Pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and laziness. These are the seven passions of the soul that the ecclesiastical tradition has identified as deadly sins for centuries. However, these inclinations are not reduced only to behaviors of the past, but can be observed in current events. In this series of articles we portray seven Spanish murderers who, driven by some of these passions, ended the lives of other people in sadly unclassifiable ways.
Unconnected homicides. Only one common element: Spanish deck cards next to the deceased bodies. We review the different murders that Alfredo Galán carried out in the streets of Madrid in 2003 and the reasons that led him to take those acts.
A cold, distant and imperturbable woman. María Ángeles Molina, known as Angi, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of a woman she posed as. The goal behind the phishing? Get loans and sign life policies. In other words, money.
The episode of lust brings together all the elements of perversion. We recount the sadistic acts that Juan Carlos Aguilar carried out in his martial arts school in Bilbao. Behind the mask of a Shaolin warrior, Aguilar tortured and dismembered several victims whom he recorded with his camera.
Anger can lead to madness. This was the case of Francisca González, who drowned her four and six-year-old children with a mobile charger. All this, while her other eldest son slept in the next room. Her goal: cause irreparable harm to her husband.
The protagonist of this event is the youngest of the series. Alberto Sánchez, 26, spent two weeks feeding on the human remains that he froze, cooked and shared with his dog. Some human remains that, nothing more and nothing less, belonged to the body of his mother.
One of the most notorious cases in recent years. Ana Julia Quezada murdered her partner's son because she was in the way. Little Gabriel disappeared and the subsequent days of anguish culminated in the worst news. His father's partner, who with enormous cold blood cried inconsolably before the cameras on the days of the search, was the murderer.
Asunta, the 12-year-old girl adopted from China, did not fit in the lives of her separated parents. They both agreed to the murder of her daughter. The little girl died of suffocation after a high intake of anxiolytics supplied by her parents. Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra sealed a pact not to accuse each other.
