Murder by the Mediterranean

16: The Role Play Murder

The whole of Spain went into a moral panic when a random cleaner was butchered with countless stabs late at night in April 1994 in one of the suburbs of Madrid. The police were at a loss for a long time in the investigation, until a young man turned up at the police station and told about the role-playing game "Racer" and about the man behind it. This is the story of a 20-year-old chemistry student who had a great idea.

15: The Almost Perfect Murder

On Thursday, February 21, 2008, a Filipino cleaning lady made a macabre discovery in an apartment in Barcelona. In the living room on the sofa lay the body of a woman, naked and with a plastic bag over her head, and the bag was closed with insulating tape. Young Ana was dead and there were very few traces. Except for one: a wig was found in the apartment. And that morning, there was a picture from a surveillance camera in a bank that showed a completely different person using her credit card. But who was behind the murder?

14: The Priest of Paradise Island

On the morning of May 2, 1992, just 15-year-old Boy Scout Luis Miguel Correia was found dead at the foot of the cliffs of Caniçal at Madeira's eastern point. Had the young man jumped by himself or had someone pushed him? The gay Catholic priest Father Frederico Marques Cunha was quickly suspected, because he had been seen with the young man - and he was known to be after young men. He was convicted of the murder, but managed to escape to his native Brazil, where he lives to this day and maintains his innocence.

13: Murderer on the Train

Walter lived on the Italian Riviera and he lived well. The well-dressed Italian gentleman loved to dress well, gamble in casinos and kill. In less than two years, he murdered 17 people, both people he knew and was unfriended, and completely random sex workers he picked up. But it wasn't until he started killing women on the regional train that he was tracked down and arrested in May 1998. L'assassino dei treni was finally put to an end.

12: The Butcher of Portillo and the Tattooed Arm

When a 65-year-old snail-collecting pensioner opened a plastic bag on the side of the road in northwestern Spain, he got the shock of his life. The clammy cadaver was released, and in the bag was the lower half of a man's body, which had been cut in half at the waist. Five days later, police found the torso of the victim, who turned out to be 28-year-old Carlos Fernández Guisiraga. His somewhat older girlfriend, who was a bar owner and cook, turned out to have more than just flour in the bag.