Crime trace (Seville case)

In July 1952, two spinsters were found in a pool of blood in the tobacconist shop that they owned on Menéndez Pelayo Street in the southern Spanish city of Seville. They had been murdered brutally: one had been stabbed thirteen times and the other sixteen. Nothing had been touched or stolen by the murderers, since the police believed there were more than one. Three down-and-out individuals were accused of the crime. The three men seemed cast from the same mould: around thirty and with a long record of small-time crimes behind them. The three had served time in prison and they shared a solitary and miserable life. On 4 April, 1956, they were executed with the “garrote”, shouting “Love live Chirst the King” and crying out their innocence. The motive of the double crime was never discovered, nor for that matter, why the women had been so mercilessly killed. There had not been one fingerprint or sign that the three innocent and garrotted men had ever been at the tobacconist shop.