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Updated Friday, March 1, 2024-15:07

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The controversial crime of the Vigo

suitcase has finally been resolved

, which for a week had kept the population of this city in suspense after the discovery of a body in an advanced state of decomposition inside a suitcase in a weedy area.

The National Police has arrested the alleged perpetrator,

José Manuel Durán González

, nicknamed

O Chioleiro

, an old acquaintance of the black chronicle as an author convicted of the crime of his grandmother and his girlfriend.

The man was convicted of the murder and rape of his grandmother in 1988 and, after serving his sentence in a psychiatric center, he was released and killed again.

In 2004 he murdered her neighbor and friend,

Alicia Rey

, and killed her with a knife, a crime for which he was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison.

The sentence, again, was completed in full and in February 2023 he was released.

After regaining his freedom, he has lived in several towns in the provinces of

Pontevedra

and

A Coruña

and months ago he settled in Vigo, where he allegedly committed this third crime.

In February 2023, after being released, he was arrested for violating a restraining order from the

Municipality of A Lama

, where he committed his first two murders, and, since then, he had lived without attracting the attention of the Security Forces and Bodies until who appeared as a suspect in the suitcase crime.

The investigation is under summary secrecy, but unofficial sources have confirmed his arrest and identity to this newspaper.

The arrest occurred on Thursday, February 28, at the Pontevedra bus station.

The man, knowing he had been cornered by several leaks to a media outlet, fled Vigo, but the National Police managed to find him and arrest him.

From Pontevedra he was transferred to the cells of the Vigo Police Station, where he remains.