Case: Andrés Urdiales (English version)

Early years

Andrew Urdiales was born on 4 June 1964 in Chicago, his family is known to have a history of mental illness and he was psychologically and physically abused by his cousin and sister, which affected him, as he beat his dog to death with a baseball bat and told his parents that the animal was severely injured from a fall.

 After graduating from high school (in 1982, Thornridge High School - Doulton, Illinois), Ordiales joined the United States Marine Corps. From 1984 to 1991, he was stationed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in California. Urdiales completed his combat training.

He trained as a radio operator at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms and then served at Desert Storm. When he returned home, his friends and family thought the Navy had changed him, but he came back to show his true colors.

Murders

Oldies committed the first murder on the night of January 18, 1986. He stabbed Robin Brandon, a 23-year-old communication arts student, 41 times at Saddleback Community College in Mission Viejo, California. Two years later, on July 17, 1988, he shot and killed Julie Maggie, 29, with a .45 ACP pistol. Her body was found in a ditch near the California Cathedral. Two months later, Urdiales attacked San Diego and killed Mary Ann Wells, 31, who was found in a warehouse where her body was dumped by police on 25 September 1988. His fourth victim, Tammy Irwin, 18, was found on Palm Springs Street on April 17, 1989.

 Oldies always had this ritual: he stripped the victims naked and then sacrificed them. In 1991, he was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and returned to his parents' home in Chicago. But in September 1992, he returned to California for a holiday. On September 27, 1992, Urdiales kidnapped 19-year-old nurse Jennifer Asbenson and tied her hands. He tried to rape her but was unable to. Urdiales beat her and then put her in the boot of his car. The woman was finally able to open the boot from the inside and escape. She ran naked from the waist down and tied her hands. Oldies chased down the highway in Machete, but she managed to stop the truck and Uldiales escaped in his car. He did not murder for three years for fear of being caught. When he returned to California in March 1995, he met Dennis Money, a 32-year-old prostitute, in Cathedral City, California.

 Oldies pushed her into his car and drove her to the California desert. So he shot her, stripped her naked, and left the body for the scavenger. Waldie thought he could easily murder in and around Illinois. As a guard at the Chicago Mall, he had a great deal of trust between the customer and his familiar surroundings. He crossed the border into Bloomington, Indiana in April 1996, where he killed 25-year-old Laura Uryaki. Her body was found on 14 April in Cook, Illinois, and Lake Wolf, Illinois, adjacent to Chicago, Hammond, Indiana. On 14 July 1996, police found the body of Cassandra Colm, 21, in the Vermilion River Mountains, Livingston County, Illinois. On 2 August 1996, the body of Lin Hoover, 22, was found in Wolf Lake. Hoover is believed to be Urdiales' last victim.

In November of the same year, Urdiales was arrested for possession of an unlicensed weapon but was released after paying a fine although this would be key to his arrest.

Arrest and prosecution

On April 1, 1997, in a motel, Andrew claimed that a girl had stolen money from him, but she assured the police that he wanted to kidnap and rape her. At first, they did not connect this case with the previous ones, but they investigated Andrew and found that the same gun he had was the one used in the last three murders. On 22 April 1997, he was finally arrested.

On 30 April 2001, the Public Prosecutor's Office decided to demand the death penalty. Uldiales' trial for the Urraca and Hoover murders began on 8 April 2002. Oldies was convicted of two murders on 23 May 2002 and sentenced to death on 30 May 2002, seven days later. The Uldiales case temporarily became a political issue. On 11 January 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan said that there were 167 death row inmates in Illinois at the time after a Northwestern University study concluded that some of those on death row were innocent and could no longer stand trial.

 Commuted to life imprisonment. Urdiales was also an alternative. Therefore, his first death sentence was to work. Then, the prosecution created an indictment for the previously unknown murder case of Cassandra Corum. The trial began on 24 April 2004. Inspired by advocate Stephen Richards, Uldiales pleaded guilty, but changed tactics, claiming that he suffered from mental illness. However, Judge Harold Frovish re-sentenced Uldiales to death on 10 May 2004.

The death penalty was passed for Urdiales and he died in March 2011 when Governor Pat Quinn signed a law abolishing the death penalty in Illinois. At the time, Urdiales was incarcerated at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois.

Death

In November 2018, Urdiales was found unknowingly in a cell at the San Quentin State Prison Adjustment Center. Oldies was alone in his cell and prison officials said the apparent cause of death was suicide by hanging, which is ironic since at the time he was under pressure to speak in interviews and he wanted to be happy that he was arrested. . He was 54 years old.