Excessive eagerness to possess and acquire riches to treasure them.
Greed is the second of the seven deadly sins. It is present in the list of motivations of many criminals. The crude summary of his action would be something like “kill for money”. Neus Sala, one of the best crime journalists and with a privileged head capable of storing data on almost all the crimes of recent years in Spain, told me a few days ago: "No one in these years has been more greedy than Angi."
This chapter is dedicated to her, María Ángeles Molina Fernández, Angi, sentenced by the Supreme Court to 18 years in prison for the murder of Ana María Páez Capitán, 36, in February 2008.
Despite the torrent of evidence against the defendant, her location at the scene of the crime, her relationship with the victim and a host of clues and elements that we will review in this chronicle, the woman has never confessed to the facts. Neither she nor she did so during the investigation or during the days of the trial, to the despair of the parents and the brother of the victim, who, deluded and good people, were waiting for a few words from the author of the death of her daughter. But not only did she not articulate a single sentence of comfort, but Angi was cold, distant, imperturbable at the Barcelona Court and even allowed herself the luxury of joking about the dulce de leche that she assured she needed to drink every night before being arrested. by the homicide group of the Mossos d'Esquadra of Barcelona.
Angi killed Ana out of greed, for money. There is no motive other than going over everything and everyone to get the only thing she wanted, to maintain her way of life at any cost. The only thing that interested the 40-year-old woman, who had been in charge of personnel at the same textile company where the victim worked, was her identity, which she used fraudulently for almost two years to first obtain loans. and then sign life policies, which, like the first financial products, were not audited either.
In the regret of Ana's relatives, there will always be the anguish of thinking that if only one of the bank managers who authorized the loans in her daughter's name those years, with her daughter's ID, in front of a woman who did not physically resemble nothing to his daughter, had he carried out a single check on the veracity of the documentation, perhaps the plot would have fallen apart.
On the morning of February 21, 2008, the person in charge of the cleaning service of some apartments that were rented by the day at number 36 Camprodón street in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona found the lifeless body of a woman. The young woman was completely naked on a purple velvet sofa and she had a plastic bag tied to her head with several turns of electrical tape. Next to her body, the police only found a black wig and a pair of high-top boots of the same color. There was no documentation, no clothes or bag.
Investigators came to consider death by suffocation during a sexual game. But the thesis collapsed as soon as they linked the body to the disappearance complaint in l'Hospitalet of Ana María Páez Capitán and accessed the images from the security cameras of a bank in which a woman, posing as the victim, He withdrew money from his account. Despite the multitude of evidence that the murderer, María Ángeles Molina Fernández, left on the rough and rough path that she traveled those days, the investigators had work to close the circle on the suspect. The woman, who had met the victim that night and who knew her because she had previously been his employee, appeared before the Mossos safely and providing a solid alibi: the same day of the crime she had traveled to Zaragoza to collect the ashes of her mother. In addition, those responsible for the funeral home corroborated her version.
Over the days, the investigators verified that it was possible to go by car to Zaragoza and return, kill Ana and recreate a scenario where the murderer wanted to make believe that the victim had a double life and that that night she had had sex with two men.
The investigation confirmed that days before, the woman hired the services of two gigolos whom she visited and paid to get their semen, which they deposited in two pharmacy bottles. With Ana unconscious due to some drug that the autopsy never determined, the murderer spread the semen of the prostitutes through the woman's mouth and vagina.
The investigation determined that for almost two years, the murderer impersonated the identity of the victim and with her ID, which she must have taken from him when they were co-workers, she went to almost all the banking entities in Barcelona requesting credits that no bank manager had impediments in granting him Some credits that later became insurance policies.
Angi killed Ana with the purpose of collecting the life policies that she signed in her name. She had placed a second woman, Susana Bascuñana, as the beneficiary, through whom, with certainty, she would later have posed to enjoy the money.
The assassin fooled everyone for a long time. She tried to charm the investigators who interrogated her the first few times, making them believe that she did not know anything about Ana's death, with whom she admitted having met that night for dinner, but that she, she assured, did not show up. At that time, the woman had a partner and she had no scruples, when she already felt watched by the Mossos, in hiding the victim's documentation behind the cistern of a bathroom in her boyfriend's house. An envelope that incriminated him, although the investigation later ruled out any relationship with the crime.
The coldness of the murderer was demonstrated in the trial and during the first hours at the Les Corts police station, where she arrived worried about how she should dress and wear shoes to spend her first hours in jail. She was outraged when a mossa questioned the authenticity of the collection of luxury bags she kept at the search of her house and refused, only until she learned that she would end up barefoot, to put on some beach flip-flops when they forced her to take off her wooden clogs and dungeon platform.
María Ángeles Molina is serving a sentence in the Ponent prison, where she was transferred a few years ago after residing in the city of Lleida, where she maintains a stable relationship with a man, with whom she has enjoyed her first parole permits.
