Solved case · 2012
Also known as Murder of Maria Jose Reyes and Juan Duarte · María José Reyes and Juan Duarte's murder
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In July 2012, María José Reyes Moore and Juan René Duarte Becerra were killed and decapitated days apart at an antique shop in Lolol, Chile. The shop's owner, Óscar Segundo López Rodríguez, was shot and killed by a responding police officer at the scene of the second attack.
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Suggest coverage for this caseIn July 2012, two people were killed in separate attacks at an antique shop in the small rural town of Lolol, Colchagua Province, O'Higgins Region, Chile. Both victims, Juan René Duarte Becerra and María José Reyes Moore, had entered the shop as customers.
According to Carabineros de Chile, the Chilean military police, on 10 July 2012 shop owner Óscar Segundo López Rodríguez stabbed Duarte, a local farmer, in the back and beheaded him. Police believed Duarte attempted to defend himself. López reportedly kept Duarte's head in a coffer displayed for sale in the shop and buried the rest of the body under rocks in his backyard. Duarte's family filed a disappearance report with Lolol police the following day.
On 12 July 2012, María José Reyes Moore, a physical education teacher from Vitacura in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, stopped at the same shop while traveling with two of her children. Within minutes, López attacked her, and her daughter ran to alert her brother. The two children then witnessed López taking their mother's body to a tree trunk in the backyard and decapitating her with an axe. The children ran into the street calling for help. A responding Carabineros sergeant, Felipe González, ordered López to stop and fired warning shots; when López advanced toward him with the axe used in the killing, González shot and killed him.
The same day, Chile's Labocar forensic laboratory, acting on the request of a public prosecutor, inspected the crime scene and located Duarte's decapitated body, which had not previously been found. Authorities also examined wells on the property and López's former residences, and investigated whether he might have been connected to the March 2012 disappearance of a man from the nearby commune of Pumanque, though no additional remains were found. Chile's Ministerio Público arranged for a "psychological autopsy" of López, based on interviews with people who knew him; results made public later in July 2012 indicated he had suffered from transitory psychosis and mystical delusions. Sergeant González received psychological support from the Carabineros, and his use of force was subject to internal review.
The killings drew widespread coverage in Chilean media, which referred to López as the "Monster of Lolol." Reyes was buried in Santiago after a funeral attended by about a thousand people; Duarte was buried in Lolol's municipal cemetery following a funeral attended by hundreds of residents. López's body was buried separately in Santa Cruz.
Juan René Duarte Becerra is attacked, stabbed, and decapitated at Óscar López's antique shop in Lolol.
Duarte's family files a disappearance report with Lolol police.
María José Reyes Moore is attacked and decapitated at the same antique shop while her children watch; responding Carabineros sergeant Felipe González shoots and kills Óscar López Rodríguez at the scene. Labocar forensic investigators locate Duarte's decapitated body the same day.
Funerals and wakes begin for both victims and for López; an autopsy on Reyes is conducted at the Legal Medical Service of San Fernando.
Reyes is mourned at a mass attended by about a thousand people in Vitacura; Duarte is buried in Lolol's Municipal Cemetery; López is buried in the Cemetery of Santa Cruz.
Results of a psychological autopsy of López Rodríguez, prepared by Chile's OS-9 unit, are made public, indicating he suffered from transitory psychosis and mystical delusions.
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Farmer and lifelong resident of Lolol; killed at the antique shop on 10 July 2012.[3]
Physical education teacher from Vitacura, Santiago Metropolitan Region; killed at the antique shop on 12 July 2012.[3]
Identified by Carabineros as the attacker who killed both victims; shot and killed by a responding police officer in self-defense at the scene, so was never prosecuted.[3]
Carabineros sergeant who responded to the scene of the second attack and fatally shot Óscar López Rodríguez; his use of force was subject to internal review.[3]
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