The documentary series have become a success on streaming platforms and one of their teachers is the researcher Carles Porta who has already surprised us with the documentary series Crimes And Tor. Now Porta is back with a new season of Light in the darknessthe true crime documentary series Movistar Plus+. In this new opus, Carles Porta looks at four terrible crimes that took place in different cities in Spain and which impressed its inhabitants. The first in this series is Light in the darkness in which the case of the dismemberment of Majadahonda is recounted. It all started when Eduardo Giogiosa, a young Argentinian, decided to go to Spain to find his sister Adriana, who had disappeared in this famous Madrid municipality. A controversial affair that held all of Spain in suspense until Adriana’s cruel and macabre end became known.
The owner of the house where Adriana lived claimed that she had gone on a trip, but during a police inspection of the house a meat grinder was found which gave a 360º turn to the investigation. The second episode of this second season of Light in the darkness by Carles Porta is O Chucán’s confession on the crime of Pilar Palacios in the town of Sober in Lugo, that of The Chiclana churrero in Cadiz and that of The crime of tourists which took place in Sos del Rey Católico in Aragon.
What happened in this house in Majadahonda?
Eduardo Giogiosa, the brother of the missing woman, and the police They began to suspect the strange behavior of the owner of the property. where Adriana lived. The police found a machine for grinding animal meat in the storage room of the house and decided to search the landfill in the Madrid town of Pinto for cadaverous remains.
In this case, the Google Maps application was decisive for the investigation since it was discovered in one of the images older woman at apartment window that she too had been missing for years and that the police verified that she was the real owner of the house and the aunt of Bruno, the dismembered Majadahonda. Police discovered not just one crime, but two, and Google Maps images provided a definitive clue.
According to director and narrator Carles Porta: “There is an invisible thread that connects the four cases in the new season of Light in the Darkness, which is love. “We end up catching bad guys for love.” The four cases of this season, according to the Catalan journalist, They have been investigating for a long time. Each of the cases is studied in a double episode which allows each crime to be explored in depth, without haste and with the characteristic style of the well-known investigator.
The other three cases of A light in the darkness by Carles Portá
In addition to this crime, in this second season of Llight in the dark others will be discussed three complex cases: that of Pilar Palacios in the town of Sober in Lugo, that of The Chiclana churrero in Cadiz and that of The crime of tourists which took place in Sos del Rey Católico in Aragon. This new opus is an original Movistar Plus+ in collaboration with True Crime Factory and Goroka.
The second case takes us to deep Galicia with O Chucán’s confession in which Pilar Palacios woman found dead and seriously injured in the head in an abandoned stable in 2007. The investigation led police to a man named José Carnero, known as O Chucán, a pomace distiller with a troubled past. A complicated affair because it revealed a whole series of local tensions which shook the entire area.
The third case is that of The Chiclana churrero which recounts the attack on Antonio Romero and his wife Manuela, an elderly couple, in their own home. Residents of the neighborhood were shocked by the violence and coldness with which the attackers acted. The investigation moved forward thanks to a bloodstain which helped solve the mystery.
Finally, this second season of Light in the darkness I will dive into The crime of tourists which took place in the town of Sos del Rey Católico in Aragon where an unidentified woman was found next to a wind farm. The investigation was very complex because clues were missing, but a link was quickly established with two French friends who had disappeared in northern Spain. A crime which hides a strange story of crossed identities and psychological disorders and which surprises with its complexity.
