96-year-old María was left alone at home. Good Friday, April 18, 2003. His son left around twelve to pick up his bride, his great-grandchild, with whom he lived. He will go and come back. They will eat together. They don’t last long, just take it.
Maria doesn’t see well, but she’s taking care of herself. She likes to go to mass, buy bread and go for walks. It never goes alone. His family is always with him. The doorbell rings around one o’clock in the afternoon. Maria won’t open. They told him not to, all his relatives have a key. He’s still ringing. The old woman approaches the door, calling it that… it could be her granddaughter.
“Police unit, tell me.” At two in the afternoon, 091 answered the call. “‘Please come!” On the other end of the phone, in real shock, Maria’s son speaks. He just got home. His mother is lying face down on the bedroom floor. He has some bruises, his mouth is clogged. He’s not breathing. They killed him in his house at 71 Ayala street in Salamanca neighborhood.
It would be the first, it was particularly cruel, but Three months of real terror would follow in Madrid: two murders, three attempted murders, and about twenty robberies. Author of all attacks: 39 years old female, long hair, dark hair, tall, gypsy descent, stocky. His name was Encarnación Jiménez, nicknamed ‘mataviejas’. From Monday to Friday, he always worked in the morning. is doomed 152 years in prison for harassing, beating, tying up and even killing elderly womenin their home.
a baby dress
When Maria (96) opened the door, she did not have time to defend herself. On the other side was Encarnacion. The woman was murdered and robbed in less than an hour.. When his family returned home, they couldn’t do anything for him. Son, after opening it with the key, He found a cigarette butt on the floor and a messy entrance. Inside living room, The upper part of the teeth of the old woman lying on the ground. He had fallen from the first blow.
There was no noise, just silence. He asked his wife and grandson not to go further. He found his mother gaping in a shirt. In her mouth, pressed (she moved the prosthesis to her throat), a doll dress. The autopsy says he died of suffocation.
300 euros in cash and some jewelery were missing -worth 598 euros according to the police report- among others the old woman’s wedding ring: “MI 30.5.30”, read the alliance. A neighbor told police minutes ago a dark-dressed and brown-haired lady had knocked on the door to sell something. “He looked like a gypsy.” marked.
“Please, I’m Diabetic”
20 May. Karmen, 81 years oldWhile cleaning the door of his house on Los Urquiza Street (Quintana), a dark-haired woman approaches him. She says she doesn’t feel well, faints, needs a glass of water. Carmen tries to help her, but is pushed back as soon as she enters her house to get the glass. On the ground, it drifts through the house. They take off their socks and look at how they bind their feet with them. They hit someone in the head. Aggressive woman in a short time He would leave home with a booty of 1,413 euros. (thousands of cash, the rest is jewels). Carmen kept him away as he was traveling. Before leaving, the thief smokes in his house. He’s gone and Carmen has left him tied up.
A few days later; the scene is repeated Haliana neighborhood. knocked on the door at home Another 88-year-old old woman. Also called Carmen. When opened, thin (weighed 45 kilograms), the attacker did not need to invent anything. He knocked him down with one blow: “it’s a robbery.”
Mercedes, 76, was visited by Mataviejas a day later, on 7 June.. He came to his door: “I have good clothes at a very good price.” A push, a few blows, and again his victim was on the ground. The criminal found a little over 40 euros and some jewellery. He smoked while walking around. He heard voices and decided to go. Before, strengthened the knots he had tied the old woman. “Please, I’m diabetic, I need to give myself insulin, don’t tie me up.” The thief did not blink: “As if you were dying for me right now.” It was night, more than 12 hours had passed when a neighbor helped him. Mercedes luckily survived.
fake IDs
Without cease, without ceasefire. The list of names, victims is long. The next confirmed attack was three days later. The incident occurred in a person’s home in Plaza Bami (El Carmen neighborhood). Evgenia, 80 years old. “One woman should live.” It was ground floor, it was at street level, so The thief made up an excuse for me to open the door for him. He claimed that he often a social worker it was his turn to visit; said that others charwoman: “My wife, who always comes to her house, can’t come, her father is sick and she said come today even though I don’t play”; He also pretended to be a staff member of ASISPA, an association that helps the elderly, or said he was going. check the water meter. He told Eugenia that he had to give her some documents.
When the woman opened the door, she was again pushed and subjected to violence. “He dragged me into the room,” she later told the police. He managed to survive. “He took the mattress out of the bed, took the bed base and threw it on me. Then he got on the bed base and started jumping… I was screaming a lot, it hurt a lot.” You robbery that he had and broke his left shin. It recurred in another house a week later. His 83-year-old victim survived the beatings he received, but later suffered a heart attack..
Police officers issued a circular: “Special care for the elderly, there is an old woman thief”
April, May and June. Within three months, dozens of women were robbed and assaulted. National Police agents issued a circular: older, special care. Neighbors, victims, housekeepers, they all agreed: he had been around minutes before the attacks, the robberies, the attacks. Around the building, around the neighborhooda fat brunette woman.
They all have a common pattern, the same how it works: ringing the doorbell, a violent, unexpected push that knocked over the old woman. When they landed, he would lead them to the room furthest from the door. Bound, gagged with clothes he found in the house, that’s when the criminal searched the rooms. He would collect everything he valued, smoke a cigar, and leave. He brutally attacked many of his victims and even put a knife to their necks. He also told them “if you move I will kill you”, “you tell me where the money is or I will slit your throat”.
shameless
Announcements followed one after another. They didn’t stop. In a row, at different points in Madrid, and sometimes more than once in the same day. agents National Police They set themselves one goal: to hunt it down..
They tried to chart their course: robbery, assault and murder in the centre, attempted murder in Carabanchel, Ventas, Ciudad Lineal, Quintana, Tetuán… They concluded: old wicker used two subway lines: green and gray, 5 and 6.
With the help of the victims, they managed to draw: She is a gypsy woman, although she may not look like it because she is fair-skinned. stocky build from 40 to 45 years old; 1.60 m tall, big black eyes, wide hips; she sometimes wears makeup, her black hair a little wavy, loose or tied in a ponytail. She carries a black bag on her shoulder strap. Fortuna smokes, leaving cigarette butts at home; He is not wearing gloves (leaving marks) and moves with a bare face.
The Encarna continued to attack. On July 1st on Barquillo Street, 3rd Reina Victoria Street, 4th Pedroñeras Street, 7th García Llamas Street, 8th Camarena Street, 9th Lusitana Street, 10 He took the stage in On Maldonado street… Always the same procedure, always the same violence.
Black Friday
He looked through the mailboxes for the old women’s names. If she was confused and wasn’t an old man opening the door, she would say she had jewelry (which had been stolen in previous blows) and try to sell it. If he’s right, the charade has begun: “Dolores, open, it’s me…” Dolores would open the door and within seconds she would be tied up with a sock or any cloth and gagged.
It carried out three attacks in one day on Friday, July 11th. Started Pacifico continued at Las Musas. The first two victims had come from shopping and found them at the door. He threw them to the ground and ripped off their leash with the remote assistance device. One of them put a pillow in his face, his little dog saved him, he would tell the cops when they got into his house. The Encarna was growing stronger.
The next was fatal. Agents found the lifeless body of a 64-year-old woman at her Villaverde home. Her name was Luisa, she lived alone and was bound. the house is in shambles. He was suffocated in pajamas. Neighbors confirmed that a woman had tried to break into ten houses a few minutes ago. She said she was selling jewelry to those who answered from behind the door.
“We have it”
Gospel (88 years old) was one of its last victims. When he opened the door, he was pushed in anger. cried, He had a grandson at home. The killer escaped, headed to San Blas, and attacked another woman who, when assisted, could describe the clothes she was wearing: “pink shirt, black pants, and shoulder bag.” He was arrested in Usera soon after. when a patrol sees him wandering through different portals.
“We found it,” the agents congratulated. Encarnación Jiménez was born on March 20, 1965 in Seville. At the time, she was 38 years old and a mother of five children. She’s a housewife, married to a bricklayer, but she kept the money.
He denied the facts: “I’m just selling.” He was transferred to the cells of the Tetuán police station. Fingerprints (in the drawers of the victims’ apartments, in the closets…), the DNA of the cigarette butts, and the yes answer of each of the victims who knew him – of course – closed the case. He was sentenced to 152 years in prison for murder, attempted murder, assault, theft and trespassing. He never apologized, never regretted.
Money and many stolen items were found in his home. At the bottom of a vase wrapped in parchment paper was the wedding ring of 96-year-old María, his first victim, killed on Good Friday.