MURCIA. What a person likes true crime! Writers, film and documentary producers, and podcast authors know this. Reviewing and analyzing the facts of ‘true’ or ‘real’ crimes (which would be the translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression) and feeling for a while like amateur detectives or members of a jury that must decide what the truth is is a safe bet. The true crimes They are in fashion and each time that mixture of reality and mystery has more followers. There are the series The Asunta Case, The body on fire either The Menendez brothersamong many others that are broadcast and many others that are yet to come (how long will it take, for example, for a series or documentary about Luigi Mangione, the handsome Italian assassin who has a legion of female admirers?).
But you don’t have to go far to learn a little better about some shocking and mysterious crimes that occurred in our own Region. That is precisely what it offers a new tour in Cartagena What is included in calls ‘Mysterious Routes’ of the Region of Murciathe itineraries guided by the archaeologist, writer and researcher Santi Garciawho points out that it is being a complete success, with all the groups filling up and the following ones closing well in advance.
Santi García says that during this tour crimes will be discovered that retain an aura of mystery, since they were not resolved or many doubts were left open. The ‘walk’ begins in the Roman Forum Quarter, in the old Molinete, where there were formerly a street called Stone. There, in 1926, he was found a corpse whose throat was cut, bled and hanged. It was thought that the motive was robbery, although this did not justify the violence, and the six people who saw him for the last time were arrested, although after a year they were all free.
Very close to there there is a health center, so the guide will take the opportunity to explain another more recent case, that of a woman who in 1982 poisoned, causing the death of, her husband and two childrenin addition to also poisoning some neighbors. It was the doctors at the health center who noticed the poisoning in the victims’ blood tests.
The lynching of The Chipéone of the most shocking cases that occurred in Cartagena, will also come up on this route, right under the Blue Balconieswhich was where this thug hated by many was arrested for being involved in an altercation at a very politically turbulent time (July 1936). However, the detainee did not reach the prison, since the crowd intercepted the vehicle and lynched the individual, whose body He was subjected to all kinds of humiliation, being dragged through the streets, drowned and burned.
The mystery of the Hostal El Cónsul in La Unión, the disappearance of the child from Somosierra or the crime on Hortaleza Street in Madrid (of which a man from Cartagena was accused, although there are still many questions about it) will be other cases that can be heard in this route true crime. Santi García tells us that there is another case for which he does not give the real details of its protagonists, because it is still being investigated, but in which the accused confessed to having dismembered his partner’s body.
Whatever the case, routes like this show that chilling and ‘movie-like’ crimes can occur anywhere. Closer even than you might think.
