He killed her in one blow, dismembered her body, put her in two suitcases and buried her remains in Ávila. For 19 years, Jesús Pradales remained silent. Twenty years from now, February 23, 2003 Juana Canal took place. He admitted his authorship halfway through. He said he didn’t want to kill her.
The State Court rejected a reform request by the defense of Jesús Pradales, who was charged with dismembering, dismembering and hiding the body in the Juana Canal in 2003. To prevent the trial from being held by a popular jury for allegedly committing murder.
The car accessed by the Prensa Ibérica events and investigation portal CASO ABIERTO, It confirms the decision of the Investigation Court No. 21, which rejected it in January. Pradales’ defense sought to show that “reputable facts may constitute a crime of reckless murder, even if that were the outcome, because he did not intend to end the life of the victim”.
In the aforementioned decision, as stated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the facts are described as “an element of crime”. completed murder crime In the early morning hours of February 23, 2003, the person probably In the house he shared with his emotional partner Juana Canal Luque in Madridin the middle of an argument with him, she struck him in the neck, ended his life, after which he began dismembering him and was transported to the province of Ávila, where he was buried, his skeletal remains were not found for up to a year. 2019. He adds that fact would likely be classified as a crime of “gender-based violence.”
A decision that Juan Manuel Medina, lawyer for Juana Canal’s family, considered “predictable and correct”. The researcher adds Medina: “plans to sell a sweetened version of an unspeakable crime“.
two centuries of silence
He killed her, buried her, and never said anything about it again. She continued her routine, started a family, and remained silent. The owner of the hot dog and chips caravan is also today food truck, Jesús Pradales enjoyed the fair after the fair. Established a new, discreet life: He left the taxi where he was working at the time, from the taxi where he transferred Juana’s body in 2003.
He got married and had children. He has not contacted anyone regarding Juani, who has been his partner for a year. With whom he lived in a house in Ciudad Lineal. Who died in your hands. He never helped his search because he was the one who buried him in Ávila.
Multiple statements: minimum penalty
Jesús Pradales was arrested on October 26. He was emotionless. He hesitated, changed his lawyer, and finally admitted: Juana hit him for taking 600 euros from him, he was going to kill him “accidentally” after an argument.
The first version would be given about 24 hours after his arrest. He was devastated and admitted to dismembering the woman but not killing her.
“Dismembering a corpse in Spain does not carry a prison sentence,” Juana’s family lawyer, Medina, told the psychic at the time. “Body desecration: The penalty for this is 3 to 5 months or a fine. No one can find, dismember, or bury a dead body far from home. Without getting to the summary, we understand that this is sufficient indication that this man ended Juana Canal’s life”.
On the advice of his lawyer, Pradales retracted his confession and changed it: “I accidentally killed him (…) I saw him still on the ground with his eyes open. I realized he was dead. I was scared,” he said. judge. At that time, he decided to cut it in two with a knife. He packed it in two suitcases and took it to the 90-kilometer Navalacruz. He dug two pits with a hoe near his farm and laid the remains.
He returned home, leaving a note for Sergio, one of Juani’s sons, who lived with them. “Your mother and I had a heated argument and she ran away. I went looking for it but couldn’t find it“They never saw him again. They never saw him again.
a broken life
Juana was 38 years old, she had two children from her previous marriage and a new dream: he had found a job, had left his mother’s house, and had just settled in Madrid’s Ciudad Lineal district.. He spent twenty years searching for his family.
His body was found just three months after OPEN CASE published a report that helped reactivate the search and the case. The location of his remains, found by some hikers in 2019, was not reported to his family until 28 June 2002.