Jose Jurado Montillapseudonym Dynamite Montillahas once again been accused of another crime, this Spanish serial killer who recounts his wandering adventures on TikTok is on his way to becoming, at 62, one of the greatest murderers in the history of Spain. According to experts: “A narcissistic, capricious killer who kills anyone who bothers him or prevents him from getting what he wants at the time”. Convicted of four murders, he returned to prison for four more murders.
Who is Dinamita Montilla?
Jose Jurado Montilla was born in Campanillas (Málaga) in 1962, and his criminal record is as long as it is horrible. His first crime was committed at the age of 18, when he was first convicted after rob a fairground. He also played jailbreaksbut what he is best known for is his gun hobby and the trail of blood he left in his wake. In 1985, murdered a neighbor who surprised him on a strange property during one of his walks, 1987 was arrested and accused of the murder of two foreign tourists who had crossed his path in a mountainous area and the same year he killed a fourth person. He is currently under investigation for four other crimes which he committed after being released from a long prison sentence.
This last step once again brought him notoriety. Always wandering, he told his life story through social networks, notably on TikTok, where he introduced himself with his nickname. Here, he benefits from thousands of followers to whom he recounts his walks across Spain, without however giving details of the deaths he leaves in his wake. This desire for notoriety on the networks allowed the Police to locate him to arrest him for another of his recent crimes, which is why he is now in temporary prison.
However, Dynamite Montilla He never admitted to being a serial killer. He only confessed to one of his former crimes. He has no relation to any family. The police and the Civil Guard define him as a “cold” murderer.
“Narcissistic and capricious murderer”
The psychologist Ana Villarrubia, an expert in profiling this type of criminalsees it as “a murderer with a very high level of narcissismdemonstrated among others by his supporters TikTokhis desire for recognition. At the same time, Villarrubia believes that Dynamite Montilla East “a capricious serial killer, kills on impulsebecause something bothers him or prevents him from ensuring his end.
“He’s not a cyclical murderer, he acts because at that moment he has a goal and he doesn’t mind killing because he has a very low level of empathy,” Villarrubia suggests.
The murderer’s trail
The serial killer’s homicidal account on TikTok began in 1985. On Maundy Thursday 1985, he shot and killed Francisco González Rico, a resident of Puerto de la Torre, because he surprised him inside his country house. It took investigators a while to figure it out, but he was eventually found guilty. It was the only crime he admitted to.
In 1987, two years later, he killed two foreign tourists who crossed his path. The victims, of German and British nationality, were shot dead in an area of El Chorro (Málaga) where they were camping. This time he was arrested quickly.
Already in temporary prison, he was accused of his fourth assassination previously committed, in March 1987. It was the murder of Antonio Paniagua Alcaide, the former driver of Juanito Valderrama. Paniagua’s body was found charred.
These four crimes earned him a sentence of 123 years in prison, of which he will formally serve 30 years. However, Dynamite Montilla He benefited from the repeal of the Parot doctrine and was released two years earlier.
Second stage of crimes
Since 2013, already free, Dynamite Montilla He returns to his wandering life and his murders.
He is now accused of the crime of David in 2022, a student murdered by a gunshot to the head on a family farm. Before he died, the 21-year-old wrote to his family that he had encountered a guy in the countryside who had rudely asked him for water. The police found a tab Dynamite Montilla in the victim’s backpack and was arrested in May 2024, charged with his fifth crime.
Already in provisional prison while the judicial investigation into David’s crime continues, the police are investigating the sixty-year-old for the crimes of two homeless people in Malaga in the years 2021 and 2022. If they were confirmed, he would would be committing his sixth and seventh crimes.
The last possible victim: Ester
Less than a month after his arrest accused of a new murder, that of student David in 2022, Dynamite Montilla returned to the events sections of all the newspapers.
The reason for this new public exposure of the TikTok serial killer was the discovery of the corpse of Sevillian Ester Estepa in a sugar cane field from Gandía (Valencia).
DNA doesn’t lie, Ester could be the sixth victim of serial killer Dynamite Montilla. Four months after the discovery of human remains in a sugar cane field in Gandía (Valencia), science has shown that it is the body of the woman who disappeared between August 21 and 23, 2023 while she was was in Gandía with the serial killer.
They met at a hostel in Alicante and took several walks around the area. It was there, in Gandia, that they were seen together for the last time, when Dynamite Montilla He claimed they were a couple.
The police always suspected that Ester was a victim of the serial killer and the evidence seems to confirm it. Dynamite Montilla She posed as the missing woman by sending messages to the victim’s mother from the latter’s cell phone. A phone that has not yet been found. In these messages, she declared, posing as Ester Estepa, that she was going to live in Buenos Aires with friends.
