It was 14 years ago that José Bretón killed his two children, aged 6 and 2. A crime he has always denied… until now.
The man, who is serving 25 years in prison for the murder of Ruth and José, has now confessed for the first time to the crime he committed, in a series of letters he exchanged with the writer Luisgé Martín, who will write a work about the man known as ‘The Monster of Quemadillas’.
The crime took place on October 8, 2011, in Córdoba, the day the man killed his children and then burned their bodies in an attempt to hide the crime. José assures that his children did not suffer. “Before putting the bodies on the fire, I checked that they were not breathing, they were dead. They never realized what was going to happen. They trusted me. There was no fear, no pain, no suffering of any kind,” he wrote in one of the letters he sent.
The reason for his action was apparently motivated by something that happened three weeks earlier. His wife Ruth had asked him for a divorce, and Joseph, who initially had no negative feelings, began to panic about the future.
“I wasn’t upset about the divorce, because I even agreed with the separation,” he wrote, later reporting that what tormented him was “knowing what would happen to his children.”
“I killed them out of impatience. I needed the situation to end, for the doubts and uncertainty to disappear,” he said, quoted by 20 minutos.
The case, which shocked the entire country and opened public debate on vicarious violence for the first time, became one of the most publicized cases in Spanish history. On July 22, 2013, Bretón was convicted of the double murder of his children by the Provincial Court of Córdoba.
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