Twenty-year-old finds charred body in hardware store and realizes his mistake

Twenty-year-old finds charred body in hardware store and realizes his mistake: The Serial Murders of Isabella Robledo Puch

February 3, 1972. Inside a Buenos Aires hardware store: two corpses, a lit blowtorch, and a charred pocket holding one intact document. That forgotten paper was enough to capture the most prolific killer in Argentine history-a quiet, piano-playing boy who had murdered eleven people in eleven months without remorse.

In this episode, we trace Isabella Robledo Puch's transformation from middle-class student to serial killer, examining the relationship with his accomplice Jorge Ibáñez, the methodical escalation of violence, and the single oversight that ended his spree. How did a boy with no visible warning signs become Argentina's deadliest criminal? And why did he confess so readily when arrested?

Victim: Isabella Robledo Puch (perpetrator), Héctor Somoza, Acevedo, and nine others
Date: February 3, 1972
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Life imprisonment without parole since 1980

- Guard Acevedo executed, then Somoza shot and burned to destroy fingerprints, yet his identity card survived intact in the charred pocket
- In eleven months, Robledo murdered eleven people-a number no Argentine criminal had reached before or since
- Inside his parents' piano: two .38 revolvers, five .22 caliber weapons, stolen money, and items linked to previous crimes
- His accomplice Jorge Ibáñez died in a car accident on August 5, 1971-the only person who benefited was Robledo himself

Isabella Robledo Puch, Buenos Aires 1972, eleven homicides, serial killer, psychopath, Argentine criminal history, homicide investigation, unsolved psychology, true crime English

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