Marta suspect charged with prostitute's death
Jorge Ignacio P.J. in custody for the disappearance of the 25-year-old, faces separate trial
MARTA Calvo's alleged killer is now being investigated over the death of one of two prostitutes in Valencia thought to have fallen victim to his dangerous sexual practices.
Identified by state news agency EFE, Jorge Ignacio P.J., 38, is facing trial for offences of negligent homicide and failure to provide help after he allegedly left Colombian-born Lady Marcela Vargas, 26, semi-conscious and convulsing last June in a flat run as an unauthorised brothel in the city's Russafa district .
Two months earlier, Brazilian prostitute Arliene Ramos, 32, suffered a similar fate.
In both cases, the accused is said to have forced huge amounts of cocaine into their nether parts during sex without their knowledge or consent, and this is thought to be one of his common perversions.
Since then, eight women have come forward and reported Jorge P.J. for identical practices which, in all cases, left them unconscious and very ill.
Marta Calvo Burón, 25, from Estivella (Camp de Morvedre) had made contact with Jorge via an internet dating site and, on their second date, in November, went to his rented house in the Ribera Alta village of Manuel.
As always, she WhatsApped her mother, Marisol Burón Flores, with her location, as a precaution. When she did not return, Marisol travelled to Manuel and called at Jorge's house, but he denied knowing Marta and said he had never seen her.
He then vanished, was believed to be hiding out in Carcaixent, but later gave himself up to police – although he denied murder and claimed Marta had taken cocaine voluntarily and died from a reaction to it.
Jorge said he had panicked, cut up her body and deposited the parts in seven wheelie-bins across the province.
Marta's DNA was found in the Manuel house, along with a contact lens she had dropped, but her body has not been recovered.
Searches on his main residence in L'Olleria (Vall d'Albaida), interviews with his mother – who lives in Mallorca and pays his rent in Manuel – about why she had washed his clothes, and the discovery that he had given his Volkswagen Passat to a friend and told him to scrap it the day after the crime, were enough to put him in custody.
Marta's mum speaks out
Marisol Burón has written an open letter to various media and to the government demanding tougher sentences for rapists and murderers, and stiffer punishment for those who 'do not cooperate' or fail to reveal the location of victims' remains.
The old adage that 'if there is no body, there is no crime' is one she fears Jorge is relying on to get a lenient sentence.
Marisol also questioned why 'a convicted drug-dealer and repeat offender whose visa had expired' – he is Colombian - was allowed out on bail, which he was at the time Marta disappeared. “I do believe in rehabilitation of, for example, drug addicts, thieves, minor offenders. But a rapist and killer? Do they really believe these can ever be rehabilitated? Haven't we seen and suffered enough news yet, almost daily, about reoffending murderers and rapists? How many more women have to be raped and murdered at the hands of these inhuman, unfeeling people? Could Marta be the last?” Marisol wrote.
“Whilst these murderers can be visited by their families (in prison), I can never again say, 'I'm off to visit my daughter'. My daughter, who left home, totally confident, to spend a few days with someone she had met, unafraid, and free – and who was unable to come home again - because this individual took the liberty of deciding she had lived long enough.”
Marisol had nothing but praise, however, for the serious crime squad investigating the killing, and for 'people from all over Spain who have shown their support'.
She also thanked her daughter posthumously for giving eight survivors of Jorge's abuse the chance to speak out, and calls for justice to be done for the two who died.
“Thanks, Marta, for helping, from wherever you are now! It's a shame you had to pay for it with your life,” Marisol wrote.
Marta's father, as previously reported in Costa News, has commissioned peer-reviewed forensic studies on the cocaine quantities found in the other two victims' bodies and on the potential danger to life of Jorge P.J.'s 'fetish'.