Mariano Gaik Aldrovandi
02/28/2020 - 10:52
- Clarín.com
- Police
Carolina Aló's femicide (17) was one of the most shocking cases in Argentine criminal history. The teenager was killed by her boyfriend of 113 stabs at her parents' house in Tigre in 1996.
For that crime, Fabián Gerardo Tablado (44), who was then 20 years old, was sentenced to 24 years in prison. This Friday he regained his freedom.
Fabian and Carolina had been dating for three years. When they met, Tablado was a group of skinheads of neo-Nazi ideology. She helped him out but he sent her letters with swastika drawings.
The couple was in fourth year of high school at Marcos Sastre de Tigre School, on the night shift. According to different witnesses, Tablado was very jealous and violent. After the crime it was learned that he had hit his girlfriend several times. Once the septum broke and the girl told her father, Edgardo Aló, that he had fallen.
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On Monday, May 27, 1996, Fabian invited Carolina to his home in Albarellos 348. He told him to leave before school, since his parents and siblings were going to dinner at his grandfather's.
During the date, the couple had sex. Nothing made Carolina suspect what would come next: Tablado first hit her. According to the autopsy, they were 19. Later, 113 stabbed him with three different knives and a formon (a sharp tool used in carpentry).
Around 23, when the Tablado returned home they found a horrifying picture: there were blood stains in every room. First they thought that thieves had come to steal and that Fabian was injured. They called the police. When the agents arrived they found Carolina's body lying in the garage. Beside him were the weapons the killer used to kill her. Fabian was gone.
Fabián Tablado, convicted of killing his girlfriend with 113 stabs.
After committing the crime, Tablado phoned a friend, Luis María "El Gordo" Vallejo, confessed to him what he had done and asked him to send a remis to the Tedin Bridge. "Tell him that when he arrives, he honks three honks," was the instruction to "Fat" as a password to ensure the leak.
But Vallejo did not do what Tablado told him. First, disbelieving his friend, he called the Aló family to ask if the girl was in the house. As Edgardo replied that he was at school, "El Gordo" suspected and went to Tablado's house. There he met the police and told them what he knew.
The agents went in a private car to look for Tablado on the bridge and blew three honks. When the killer came out he was arrested.
Two years after Carolina Aló's femicide, Chamber III of the San Isidro Criminal Chamber sentenced Tablado to 24 years in prison for "simple homicide," in a split ruling. Prosecutor Julio Novo and the complaint had asked for life because they considered that femicide acted with reprimand and alevosía, taking advantage of a moment when the victim was defenseless.
"I wanted to give her a son but she refused," the murderer had declared before the investigating judge Juan Makintach.
During the investigation, details were revealed that revealed that Tablado planned to kill his girlfriend. The testimony of Vallejo, the killer's friend, was key. "In the early hours of Sunday we had a lot of wine together in a square and said we were going to kill ourselves because our girlfriends were cheating on us. I didn't give it any importance, but it seems that he took it seriously and on the other day he told me that I was going to kill the bride. At that time, I didn't believe him either, "declared El Gordo" before Justice in 1996.
That last dialogue before Carolina's femicide took place on May 27 at 7:30 p.m., about three hours before the crime.
Partner. Carolina Aló and Fabián Tablado, a story that ended in tragedy.
The expert worked Raúl Torre, who was in charge of the Special Service of Technical Investigations (SEIT) North Zone. His team determined that Tablado began beating Carolina between the kitchen and the living room, on the ground floor of the house. The girl had wounds from the waist up, but most of the stabs were in the head. The deadly wound was in the neck.
When he was arrested, Tablado confessed to investigators that he intended to commit suicide after killing his girlfriend. "Why didn't you do it?" They asked. The killer looked at the floor and after a few seconds replied: "Because I couldn't."
