Excessive desire for sexual pleasure.
The third capital sin is lust and its definition in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of Language is too lukewarm to define the aberrations and perversions that Juan Carlos Aguilar, better known as the false Shaolin monk, committed in his day. In June 2013, the Ertzaintza arrested the individual, known in the Basque Country and the rest of Spain for his appearances on television presenting himself as the only Shaolin warrior in Europe. In reality, he was nothing more than a fake, a complexed trickster who murdered two women and humiliated and tortured several dozen whom he captured at the martial arts school, which he had turned into a center of perversion.
Few criminals in recent Spanish history are as sadistic as Aguilar. A psychopath who never allowed himself to be examined by forensic psychiatrists and who had the audacity to videotape and photograph many of his aberrations. The forensics warned that his first victim was dismembered while alive.
His criminal escalation stopped on June 2, 2013. Around four in the afternoon, a woman phoned 112 assuring that in front of number 12 Máximo Aguirre street in the center of Bilbao, behind a closed gate, a black woman was screaming asking for help. “Now I see that a person is grabbing her from behind her. She is covering his mouth! Fuck! She has beaten her in!”
It didn’t take three minutes for the first Ertzaintza patrols to appear. It was the Zen Lao gym, frequented by many policemen who also knew its owner. The agents forced the gate and entered in the dark, groping their way, illuminated only by the beam of light from the flashlights and shouting by name to the man who, according to a witness, was holding a woman.
The silence was sepulchral. After several minutes of going around and securing rooms in a large space with a labyrinthine structure full of small rooms on different levels, they found one that had the door blocked. On the other side, Aguilar tried to prevent access to the agents.
When they managed to open the door, one of the police officers stepped on the hand of a woman who was later identified as Ada Otuya, the same woman who had crawled to the gate to ask for help a few minutes earlier. The woman lay unconscious on the ground. She was breathing hard. She had a packing line tied around her neck with five wraps, plus a zip tie and, covering everything, several wraps of duct tape. In addition to bridles on hands and feet. The young woman died hours later in a hospital.
With the suspect in jail, investigators calmly re-examined the gym to make sure no one else was there. Upon reaching the training mat area, they discovered several small green plastic bags tied together. Inside were human remains.
At that time, the inspection was ordered to stop and the scientific police were notified, who remained there for ten days with 24-hour shifts in which they carried out more than 10,000 DNA tests. “That was a real madness. There were human remains in all the bags. They had amused themselves by cleaning the bones of the meat in some places. One hand was missing its index finger. The other was missing. We also did not know at first how many bodies the remains could correspond to”, recalls the Ertzaintza inspector Iñaki Irusta, responsible for the scientific police.
Petty officer Hugo Prieto was in charge in those days of the Ertzaintza personnel division, which included the homicide group. He was in charge of directing an investigation that confronted them with a monster that they had to discover what it would have been capable of doing, in the heart of Bilbao, without raising suspicions.
Police officers went to the suspect’s home. It didn’t take long for the first green plastic bags to appear on the balcony. In one was a hand with the index finger and breast prostheses torn off. A video camera caught their attention, its card full of files.
They turned pale as soon as they began to see the first images recorded with that camera. Standing next to a woman who appeared to be dead, Aguilar led another blindfolded woman to touch her.
Who was that woman? Did Aguilar have an accomplice? The memory card of that camera kept dozens of files with recordings and photographs of women whom the detainee harassed, tortured and humiliated in sexual practices that went beyond masochism. Images in which they appeared unconscious.
Anguish and uncertainty gripped the researchers. They needed to verify who these women were, identify them, and see if they were alive. That ended up being the easiest part. The false monk wrote down all his appointments in a kind of diary and registered the women with whom he had relationships in an agenda. The Basque police were able to speak with all of them and they showed the images to all of them. They turned pale when they saw each other and then understood that the alleged mental powers were not such and that he put them to sleep with drugs that he camouflaged as concoctions to abuse them.
One of the victims especially drew the attention of the police. She was the woman who appeared caressing the corpse of another blindfolded. For her, Aguilar had reserved the worst treatment, the most humiliating. Woman with a severe physical disability after suffering a stroke, he recorded her eating and drinking her stool and urine, or beating her violently.
The investigators concluded that there were two fatalities, Ada Otuya and Jenny Rebollo. The first, a 29-year-old Nigerian, and the second, a 40-year-old Colombian. For both murders, he was sentenced to 38 years in prison, which he is serving in the Villahierro penitentiary, in León, where he was transferred after being attacked by another inmate. . He has never shown any kind of regret for what he did.
