When it comes to shocking true crime documentaries and their latest offering shines a light on one of Spain's most brutal and notorious serial killers.
The series, which will focus on Alfredo Galán, aka The Playing Card Killer, tells the story of the Spanish serial killer as he wreaks havoc in the early 2000s and tragically opens fire on members of the public. The truths of why many believe he did it and what led to his sick and sadistic crimes will be revealed in this latest Netflix offering.
At the age of 26, Galán began a brutal massacre that lasted almost two months in the first months of 2003. He committed his first crime on January 24, 2003 when he shot Juan Francisco Ledesma, 50, in the head in front of her son, who was barely two years old. After the murder, he left behind a playing card: the ace of cups.
Shortly thereafter, on February 5, he again shot a man in the head. His second victim was a 28-year-old airport worker named Juan Carlos Martín Estacio. Once again, he left an ace of clubs next to the body after leaving the scene. Nearly a month later, Santiago Eduardo Salas, 27, was meant to be his third victim when the serial killer shot him in the face, but he survived, while Salas's friend Anahid Castillo Ruperti was able to escape. Believing that she had killed Salas, she again left a playing card next to the scene.
In July 2023, the 26-year-old murderer turned himself in to the police and confessed to being The Playing Card Killer. He had smuggled the weapon into Spain by hiding it inside a television. It is believed that he brought the Tokarev TT-33 weapon to Spain from Bosnia when he was in the military. It is believed that he did not originally intend to leave a playing card next to the corpse of his victims, but he began to do so after the media sensationalized that a card had been found near the body of one of the victims of him.
However, the murderer's confession had many irregularities. In September 2003, he altered his original version before the Madrid magistrate, stating that the only reason he confessed was that a neo-Nazi had threatened to kill his sisters if he did not take the blame. the murderers. He also said that the gun was sold before the murder to the same group of neo-Nazis. However, this was not considered by the judge.
After Galán's arrest, the killings stopped, and the cartridge that killed a victim was found along with the clothing he wore during the murders. Galán's survivors were also able to identify him, all of which were considered vital at trial.
The serial killer was sentenced to 142 years and three months after being found guilty of six murders and three attempted murders and is currently still in prison surviving his sentence in Spain.
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