Viña del Mar psychopaths
The Viña del Mar psychopaths () were Chilean serial killer duo Jorge José Sagredo Pizarro (22 August 1955 – 29 January 1985) and Carlos Alberto Topp Collins (25 January 1950 – 29 January 1985). They committed ten murders and four rapes from 5 August 1980 to 1 November 1981, in the city of Viña del Mar. They were the last men to be executed in Chile. History. Research. There were two parallel investigations during the crime series. One was conducted by the OS7 Drug Department, directed by Mayot Ávila. The other was by a special group of the Investigations  Police of Chile (PDI), directed by Commissioner Nelson Lillo. The key to finding the two murderers was delivered by Corporal Juan Quijada, of the First Commissariat of Viña del Mar. After Sagredo confessed to the crimes, Corporal Quijada denounced him to the OS7 Drug Department. Detention and judicial process. Sagredo and Topp Collins were brought to justice on 8 March 1982, and declared guilty by the Minister in visit Dinorah Cameratti on 13 March. Jorge Sagredo and Carlos Topp Collins confessed extrajudicially, judicially and publicly to all their crimes. In this way, both were found guilty and sentenced to death , a sentenced first handed down on 8 January 1983 by the minister in visit Julio Torres Allú. The sentence was confirmed in the second instance by the unanimity of the First Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Valparaíso, composed of the ministers Margarita Osnovikoff, Iris González and Guillermo Navas. The sentence was ratified unanimously by the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Chile, consisting of the ministers Osvaldo Erbetta Vaccaro, Emilio Ulloa Muñoz, Abraham Meersohn Schijman and the lawyers Raúl Rencoret Donoso and Cecilli Cáceres, on 17 January 1985. Execution. After they were denied a presidential pardon by  Augusto Pinochet, both were executed in Quillota on 29 January 1985. This was the last execution before the death penalty was repealed in Chile in 2001.