Several months before Rosario and her son Lucas were killed, fear had already shadowed her life because of her brother Manuel. On May 27, a break-in at Rosario’s sister’s home in Las Gabias, Granada, turned deadly when Manuel attacked and killed Rosario’s sister and her three-year-old nephew Lucas. The Granada Civil Guard quickly solved the triple murder, revealing Manuel’s deep-seated anger and resentment. This violent outbreak came after a period of mounting tension within the Jurado family, and it left the family terrified of what might come next.
A recording from the period reveals the woman’s fear of her brother. The recording was made the year prior, during a time when their father was gravely ill and would pass away in December 2022. The family expected a reunion, but the father’s poor health prevented it.
“Rosario, Manuel doesn’t come anymore, he doesn’t come anymore,” the father explains. “He saw me crying and it felt like his heart broke; he came because I was sick. Manuel doesn’t come anymore, he doesn’t come anymore,” he adds, underscoring the strain in their relationship.
“Manuel’s condition is not good”
The Jurados lived in Torredelcampo, Jaén. Manuel remained in the town to manage the land and carry out work on the family estate, while Rosario moved away after university graduation, studying pharmacy and marrying a pilot. The couple settled in a chalet near Granada, where they raised a son and expected another to be born in June 2023. During a conversation with their father, Rosario expressed deep mistrust about her brother’s intentions. The questions she asked and the way she pressed for answers showed this was not the first time the topic had come up.
“Of course, but what would Manuel do, father? What did you tell me Manuel would do?” she asks. The father, cautious and worried, answers with concern, while the daughter remains insistent about seeking reassurance. The old man explains that Manuel’s intentions are dangerous and that harm to Rosario, her husband, and her nephew were plausible possibilities. The father then apologizes for voicing fear: “Manuel is not well, because you know Manuel is not well.”
Rosario tries to soothe him. “Daddy, daddy, please don’t yell at me; if you know it’s not true…” The father interrupts with firm conviction: “That’s what you know isn’t true.” The tension between the siblings is palpable, and the danger they describe casts a long shadow over the family history.
Someone burned the fence
After their father’s December passing, the May events unfolded in which Rosario, Lucas, and Rosario’s unborn baby were killed, and the family land and olive trees would soon become the center of a disputed inheritance. The will, read two days later, split the estate fifty percent between Manuel and Rosario — a division that reflected a broader feud that had intensified jealousy and resentment within the family. The Civil Guard’s investigation pointed to Rosario as the source of fear that had long haunted Manuel. He felt the legacy of land and power would be used to fuel future conflict between them.
Before the crime, someone set a fence on fire and attempted to break into the chalet where Rosario lived with her husband and son. The disturbance occurred in May 2022, and the perpetrator was never identified. Rosario suspected Manuel, a fear that intensified after a shadowy, masked man appeared in October 2022 attempting to rob the residence. The family responded by upgrading security, installing an advanced system that sends real-time alerts to their phones with live camera feeds whenever intruders are detected.
On the last morning at the end of May, Rosario, Lucas, and their two Belgian shepherds stood watch at the chalet entrance. The dogs had been raised by Manuel, the brother who would soon threaten everything the family had built. That morning, Manuel entered the home and left the animals alive only in memory, a grim reminder of the fragile line between protection and peril that defined the days leading up to the tragedy.