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THE COUNTRY | MANIZALES
Husbands Benhur Valencia Valencia and Martha Valencia Trejos were murdered by Juan Miguel Marulanda, the butler, who lived in a house next to the main house. Yesterday, first thing in the morning, he accepted the charges brought against him by a prosecutor. The case happened at the Villa Julia farm, in La Manuela, on Thursday.
At the request of the accusing body, supported by the public prosecutor’s office and the representation of victims, led by the lawyer Juan Manuel Ríos Castaño, it was decided to confine the man in a prison.
Ríos Castaño argued the need for the imposition of the measure due to the seriousness of the conduct, the danger to the community, the lack of roots and the protection of the process.
According to the investigation started when the murder became known, the butler also pretended to be the victim, according to his statements, of two men who at dawn came to ask about his employer.
However, the investigations of the judicial police led to two witnesses who indicated that they knew the homicidal intent of the now confessed murderer. He even looked for others to serve as accomplices, but they refused.
For theft
At the imputation hearing, it was learned that Miguel Ángel, who has a history of theft, wanted to steal some valuable items since he was about to leave the job that his victims gave him.
A relative of the spouses recognized that the family’s home was missing cell phones and computers for a value of $ 5.5 million. It is also to be determined whether it appropriated other elements.
The subject was captured at the Manizales Terminal on Saturday when he was trying to buy a ticket. Apparently, he would leave the city and thus he would flee.
cruelty
The prosecution emphasized that the double homicide had several aggravating circumstances, one of which was the defenseless state of the victims. The engineer Valencia was stabbed four times in the kitchen of the house intended for the butler.
The wife, who was locked in the marital room, had the door forced open until she opened it. She was stabbed 18 times, according to the autopsy report carried out by Forensic Medicine.
The brutality with which he acted, the defenseless state of the victims and the objective of the attack, such as the theft of valuable items, aggravated the murderer’s legal situation.
Acceptance
Acceptance of charges will allow the murderer to access half of the penalty reduction, which is contemplated in a minimum of 400 months for aggravated homicide. In your case, the sentence will start from 200 months, plus what is added because there are two victims and there is more than one circumstance of aggravation.
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Juan Miguel Marulanda, 43, at the imputation hearing accepted charges.
