On April 5, 2022, Igor Postolache, A 32-year-old Moldovan living in Oviedo, turned into a monster. That day, Postolache hid, Kidnapped, raped and killed Erika Yungais her 14-year-old neighbor when the girl returns from school. He was arrested at home and sent to prison. She refused to testify. Since then, besides his lawyer, single mothercame to visit him from Oviedo in Mansilla de las Mulas prison (León), where he awaited his trial and sentence. The woman went very often, sometimes more than once a week, as prison sources confirmed to Prensa Ibérica’s investigation and events channel CASO ABIERTO.
morning Tuesday, August 8, authorities informed Postolache that he would be transferred to another prison, Teixeiro (A Coruña) prison. After eating dinner that afternoon, he was transferred to a cell where he was alone in the admissions module. That night, Postolache hanged himself with a cord tied to a crosspost in the cell. They found it the next morning.
Zero problems, zero relationships
Sources from the Leonese prison tell OPEN CASE that Postolache Didn’t leave a suicide note before taking your life. He was a “gray” prisoner who had not experienced any behavioral issues since arriving in Leonese prison; nor, yes, affiliation with other inmates or officials. “Given Zero problems, but I’ve had zero relationships Here” summarizes these sources, which remind him of the “constant visits” his mother made to him every week, sometimes several times a week.
The woman, who did not abandon her son despite the brutal crime she committed, even sent a letter from the Prensa Ibérica group to the newspaper La Nueva España, apologizing to Erika from the victim’s family for her son’s death. Crimes.
In that letter, he lived in Asturias for 15 years and He makes a living by cleaning the house.“Both my family and I deeply regret the events that we could never have imagined and that will accompany us for the rest of our lives,” he said. He even showed his confidence that his son would receive the corresponding punishment by Justice. “Our society has judicial procedures to punish this gruesome act, and it will be the same one who did it as I (I) realize that the profound damage done to Erika and her family can never be remedied,” he stresses.
This the murderer’s mother Even then, he took upon himself the “unimaginable pain” of the victim’s family, adding that “the pain I have suffered is also immeasurable”, hoping after a while that Erika’s family would accept her and take your request into consideration. for forgiveness. Since then, Postolache’s mother has been his only support, and he regularly traveled the 140 kilometers that separates Oviedo from Mansilla de las Mulas to meet him in prison.
Trigger
These sources point to Postolache’s transfer to a prison farther away from Oviedo, where his mother lived, as the “trigger” for his suicide.
Sources close to Postolache, who said they “did not understand” his transfer to a more distant prison, said: “He was depressed and the transfer could have been the last straw for him and his mother.” they add. Teixeiro prison in the state of A Coruña, where he was transferred the morning after he committed suicide, is 249 kilometers from Oviedo. almost an hour away Compared to Leon’s, this would also make his mother’s visits more difficult and less frequent.
Postolache calmly entered the cell where he would spend his last night in Leon. Not searched or cached. He bid farewell politely to the two officials he wished “good night” to. Then he hung the rope from one of the two posts on the railing and hanged himself.
Penal Institutions launched an investigation into the prisoner’s suicide. Preliminary data show that Postolache, no longer subject to any anti-suicide protocol, entered freely and calmly into the cell where he was to spend his last night in Leon. Therefore, it was not searched or cached. He said goodbye to the two officials politely, wishing “good night”. Then, alone in his cell, he hung the rope on one of the two crossbars and hanged himself. According to prison sources, the decision to transfer Postolache amounted to “organizational problems” and not any disciplinary action.
confession in february
Last February, for the first time since his arrest, Postolache admitted that he planned to attack and kill his young neighbor. So he accepted the punishment reviewable permanent imprisonment for murder and another 12 and a half years in prison sexual assault. In this action, the murderer declared that he agreed with the facts stated that the prosecution had “completely lowered the blinds of all the windows of his house so that no one could see the neighbors” on the day of the crime. he could see what he was doing.” He would be in minutes later. Duct tape brown and nine flanges black in case the little one has to gag. finally caught a knife He took the six-inch-tall table, hid it among his clothes, left the house, and waited for her, hiding in the area near the doorway until she emerged.
As Erika made her way to the elevator, the defendant “jumped on it. at the back And absolutely surprisingly, in a way that the victim could not have foreseen or imagined, which made it impossible to defend for her part.” Postolache “stabbed him for the first time at the same time as he was pushing her down the stairs. HE he closed his mouth so you don’t cry.”
After inflicting up to 36 stab wounds on him, Postolache “managed to drag him into the house. backpack straps The girl was wearing a dress full of school books on her back. He locked the door and took her to the bathroom, leaving she lying there on the floor to go to the bedroom. on that side, for the sole purpose of satisfying your sexual desire, He stripped off all his clothes and threw himself completely naked onto the floor of his room to return to the bathroom where Erika was waiting for him, already seriously injured and unable to move on his own.”
At the time, she “continued to stab the boy, robbed him, and completed the rape, in an attempt to stop any little resistance he could. Then, left the victim on the ground on the bathroom floor and mortally wounded.”
popular jury
After this confession, Postolache continued to spend his days alone in the Leon prison. The judicial process against him was ongoing and this process was continuing. a popular jury. Promised to take after conviction treatment for sex offenders.
Erika’s crime was the final and most serious episode in a series of events she took part in between 2018 and 2019. He harassed at least six girls, most of them underage. Four of the victims denounced the facts as published New Spainbut there are two more chapters in the police files. a plainclothes cop and a mother escaped The escalation of events as broadcast by Prensa Ibérica’s investigation and events channel CASO ABIERTO.