When, it was February 2019, the police arrived at the crime scene and found the body of a middle-aged woman, torn apart, the remains scattered throughout the house. And a young man, then 26, who confessed to killing his mother and eating parts of it. Because, explained Alberto Sanchez, “he had made my life impossible”. A terrible story, which is monopolizing the attention of the Spanish media after the opening in Madrid of the trial of the “cannibal de la Guindalera”, as the alleged murderer was nicknamed. The policemen involved in the case are parading in front of the court, which will be evaluated by a popular jury. The details that emerge from the investigations at the time are gruesome: Sanchez, after killing his mother, would have taken the body to the bedroom, and in the fifteen days following the crime he would have eaten the remains of the woman several times.
The young man in the courtroom stated that he no longer remembers having killed her, let alone having torn her body apart. He just admitted repeatedly that he heard “rumors” suggesting that he kill her. The defense focuses on insanity, as Alberto Sanchez had drug and alcohol problems. The prosecutor asked for a 15-year sentence for the murder of his mother and 5 months for having “desecrated” her body. Maybe even fed to the dog.