November 7, 2019. Manuel, a small town located about 50 kilometers from Valencia. That would be where Marta Calvo, a 25-year-old girl who had met a stranger at dawn, would be seen for the last time. The monitoring protocol agreed upon with her mother, Marisol Burón, would be essential to begin an investigation that would find a culprit: Jorge Ignacio Palma, a Colombian citizen with a history of drug trafficking in Italy and Pamplona.
It was not until December 4 that the main suspect surrendered to the police, after having confessed to the murder of the young woman. Code 10, the Cuatro events program presented by Nacho Abad and David Alemán, dedicated its first installment of 2024 to the case, with the presence of the victim’s mother. One of the notable elements of the guilty statement was a letter that he wrote after what happened, in which he thought of committing suicide after finding Marta dead and dismembering her.
Sandra Cerro, a guest graphologist on the program, analyzed the letter that the murderer delivered to the Civil Guard barracks, in which he indicated that she was found dead after a “white party.” The collaborator indicated problems in unraveling details of the matter, as the original document was missing and it was a paper with lines. Cerro points out a lot of irregularity in the letters but control in the verticality, which she indicated as an indication of internal tension and emotional problems.
This analysis indicates that he is capable of manipulating his own feelings, an indication of a possible psychopath or sociopath. Another notable detail is the appearance in the document of the phrase “I love women and all living beings.” In this statement you can see wide spaces between words, absent in the rest of the letter. Cerro points out that the words “women” make him nervous and generate anxiety. According to the graphologist, Palma is a cold person, who suffers from social disaffection.
Carlos Segarra indicated that his intention was to write a letter that justified him, before previous cases and his modus operandi were discovered, introducing rocks of cocaine into the genitals and waiting to see if they survived the overdose or not. “You dehumanize yourself when you kill and you want to humanize yourself when you have already killed,” he commented. José Miguel Gaona described him as an “excellent actor,” comparing him to his use of the Stanislavski method of acting.
Precisely Code 10 has not been the only program in which these harsh antecedents were discussed. Marisol Burón was able to speak without filters about the murder of her daughter in And now Sonsoles, coinciding with the fourth anniversary of her disappearance. It was there that she described Palma as someone who enjoyed watching his victims die, insisting on asking for permanent prison that could be reviewed as a sentence.
