The coroner on duty stopped counting when he had counted fifty incisions on the body. He was already clear that the murderer was cruel to the victim. However, in the subsequent examination the counts reached 113 stab wounds, which indicates the extreme violence used and the time that the murderer invested in killing Gerard. The reader can count to 113 and will realize that that is how long the murder lasted. Gerard Guerra Reig, 33 years old, was murdered on November 16 in the apartment in the center of Sant Adrià del Besòs that he shared with his partner and alleged murderer, a 26-year-old Cuban woman named Arlets and pregnant with six months.
The crime scene already revealed excessive questions to the investigators of the homicide group of the North Metropolitan police region from the first moment. The woman was the one who alerted the neighbors that unknown people had murdered her partner. In fact, it was a neighbor who called 112 and the Sant Adrià de Besòs Urban Guard, the first to arrive at the apartment, a few meters from the Town Hall.
The municipal police improvised a tourniquet for the woman who had a stab wound in her leg, from which she was losing blood. An SEM ambulance took her to Can Ruti, in Badalona, and the health workers certified the death of her partner.
The woman said that an “Arab” couple called her house asking for the owner of the apartment. She, who had been renting the property for more than five years with her father and the previous partner, with whom she had a daughter, opened it. According to her version, after a confrontation, the two men agreed and murdered the couple. Investigators asked the woman why the victim was tied up. And she told them that they were about to start a sexual game when the murderers burst in.
It took little effort for the police to determine that no one entered that home in a building in the center of Sant Adrià with numerous surveillance cameras that did not record the presence of any stranger. Not only that. On the floor, the first floor, there were only footprints in the blood of a pair of bare feet, not a single one from strangers.
The woman was arrested last week, accused of the crime. Investigators have no doubt that she was the one who murdered her partner with 113 stab wounds. And that she later stabbed herself with the knife in her leg to try to modify the crime scene. Why did she do it? To this day and despite the barrage of incriminating evidence, the woman does not recognize the facts and investigators suspect that they may be related to a sentimental episode.
The corpse had incisions all over the body. Up to 113 in a succession of stab wounds to which the young man was barely able to respond or exercise any type of defense.
In fact, the man was tied up. He had a band of clothing tied around his neck that went around several times and another that prevented him from moving his hands, with the same ribbon tied around his wrists.
The woman stated that both were about to start a sexual game when the assailants broke into the home. Investigators, however, maintain that this was the way the alleged murderer devised to minimize her victim's ability to respond.
The deceased, from Begur, was especially loved in the regions of Girona. Last week, Ràdio Palafrugell dedicated a souvenir article signed by Rafel Corbí to him in which he described the impact of the crime of a man who had fought what is not written to move forward with his life.
When asked by this newspaper, Corbí told how Gerard had rebuilt his life after pulling himself out of the pit of drug addiction into which he fell some time ago. Recently, the young man went to the same detoxification center that had saved him to give talks on awareness and help.
“It seemed that everything was fine and that he was happy with his new partner, with whom he was expecting what would be his first child,” Corbí explained to this newspaper yesterday.
His alleged murderer, pregnant, is in prison denying responsibility for facts that point to her without much doubt.
