He confessed to fourteen murders in a hospital bed

He confessed to fourteen murders in a hospital bed: The case of Francisco García Escalero

A murder confession on a hospital stretcher. The doctors dismissed it as delirium. Forty-eight hours later, the police found the body exactly where he said. What no one knew then: it was his victim number fourteen, and the system had known him for years.

In this episode, we explore how a man voluntarily entered psychiatric hospitals confessing murders that no one reported, how his own confessions were ignored by doctors and police, and how a well near the La Almudena cemetery ended up revealing a chain of homicides that shook Madrid. Why did no institution act until it was too late?

Victim: Francisco García Escalero
Date: September 20, 1993
Location: Madrid, Spain
Status: Deceased (2014)

- He confessed at Ramón y Cajal hospital and was dismissed as delirium; two days later they found the body.
- He voluntarily entered psychiatric centers between 1985 and 1993 confessing murders; none reported to the police.
- The well he voluntarily pointed out contained remains of eleven people; he confessed to fourteen crimes.
- He was declared not criminally responsible due to paranoid schizophrenia despite patterns of partial planning in the homicides.

Francisco García Escalero, Madrid, serial killer, 1987-1993, homicides, imperfect crimes, psychopath, necrophilia, criminal investigation, mystery solved, Spanish true crime

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