Pablo Ibar has always denied being the author of the triple murder of which he is accused. He has submitted to three trials, The first was declared void, in the second he was sentenced to death penalty and in the third to life imprisonment. But what evidence is there against him? His defense claims that not all leads have been investigated. and ‘Code 10’ reviews the keys to this event in the special ‘The Night of the Crime’.
On June 26, 1994, Two people broke into the residence of a local nightclub owner. Inside were him and two models. The attackers protected their identity, one with a cap and glasses and the other with a a t-shirt on the head and they broke into the house with great force.
The crime scene has been defined as a “savagery” that was recorded by a security camera installed inside the house and that is the owner has already received threats. This device captured the face of one of the attackers for a moment, He wiped the sweat off by taking off the T-shirt he was wearing.
After committing the crime, the perpetrators fled in the house owner’s car, a vehicle that was found burned several kilometers away.
The case took a turn 19 days later, when Pablo Ibar was arrested for another matter. That day, the accused received a call from some roommates, telling him that they had been stranded on a highway. They convinced him to go with them because one of them had a problem with a relative over a drug dealing issue and, while they went into a house, Pablo stayed in the car. Then He heard screams and a gunshot, He entered the house and, seeing that there were drugs, he left. However, the police had already been alerted and they were arrested.
It was then that, at the police station, Someone determined that Paul looked a lot like the man who was captured on security cameras on the day of the triple murder. In addition, A witness identified him as one of the people who fled in the car of one of the victims but it was later discovered that this witness had received a reward.
Meanwhile, Pablo Ibar’s current wife, Tanya, She claims that Pablo was with her that night. Throughout these 25 years they have maintained their innocence and have been through three trials.
The first of them was declared null but, in the repetition, it was sentenced to death. All this despite the fact that the DNA on the shirt excluded Pablo and that he had a poor defense given that he had to change lawyers when his own was arrested for assault.
Ibar changed his lawyer again, who filed a resource before the Supreme Court for his previous defense and the body ruled that Ibar had been found guilty based on “scant” and “weak” evidence.
The third and devastating verdict for Pablo Ibar
After 16 years, he left death row and faced a new trial. However, the prosecution presented new evidence and that is that A small DNA sample was found Pablo’s shirt on the t-shirt that the killer allegedly wiped his sweat with at the crime scene and then left abandoned nearby.
However, Pablo’s defense claims that this is a contamination because the sample is very small and the DNA should be all over the shirt since the killer covered his head with it and wiped the sweat off afterwards.
They believe that the investigation was not correct, They accused the judge of being impartial, They presented a motion to withdraw it but it was rejected. Added to all this is the erasure of video tapes, who apparently recorded the threats that the owner of the house received the day before the events. “There were many leads that the police department did not investigate. that were not investigated as the connection with the mafia, there were threats, the FBI knew he was in danger,” detailed Ibar’s lawyer, Joe Birth.
He also appeared an expert in facial recognition which indicated that it was impossible to determine that the image in the video and that of Pablo Ibar were the same.
Despite everything, the verdict was devastating and He was found guilty of first-degree murder, although he was sentenced to life imprisonment and not the death penalty.
The appeal of Pablo Ibar’s wife
Pablo Ibar’s wife talks about the latest sentence: “It was devastating, it’s like having your breath taken away”
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