La muerte en un naipe

On January 24, 2003, Alfredo Galán Sotillo left his house with the intention of taking a walk around Madrid and, when he found a favorable condition, kill someone. To anybody. Upon reaching a central street, he saw an open goal and entered. There he found a man feeding his young son. He asked her to kneel and, before the boy's gaze, executed him. That was the first of the nine victims of which he would become one of the most wanted serial criminals in Spain, nicknamed by the press as El Asesino de la Baraja. Armed with a Tokarev TT-33 pistol that he brought to Spain from his time as a soldier in Bosnia, and despite exhaustive monitoring by the State Security Forces and Bodies, a series of coincidences managed to elude justice . On July 3, 2003, he decided to turn himself in at the Puertollano Local Police Station. The place where he was born. After changing his statements on several occasions, Alfredo Galán Sotillo was sentenced to a payment of 609,182 euros for moral damages and injuries, as well as a prison sentence of one hundred and forty-two years. In less than ten years he will be free.