“Iba is like a psychopath, wandering around there.” This is how Fernando Peña, the primary author of the triple assassination of Chiloches, defined his movements in Chalet Villar in the early hours of April 13, 2024, when, as he realized, he ended the lives of Ángel and Elvira, their marriage of 52 and 53 years, and of his daughter Laura, 22 years old, torn apart during a plan to steal the luxury watches and money that the family kept in the house. Peña admitted responsibility for the crimes in announcing this trial before the jury that will resolve his responsibility to the other defendants in the trial held at the regional hearing in Guadalajara. The confessed writer blamed one of the most horrific crimes of the last few years on his drug “addiction” since he was 14 years old.
“I was hysterical, talkative,” he emphasized on repeated occasions about the use of drug abuse relief defending his lawyers. “Daba for everything that moves and screams,” he justified by explaining the 29 blows that the priest, armed with a spear and a knife, attacked him when he woke up, affected by the noise in his bedroom. The main accused, who only answered questions from the defense and the jury, stated that he did not remember how Elvira and Laura were killed, to whom, according to investigators, he was attacked 14 and seven times respectively. Peña claimed his intention was not to kill without stealing, and that he believed the house was empty. The harpoon, she said, would always exist to kill other robots, but she denied that the Navy would end. “Esa no la llevaba yo,” he said.
Peña cited his “desperation” for drug use as the cause of death, although the forensic doctors who treated him after his arrest did not notice any special changes in him. “With cocaine you think you are the king of the world,” the accused summed up by explaining the “desperation” that caused his drug addiction and the urgent need to get money to continue using and confront the problems he faced with the “Chunga people.” He stated that his goal was “to get the money, get out quickly and run away.” Showing his calm while announcing the case, he said he was “deeply sorry” for the crimes and asked for forgiveness from Yarai, the couple who ran away from the house, driven by the wind after Peña caught fire to erase any evidence.
Peña contributed 20,000 euros to the only survivor of Villar that night to try to repair the damage that was caused, he said. The defense petition was also attended by experts from the National Institute of Toxicology who evaluated the report of a psychiatrist expert on the addiction of the main accused three days after the incident and confirmed the presence of substances in the mouth such as hashish and cocaine, as well as methamphetamine, ketamine and alcohol. The head of the Addiction Unit at Ramon y Cajal Hospital also referred to the change in drug intake, which was also suggested by the defence, and although he admitted that his report was separate, he referred to the change in the volitional abilities of the main accused during the night of the case.
The court also declared the other defendants, Cristian and David, who were indicted and the appellant in Fiscalía as “necessary collaborators” to carry out the robbery and those whom Peña had tried to acquit. Christian, who accused him of being the one who could provide information about where the robot came from after he was Laura’s partner, denied that he was much of a robot. He confirmed that he was also at home that night. David, the young man who took Fernando in the car to Villar’s chalet and who later left, also disqualified himself from the planned plan: “We always talked until we got to the top of drugs and we never got anything.” The court will meet again in the coming months with the final conclusions and prosecution, if the accused requests it.
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