Gustavo Romero Tercero

Gustavo Romero Tercero (born 16 December 1971 ), also known as "The Valdepeñas Killer," is an incarcerated Spanish murderer and rapist.

Early life Gustavo Romero married young in Valdepeñas, to Yolanda Saez, and they had two children. Saez was pregnant with the second child at the time of the first murders in 1993. One of his favourite voyeurism spots was Valdepeñas's public park, where he spied on couples kissing with little regard for being seen by them.

The 'Crime of the Sweethearts' On 18 June 1993, Romero ambushed Ángel Ibáñez (24) and his girlfriend Sara Dotor (20) as they left the park and ordered them to go to an uninhabited, dark area next to a railway. He was armed with a double-bladed navaja Saez testified later that Romero came back home at 1:25 AM and that, in the following days, he got rid of the clothes he was wearing that night and of two knives he used to carry. She suspected him from the beginning but did not report him to authorities. ) was not among them.

Arrest and sentence Saez reported Romero to the authorities in 2003, after he assaulted her and told her afterwards that he didn't care about the consequences because he had already killed several people.