Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres

Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres (23 August 1938 – 30 April 1963), popularly known as ("The Jackal of Nahueltoro"), was a Chilean farmer and mass murderer who killed his partner and his five stepchildren in what the Investigations Police of Chile has called one of the most important crimes of twentieth-century Chile. After spending almost three years in prison, he was sentenced to execution by firing squad, which was carried out in 1963. His execution sparked an important debate in Chilean society, questioning the legitimacy of executing a man who had shown regret and rehabilitation.

Biography Jorge Valenzuela was born in Cocharcas, a locality in San Carlos, to Melvina Torres Mella and Carlos Alberto Valenzuela Ortiz, who died in 1943. He left his home when he was only 7, after his mother's remarriage to one of his father's older sons from a previous marriage. From there, he lived by walking from city to city, taking any jobs he could, often resorting to stealing animals and other goods.

Murders At one point Valenzuela had been living in a house in the commune of Nahueltoro in Ñuble province assigned to widow Rosa Elena Rivas Acuña, aged 38, with her and the five children she had from a previous marriage to Óscar Armando Sánchez (who had died several months earlier). The owners of the house eventually evicted them due to Valenzuela's reputation as an illiterate drunk,

After waking up and seeing what he had done, he proceeded to place stones over each one of the bodies, although it is not known why. He then fled the area, often using different names to prevent persecution, including "Jorge Sandoval Espinoza" and "José Jorge Castillo Torres". Valenzuela is also suspected of murdering 39-year-old Pedro Ojeda while on the run from police, but he was never tried or convicted of this crime.

Several days later, Exequiel "Quelo" Dinamarca, a local landlord, found the bodies of the six victims and informed the Carabineros.