According to the Bangkok Police, the son of Rodolfo Sancho, He has admitted to killing the Colombian surgeon who, according to his testimony, tried to have sex with him. Authorities say the young man, who has been traveling in Thailand since last July, has been accused of murdering and dismembering the doctor’s body before dumping parts of the body in a landfill on Koh Phangan, including the victim’s head, according to say police sources consulted by this portal.
Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, grandson of Sancho Gracia, the star of Curro Jiménez, was taken to the Koh Phangan police station on Friday for questioning in connection with the disappearance of Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, 44, a Colombian citizen. Initially, the Spaniard denied any involvement, but finally admitted the facts after questioning by the police, a source in the investigation says.
The victim practiced at a well-known plastic surgery clinic in Montería, Colombia. The police found parts of the Colombian’s body after searching a hotel room that is believed to be the place where the murder occurred, a senior official from Region 8 of the Provincial Police explained this Saturday.
Forensics collected samples of hair, grease and tissue from the room’s drain and subjected them to tests to be released on Sunday. Security videos from various places on the island examined by the police supposedly show Sancho’s relationship with the victim. The Spaniard was the last person seen with the victim before the human body parts were found. For this reason, those in charge of the case believe that Daniel Sancho had carefully prepared himself by buying certain items allegedly used to dismember and hide the body of the Colombian doctor.
“Stressed”
Sancho showed clear signs of stress, but initially refused to confess. “I have instructed the police to keep a close eye on him for fear that he may resort to suicide,” said a police officer in charge of the case, head of the Koh Phangan police station. The agent assures that on Saturday Rodolfo Sancho’s son seems “stressed” and that he has not slept since he was arrested and interrogated on Friday in connection with the disappearance of the Colombian citizen.
A police source claims that during the interrogation, Sancho told investigators that he had brought Arrieta into his room and that the man wanted to have sex with him, but he refused.
According to the investigators’ version, the Spaniard, in a fit of rage, hit his victim, causing the Colombian doctor to fall and lose consciousness after hitting his head on a bathtub. Subsequently, the alleged murderer Sancho decided to cut the body into 14 pieces and deposit the pieces of the lifeless body in a travel bag and other plastic bags that he supposedly threw into a garbage can.
He took the overnight bag to throw it into the sea at Salad Beach, near his hotel. Later, according to the Police, she returned to her room. She later she attended a full moon party (very typical there) with two women I knew at the hotel. After returning from the party, he went to the police station where he filed a complaint for the disappearance of his Colombian friend.