Real-life crimes

Marcelo Sánchez Rujano only paid 17 years for the kidnapping, rape and murder of the girl. María Tibisay Vargas Mijares, one of the murders that opened the season of monsters that we still live.

There are blows in life, so strong ... I do not know!

Blows as of the hatred of God; as if before them,

The hangover of everything suffered

Will be empowered in the soul...

These painful verses by César Vallejo fall short before they should be felt by the death of a son or daughter, even worse if he is murdered and brutally dishonored and the murderer barely receives him as the parents of María Tibisay Mijares Vargas, whose murderer, Marcelo Sánchez Rujano only paid 17 years ago for.

This case occurred in February 1977, when events that had a time of monsters took place, as they point to José Roberto Duque in his book "The murders that shook Venezuela": "On February 1, in Caricuao there was a grisly drama took place, a 26-year-old man driven mad by jealousy, his two four and six-year-old sons thrown from the eighth floor of the Palmarito building and then himself launched into the void, in Carayaca, a man by name Marcos Martínez murdered a Spanish couple and a son of the couple by successively hitting them with a car and buried them in the courtyard of the villa where they lived and with which he aspired to stay. Days later, in his column in the newspaper El Nacional, the criminologist Elio Gómez Grillo spoke with his conversation with Luis María Ortega, the Monster of Los Llanos, a character who rejoiced to have a murdered 44 people for 6 years and one month in ten states. It was the time of monsters and those rains came the mud that today we live 40 years later.
But of everything that happened in 1977, the case of the seven-year-old girl who was raped and stabbed ten times by the former policeman in the Menca de Leoni Blocks in Guarenas was not surpassed, not in vain did Rujano nickname the Monster of Guarenas.

After four decades, the suffering of the family must be the same. Poets know nothing of pain.

Family birthday

On the afternoon of Saturday, February 5, 1977, Dilia Ramona Vargas dressed her treasure beautifully and beautifully, her only daughter, María Tibisay, aged seven and left her home in the Brisas del Paraíso neighborhood, heading for a family member's birthday. Blocks Menca de Leoni in Guarenas, Miranda state. Her husband, José Manuel Mijares, messenger of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), had advanced on his motorcycle.

Maria Tibisay had a lot of friends in block 13 and when she got there she played with them, while the adults celebrated inside the apartment on the third floor.

The hours passed and at the stroke of midnight they set out to sing the birthday and cut the cake.

Everyone entered the apartment but Dilia Ramona could not find the baby, so she alerted everyone and the agonizing search in all the building and nearby areas began.
Near two o'clock in the morning there was a blackout and the very badly contained anguish overflowed.

The desperate parents notified the police and several commissions showed up at the site but it was all in vain, the baby did not show up.

The black of the green cap

More and more neighbors joined the unsuccessful search, including the former police

Hugo Marcelo Sánchez Rujano, had been in the celebration until shortly before the little girl disappeared and returned to the site four hours later, but nobody paid much attention, because in the midst of despair circulated a couple of versions according to which the girl had been kidnapped by "a black man, very ugly, green hat" and that was the image that everyone chased.

Even the inflamed neighbors almost lynch a beggar who had characteristics similar to the alleged kidnapper.

Sánchez Rujano, a 37-year-old white Andean, had been expelled from the police a few months ago for "an unseemly attitude that does not fit the image of the institution" and nobody noticed him even though he had been at the party.
In a dry cleaning bag

The sun shone and María Tibisay did not show up until around 9 in the morning the administrator of block 51 set out to remove the garbage cans from the bathroom and could not open it because a yellow bag - different from the ones he normally used - He blocked his way and when he tried to remove it he noticed that the hair protruded from it and opened it. He saw with horror that it was the body of a girl and immediately notified the police.

The rueful father confirmed that it was the body of his little girl and told the journalist William Becerra of El Nacional: "You see this ring, Mr. Journalist. Well that my daughter gave it to me last Friday, after I got it on the street, on the way home. I still seem to see it. I remember that it was hanging on my neck to give me a kiss on the cheek. "

The clue that allowed to find the murderer was the bag in which the body of the girl appeared, because it had printed the publicity of a dry cleaner that worked in the Chacaíto Shopping Center.

Upon reviewing the list of neighboring clients of Guarenas, the name of Hugo Marcelo Sánchez Rujano appeared, who among others stood out for his background.
When they searched his house and found several bags and the luminol test - used for the first time in Venezuela - he confirmed the suspicions and the Guanare Monster broke down and confessed that he had offered candy to the girl to accompany him to his home and there He insulted her and killed her by stabbing her ten times, putting her in the bag and leaving the body in the toilet room of Block 51.

Near four o'clock in the morning he joined the search to try to mislead.

On April 30, 1986, Hugo Marcelino Sánchez Rujano, the Monster of Guarenas, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the crimes of abduction, rape and homicide.

He only served 17 years, 9 months and 24 days in prison since his sentence was redeemed for work and study.

This is how justice works sometimes.