Saturday, May 3, 2025
13:40
If crimes and criminal acts are spoken, it is impossible not to think of Carlos Robledo Puch, the greatest serial killer in Argentine history. He committed 11 murders, a rape and 17 robberies, and he has been imprisoned since 1972. In 1980 he was sentenced to life imprisonment, he has spent more than half a century after bars and declared that he prefers to be dead to continue in prison.
Carlos Robledo Puch’s desire, his life in prison and an eternal sentence
Carlos Robledo Puch or the “Angel of death”, how he nicknamed him for his criminal life is imprisoned in Criminal Unit No. 26, of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service and despite the fact that on repeated occasions he has made orders to go on probation, his silicitudes have been denied by justice.
Recently, the author with more crimes in Argentine history expressed does not want to continue his life in prison. “The only thing I desire is that they put me in the room of a clinic and put a road with serum and put me to sleep deeply and then inoculate my poison and kill me,” he said about his days as a prison.
“I am suffering condemned. They will never let me out. Never. They will never let me go anywhere,” said Carlos Robledo Puch in America TV, who was arrested on February 3, 1972. That day, he murdered a man in a hardware store but a point event changed everything.
At that time, Robledo Puch was 20 years old and had an accomplice: Héctor Somoza, who was the successor of Jorge Ibáñez, who died in a traffic accident. Both killed a person inside a hardware store but the “angel of death” hit his partner’s shot and ended his life. However, he forgot his card in the Somoza sack and the police stopped him.
Between 1972 and 1980 he was imprisoned without a firm condemnation, until he was tried to life imprisonment for committing ten aggravated homicides, a simple homicide, 17 robberies and two cases of abuse, thus becoming the greatest serial killer in the Argentine criminal history.
Carlos Robledo Puch’s first murder
On May 3, 1971, exactly 54 years ago, Carlos Robledo Puch committed his first homicide and this was no more because he became the initial kick of an atrocity behind another.
Together with Jorge Ibáñez, Carlos Robledo Puch immersed himself in the world of crime and both had become a pair of thieves that assaulted all kinds of shops. Both had decided to buy a Fiat 600 and set out to assault a home spare parts in the olive tree.
54 years after the first murder of the “Angel of Death”, Carlos Robledo Puch and his most stark desire: “I am suffering condemned”
The criminal couple did it at night and by then, they used firearms as extortion elements. When they sneaked through the roofs to trade, they made some money and spare parts, but the most terrifying scene of all had not yet unleashed.
Carlos Robledo Puch and Jorge Ibáñez got into the room of the premises as he slept with his wife and without prior notice or need to do so, rather than enjoyment to carry out a crime, the young man who was 19 years old at that time led to two shootings to José Bianchi, his first victim.
And although this sounds terrifying, it did not end there because “the angel” opened fire against the woman. The bullet did not kill her and Jorge Ibáñez abused the helpless and wound woman.
From that day everything changed to Carlos Robledo Puch because he went from being a thief, to a serial killer who enjoyed ending the lives of his victims and becoming a sinister character in Argentine history.
Of the Industrial College to be a serial murderer
Perhaps it might seem striking or illogical by the end but the life of Carlos Robledo Puch was not always related to the crime, crime and the aberrant murders he committed. Son of Víctor Robledo Puch, employee of General Motors, and Aida Habedank, a technique in Chemistry, “The Angel” had raised in Vicente López, studied piano, English and German for the roots of his mother.
The family desire was that Carlos Robledo Puch studied at the Faculty of Engineering and for this reason, his dad scored it at the Industrial College of San Fernando. However, things did not work and behavior began to be a problem. He repeated a year, they changed him school and almost expel him for a robbery.
At that time, “Carlitos”, as they called him in his family, had decided to stop studying to put a motorcycle workshop with the knowledge acquired in the industrialist. His father accepted the determination of his son, not knowing that the future would be plagued with violence, spilled blood and a final outcome with life behind bars for Carlos Robledo Puch.
