Various procedures are carried out this Friday by the Investigative Police (PDI) at the home of Villa Alemana de Hugo Bustamanteknown as the “Drum Killer”after he confessed to a double homicide that he had committed in 1996 and that was unknown until now.
The revelation was made by Bustamante to journalist Ivonne Toro in the framework of a series of interviews for a book that the professional has been writing for four years.
According to a Ciper publication, the subject, who is being held in the Rancagua Penitentiary Center for rape, homicide and dismemberment of the teenager Ámbar Cornejo, delivered a letter with the confession. The victims would be Elena Hinojosa and her son Eduardo Páez. He would have met the latter in prison in the nineties.
The chief deputy prosecutor of Villa Alemana, Osvaldo Basso, detailed the investigations that are being carried out in the house located on Calle Covadonga 641 of the commune of the Valparaíso Region. This is the same address where Ámbar’s body was found in 2020.
“Regarding a confession that Hugo Bustamante made yesterday in the Rancagua prison, to a Rancagua prosecutor, “We took the case and arranged for the participation of the Chilean Investigative Police, specifically the Homicide Brigade.”said.
Likewise, he indicated that he requested the participation of the PDI Criminalistics Laboratory, “In the event that the findings, if there are any, scientific procedures are carried out.”
“And in the event that bone remains or corpses are also found, the concurrence of the Legal Medical Service (SML) and human rights specialists due to the possible date of death that may exist”he explained
According to Basso, there are also “planimetries, to take statements, and to investigate the circumstances surrounding an eventual report of alleged misfortune and everything that is necessary to clarify this fact, and corroborate the participation of Hugo Bustamante.”
Bustamante was nicknamed the “Drum Killer” when in 2005 he was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the double homicide Verónica Vásquez (49) and her son, Eugenio Honorato (9), also in Villa Alemana. The bodies were then hidden in a drum that she buried. The case was portrayed in an episode of the program Mea Culpa.
The murderer was released on parole in 2016. Four years after leaving prison, he committed the murder of Ámbar, for which he was sentenced to qualified perpetual imprisonment.
