The National Police arrested a 44-year-old man yesterday in logrono as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of his wife and after he threw himself into the Ebro with two of their three minor children. Investigative sources told THE WORLD that several people who were in the area known as The islandnext to the fourth bridge over the Ebro, alerted through a call to the 091 seeing that someone had thrown himself into the river.
The witnesses were unaware at that time that the person who had thrown himself had done so with his two daughters after committing the crime. The third of his children, the only boy and the youngest of the three, had managed to escape shortly before his father jumped into the water with the girls. Both the man, -who confessed to the murder of his partner whose throat he slit with a knife-, as well as his children, were rescued in good condition, although the minors were in a state of shock.
Once detained, the National Police indicated that two patrols spoke with this man, who informed them that his wife could be dead at their home, located on the second floor of number 1 of the Plaza Martínez Flamarique of the Riojan capital.
Agents of the Local police and Nacional arrived at the home at around 3:30 p.m. and, after opening the door, they found the 34-year-old woman, bled to death.
The same sources confirm that the man, after slitting his wife’s throat, went to the house of a neighbor on a lower floor to confess to him having killed his wife, after which he went to the Rafael Azcona Municipal Library, where his children were, to take them to the Ebro area over the aforementioned fourth bridge. This neighbor then gave the first alarm to the Police.