The Chilean justice system sentenced Clara Elena González Figueroa (39 years old) and Rolando Ricardo Villagrán Retamal (59 years old) to 18 years in prison and found them guilty of the brutal murder of the young Cuban dentist Reinier Sanchez Gonzalezin 2021.
The order of the Court of Oral Criminal Trials of Chillán, composed of judges Ricardo Piña Vallejos (President), Rosa Caballero Burgos and María Paz González (Editor), was issued on October 19, after both the commission of the crimes and the guilty participation were confirmed by the accused of the crime, quoted the local press.
However, the conviction was criticized after prosecutors requested life sentences and presented more than 50 witnesses against Retamal Villagrán and González Figueroa.
Some Chileans viewed the court’s decision as “a bargain” for a crime of this magnitude. They affirm that “the main responsible for the public security crisis in Chile is the Chilean judiciary.”
The crime occurred on July 4, 2021, when Rolando Retamal and Clara González “beat the victim in different parts of the body and then strangled him by squeezing his neck area until he died.”
Analysis of the positioning of the victim’s and the defendant’s mobile phones revealed a joint transfer of about twelve hours from Lampa in the metropolitan area to Ñuble, where they threw the body parts into the river.
The court reported that parts of the lifeless body of Reinier Sánchez were found on August 3, 2021 on the banks of the Perquilauquén River in the city of Ñiquén (Punilla Province, Ñuble Region in central Chile) by a teenager who saw two plastic bags containing the severed remains.
The cause of death was determined to be asphyxiation by third-party strangulation, which is a crime of qualified homicide, the report said.
The young man, 32 years old, had lived in Chile since 2016 and until April 2021 worked in a dental clinic in Lampa that belonged to the accused couple.
His murderers were arrested on September 10, 2021and later it was learned that in order to eliminate suspicion after the crime, they kept the dentist’s phone active and even sent messages from his WhatsApp account to people close to him.
The opinion was issued on October 19, before the verdict was announced, and stated that “the same evidence is sufficient to establish a series of circumstantial evidence that allows us not only to attribute to the defendant a guilty role in the death of the victim, but also…” also “intent” in the case.
Expert evidence from geolocation, traffic analysis, calls and documentary evidence showed that the defendant, in Coordination with your husbandacquired elements used to dismember and then conceal the victim’s body and were found at the crime scene.
“With the same expertise, it was possible to determine the location of the cell phones of the victim and the accused during a joint trip from the city of Lampa, in the south of the country, near the Perquilauquén River and back to Lampa during the same trip. night,” the report said.
“The victim’s phone remained intermittently connected to the defendant’s antenna and sent WhatsApp messages to his family in Cuba, which turned out to be false,” he explains.
“In addition, the presence of the victim’s blood was detected in the Hyundai Tucson vehicle of the defendant González, the same vehicle that the defendant used on the aforementioned trip to the south and which was subsequently washed unsuccessfully in order to hide evidence “, leads the condemning statement in detail.
Since this brutal murder shocked the Latino community in Chile, a woman close to the victim has reported it several times Foreigners do not have equal access to justice in this country than the nationals, since almost two years had passed since the crime and the verdict had not yet been passed.