March 3, 2024 • 28 mins
Maria Victoria Cubillana Barriga era una niña de 11 años preciosa pelirroja, revoltosa y feliz y muy timida. Vivia junto a sus padres y seis hermanos en el barrio Zarazogano de la Cartuja. El 16 de agosto de 1984 el barrio estaba celebrando las fiestas en honor a San Roque. Una fecha que quedo marcada para siempre en la memoria colectiva del barrio. La niña salio despues de comer en busca de una amiga y nunca mas se le volvio a ver con vida....
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You' re listening behind the truth. My name is Fran Muñoz and I
welcome you to the March episode oftwo thousand twenty- four. I would
like to thank our producers for theinvaluable support they provide so that this podcast
can continue to exist. It remindsyou that if they bring you something in
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our episodes, if you think wedeserve it, you can collaborate by inviting
us to a cafe on the pagecofic com bar behind the truth seven thousand
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arroba pou Luke. It' sas small as your contribution. It'
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s very important to us. Inthe description of the episode, I leave
you both ways before beginning to announcethe winners of the third anniversary draw are
Judith Montserrat and Maria Felisa Gabancho asreservations in case we cannot contact them.
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Olga Díaz and Miguel Rhódenas Congratulations toremind you that it is very important for
us to subscribe, to activate directdownloads so that nothing more to publish.
Have your episode give us a Ilike you to leave us a comment and
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make the different platforms more visible andpersonal and, above all, to know
what episodes you' ve liked themost. Thank you very much. Maria
Victoria Cubillana Barriga was a beautiful,red- haired, taunting, and very
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shy eleven- year- old girl. He lives with his parents, Joseph
and Joanna, and his six brothers, one of them Michael, his twin
brother. In the rural neighborhood ofZaragoza de la Cartuja, located in the
valley of the Ebro, next tothe river, a neighborhood that currently has
three thousand neighbors. It ran onthe 16th of August of a thousand nine
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hundred and eighty- four, theneighborhood was celebrating the feasts in honor of
San roque were around four o'clock in the afternoon. When Victoria left
her house in search of her friend, she never returned home again. The
disappearance of the girl caused a greatbewilderment among all the Carthusian neighbors. The
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celebrations were paralysed and beats were establishedthat proved unsuccessful one after the other to
try to find her. No onecould suspect that the person responsible for his
disappearance actively participated in in or hissearch for the truth, a journey through
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the black history of our country.How I remember Victoria and she' s
always in my image dressed as aMayan community. Victoria was a very quiet
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girl, very nice, she wasnice. I was playing with everyone,
I think there was the sport,because of these beautiful peachy girls Supelico Rojo
was my sister Gemela. We werea pineapple, we were always together.
I had the face that one daygot angry with me, my brother gave
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me a truck and got angry withme and he threw it at me that
the two of us were impossible,because they were starting to argue and we
were going to play. We made, therefore, with the sand, holes
with the chivas, with the tabawhere I was already the day before the
disappearance of victory, that we wereplaying to dance, to run from top
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to bottom. It' s justthat it stays here in my memory.
What I did notice from my sisterwas that when I came home, we
wore records like I was so nervous. I say the same, and now
I understand why he bit. Ifin August I remember I left her in
the carthusian, in the orchard orfrison we called her to the park earlier.
It' s a park now.I said don' t come with
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me because I was gonna play withsome friends of mine like parties. And
that' s not what I'm missing, either. We do miss
it already at night. I wasabout fifteen sixteen years old and I came
back about eight and a half ninein the afternoon to my parents' house
and there was a very worried motherwho called me the little one. There
was no return home that day,the day before we were talking. I
mean seven brothers we are. Nothinghas ever happened to us, none and
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I gave myself a chill and atnight they called us that my sister had
disappeared and we agreed, we wentto look for all the rocks, everywhere.
I couldn' t be with friends' houses I had at eleven o
' clock in eight, so Istill didn' t show up. We
' re already doing the town bouncing. We were at San Roque Cartuja parties,
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from the stage of the musicians,that I don' t know if
the mayor or that he was saidto missing a girl to see if of
the whole town we can find her. We' ve all gone to look
for her directly. I think we' ve been there every night. People
spoke with us. I' mvery grateful and the next day we saw
part of the local police. Therewas already the Gob disappearance then so much,
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the time had already elapsed to putthe enunciation. The days were happening
and nothing was known about Maria Victoria. The whole neighborhood turned into tracking operatives.
The Civil Guard used the service ofhelicopters, canine units and numerous collectives
of different units, but without success. The search was for me the worst
stage of my life, the thingyou can' t imagine. They performed
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units, the White House post,the post of the carpuja between the Burgo
de Ebro, Carsetas and the unitof the reserve core, all supported by
canine units of the CIVID Guard Atfirst it was practically day and night.
Then, as the days passed by, for there were about twenty and so
many days, for he was alreadylooking for himself, but no longer day
and night, but he kept lookingfor himself. My father was always there
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looking. We' re talking aboutthat I was ten years old and I
was asking every day he found it, you found it. No, we
haven' t found him, butthere, Father, you could see that
tiredness. It' s exhaustion everybodyfucking looking for the woman everywhere and things
were going very slowly. Then theycalled us on the phone that they had
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seen her in such a place thatthey had seen her. I don'
t know where it' s from, they started calling us to confuse us.
I also want to remember that therewas a street in works of the
cardboard that some sing loose. Iput the song in and I went that
almost to the river Ebro, becausewithin them I would sing looking for the
inner prura, if human did notseem it. Sergeant Miguel Meléndez was the
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one who took over the investigative work. He met with many neighbors. One
of them was Antonio Gali Ballaguer,the couple of the mother of Maria Victor
' s friend, whom I wentto look for that afternoon to go to
the parties in the house located onClaustro Street. While requisitioning the sergeant'
s house, he was prey tothe thousands of fleas in the barn of
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the house, without the agents'visit having any other results. In an
interview with the child' s parents, the father recalled that Victoria had come
home with fleas for the sergeant.It was as if a powerful light bulb
had been lit in the middle ofso much darkness and it was very clear
that Victoria had been in that barn. This case was carried by several groups
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of forces and bodies worth this crazyand the last, which I tell you
I am totally literally grateful he wasthe civilian body of water. Jasus'
s original investigation led by Sergeant Meléndez, Sergeant Miguel Vino. I want to
remember a few weeks later the disappearanceof Maria Victoria and she told me the
insight for which she threw and agreedto have the killer. Antonio' s
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daughter was the same age as thevictory and because they were girls who shared
school and games and so on.Well, he started the investigation by going
to his place of residence and seeingwhat he could bring to him in this
case. Anthoni visited the house severaltimes. Then, on one of the
visits he went up to the barnand took fleas there. When she joined
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the missing girl' s family andthe police, she told them she was
biting her body like she was carryingfleas. Then someone in the family said
because my daughter sometimes came with fleas. They realized the fleas were in the
barn. Then the police gave,as a matter of fact, that the
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girl was going to tell us abouther friend in the barn because it was
a place where they didn' thave to go because she was in bad
shape. Antonio Galli Balaguer, bornin Valencia in one thousand nine hundred and
fifty- one, was arrested whenhe was thirty- three minutes old.
At the time of the events.Within a few hours, Antonio collapsed during
the interrogation and ended up confessing tothe civilian guards who questioned him. He
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told the agents how. On theday of Maria Victoria' s disappearance,
she had gone to her place ofresidence before noon in search of her partner
' s daughter to go to theholidays, but she did not let her
out. At four and a halfin the afternoon, again, Victoria came
looking for her friend, but Antoniowas only at the house, when she
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took the opportunity to climb the girlto the barn. There he began to
grope in his private parts with hisfilthy hands. As she had already done
on other occasions, the girl remainedstill, terrified and trembling with fear,
while Antonio masturbated and lashed in frontof her. Victoria threatened to tell her
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parents all the abuses she had beenreceiving. According to the judgment of Zaragoza
' s hearing, which judged thefacts, he gagged her hand and foot
with insulating tape and left her inthe barn, to which she returned several
times to convince her not to tellanything. When she failed, she took
her to the bathroom and in thebathtub full of water drowned her. He
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then took Victoria' s body wrappedit in a monkey and hid it in
a drawer in a room next tothe logger. The next day he buried
the girl' s body on theground and hid it with cement. The
scientific police teams of the Guardia Civiltravel to the place where Antonio Gali pointed
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out him, where they proceeded toexhume the girl' s body buried under
concrete. Everything declared at the CivilGuard headquarters is sadly confirmed. The news
quickly filled with pain a neighborhood,a city and a country that had turned
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to the location of the child andleft parents and brothers broken for a lifetime.
Continuing the investigation, Sergeant Miguel proceededto his arrest. First, he
confessed to the murder of Maria Victoria. Later he came to the cloistered street
and proceeded to dig up where thebody of Mary Victoria was, which there
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appeared among strips of wood and putin concrete, ambulance life or with the
cup of Christ, I do notremember. And then I fucked the woman
who saw me, and I gotnervous, and she says she' s
gonna tell you something. I rejoicedand collapsed and asked alive to death.
They said so my father. Thatwas three years ago and my mother,
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as she is still with the PSE, went to point out the two shattered,
shattered. Evidently, you can imaginemy house and there were no more
Christmases, birthdays, then more ofanything. But the case didn' t
end with the discovery of Maria Victoria' s body. Members of the Benemerita
Information Service continued investigations into suspicions thatit was not the first time he had
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committed a blood offence. Thus heconfessed his first known crime, which was
committed by the detainee in La Zaida, a small Zaragozan municipality with only five
hundred inhabitants, almost sixty kilometers fromthe capital. There he settled in nineteen
hundred and eighty- two, wherehe became friendly with a shepherd named José
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Luis Laguna, a brave man bornin Manresa in one thousand nine hundred and
fifty- one. Married to AngelaBurguera Soler and with two children, Antonio
lived with the marriage in the samehouse and ended up having sentimental relations with
the pastor' s wife. Apparently, Angela didn' t want to continue
cohabiting with her husband. The wayAntonio had to fix it. It was
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first a severe blow with the edgeof the axe on the left front of
his face and then, as JoséLun had not died or lost consciousness,
he was only stunned, took aknife and stabbed him several times in the
left emitoras until he ended his life. According to the sentence, after teaching
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with the body, he hid itin the block and days later buried it
carefully. The woman. He toldher that her husband had left the house
and that he would not return untilhe left the house. Angela was never
convicted, she was charged, butAntonio took full responsibility for both crimes,
something that Maria Victoria' s familynever understood since they were convinced that she
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was aware of both deaths. Orshe who bought the gravel and cement while
Galy was preparing her daughter' spit. The body of José Luis was
found, wrapped in lime and witha blanket inside a pit to fix cars
that the killer had covered with brickswith total coldness fired the agents. There
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' s still the last cigarette thatwas smoked, which made it clear to
what kind of killers were there.A criminal who is wise, calculating,
cold and conscious at all times ofhis actions. When he came, the
civil guard asked the neighbors for helpdigging up. The body had been buried
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by a lime in the well andput there. We had to break the
concrete and then start with beak andeverything and slowly and cleaning with pallet already
we discovered the body came out asif it was dissecting the Civil Guard.
He came with him because he saidwhere he was. He was going to
see for the very quiet, mutiaalkyl as if swimming had happened. I
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remember, they were handcuffed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and half the
town was there. Don' tbe like that. He stayed all over
the world in stone like I stayedand everyone else because, like he gave
away, bicycles and all that theythought was a pressure, an honest one.
Anyway, it was a baggy ofthe size of the gadicaster, which
was very little, which seemed tome that there was no defeat of a
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plate. Of course, he wasquite loved by very social people. I
was talking to everyone, very nice. Just like that with the kids.
Also clear, after killing José Luis, the murderer and widow with her two
children, they left the house toavoid questions from the neighbors and moved to
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Oviedo, where they lived for severalmonths. They did not adapt to the
city and ended up returning to Aragon, specifically to the Cartuja. There they
arrived with the opposite, they werehelped by the parish and the rest of
the neighbors, who provided them witha roof food, furniture and even rock
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And where Antonio began to work asa mechanic, becoming a person respected and
loved by the community. The wayto thank all that support received by the
Carthusian neighbors was to commit the savagecrime of Maria Victoria that at that time
there were some very important floods inValencia. Okay then he came asking that
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he had lost everything in his village, that he had run out of house.
But then we' re all overthem that it wasn' t like
that. The Mayor found him ahouse, found him a job, people
helped him with food, that is, welcomed him to the pole. Our
parents would send us to the bestin clothes to take them During the investigation,
the Civil Guard finds another surprise.They were facing a sexual predator.
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Galy had been convicted for the firsttime in a thousand nine hundred and seventy
- nine for three cases of attemptedsexual abuse in Calanda, a ten-
year- old girl, a thirteen- year- old girl and a young
man with whom he tried to linkup and threatened with a knife for those
acts. Teruel' s hearing punishedhim with four months and one day in
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prison for dishonest abuses. It wasa different time and today the punishment imposed
and ridiculed under the current Penal Codeis surprising. At that time, as
Barato came out, the predator reoffendsin the municipality of Alcañiz, where he
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committed two other attacks. His victimsthis time were a seventeen- year-
old boy and a thirty- nine- year- old woman, married to
whom he hit with a metal tube, rendered her meaningless and took her to
the outskirts of the city. Itwas the year nine hundred and eighty-
two, and the sorrows were alsovery light. The payment of a fine
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of fifty- zero pesetas and sixmonths of only major arrest with the mitigating
mental alienation and Antonio I didn't like anything and saw it as clean
wheat. He worked as a garagewatchman. My friends would tell me they
' d go and play catcher.They told me that I was touching them
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under the skirt. His parts sawit as a game. I saw it
differently and they asked me if Iwent to play too and I let them
not. After a time of themurder of Maria Victoria, Miguel, her
brother Gemelo, took courage and strengthto gather his parents and brothers and confess
something that did not allow him tolive. Antonio Galli had also abused him,
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but he was not able to countit so as not to inflict more
pain on parents who were already totallybroken. Confession gave Miguel a release and
could eliminate some of that pain.That I wouldn' t let him live.
What you are going to hear arethe statements that Miguel made on the
regional television program Aragonesa mobile unit,which was broadcast on February 23rd of the
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two thousand and twenty- three.It was the first time that Michael reported
the abuses to which he and hissister were publicly subjected. The broadcast of
the programme led more neighbours to decideto report the abuses they had suffered from
Kali Balaguer. I didn' twant to get in any more trouble.
I already had enough with what hadhappened, like for me to say hey,
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dad or mom who abused me too. The first time I came down
with my sister in the cartuja,they were building some winged floors that called
it the red floors. He workedas a watchman for the play. Her
daughters were friends with my sister andthen she warned us, called us like
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saying they needed help, that shetold me there was a light bulb I
couldn' t put on. Iwas holding my arms, putting myself on
my shoulder, and I was screwingthe bulb and what I realized I was
already getting my hands on. Iwas like what it is. This is
the first time anyone' s touchedmy parts. Well, you stay paralyzed
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and you say maybe I' mmaking it up. I' m what
your mind thinks. Then I remembermy sister telling me to wait here,
that I' m going with yoursister, that we' re going to
play something else and take her awayfrom the back of the place and stay
with my sister and I stay thereas paralyzed, because it' s something
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at that age you don' tknow what sex is, genitals or anything,
because it' s more taboo inthose total years that we went down
again and we got the same thingalready and we called back and stayed paralyzed.
Like saying it can' t beand I remember telling us that if
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we knew what we were doing,that on top of the guilt we had
that if we talked that I wasgoing to tell my father. Of course,
we were quiet because he didn't want me to say that to
my father. I didn' twant my father to punish me or my
sister, and we shut up.Yeah, that I remember there were more
people, more kids from the carthusian, one of the kids had a brother
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also told him that he was goingto tell his father and he was going
up to the roof to throw itout so they wouldn' t talk.
We were eleven years old, betweenten and eleven years old. I remember
once because we had to make arelationship with him. Me and my sister,
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the defendant was tried and sentenced tosixty- four years in prison for
the murders of the girl María Victoriaand that of José Luis Laguna, a
sentence he served in the Dueso Prisonin Santander. He is finally released after
serving twenty years of imprisonment. InMay of two thousand one. Unfortunately,
for our society, the killer continuedto kill the guer from prison and moved
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to Orense and north of Portugal,where he was arrested in the neighbouring country.
For drug trafficking in two thousand oneand sentenced to four years in prison.
Only 20 days after he was releasedfrom Portuguese prison. On the 21st
of November of the two thousand fivehe went with his car to the Alameda
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Dorense, where he contacted Aurora laCuña Brito, a woman who practiced prostitution
with whom he arranged a sexual servicefor seventy euros. They were a road
near the town of Masside, wherehe suffocated her and left her lying in
a ditch. His defense during thetrial stated that he did so because he
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had stolen his wallet. He hadhis wallet inside his pants between his legs.
I grabbed her hand and kicked scratchesand bit me. I took it
by the neck. I picked upmy wallet and let her out, but
I didn' t think she wasdead and since she wanted to piss me
off, I took her a stoneand left her sitting there thinking she'
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d react soon. We listened toAntonio' s own voice during the trial.
However, I settled a bit Isaw because a little lower a bordilla
and a party, the first lutiaof the fa ciel and there they gave
him when he decided but to whichthe three months after that incident, proceeds
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the arrest of this criminal thanks toHelena, another prostitute who denounced to the
civil guard who had tried to killhim. He was about to be his
fourth death victim. With Elena's description of her aggressor and the tourism
she was traveling in, they werekey to her arrest, that there is
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no rehabilitation for these people. Tothe facts I recall I know that he
asked for the third degree and deniedit, that what little value does a
life have? What little value doesa life have? Simply, according to
experts, gall is a sadistic calculator, cold and conscious at all times of
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his actions. It gathers all thecharacteristics of a sociopath, a person who
has a mental illness known as adissocial personality disorder. The vision of the
world perceived by the sociopath is clearand concise. For the murder of Aurora
da Acuña Brito he was sentenced bythe provincial audience of Orense to nineteen years
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in prison. He appealed the sentence, but the phony Supreme Court upheld the
sentence. Entering the Orensan prison ofPereiro, to follow the episode here today.
We have talked about a real jewelthat spent his life abusing children and
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murdering with an absolute coldness, anotherkiller who took advantage of the weaknesses of
our system, a laughable punishment inthe seventy- eight for those sexual abuse
that he committed and later for thetwenty years that he turned, of the
more than sixty- four, yearsto which he was convicted for the crime
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of victory and José Luis, amurderer who just left followed his murderous trajectory
and remembers that in this two thousandtwenty- four he will be released from
prison. If you haven' talready. This episode should be a tribute
to its victims, their families andtheir friends. A case like all of
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us who tell you that they shouldnever be forgotten for a long time to
pass. I want to thank youfor giving us something as precious as your
time for sharing these minutes with us. If you liked it, I ask
you not to forget to share theepisode, give a like or leave us
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a comment that is very important tous. Before I finish, I'
d like to send a strong hugto all the members of Thrgrand' s
group who I invite you to joinif you haven' t already done so
in the description of this episode.You have the link to the group a
big hug for everyone. To thankCarmen for her invaluable help in the realization
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of this episode and you know seeus on the first Monday of the month
to write remember do not forget totry to be happy,
You' re listening behind the truth. My name is Fran Muñoz and I
welcome you to the March episode oftwo thousand twenty- four. I would
like to thank our producers for theinvaluable support they provide so that this podcast
can continue to exist. It remindsyou that if they bring you something in
(00:32):
our episodes, if you think wedeserve it, you can collaborate by inviting
us to a cafe on the pagecofic com bar behind the truth seven thousand
nine four eighty- six or throughthe PayPal account, behind the truth podcast
arroba pou Luke. It' sas small as your contribution. It'
(00:53):
s very important to us. Inthe description of the episode, I leave
you both ways before beginning to announcethe winners of the third anniversary draw are
Judith Montserrat and Maria Felisa Gabancho asreservations in case we cannot contact them.
(01:14):
Olga Díaz and Miguel Rhódenas Congratulations toremind you that it is very important for
us to subscribe, to activate directdownloads so that nothing more to publish.
Have your episode give us a Ilike you to leave us a comment and
share it with your friends. It' s the only way we have to
(01:36):
make the different platforms more visible andpersonal and, above all, to know
what episodes you' ve liked themost. Thank you very much. Maria
Victoria Cubillana Barriga was a beautiful,red- haired, taunting, and very
(01:57):
shy eleven- year- old girl. He lives with his parents, Joseph
and Joanna, and his six brothers, one of them Michael, his twin
brother. In the rural neighborhood ofZaragoza de la Cartuja, located in the
valley of the Ebro, next tothe river, a neighborhood that currently has
three thousand neighbors. It ran onthe 16th of August of a thousand nine
(02:22):
hundred and eighty- four, theneighborhood was celebrating the feasts in honor of
San roque were around four o'clock in the afternoon. When Victoria left
her house in search of her friend, she never returned home again. The
disappearance of the girl caused a greatbewilderment among all the Carthusian neighbors. The
(02:43):
celebrations were paralysed and beats were establishedthat proved unsuccessful one after the other to
try to find her. No onecould suspect that the person responsible for his
disappearance actively participated in in or hissearch for the truth, a journey through
(03:37):
the black history of our country.How I remember Victoria and she' s
always in my image dressed as aMayan community. Victoria was a very quiet
(03:58):
girl, very nice, she wasnice. I was playing with everyone,
I think there was the sport,because of these beautiful peachy girls Supelico Rojo
was my sister Gemela. We werea pineapple, we were always together.
I had the face that one daygot angry with me, my brother gave
(04:23):
me a truck and got angry withme and he threw it at me that
the two of us were impossible,because they were starting to argue and we
were going to play. We made, therefore, with the sand, holes
with the chivas, with the tabawhere I was already the day before the
disappearance of victory, that we wereplaying to dance, to run from top
(04:46):
to bottom. It' s justthat it stays here in my memory.
What I did notice from my sisterwas that when I came home, we
wore records like I was so nervous. I say the same, and now
I understand why he bit. Ifin August I remember I left her in
the carthusian, in the orchard orfrison we called her to the park earlier.
It' s a park now.I said don' t come with
(05:09):
me because I was gonna play withsome friends of mine like parties. And
that' s not what I'm missing, either. We do miss
it already at night. I wasabout fifteen sixteen years old and I came
back about eight and a half ninein the afternoon to my parents' house
and there was a very worried motherwho called me the little one. There
was no return home that day,the day before we were talking. I
mean seven brothers we are. Nothinghas ever happened to us, none and
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I gave myself a chill and atnight they called us that my sister had
disappeared and we agreed, we wentto look for all the rocks, everywhere.
I couldn' t be with friends' houses I had at eleven o
' clock in eight, so Istill didn' t show up. We
' re already doing the town bouncing. We were at San Roque Cartuja parties,
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from the stage of the musicians,that I don' t know if
the mayor or that he was saidto missing a girl to see if of
the whole town we can find her. We' ve all gone to look
for her directly. I think we' ve been there every night. People
spoke with us. I' mvery grateful and the next day we saw
part of the local police. Therewas already the Gob disappearance then so much,
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the time had already elapsed to putthe enunciation. The days were happening
and nothing was known about Maria Victoria. The whole neighborhood turned into tracking operatives.
The Civil Guard used the service ofhelicopters, canine units and numerous collectives
of different units, but without success. The search was for me the worst
stage of my life, the thingyou can' t imagine. They performed
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units, the White House post,the post of the carpuja between the Burgo
de Ebro, Carsetas and the unitof the reserve core, all supported by
canine units of the CIVID Guard Atfirst it was practically day and night.
Then, as the days passed by, for there were about twenty and so
many days, for he was alreadylooking for himself, but no longer day
and night, but he kept lookingfor himself. My father was always there
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looking. We' re talking aboutthat I was ten years old and I
was asking every day he found it, you found it. No, we
haven' t found him, butthere, Father, you could see that
tiredness. It' s exhaustion everybodyfucking looking for the woman everywhere and things
were going very slowly. Then theycalled us on the phone that they had
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seen her in such a place thatthey had seen her. I don'
t know where it' s from, they started calling us to confuse us.
I also want to remember that therewas a street in works of the
cardboard that some sing loose. Iput the song in and I went that
almost to the river Ebro, becausewithin them I would sing looking for the
inner prura, if human did notseem it. Sergeant Miguel Meléndez was the
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one who took over the investigative work. He met with many neighbors. One
of them was Antonio Gali Ballaguer,the couple of the mother of Maria Victor
' s friend, whom I wentto look for that afternoon to go to
the parties in the house located onClaustro Street. While requisitioning the sergeant'
s house, he was prey tothe thousands of fleas in the barn of
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the house, without the agents'visit having any other results. In an
interview with the child' s parents, the father recalled that Victoria had come
home with fleas for the sergeant.It was as if a powerful light bulb
had been lit in the middle ofso much darkness and it was very clear
that Victoria had been in that barn. This case was carried by several groups
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of forces and bodies worth this crazyand the last, which I tell you
I am totally literally grateful he wasthe civilian body of water. Jasus'
s original investigation led by Sergeant Meléndez, Sergeant Miguel Vino. I want to
remember a few weeks later the disappearanceof Maria Victoria and she told me the
insight for which she threw and agreedto have the killer. Antonio' s
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daughter was the same age as thevictory and because they were girls who shared
school and games and so on.Well, he started the investigation by going
to his place of residence and seeingwhat he could bring to him in this
case. Anthoni visited the house severaltimes. Then, on one of the
visits he went up to the barnand took fleas there. When she joined
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the missing girl' s family andthe police, she told them she was
biting her body like she was carryingfleas. Then someone in the family said
because my daughter sometimes came with fleas. They realized the fleas were in the
barn. Then the police gave,as a matter of fact, that the
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girl was going to tell us abouther friend in the barn because it was
a place where they didn' thave to go because she was in bad
shape. Antonio Galli Balaguer, bornin Valencia in one thousand nine hundred and
fifty- one, was arrested whenhe was thirty- three minutes old.
At the time of the events.Within a few hours, Antonio collapsed during
the interrogation and ended up confessing tothe civilian guards who questioned him. He
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told the agents how. On theday of Maria Victoria' s disappearance,
she had gone to her place ofresidence before noon in search of her partner
' s daughter to go to theholidays, but she did not let her
out. At four and a halfin the afternoon, again, Victoria came
looking for her friend, but Antoniowas only at the house, when she
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took the opportunity to climb the girlto the barn. There he began to
grope in his private parts with hisfilthy hands. As she had already done
on other occasions, the girl remainedstill, terrified and trembling with fear,
while Antonio masturbated and lashed in frontof her. Victoria threatened to tell her
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parents all the abuses she had beenreceiving. According to the judgment of Zaragoza
' s hearing, which judged thefacts, he gagged her hand and foot
with insulating tape and left her inthe barn, to which she returned several
times to convince her not to tellanything. When she failed, she took
her to the bathroom and in thebathtub full of water drowned her. He
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then took Victoria' s body wrappedit in a monkey and hid it in
a drawer in a room next tothe logger. The next day he buried
the girl' s body on theground and hid it with cement. The
scientific police teams of the Guardia Civiltravel to the place where Antonio Gali pointed
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out him, where they proceeded toexhume the girl' s body buried under
concrete. Everything declared at the CivilGuard headquarters is sadly confirmed. The news
quickly filled with pain a neighborhood,a city and a country that had turned
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to the location of the child andleft parents and brothers broken for a lifetime.
Continuing the investigation, Sergeant Miguel proceededto his arrest. First, he
confessed to the murder of Maria Victoria. Later he came to the cloistered street
and proceeded to dig up where thebody of Mary Victoria was, which there
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appeared among strips of wood and putin concrete, ambulance life or with the
cup of Christ, I do notremember. And then I fucked the woman
who saw me, and I gotnervous, and she says she' s
gonna tell you something. I rejoicedand collapsed and asked alive to death.
They said so my father. Thatwas three years ago and my mother,
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as she is still with the PSE, went to point out the two shattered,
shattered. Evidently, you can imaginemy house and there were no more
Christmases, birthdays, then more ofanything. But the case didn' t
end with the discovery of Maria Victoria' s body. Members of the Benemerita
Information Service continued investigations into suspicions thatit was not the first time he had
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committed a blood offence. Thus heconfessed his first known crime, which was
committed by the detainee in La Zaida, a small Zaragozan municipality with only five
hundred inhabitants, almost sixty kilometers fromthe capital. There he settled in nineteen
hundred and eighty- two, wherehe became friendly with a shepherd named José
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Luis Laguna, a brave man bornin Manresa in one thousand nine hundred and
fifty- one. Married to AngelaBurguera Soler and with two children, Antonio
lived with the marriage in the samehouse and ended up having sentimental relations with
the pastor' s wife. Apparently, Angela didn' t want to continue
cohabiting with her husband. The wayAntonio had to fix it. It was
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first a severe blow with the edgeof the axe on the left front of
his face and then, as JoséLun had not died or lost consciousness,
he was only stunned, took aknife and stabbed him several times in the
left emitoras until he ended his life. According to the sentence, after teaching
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with the body, he hid itin the block and days later buried it
carefully. The woman. He toldher that her husband had left the house
and that he would not return untilhe left the house. Angela was never
convicted, she was charged, butAntonio took full responsibility for both crimes,
something that Maria Victoria' s familynever understood since they were convinced that she
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was aware of both deaths. Orshe who bought the gravel and cement while
Galy was preparing her daughter' spit. The body of José Luis was
found, wrapped in lime and witha blanket inside a pit to fix cars
that the killer had covered with brickswith total coldness fired the agents. There
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' s still the last cigarette thatwas smoked, which made it clear to
what kind of killers were there.A criminal who is wise, calculating,
cold and conscious at all times ofhis actions. When he came, the
civil guard asked the neighbors for helpdigging up. The body had been buried
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by a lime in the well andput there. We had to break the
concrete and then start with beak andeverything and slowly and cleaning with pallet already
we discovered the body came out asif it was dissecting the Civil Guard.
He came with him because he saidwhere he was. He was going to
see for the very quiet, mutiaalkyl as if swimming had happened. I
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remember, they were handcuffed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and half the
town was there. Don' tbe like that. He stayed all over
the world in stone like I stayedand everyone else because, like he gave
away, bicycles and all that theythought was a pressure, an honest one.
Anyway, it was a baggy ofthe size of the gadicaster, which
was very little, which seemed tome that there was no defeat of a
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plate. Of course, he wasquite loved by very social people. I
was talking to everyone, very nice. Just like that with the kids.
Also clear, after killing José Luis, the murderer and widow with her two
children, they left the house toavoid questions from the neighbors and moved to
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Oviedo, where they lived for severalmonths. They did not adapt to the
city and ended up returning to Aragon, specifically to the Cartuja. There they
arrived with the opposite, they werehelped by the parish and the rest of
the neighbors, who provided them witha roof food, furniture and even rock
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And where Antonio began to work asa mechanic, becoming a person respected and
loved by the community. The wayto thank all that support received by the
Carthusian neighbors was to commit the savagecrime of Maria Victoria that at that time
there were some very important floods inValencia. Okay then he came asking that
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he had lost everything in his village, that he had run out of house.
But then we' re all overthem that it wasn' t like
that. The Mayor found him ahouse, found him a job, people
helped him with food, that is, welcomed him to the pole. Our
parents would send us to the bestin clothes to take them During the investigation,
the Civil Guard finds another surprise.They were facing a sexual predator.
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Galy had been convicted for the firsttime in a thousand nine hundred and seventy
- nine for three cases of attemptedsexual abuse in Calanda, a ten-
year- old girl, a thirteen- year- old girl and a young
man with whom he tried to linkup and threatened with a knife for those
acts. Teruel' s hearing punishedhim with four months and one day in
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prison for dishonest abuses. It wasa different time and today the punishment imposed
and ridiculed under the current Penal Codeis surprising. At that time, as
Barato came out, the predator reoffendsin the municipality of Alcañiz, where he
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committed two other attacks. His victimsthis time were a seventeen- year-
old boy and a thirty- nine- year- old woman, married to
whom he hit with a metal tube, rendered her meaningless and took her to
the outskirts of the city. Itwas the year nine hundred and eighty-
two, and the sorrows were alsovery light. The payment of a fine
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of fifty- zero pesetas and sixmonths of only major arrest with the mitigating
mental alienation and Antonio I didn't like anything and saw it as clean
wheat. He worked as a garagewatchman. My friends would tell me they
' d go and play catcher.They told me that I was touching them
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under the skirt. His parts sawit as a game. I saw it
differently and they asked me if Iwent to play too and I let them
not. After a time of themurder of Maria Victoria, Miguel, her
brother Gemelo, took courage and strengthto gather his parents and brothers and confess
something that did not allow him tolive. Antonio Galli had also abused him,
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but he was not able to countit so as not to inflict more
pain on parents who were already totallybroken. Confession gave Miguel a release and
could eliminate some of that pain.That I wouldn' t let him live.
What you are going to hear arethe statements that Miguel made on the
regional television program Aragonesa mobile unit,which was broadcast on February 23rd of the
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two thousand and twenty- three.It was the first time that Michael reported
the abuses to which he and hissister were publicly subjected. The broadcast of
the programme led more neighbours to decideto report the abuses they had suffered from
Kali Balaguer. I didn' twant to get in any more trouble.
I already had enough with what hadhappened, like for me to say hey,
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dad or mom who abused me too. The first time I came down
with my sister in the cartuja,they were building some winged floors that called
it the red floors. He workedas a watchman for the play. Her
daughters were friends with my sister andthen she warned us, called us like
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saying they needed help, that shetold me there was a light bulb I
couldn' t put on. Iwas holding my arms, putting myself on
my shoulder, and I was screwingthe bulb and what I realized I was
already getting my hands on. Iwas like what it is. This is
the first time anyone' s touchedmy parts. Well, you stay paralyzed
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and you say maybe I' mmaking it up. I' m what
your mind thinks. Then I remembermy sister telling me to wait here,
that I' m going with yoursister, that we' re going to
play something else and take her awayfrom the back of the place and stay
with my sister and I stay thereas paralyzed, because it' s something
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at that age you don' tknow what sex is, genitals or anything,
because it' s more taboo inthose total years that we went down
again and we got the same thingalready and we called back and stayed paralyzed.
Like saying it can' t beand I remember telling us that if
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we knew what we were doing,that on top of the guilt we had
that if we talked that I wasgoing to tell my father. Of course,
we were quiet because he didn't want me to say that to
my father. I didn' twant my father to punish me or my
sister, and we shut up.Yeah, that I remember there were more
people, more kids from the carthusian, one of the kids had a brother
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also told him that he was goingto tell his father and he was going
up to the roof to throw itout so they wouldn' t talk.
We were eleven years old, betweenten and eleven years old. I remember
once because we had to make arelationship with him. Me and my sister,
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the defendant was tried and sentenced tosixty- four years in prison for
the murders of the girl María Victoriaand that of José Luis Laguna, a
sentence he served in the Dueso Prisonin Santander. He is finally released after
serving twenty years of imprisonment. InMay of two thousand one. Unfortunately,
for our society, the killer continuedto kill the guer from prison and moved
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to Orense and north of Portugal,where he was arrested in the neighbouring country.
For drug trafficking in two thousand oneand sentenced to four years in prison.
Only 20 days after he was releasedfrom Portuguese prison. On the 21st
of November of the two thousand fivehe went with his car to the Alameda
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Dorense, where he contacted Aurora laCuña Brito, a woman who practiced prostitution
with whom he arranged a sexual servicefor seventy euros. They were a road
near the town of Masside, wherehe suffocated her and left her lying in
a ditch. His defense during thetrial stated that he did so because he
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had stolen his wallet. He hadhis wallet inside his pants between his legs.
I grabbed her hand and kicked scratchesand bit me. I took it
by the neck. I picked upmy wallet and let her out, but
I didn' t think she wasdead and since she wanted to piss me
off, I took her a stoneand left her sitting there thinking she'
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d react soon. We listened toAntonio' s own voice during the trial.
However, I settled a bit Isaw because a little lower a bordilla
and a party, the first lutiaof the fa ciel and there they gave
him when he decided but to whichthe three months after that incident, proceeds
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the arrest of this criminal thanks toHelena, another prostitute who denounced to the
civil guard who had tried to killhim. He was about to be his
fourth death victim. With Elena's description of her aggressor and the tourism
she was traveling in, they werekey to her arrest, that there is
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no rehabilitation for these people. Tothe facts I recall I know that he
asked for the third degree and deniedit, that what little value does a
life have? What little value doesa life have? Simply, according to
experts, gall is a sadistic calculator, cold and conscious at all times of
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his actions. It gathers all thecharacteristics of a sociopath, a person who
has a mental illness known as adissocial personality disorder. The vision of the
world perceived by the sociopath is clearand concise. For the murder of Aurora
da Acuña Brito he was sentenced bythe provincial audience of Orense to nineteen years
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in prison. He appealed the sentence, but the phony Supreme Court upheld the
sentence. Entering the Orensan prison ofPereiro, to follow the episode here today.
We have talked about a real jewelthat spent his life abusing children and
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murdering with an absolute coldness, anotherkiller who took advantage of the weaknesses of
our system, a laughable punishment inthe seventy- eight for those sexual abuse
that he committed and later for thetwenty years that he turned, of the
more than sixty- four, yearsto which he was convicted for the crime
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of victory and José Luis, amurderer who just left followed his murderous trajectory
and remembers that in this two thousandtwenty- four he will be released from
prison. If you haven' talready. This episode should be a tribute
to its victims, their families andtheir friends. A case like all of
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us who tell you that they shouldnever be forgotten for a long time to
pass. I want to thank youfor giving us something as precious as your
time for sharing these minutes with us. If you liked it, I ask
you not to forget to share theepisode, give a like or leave us
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a comment that is very important tous. Before I finish, I'
d like to send a strong hugto all the members of Thrgrand' s
group who I invite you to joinif you haven' t already done so
in the description of this episode.You have the link to the group a
big hug for everyone. To thankCarmen for her invaluable help in the realization
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of this episode and you know seeus on the first Monday of the month
to write remember do not forget totry to be happy,
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