La Tragedia de los Abelardos | Archivos Secretos de Policía

After years of touring small towns, playing in tiny venues, and enduring long waits in producers' waiting rooms, the band "Los Abelardos" began to find success. No one imagined that the musician's worst enemy wasn't the critics or the competition, but rather his own family, disguised as a friend and protected by trust. His name was José Juárez Juárez, though everyone called him "El Chaparro" (The Short One). On Friday, July 14, using a baseball bat, chloroform, and electrical wires, "El Chaparro" murdered the musician's children. He beat them, strangled them, and stabbed them. Only Nieves managed to lock herself in her room and scream out the window. *This account is based on newspapers and news reports published at the time of the events.