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How the brother of Mauricio Leal, the hairdresser of the stars, planned the double murder that shakes Colombia

2022-01-21T02:19:35.301Z


Jhonier Leal abused the trust of his brother and mother to kill them both, the prosecutor in the case said. The crime was the result of a psychopathic and narcissistic personality, according to psychologists.


Four months: that was the time it took Jhonier Leal, brother of the famous Colombian stylist Mauricio Leal, to plan in detail the media murder of him and his mother, on November 22, 2021.

Prosecutor Andrés Burgos reconstructed the events this Tuesday during a hearing and detailed the behavior of the 50-year-old stylist, to carry out a crime that aimed to appropriate the fortune of his successful brother.

"This was not a crime planned overnight. Jhonier took four months to plan it,

abused the trust of his mother

and brother to move to La Calera and 

studied everything there,"

said Burgos, according to the local newspaper El Colombiano.

Jhonier first rehearsed a role as a victim, according to the prosecutor.

He told his mother and his brother, both stabbed to death, that he was about to separate from his wife and that he needed to move with them to their mansion in La Calera, a luxury area near Bogotá, the capital of Colombia. Colombia.

Once inside, Jhonier dedicated himself to studying his relatives: what time his brother went out, what his mother did when she was home alone, who visited them and who their close friends were.

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With all this information, the murderer, according to the prosecutor, identified "

what would be the right moment to end the lives

of these two people."

On the chosen day, Jhanier spent 6 hours between the stab wounds, the writing of the alleged suicide note and the concealment of any evidence of his crime.

But his own stab wounds gave him away.

His brother was right-handed and the wounds on his body had been made by a left-handed person: him.

A towel also revealed his identity, as the blood type it was stained with was the same blood type that he and his mother shared.

The profile of a psychopath

"Freely and voluntarily I decide to accept the charges through an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office and I take the opportunity to express my repentance, asking my family and children for forgiveness first of all," said Jhonier Leal, admitting his guilt in double homicide.

The charges he faced were for aggravated homicide due to his relationship with the victims and his defenseless state.

He was also charged with concealment, alteration and destruction of evidence.

I do not cry.

He did not despair.

There was no tremor of regret in his body

as he admitted his guilt.

Everything in him was serenity and cynicism: features of the profile of a psychopath, according to psychologists consulted on the case.

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"The psychopath is an individual who has shortcomings in the way he relates to other beings. One of these is the 

lack of empathy

. They do not have the ability to feel love, compassion or regret," explained forensic psychologist Belisario Valbuena to the newspaper Colombian El Tiempo.

"They only care about themselves and they only care about the end, not the means. In the Leal case, for example, it was an economic end," he added.

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Sandra Patricia Parra, a psychologist specializing in criminal investigation, also spoke of a possible psychosis: "This [type of] crime also represents 30% of homicides committed by psychotic people and 45% of murderers have a narcissistic personality disorder or traits ".

Both specialists, however, clarified that a murderer does not necessarily have to have a mental illness to commit a crime.

"A subject in full use of his faculties can carry out a crime of these characteristics and, in that order, he must 

respond to society and to justice

," said Parra.

Source: telemundo

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