Last Thursday, August 29, the judgment of the Koh Samui court was announced, in which the Spaniard Daniel Sancho was sentenced to life in prison in Thailand for the premeditated murder of the Colombian surgeon Edwin Arrieta. Since that day, the media has focused on this news and it has become one of the most talked about again. This situation was also experienced in April before the trial held in this Thai court during the premiere of HBO Max. the documentary series The Sancho Affair in which numerous testimonies from the entourage of the cook and the victim were collected. On April 9, only episode zero was released, in which his father, the famous actor Rodolfo, sat down for the first time to talk about what had happened. Now Max, coinciding with the reading of the sentence, will present three new episodes of this documentary series.
When this episode zero of this documentary series produced by Cuarzo was released, some controversy was already generated because the father of the condemned man was sitting in front of the cameras for the first time to give a paid interview and many viewers did not understand it. According to her lawyer, Carmen Balfagón Rodolfo agreed to participate in this documentary series to cover “the economic need” she had “to try to save her son’s life.” The three new episodes of this documentary series They still don’t have an official release date.but it is now expected that the sentence will have already been pronounced and will be delivered in the coming weeks.
The three missing episodes of this documentary series
There are still 3 episodes left to air and production company Cuarzo has confirmed that they are working on producing The Sancho Affair as the whole judicial process developsThe idea is that the entire series covers the case until its final resolution, announced this week.
In April, Margarita Luis, executive producer of Cuarzo and director of the series, explained: “At Cuarzo Producciones (Banijay Iberia), we approach this project with the utmost responsibility and respect. We are faced with the challenge of following one of the most important cases of recent years in Spain due to all the attention it has generated. Our goal is document the entire processfrom the time the facts became known until the sentence was handed down, taking into account the immense pain that this event has caused in so many people.
In the exclusive trailer already released by HBO Max, you can hear testimonies from relatives of the accused and the victimFor example, Edwin Arrieta’s sister who searched for the accused on Instagram due to the lack of news from her brother, with whom she could not get in touch, and asked him what he knew about her brother. Also, in addition to the testimonies of several journalists, there is that of Daniel’s father, the actor Rodolfo Sancho. The latter confesses in this exclusive excerpt: “I am destroyed right now, honestly.”
An ambitious documentary series
The research process to be able to produce this documentary series It lasted more than eight months and officials traveled to the island of Fuerteventura, where Rodolfo Sancho resides, to learn first-hand how the actor was experiencing everything that had happened since August 5, 2023, when his son’s alleged involvement in the crime was known. death of Edwin Arrieta.
Since Daniel Sancho’s arrest by Thai authorities, the series presents “a journey, both physical and psychological, full of time jumps and unknowns to resolve,” according to HBO Max. The series has testimonies from relatives of the victim and the accused of murder and others involved in the investigation as journalists who followed the case. It analyzes “every piece of evidence, every proven fact, every testimony and every scenario to piece together a case about which many questions still remain,” they explain at HBO Max.
We will therefore have to wait for the streaming platform to announce the premiere of the three remaining episodes of the documentary series. For now, we will have to be content to watch episode zero which caused so much noise in April when it premiered and follow the news of the case through the media. In addition to this documentary series about Max you can see other quite interesting ones like Vitals: A Human Story, Dolores: The Truth About the Wanninkhof Affair, The Faceless Killer, Q: In the Eye of the Hurricane, A Thirty Meter Wave, The Curse either Gordon Ramsey’s Great Journey. Quality documentary series that can also be a good option for September afternoons.
