Francisca Ballesteros
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Francisca Ballesteros (b. 1969 in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish serial killer who between 1990 and 2004 killed her two daughters and her husband and attempted to kill her son.[1]
[edit] Crimes history
Francisca Ballesteros was born in 1969 in Valencia, Spain but a few years later she moved to Melilla.
After marrying Antonio González Barribino, Ballesteros had a baby called Florinda. In 1990, Ballesteros suffered from postnatal depression and wanted to break her marriage but she finally desisted. But because of this postnatal depression she decided to kill her family and flee to Valencia. After thinking about it, Ballesteros poisoned Florinda who was only 5 months old with Colme, a drug used to treat alcoholism. After the death of the baby, Ballesteros was afraid and decided to wait to kill the rest of her family.[2]
In 2004, 14 years after murdering her little daughter, Ballesteros, who had met many men through Internet, decided to kill the rest of her family, flee to the city where one of the men that she had met online was living, and get married to him. On January 12, 2004 Ballesteros killed her husband Antonio González Barribino with Colme (the same medicament that she had used to kill her daughter) and with the sedatives Zolpidem and Bromazepam. On June 4, 2004, Ballesteros killed her daughter called Sandra with the same medications and attempted to kill her 12-year old son Antonio, who was admitted to the hospital with poisoning on June 4, 2004. The autopsy of Sandra revealed that she had been poisoned.[3]
On June 7, 2004 Francisca Ballesteros was arrested. After being arrested, she confessed the murders.
On September 26, 2005, Francisca Ballesteros was sentenced to a term of 84-years in prison.[4]
