Joaquín Ferrándiz, the serial killer who killed five women and tried to end the lives of two others in Castellón between 1995 and 1998, has left the Herrera de la Mancha prison (Ciudad Real) this Saturday and has stated that he will never return to the place of his crimes “out of respect for the victims”.
Ferrándiz was sentenced to 69 years in prison, but this Saturday he was released from prison after having served the maximum of 25 years allowed by the law for which he was tried.
The ex-convict has left the prison with his face covered with a black mask and a cap of that color, in addition to sunglasses and, to questions from journalists, has said that he is going abroad to “not bother anyone” and rebuild his life there, according to various media outlets.
Ferrándiz, who is 60 years old, is prohibited from going to or residing in the three towns where he committed the crimes (Castellón de la Plana, Benicàssim and Onda) until July 2028, since this is how the sentence includes it.
In recent years he has been welcomed by a religious entity and has enjoyed prison permits, so the release process has been progressive, according to judicial sources.
Before the crimes he was convicted of rape
Before the five crimes and other attempts, for which he was sentenced to 69 years, Ferrándiz was sentenced in May 1990 to 14 years in prison for rape, but on April 4, 1995 he was released on parole.. Months later, between July of that year and July 1998, he murdered five young women and tried to kill two others.
This serial killer had shown good behavior and had participated in studies and even in literary and cultural contests and was “totally reinserted”, in the opinion of the members of the follow-up commission that granted him parole.
This was one of the reasons that led the prosecutor in the case to request that the State be considered as subsidiary civil liability, for not having sufficiently controlled the defendant, although his request was finally not admitted.
In 1990, the accused was not detected to have any psychic abnormality, neither by the prison psychologist nor by the forensic doctors or the psychiatrist who, as experts, intervened in the trial of that case.
Nor was he considered a psychopath in the subsequent trial for the five crimes, because “when the events occurred he suffered from a polymorphous personality disorder” but that “did not prevent him from governing himself.”
Ferrándiz was sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of Sonia Rubio, and 11 each for the murders of Natalia Archelós, Francisca Salas, Mercedes Vélez and Amelia Sandra García.
The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Castellón applied the mitigation of confession in these cases and valued the collaboration provided by the defendant in clarifying the crimes.
In addition, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison for trying to murder the young Lidia M. already seven weekend arrests and the payment of compensation to Silvia B. for reckless injury.
This murderer used to stalk his victims on the outskirts of nightclubs and even deflated the car tire of one of them to offer help later, since most of the victims voluntarily got into their vehicle, as determined in the subsequent investigation..