Netflix has decided to bring to the present one of the cases that occupied the most hours of television a few years ago: the crime of Heidi Paz. The King of Cachopo is a documentary that revolves around the events committed by César Román, who was nicknamed by the press with that same culinary name.
A series that dates back to 2021, when César was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Madrid to 15 years in prison for the murder and dismemberment of his ex-partner, to which aggravating circumstances were added due to kinship and gender. An event that occurred after Heidi left the relationship and due to problems in the convicted man's business.
After finding the victim's body in a burnt suitcase in a warehouse owned by Román in the Usera neighborhood (Madrid), the Homicide Group VI of the Judicial Police obtained the last handwritten note from Heidi Paz, addressed to the that he was her boyfriend.
A manuscript found in the apartment where they both lived in the capital. “I want to leave the relationship. “Do not try to locate me,” she wrote to him, as published by the Herald in 2018, the year of the murder before leaving home. And this would be one of the reasons why the King of Cachopo decided to commit the acts.
The Prosecutor's Office made it clear in its report that the convicted man “did not accept the end of the courtship” and “moved by the fact that she was a woman, with the intention of taking her life, or at least, representing that result, he caused her death.” ”. Something that happened when she returned home in August.
A breakup that occurred three months after starting the relationship. It was in April 2018 when Heidi Paz and César Román met, when she started working in her restaurant.
And, although the King of Cachopo has always denied having committed the acts, a few days ago he sent several letters to the judge accepting having murdered his ex-partner. With this, not only has he admitted to being the culprit, but he has offered to continue speaking to explain more details of what happened. Furthermore, he has sent a pardon to the family, even if it is six years later.
After this first confession, Román's lawyer came out reiterating her client's innocence. However, he himself took it upon himself to dispense with her services and reiterate his guilt with a second letter. “I am willing, if Heidi's family so considers it, to make a statement before the judge and before these relatives so that they can rest once and for all and know everything that happened,” he stated.
