Brief chronology of the horror 1997
January - The body of a 23-year-old Rosina Acosta, appears in the dunes of Playa Pancras, in Punta del Diablo (Rocha). Was found by a couple of fishermen in the area, about six in the morning, who saw him almost as soon as they went down to the beach, because, in his own words "was lying on the sand" and not wholly or partially buried. The body (which was half naked, wearing only underwear), there were signs of astonishing brutality: he lacked all the fingers of his right hand and two (index and ring fingers) of the left hand. The right eye had been removed. The legs, arms, face, chest, back and belly of the girl had multiple stab wounds, shallow. In the scene found virtually no trace of blood, it is presumed that the girl was killed elsewhere and then moved to the beach, perhaps in the morning. Something remarkable was that the body was very clean, as if it had been washed before throwing in the dunes. The cause of death was described as bleeding due to injury. Rosina no signs of having been sexually assaulted.
2006
April
- Clara Santos, a 18 year old, mysteriously disappears near the Parque Rodo (Montevideo). It was full week of tourism and the girl had attended the park with his family: his parents and younger brother of twelve, Santiago. According to parents, Clara and her brother had decided to walk alone on the roller coaster, while the parents were devoted to walking. They were found in the ticket office of the giant wheel. When the roller coaster ride ended and Clara and Santiago fell, she said she wanted to go to the bathroom, because he was broken. According to James, his sister was sick on the roller coaster. Decided that James was with his parents at the box office giant wheel, as agreed, while Clara went to the bathroom. That was the last time you heard from her again.
June - After two months of intense search, which had a major impact on mass media and therefore public opinion, Santos Clara's body is found, in a ditch on the side of the access to Montevideo. Was found by a garbage sorter. Savagery of the crime again shock the population: A Clara Santos amputee had several fingers of both hands and had removed his right eye. He cuts that covered almost head to toe, as if he had been tortured. Having appeared in lingerie, once thought a sexual crime, but forensic examination ruled out this possibility in the subsequent autopsy. All belongings of the missing girl, her cell phone, wallet and house keys. Elements that carried the day she disappeared. Montevideo police begins an intense investigation. Soon, it is determined that the case is very similar to one occurred nine years ago, in the department of Rocha.
July - On Tuesday 11, was arrested a former classmate Clara Santos, Julio Marseille, 19 years old. Police had begun investigating the environment of the young, his family and friends. The name of Marseille in the investigation came almost immediately. According to friends of Clara, the boy was attracted to her and tried to woo her on numerous occasions, but Clara had always rejected. Furthermore, Marseille had a history of violence and antisocial behavior. Had been suspended when he was sixth in school for having stuck a compass in hand to a classmate who had taunted him. People said I was a lonely boy, withdrawn, which was almost always alone. Fellow high school in Marseilles, say more than one occasion he had observed in the playground, behind a tree, torturing small animals and insects.
Marseille was questioned about the disappearance and murder of Clara Santos, but twenty-four hours later he was released. There was no evidence or witnesses who could incriminate him.
2007
September - Antonio Santos, Clara's father is arrested for the murder of Julius Marseille. Until today, said that Marseille was the author of murder of his daughter. On Saturday night, 22, arrived in Marseille family home, wearing his caliber Colt revolver thirty-eight. Knocked on the door and waited, but no one answered. The house was empty. Instead of leaving, he sat on the porch to wait. Julio arrived nearly two hours later, at about two o'clock, when he left his job as a waiter in a bar. Clara's father found sitting at the door, which, seeing the boy stood up and without a word, shot him in the head. Then, put the gun in his belt, stepped over the lifeless body of young, entered his car and left. In the morning, called police and confessed to the crime. When the police handcuffed him to take him under the gaze of television cameras, he told television reporters who were covering the event that "justice had been done by his daughter."
2008
March - comes to the editorial staff of The Morning, an anonymous letter, written by hand. The letter, no more than a couple of paragraphs written in ordinary notebook paper says that the author is responsible for the crime of Clara Santos and that he will kill again shortly, as "feel the uncontrollable urge do "(paraphrase). Immediately, the editor of the newspaper is in contact with the complex crimes unit of the police. However, tests do not yield many useful answers. According to the calligraphic skill, it could be a white male between twenty and forty-five years. Smart, but with antisocial tendencies, a person with serious problems getting along with others, especially with the opposite sex.
The paper used for writing had no fingerprints. The ink was a common pen and the paper itself was virtually impossible to track, and that could be bought in any store or supermarket. The analysis of the envelope that the letter was sent, was not fruitful. It was a common on the author had closed using water to wet the glue on the flap, instead of their own saliva, so that consideration DNA could be ruled out.
July - On Friday 11, at dawn, the girl disappears Martina Fuller, 21 years old. Martina lived in Piedras Blancas and the night of Thursday 10 had attended the birthday of a friend of hers, who lived in the same neighborhood, a few blocks away. Martina arrived at the party and was about four or five hours. When he left, about one o'clock, walked to another friend, Romina Suarez. As she lived closer to the house of the birthday, Martina had to finish the journey alone to your home. But it never came.
Friends and colleagues class who attended the party, make sure she was alright, but not as lively as usual. As they say, was a happy girl. Romina Suarez, the police said that Martina no longer see your cell phone for most of the party. In the words of the girl, "was like the whole time he was reading text messages that came to him."
Martina search begins.
Thursday, 31, is the cell phone of the girl, in a vacant lot used as an illegal landfill, located about three miles from his home. The device was quite deteriorated, showing that he had been there, weather, a good time. Still, the police managed to recover the chip and may have access to many text messages they had stored. Were a total of fourteen messages. All shipped within two days, between 10 and 11 July. Of these messages, eleven had been sent by an unknown number. The first was sent at 19.02 the day 10 and the last at 00.45 on day 11. And everyone said the same thing: "I'm looking for. And I will find. " The telephone analysis also showed that a call had been made to the sender of the message number. Martina had called at 23.03 on Thursday 10, perhaps to know who the author was of these strange messages. But the call lasted no more than five seconds.
tracked the number is unknown. The phone turned out to have an ironmonger of the Union, Luis Alberto Valencia, 53. Valencia was questioned about the messages sent to cell Martina and said they have no idea. He stated that for some time that the phone was not in his power: it had been stolen in early July. The police confirmed the reports that Valencia had made to mark the sixth robbery in the police station. He stopped for a period of twenty-four hours, a criminal background check. Valencia had none, so he was released.
August - Monday 4 is finally the body of Martina Fuller. I was in a ravine on the outskirts of Piedras Blancas. Showed the same signs as previously missing girls: they missing fingers on both hands and his right eye. Again, had shallow cuts across the skin, as signs of torture, and ligature marks around his ankles and wrists. But Martina's body had something else: a shot in the head, specifically in the left temple. There was no exit wound, the bullet lodged in his skull, broken into the brain. It was determined that locks of a 22 caliber bullet. Apparently, the murderer had been completed for the girl with the gun, rather than just let bleed to death, as he had earlier. This gave the impression to the police that the murderer might have gotten scared for some reason (perhaps Martina had tried to escape) and the murderer had decided to liquidate as soon as possible, to silence. In the media, and begins to speak of a serial murderer.
September - The brutal crimes have been committed in the past two years bringing his first political consequences. The Interior Minister is questioned by the opposition and then pressed both political figures and the press. Later that same month, ending resigning, accused of incompetence.
November - Around the city of Montevideo there are street marches calling for justice for the victims. One of these marches comes to the presidential residence, where he began a cacerolazo and read a proclamation. In that instant, a pair of concurrent begin a violent street brawl, which soon increases, leaving a toll of two wounded, one with a knife.
December - Arrives end of the year and has not yet clue on who the sadistic murderer who is ravaging the city. The population begins to take extreme measures. Trips (pun intended) the sale of firearms and personal defense items pepper spray, electric shock devices, etc. The nightlife of the weekend falls to record low, something that has not been seen even during the economic crisis of 2002. Young women between 18 and 35, and almost never leave their homes. Parents accompany their young daughters to schools and colleges, at the entrance and exit. Police guard was placed at the entrance of many public education institutions and bars and dance clubs. There is speculation the murderer's identity, personality, psychiatric profile, etc. Are numerous rumors in the press, all flashy, most absurd. It goes on to say that the murderer is a former high school teacher who went crazy after accidentally killing her daughter. Or a foreigner, an American who is traveling around the world committing serial murders in different countries. Some paranoid even say that the spirit of Jack the Ripper has come to this land and has possessed someone. Others say that the murderer is actually a woman. The truth is that all are ideas, speculations, with little or no basis. The population begins to sink in panic, uncertainty and despair.
2009
May - Tuesday 26, arrives at the 7th station Capurro, a man in his fifties, looking and strange character. Frightened. Almost scared to death. Want to talk privately with a policeman. They want you to take a statement, but without attracting attention. Afraid that someone will discover, that someone is aware of what is about to do. The man, RJ initial, say they know who might be the murderer of young people. According to him, is his neighbor. A military retired, over the years, has become fond of drink and lives only in his small house at Husares. When police asked RJ what made him believe that his neighbor could be the perpetrator of terrible crimes, said that one night, being in a bar, heard the soldier talking with two other men. The military used to spend much time at the bar and when he was gone for drinks (most of the time), used to tell stories, most as too bizarre to be believed, the things he had done when he was part of the armed forces and what proud he was to have belonged to them.
that night RJ heard the military say that once, long ago, had met a girl. It had been a summer on a beach of Rocha. The military said the girl was attractive and a little
"carefree", but when they wanted to get intimate, she resisted. So he had to give a "little warning." He added that the soldier said that no woman would dare to disobey, because he suffered the consequences, and that young people today were like those of his era. Now were too promiscuous and that he had to take responsibility to correct.
The police decide to investigate the military, the absence of other suspects. Apparently, he was married, but she had abandoned years ago because of violence and subjected to humiliating treatment. Try to locate the military. But when they come to your house, this is not responding. Three days later, some military neighbors complain that emanates from his home and an unpleasant odor. As you have not seen the military, decided to call the police, worried. This time, the forces of the law, breaking the lock, instead of ringing the bell. When you enter the house, see the soldier's lifeless body, lying on the floor beside the sofa. Takes four days dead and drowned on his own vomit as a result of excess alcohol.
2011
January - spend almost three years since the last crime. Apparently, the murders of young women have ceased. Some say that since the death of retired military. Others say that in reality, the horror is not over yet. The murderer, whoever, has retired to take a break. As he did after committing his first crime in 1997, to kill again almost ten years later. So far, the case remains open and police do not have too many items to continue or terminate the investigation. Suspects have been questioned, there have been raids, but so far nothing has yielded positive results. It seems that, slowly, people started to forget the murderer of young people. It seems that the issue is happening, as water under the bridge. We no longer speak of him in the media and would not be surprising that in a few months, and hardly anyone remember, neither he, nor his terrible legacy.
How long will it be before you forget completely? Probably not much. And perhaps that's just what the monster is waiting. To forget it. That people buried in the past, in the deepest, darkest corner of his memory. To then come back, so unexpected and brutal, causing fear explode again and repeat the cycle again. The murderer of young people can return at any time. That's why it should not be forgotten. That's why it would be advisable to remain vigilant.
