On the afternoon of August 20, 1960, Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres starts an argument with his wife Rosa Rivas in the town of Nahueltoro, because she had not been able to collect his widow's pension by bureaucratic problems.
Frustrated by lack of money to keep drinking, Valenzuela tooks a scythe to kill his wife. Her children were killed one by one, by Valenzuela, in circumstances that are not yet fully clarified, although it’s known that one of the Rivas’s daughters was hanged by his own hands, and the baby of the family was trampled, causing death. After the murders, Valenzuela flees the scene, but not before covered with stones the bodies of their victims.
This was the chronicle about one of the most memorable murders in Chile, because it sparked a fierce controversy in Chilean society, because the paradox that meant being subjected to a process of rehabilitation even though he was sentenced to be executed. This would be portrayed in the 1969 film "The Jackal Nahueltoro" written and directed by Miguel Littin.
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