The triple homicide of Morata de Tajuña shares overwhelming similarities with another episode of the black chronicle that occurred in 1956: the crime of Mazarrón. Based on those events, Fernando Fernán Gómez made a splendid film that the censorship forced to release almost secretly and in a neighborhood cinema. In ‘The Strange Journey’ (1964), three single brothers – played by actors Jesús Franco, Rafaela Aparicio and Tota Alba – live together in a small town house, sharing a monotonous existence that explodes into the air with the emergence of a hunky hustler (Carlos Larrañaga). The erotic relationship that the eldest establishes with him triggers the death of the three brothers: she, murdered and hidden in a wine jar. A cinematic gem where the chiaroscuro of desire, the tremendousness of the Hispanic tradition, some grotesqueness, the town converted into a Greek chorus and a pinch of social criticism.
Returning to Morata de Tajuña, in Baja Alcarria, Dilawar Hussain Choudhary entered prison on Wednesday after having confessed to the murder of the three septuagenarian brothers (Ángeles, Amelia and José Gutiérrez Ayuso), also single and without children, who owed him around 50,000 euros. The two women, who had descended step by step to ruin, asked to borrow them. For love. Or by a mixture of dreaminess and greed.
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The two sisters had found each other a ‘boyfriend’ on Facebook, two fake US soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, who deceived them by telling them that they needed liquidity to process a supposed million-dollar inheritance. Incredible but they stung. For seven years, the sisters were sending them remittances of money, up to almost half a million euros. They even sold their childhood apartment in Madridto please his ghostly lovers.
A friend of the victims has stressed these days that neither Amelia nor Ángeles were “stupid,” since the former had worked in an antique store and the latter had worked as a teacher before retiring. How then did they fall into the trap of liars? What words of love did they need to hear? How did the spring of irrationality trigger them? They are not the first older women to succumb to deception, despite the fact that digital scammers repeat a very similar scheme: they are men who work in distant places, engineers on oil platforms, doctors on duty in Africa, merchant sailors stranded in some strange port who, as soon as they soften the first defenses, beg money to lovers to get out of some quagmire. Sometimes they say they are widowers and very religious. Masks to shamelessly dig into the same bitter loneliness, in the same hole of affection.