Diego Santoy
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Diego Santoy Riveroll is a Mexican university student who is accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and killing her two young siblings in the City of Monterrey on March 2, 2006. He was captured by police on March 7, 2006, at a roadblock in Oaxaca, where he was on a bus accompanied by his brother headed to Guatemala.
[edit] Media attention
Santoy has gained notoriety due to high levels of media interest in the case. He has been called El asesino de cumbres, or 'The murderer of Cumbres', with Cumbres being the area of Monterrey where the killings happened.
There had been many false rumours about the case which are sensationalists and hurtful to the victims' family to the extreme, a good case of trial by newspapers and a potentially good test case for slanders in Mexico. The defense's initial lawyer has since been arrested and jailed for kidnapping and other criminal offences. The initial accusations conjured up by the jailed lawyer has not been followed up by the new defense.
The two young children said to have been killed when they defended their sister who Santoy tried to murder after she broke up with him. The murderer's family apparently helped him to escape and his brother was with him when Santoy was caught during their attempt to cross the border on a bus to Gaetemala.
[edit] References
- Associated Press article
- Univision News Article in Spanish
- El Norte, the Northern Mexico Newspaper Website in Spanish
- An account by the victims' father on the progress of the case
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