Raúl Osiel Marroquín
| Raúl Osiel Marroquín | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lifnny Hassan Obdulio Marroquín 1981 |
| Other names | El Sádico[1] |
| Conviction(s) | Murder |
| Criminal penalty | 300 years in prison |
| Details | |
| Victims | 4 |
Span of crimes | November 2005–December 2005 |
| Country | Mexico |
Date apprehended | January 23, 2006 |
Raúl Osiel Marroquín Reyes (born Liffny Hassan Odulio Marroquín c. 1981) is a Mexican serial killer.
Crimes
Marroquin confessed to luring gay men from bars in order to kill them. He tortured his four victims by hanging or choking them, but in two cases it is said that he released men he had kidnapped once he had received a ransom. He added that he would continue doing so if he could, claiming that homosexuality harmed society.
Marroquín, known as "El Sádico", was captured on January 23, 2006 and was found guilty of the murder of four victims.
Victims
Murdered
- Elijah Bunders was kidnapped on October 27, 2005 and murdered on November 12, after 16 days. Marroquin requested $5,000 ransom, but the victim's family could not pay.
- Ricardo López Hernández was kidnapped on November 30, 2005. He was held captive for nine days until December 9 when he was murdered by strangulation after Marroquin had taken just over $2,000 ransom.
- Armando Rivas Perez was kidnapped on December 16, 2005. That same day, even though his ransom was paid, he was murdered.
- Victor Ivan Gutierrez Angel Balderas was abducted the same day as Armando Rivas and held hostage for six days. After a ransom of a little over $800, he was killed on December 22.
Psychiatric perfil
Their crimes had many similarities to those of the American serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the motive being a little different: Gacy murdered his victims due to a repression of his own homosexuality that he projected towards others (he was attracted to them, reason why which blamed them for their homosexuality). In contrast, Marroquín, although his crimes also had marked homoerotic features (Marroquín himself declared not to be homosexual, 3 but his behavior denotes marked homoerotic features), you can see in him a sociopath or psychopath within a framework socio-cultural that, in one way or another, gave him a showcase for its contained violence, directing it towards a minority.
After his arrest, Marroquín would declare not to be homophobic (although this assertion would be contradicted by others made by the homicide, in which he refers to homosexuals as "an evil for society") that the main reason that homosexual men were their victims it was because these people were easier to plagiarize; This was the statement he made when questioned about his employer:
"... because I did not fight in operations that involved weapons and vehicles, it was enough to go to the places they frequented and they alone approached me, it was easier for me to treat those victims". (Osiel Marroquín, Raúl, 2006) .4
He lacked empathy and reified the people around him. After being arrested, he was asked if he did not feel bad for the relatives of the people he murdered (since he had obviously taken all human value from his victims), he replied: «I have never thought about them» (Osiel Marroquín, Raúl, 2006) 4
He was reluctant to submit to social norms and this made him prone to deviation and criminality. He lacked guilt and did not accept responsibility for his actions. He rationalized his actions and possessed an inflated self-esteem. The clearest example of this was to express that their crimes were a good for society: "I even did a good to the society, because those people make that I spent my childhood ..." (Osiel Marroquín, Raúl, 2006) 4
«One of my victims was a carrier of VIH, and in a certain way, prevented the spread of the virus ...» (Osiel Marroquín, Raúl, 2006) 5
He who justified his actions as correct tells us of his inflated self-esteem, he saw himself as a benefactor of society (an exterminating angel). This also indicates an over-evaluation of oneself (narcissism), which is indicative of a deficient psycho-sexual development and an immaturity of the psycho-affective development; according to Robert D. Keppel and William J. Birnes estó, a psycho-affective development disorder is the main cause of the behavior of a serial killer.6
These statements also speak of a distancing from reality. He believed that his actions had a moral justification, although he was fully aware of the ethical and legal implications of his actions, he thought that before society his crimes were minor and even justifiable. According to Joel Norris, this process (the distancing of reality) corresponds to the first phase of the behavior of a serial killer.6
- He was prone to sexual perversions.
- He felt attracted and was in constant search of strong emotions; What also, together with the absence of empathy, self-centeredness and the inability to accept responsibility for his actions, made him prone to deviation, crime and paraphilias.
- He was a megalomaniac. His pathological attraction is clearly seen in the torture he subjected to his victims: by torturing he seeks to break the will of the individual to deprive him of his human quality, and thus to have absolute power over that person.
- He was charismatic, attractive and manipulative.
- He was violent and suffered from explosions of anger.
- He had a parasitic lifestyle.
- His criminal career started him as an assailant, his motivation was monetary (his constant search for intense emotions and his pathological attraction for power (megalomania), were also triggers for his criminal behavior); Later, in the same way motivated by the same factors, it evolved to kidnapping, Marroquin was one of the many people in Mexico who saw in the kidnapping a very lucrative activity (because in many of the cases he had already collected the ransom money before assassinating to his victim), and finally to murder.1 As a result of his activity as a kidnapper he obtained a total of 109 thousand pesos (just over 10,000 dollars) .7
Kidnapped
- Buddy Leslie: was kidnapped on October 21, 2005. He was held captive for nearly a week in a hotel room, time that inflicted serious physical and psychological harm. Ransomed to relatives who paid as quickly as they could.
- Mr. Choma: the penultimate victim was kidnapped by Marroquin on December 13, 2005. Raul contacted the mother of the kidnapped, who implored him not hurt her son because he had no money to pay the ransom. Marraquin released the victim, threatening to kill him if he reported.
Motive
Explaining himself, Marroquín said, "I snuffed out four homosexuals that in some way were affecting society." He also says he chose gays as his victims because "they're a bad example for kids".
Modus operandi
He lured his victims in gay bars and, to avoid suspicion, always let them make the initial approach. He would later invite them to his apartment, where he strangled them and then asked the victim's family for a ransom. The dead bodies were later put inside suitcases and abandoned in different locations around Mexico City.
Marroquín is said to have a partner, Juan Enrique Madrid Manuel, who was presumably an assistant in the process of abducting victims.
On September the 4th, 2008, Mexico's PGJDF sentenced Osiel Marroquin and Madrid Manuel to a total of almost 300 years in prison.
He is currently serving his sentence in the Santa Martha Acatitla Penitentiary of the City, to which he was transferred in 2010, after having been in the Reclusorio Oriente in Mexico City
Media
In an interview, Marroquín said he was not ashamed of his crimes, but was sorry for what his family was going through. He declared he had recurring dreams of his criminal career "improving" by selecting richer, more famous victims. He said he would definitely kill again and try to be more careful about his methods, avoiding the mistakes that led to his capture.
See also
References
- ↑ "Buenos días, bienvenidos". pgr.gob.mx. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2014.