grado [an Asturian council 25 kilometers from Oviedo] and they took her away.

She was in contact with two brothers all the time.

And in February/March, I had a chest problem, they gave me radiotherapy and Isabel called me every day.

One day she didn't call me and I called her.

She didn't answer my landline.

My husband called her on the mobile.

Nothing, she didn't reply.

We called another brother who lived in Oviedo, closer to her, and he went to her house.

The neighbor told her that they [Arancha and Luis] had come at night: "I opened the door for them because she wouldn't open it for them."

She didn't want to see them.

Another time they had come and had to sleep in the car with the children because she did not open the door for them.

She was afraid of them.

She opened it for them, they went up,

they had a big row and in the morning they left in the car. Were you afraid of them? Yes.

They came to trials that she [Arancha] had with the father of her son and Isabel did not want them to come to her house, but, of course, when she opened and it was them... We all already knew that she was very bad people, she behaved very badly with her father and her father didn't want to know about her. Did they try to contact Isabel? Yes, but they didn't pick up the phone.

Once, my husband left a message on the answering machine: "Please, I want to talk to my sister Isabel because they want to buy a farm from her," he said to see if they would get it that way.

He answered: "I'm Luis. I'm Isabel's guardian. If they keep bothering you, find a lawyer." So they filed a complaint... A disappearance complaint, because they never let us talk to her. And the Civil Guard went to the her house...

They were not allowed to pass.

We looked everywhere, social workers, Civil Guard and nothing.How did they find out about his death?My husband had been called from the court because of the complaint.

My husband and I were on our way to Grado and when we arrived my daughter called me shouting: "They brought Isabel dead."

You can imagine my husband's shock, crying, screaming... Did they accompany Isabel's body? Arancha was at the funeral home. What explanation did they give her for the death? the family, nor with her father. What did you think of Isabel's death? It seemed very strange to us because my sister-in-law was perfectly fine.

They had already tried to take her away again, it was in August, during the pandemic [2020].

My sister-in-law was able to escape and she came without clothes or anything, with a wool jacket.

Do you think they wanted to have her with them for her money? Of course, nothing else.

Isabel didn't need anything, she had her house, her vegetables, her eggs... she went to the Plaza de Oviedo to sell with her cart every Thursday.

I told her: "Well, Isabel, leave it alone, go for a walk."

She answered: "It's just that I like it." After her death, what did they do? At the time they brought her dead, we asked for an autopsy and it revealed lead poisoning. María Isabel was a widow, right? Yes, a widow without children .

Her husband died 18 or 19 years ago.Was she especially wealthy?She had a small apartment in Grado and some money, 60,000 euros in the current account, and some farms, but they did not want the farms.

She had already made a will and in May they made another.To whom did she leave her inheritance in that first will?Then her mother lived,

for her and her brothers in equal parts. Didn't she leave Arancha anything? Nothing. Do you know if Arancha had financial problems? We don't know anything.

We know that it is not worth to work, that it is worth to show off alone.

When her mother died, 12 years ago, she asked her father for everything that belonged to her and all her money, the ordeal that she gave her father... the poor thing. Isabel was 85 years old, right? 85 years old and pulling a cart to take things to the square, growing potatoes, picking apples, nuts, eggs... In the obituary you describe her as an extraordinary woman. That obituary was given to Arancha.

At mass, Isabel's sister called her attention because Arancha dedicated a few words to her: "She died with her most beloved niece...".

And her sister said that if she wasn't embarrassed with what we all knew. In the Church, during her funeral? Yes,

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