THE true crime nationals remain behind new projects Netflix. After the success of “The Body on Fire” and “El Caso Asunta”, the streaming platform announced during the San Sebastian Festival what its next series based on the Spanish detective story will be: “The Black Widow of Patraix”an event that occurred in a neighborhood of Valencia in the summer of 2017 and which revealed the plan hatched by a woman, María Jesús Moreno, to end her husband, Antonio Navarro, with the help of her lover, Salvador Rodrigo.
Netflix has confirmed that the new project on the “Maje Case” will have the product signature of Ramón Campos, of Producciones Bambú, under the direction of Carlos Sedes, both responsible for the successful Asunta crime series. In addition, they have participated in very prestigious projects such as “The Alcàsser Affair”, “The Cable Girls”, “Velvet” or “Fariña”, among others.
As announced during the San Sebastian Festival, the plot centered on the story of “the black widow of Patraix” will begin with the discovery of Antonio’s body in a garage in Valencia, whose lifeless body was up to seven shots. The main suspect, his widow, “a sweet, kind and attractive young woman” to whom he had been married for less than a year.
Thus, he will recount the work of the Homicide Group of the National Police of Valencia, with a seasoned inspector at the helm, to clarify an investigation in which he will involve infidelities, deceptions and secret plans in the context of a crime of passion which filled the pages of the press and the minutes of television and radio for several years in Spain.
The murder took place on August 16, 2017 in a garage on Calle Calamocha, Valencia. On November 8, police intercepted a conversation between the main suspect and her lover, both professional nurses and colleaguesuntil they were finally arrested on January 12, 2018. Six days later, investigators found the murder weapon after the confession of the confessed murderer, convinced by his daughters and family to discover the plan that Maje allegedly plotted against her husband.
Finally, after two years of provisional prison, the trial was held in 2020 at the Provincial Court of Valencia. The court sentenced María Jesús to 22 years in prison for the full crime of murder with treason and the aggravating circumstance of kinship, while Salvador was sentenced to 17 years in prison thanks to the analogous mitigating circumstance of collaboration with justice.
Both appealed the conviction before the Civil and Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV), whose court confirmed the convictions finding that there had been no violation of fundamental rights of the condemned, considering the judgment adapted to the law. , despite the insistence of his defense of having experienced “a parallel trial“.
Son in prison
Thus, Maje returned to the Picassent penitentiary center where in May 2023, the result of a sporadic relationship with an inmate also convicted of murder, he was pregnanta situation which caused his immediate transfer to the specialized maternity ward of Fontnivel prison, in Alicante.
As ABC exclusively reported, Maje was transferred on July 13 of the same year to the Alicante General Hospital, where she gave birth to her son, with whom she will stay in the hospital. Mothers Unit Irene Villain Fontnivel, until the age of three, as provided for in the prison regulations.
During this time, he distanced himself from the child’s father, who allegedly ignored the child and, as this newspaper has learned, during his stay in this module he was not involved in any altercations, wanting to avoid the spotlight and media attention. .
