After admitting that killed a man whom she had met on the Internet and who then dismembered and burned her corpse, distributing her remains in flower pots, Cristina was sentenced to eight years in prison for Provincial Court of Orense. The Court reduces the penalty due to the psychological disorders suffered by the accused and her confessions in court Popular jury: “The accused suffers” from a generalized anxiety disorder, an obsessive-compulsive disorder and a personality disorder, with a moderate limitation of will in relation to the death with which she is accused, but not to subsequent manipulation and disappearance. corpse. Thus, the accused saw her sentence reduced from a request of 18 years in prison to 8 years in prison.
The woman convicted of the man’s murder, a resident of Barcelona, admitted the facts before the jury constituted at the Provincial Court of Ourense. The accused of the crime even admitted that she had given the man pills and that once he could not defend himself, she suffocated him with a pillow. Then he dismembered her body and distributed it throughout the forest. When they arrested her, she told the Civil Guard that the man, whom he had met on social networks shortly before, “He didn’t love me.”.
She herself told questions from the prosecution that she met the man while chatting on the Internet and that after talking for “a month or two”, they both agreed that the man would move to the woman’s home. woman sentenced to spend a few days there and meet in person. .
He cut up the corpse with a shovel
The man took a flight from Barcelona (he lived in Castelldefels) in Vigo, where the accused came to pick him up to take him to her home in a village in the Orense municipality of Cortégada. There, the couple lived together for a few days, but according to the woman’s account, they “many discussions”.
The accused’s statement to the prosecutor lasted no more than three minutes, during which she admitted how she had killed her victim: “I gave him pills and I choked him,” she said. she explained, before answering “yes” to the question of whether I had done it with a pillow.
Likewise, when questioned by the prosecution, the author of the Cortegada crime confessed that charred the body dousing it with gasoline and setting it on fire, and that he cut it up with a shovel, before putting the remains in a bag and throwing them “in the forest”, he told the Court.
Participation in the search for the victim
The perpetrator of the crime came to participate in research tasks of her victim, and finally she collapsed and confessed to the town doctor that the man “died in his sleep” and she, frightened, only managed to burn his body, dismember it and to distribute the pieces of it in the mountains.
During the trial, the convicted woman did not reveal the motive for the crime. However, before the investigating judge and the Civil Guard, he confessed at the time of his arrest that he had killed the man because “he had fallen in love with her”, that she did not return his love. similar and that her presence bothered him. “I didn’t like it.”he even told the guards that they found the victim’s charred remains in pots he had in his garden.
