In September 2017, the trial for Almonte’s double crime was heard in the Provincial Court of Huelva. The parties were already aware of the reconstruction of the events that occurred four years earlier in an apartment on Avenida de los Reyes in the town of Huelva. The scene reported a bloody sequence of persistent stab wounds suffered by Miguel Ángel Domínguez and his eight-year-old daughter, María.
Both the father and the girl tried to protect each other while the criminal’s attacks continued. The little girl, instead of trying to escape, went to the kitchen to look for a small knife to help her father to no avail.
Marianela Olmedo was the girl’s mother and still Miguel Ángel’s wife, although just a couple of weeks before the murders she went to live with a new love, Francisco Medina. He was precisely that man who was detained as a suspect by the Civil Guard and the man who ended up sitting in the dock.
What was Medina’s DNA doing on several towels that the criminal had used in the victims’ apartment to clean the knife and wash himself? The discussion about the genetic fingerprint flooded the long weeks that the trial lasted.
All the rivers of passion flow into the black chronicle: desire, greed, jealousy, anger, hatred, love, greed, ambition… There are no stories only of good and bad. There are stories full of nuances, half-truths, strengths and weaknesses, innocence and cruelty.
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