After more than a week since the terrible murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta, the focus continues to be on Thailand, where the confessed perpetrator of the crime, the Spanish Daniel Sancho, remains in provisional prison. The Thai police continue to collect information to complete a first report of the investigation and to start the trial.
Sancho confessed to the police that it was he who murdered Arrieta on the night of August 2, with whom he had met that same day on the island of Koh Phangan, to later dismember his body. Some of his remains have already been found. However, as if it were a bad omen, it was not the first time that Arrieta found himself in a similar situation. Inquiring into the surgeon's past, it has been discovered that he had a television facet, and also that he participated as an actor in the Killer Instinct program, a Discovery documentary series that reconstructs some of the best-known crimes in Latin America.
In one of his episodes, Arrieta played the former Colombian commander José Joaquín Enrique Aldana who was sentenced to 33 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Érika Cecilia Yeneri, in 2009.
However, what has most attracted the attention of this crime is its similarity to what happened to Arrieta himself just a few days ago in Thailand, since Aldana's victim was also dismembered.
As the users of social networks who have commented on the coincidence point out, bad luck wanted Arrieta to go from murderer to victim. In Aldana's crime, according to the authorities, "jealousy" would have been the main reason why he decided to kill his wife.
At the moment, it is unknown how long it will take the police to prepare that first investigation report and when the trial of Sancho, who pleaded guilty to the murder and dismemberment of Arrieta, will take place. So far, seven parts of the fifteen in which Arrieta's corpse was dismembered have been found.
Sancho acknowledged that he was willing to collaborate "in everything he can" with the Justice and this has been the case, accompanying the Thai police officers on several occasions to make reconstructions of the crime in different locations, such as the beach from where he confessed to having shot the mar most of the remains and the villa in which he might have committed the murder.
After his first nights in jail, the information coming from Thailand ensures that the Spaniard has maintained "a good state of mind" since his entry into prison on August 7, in addition to the fact that "he showed no signs of fear or anxiety".
The son of the actor Rodolfo Sancho is fulfilling a mandatory isolation of ten days in the sanitary area of the prison to comply with the protocols for the prevention of the covid-19 pandemic. The director of the center also pointed out that the Spaniard will not receive any special treatment and "has the same rights as other inmates."
The confessed killer could be transferred, once convicted, to a maximum security prison in Bangkok. Once convicted and after serving at least four years of his sentence, as long as this is not capital punishment, Sancho would have the right to request his transfer to a Spanish prison, although it could be rejected by Spain or Thailand.
