Photo: Colombian Attorney General’s Office / EFE
For: EFE Updated 19 Jan 2022, 22: 44 pm EST
The stylist Mauricio Leal, who styled Colombian celebrities and stars, such as Laura Acuña, Fanny Lu, Andrea Serna, Claudia Bahamón, and Carmen Villalobos, among others, appeared dead along with his mother at the end of November, in what seemed like a matricide, until the confession in court of his brother, Jhonier, about the double murder.
Leal, a stylist of 45 years that he had a difficult childhood in the city of Cali, and his mother , Marleny Hernández, appeared stabbed on a bed in the room of a luxurious house in La Calera, on the outskirts of Bogotá, on the night of 21 last November.
Along with the bodies was a letter handwritten in the one where the stylist said, “I love you. Forgive me, I can’t take it anymore. I leave everything to my nephews and brothers. With all my love, forgive me, mom.” Everything seemed to point to the stylist killing his mother and then committing suicide.
However, it was soon found that the stylist, already injured and under the effect of some tranquilizing pills, was forced by his brother to write it, all within the plot to make it look like it was a suicide, although it did not fit because of the stab wounds, unusual in a suicide .
Fratricide
“I have made the decision, freely and voluntarily, to accept the charges through an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office and I take the opportunity to make my statement of repentance asking my family for forgiveness first of all,” he said before a judge of Bogotá the brother this Tuesday.
Everything points to Jhonier wanted to keep his brother’s inheritance, a fortune that the authorities in turn i They investigate if it was legitimately won by the stylist or if, on the contrary, it is linked to money laundering.
In fact, the Prosecutor’s Office seized, for purposes of forfeiture of ownership, two properties and two companies that were in the name of Mauricio and whose succession had already been initiated by the now-named murderer. Those goods would add up to around $1,50,000 dollars.
Despite the fact that from the beginning Jhoiner Rodolfo Leal Hernández had declared himself unrelated to the murders, the Prosecutor’s Office reconstructed what happened and the accused He had no choice but to confess today at the hearing.
Unlike Mauricio, Jhoiner had no luck in the businesses he undertook, while beauty queens, singers and other figures of the show went to the beauty salons of Mauricio de Bogotá.
🇨🇴#COLOMBIA | Yhonier Leal, confessed murderer of his brother, the renowned stylist, Mauricio Leal, and his mother, Marleny Hernández.
17 from January: “I would never have been able to lay a hand on my mother, much less on my brother.”
18 January: He confessed to the crimes pic.twitter.com/CjL80DZxPp
— Rochex R. Robinson Bonilla (@RochexRB18) January 01, 2022
There is no perfect crime
The parricide and fratricide was arrested in Bogotá by the authorities in the middle of a spectacular operation, while the people did not lose any detail of the case.
The experts agreed that Jhoiner was the main suspect of the double crime because in the interviews he gave to local media contradicted himself and did not show signs of suffering for the double death.
One of the things that caught our attention the most is that he said that a wound he had on his hand had been made with scissors and, in another, he changed his version by saying that it had been made with a rough wall.
At the hearings, the prosecutor in the case said that the confessed murderer, who lived in the same house as his victims, first killed his own mother in the room in which he slept and then went to Mauricio’s, whom he injured. Apparently the gun broke and he had to go to the kitchen to get another knife.
Once dead, he moved the bodies to a single room for which he used gloves to avoid leaving traces.
In addition to all of the above, no door or window of the house where the crime occurred was forced and that the security cameras left see that no stranger entered the property.
The prosecutor repeatedly insisted to Jhonier that there was no “perfect crime” despite the fact that he planned for several months the murder of his brother, who He started cleaning hairdressers but later set up his own business in Bogotá.
By accepting the charges of homicide aggravated by kinship, due to a state of defenselessness and cruelty, and concealment, alteration or destruction of material evidence Jhonier could be sentenced to a sentence between 22 and 50 years in prison.
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