The crime of the jacuzzi, solved thanks to the recording of the victim's mobile: Elizabeth did not drown, her husband killed her

• Events Eduardo's arrest one year after his wife died in the jacuzzi

Eduardo

called 112 at 5:50 a.m. on June 18, 2018. He seemed like a really distraught man, so nervous that he could hardly be understood.

"A woman", "asleep in the jacuzzi", "drowning", "help", he said hastily.

It took the Police two minutes to arrive at the place where the distress call came from, a warehouse in

, where Eduardo and his wife,

Venezuelans living in

, ​​settled in the summer, when they went to

to sell drinks in the beach.

The agents found Eduardo calm and with

despite the fact that he was supposed to have just gotten out of the bathtub.

He and his wife had drunk and used drugs, he said, they had gotten into the jacuzzi, he had fallen asleep and, when he woke her up, he had found her

.

Elizabeth, 36, was dead.

The woman's body was on the floor, with one leg still in the Jacuzzi.

Surprisingly, she only had a wet head.

Half of the jacuzzi was covered by a tarpaulin and had two hands of water, exactly 45 centimeters.

There was no shortage of strange things, but the case was investigated

and Eduardo ER, 43 years old today, remained free.

He hadn't counted on the fact that Elizabeth had left the evidence on his cell phone that would definitely incriminate him.

It will never be known if she did it on purpose or if she activated the system by mistake, but the truth is that the phone was making

from the afternoon before her death until 04:26, eight hours in total.

When the content of the recording was discovered, in November 2019 -17 months after the crime-, Eduardo was arrested.

In the audio you can hear how Elizabeth begins to gag after ingesting

, according to forensic calculations, that he gave her camouflaged in a glass of sangria, 10 times her usual dose.

Elizabeth's head is heard falling against the ground, the noise of what could be the dragging of her body, her saying "I'm dying", to him

.

"I ask for life imprisonment, it is a danger to society," says the victim's mother

The test was reproduced last week in the trial against Eduardo held at the

.

While the jury listened to the last moments of Elizabeth's life, he was on to something else, he was discussing a document he was holding with his lawyer, he remained impassive.

The judge who presided over the court explained to the jury on Wednesday that the last session would be held the following day.

"Bring your pajamas", she warned them in anticipation that they would not finish the deliberations and would have to spend the night in a hotel.

It was not necessary.

It took the jury only five hours to reach a unanimous verdict and

.

The Prosecutor's Office asks for him 25 years in prison.

Eduardo ER, 43 years old.EM

Among the atrocities that the jury had to hear were the

that Elizabeth, 36, denounced.

One of them took place in Barcelona.

Eduardo assaulted her with a sex toy with such violence that she required stitches and two days in hospital.

The other occurred in Menorca, in 2013. Elizabeth went to a neighbor's house crying and "full of blows" asking for help.

She said that she had managed

taking advantage of the fact that he was sleeping and that she needed him to accompany her to the doctor and the police.

One of the social workers at the shelter where she stayed for two months told the jury that in the 12 years that she had been working with victims of gender-based violence, she had never seen anyone in her condition.

She almost "couldn't open her eyes because of the swelling," she had "black ears," "bites on her legs," she recounted.

The trial did not take place because Elizabeth

.

"She told me that she had returned to him and that she had forgiven him," declared her neighbor who had helped her.

Controlling, dominant, possessive, violent, manipulative, very jealous.

"Has anyone said something good about the defendant?" The prosecutor stressed in her final statement.

Eduardo had the keys to his wife's mobile and his social networks.

He had installed an app on her phone that allowed her to know his location at all times.

When she traveled to Venezuela,

in front of his bed and his webcam connected, so that he could check that no one was entering her room.

He never accompanied her on these trips to her country.

He told Elizabeth that she was terrified to return because she had suffered a violent kidnapping that had traumatized him.

The reality was that she was looking for him for another crime in Venezuela and there was an extradition order against him.

He was accused of the death, on December 31, 2009, of

, with whom he had a relationship.

The young woman herself was drugged, raped and strangled and hit by a vehicle.

Her body was found on January 5, 2010, six days later.

Too late.

Eduardo, who has Spanish nationality because his father is Spanish, had already hastily left for Barcelona.

He caught

.

In 2015 Venezuela requested his extradition but the Spanish Justice denied it.

To

, Elizabeth's mother, the 25 years to which he can be sentenced seems little.

"For all the damage she has done, the traumas she has caused and the homes she has mourned," she says from Venezuela.

"All this makes me sick. Thinking about what my daughter experienced at the hands of this murderer.

, she cannot be free, it is a danger and a shame for society. I congratulate all those who made the case clear. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart."

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