«Exemplary by day, criminal by night. The Castellón serial killer is released from prison this year. With that strong statement, La Sexta announced that Research team will focus its delivery this Friday —which can be followed from 10:30 p.m.— on Joaquin Ferrandiz.
the kidnapper, rapist and murderer He ended the lives of five women (although he tried to kill two more) in Castellón during a period that lasted from July 2, 1995 to September 14, 1996. And he did it while on probation for raping another young woman in 1989, spending six of the 14 years in prison for which he had been sentenced.
It only took him 88 days to reoffend and, currently, having served 25 years in the Herrera de la Mancha prison in Ciudad Real, he will be able to go abroad in July 2023. Ferrándiz would hunt and strangle his victims to death, then throw their half-naked bodies into the street.
That was how his victims ended up Sonia Rubio (25 years old), Amelia Sandra García (22 years old), Natalia Archelós Olaria (23 years old)Francisca Salas León (23 years old) and Mercedes Vélez Ayala (28 years old), whom he killed in Castellón, Benicasim, Onda and Villareal.
In his 1999 sentence, he was declared mentally ill. He described himself as suffering from “polymorphic personality disorder.” Likewise, they sentenced him to 69 years in prison, but he is about to serve the maximum sentence provided for in the Penal Code, 25 years, and has already obtained three prison permits monitored by the authorities.
In his different internments in prison the same pattern was fulfilled: Ferrándiz is a model prisoner, intelligent, charming, who does not lead altercations in prison and who collaborate with daily tasks that are assigned to him in a prison where he has coincided with José Bretón, Tony King and Miguel Carcaño.
«I met Joaquín 2-3 days after being there. He would say that he was a model prisoner, he never gave anything to talk about, he got along well with everyone. He has never been a confrontational person, Miguel Carcano He is the person with whom he shared the most and they talked about the crafts of all kinds that they made, such as wood carvings, mirrors… everything was done perfectly, there was no mistake. He was a very intelligent person, he had everything measured and calculated, “says a former prison mate in advance of the program.
The format reconstructs the crimes that shook the province of Castellón at the end of the nineties through the story that Ferrándiz himself wrote in prison and that, for the first time, comes to light in the report. In addition, the reporters have managed to speak with the civil guard, the judge, the prosecutor and the criminologist who managed to arrest what they know as an “educated psychopath”.
The relationship between Joaquín Ferrándiz and Miguel Carcaño, in ‘Investigation team’