The knife among the debris of the fire

Four dead in one night: the negligence that condemned: The murder of Ginny Sandoval Reyes in Temuco, Chile

In the early morning of December 29, 2016, four people died in a house in Temuco: Ginny Sandoval was stabbed to death and three of her children were trapped in the fire that followed. An autopsy reveals that she was stabbed before the fire. The impossible: the police cleaned the scene before declaring it a homicide, erasing irreversible evidence.

In this episode, we explore how the emergency operator ignored four calls, how an unrelated ID was lost inside a patrol car, and how the prosecutor took six months to review the victim's phone. The trial faced a retracted confession against cell phone geolocation. In the end, a 30-year sentence without benefits, but it was never clarified who owned that ID found at the scene.

Victim: Ginny Sandoval Reyes
Date: December 29, 2016
Location: Temuco, Chile
Status: Sentenced to 30 years (simple homicide + arson)

- The court dismissed the theory of "three or four suspects" that the defense never identified, despite publicly accusing them.
- An ID unrelated to the victims was found at the scene and lost by an official; it was never processed or identified.
- Tolosa Yanqui confessed to the PDI and then retracted, claiming pressures that the court did not validate; the conviction rests on geolocation and contradictions.
- The police ordered the house to be cleaned before the homicide investigation was formalized, eliminating evidence irreversibly.

Ginny Sandoval Reyes, Temuco Chile homicide 2016, police negligence, murder, investigation, true crime, femicide, forensic, intrigue, criminal minds, true crime Spanish

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