Ricardo Barreda

Ricardo "Riqui" Barreda (born 1936, in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine dentist who was sentenced to life imprisonment on August 17,1995 for the murders of his wife Gladys Mac Donald of 57 years old, his two daughters both rounding their mid 20s (Adriana was a dentist and Cecilia a lawer) and of his 86 years old mother-in-law Elena Arreche on November 15,1992. According to Barreda he killed his family because they insulted him with verbal and physical attacks at all times. They called him names such as "Conchita" (in English pussy) and referred to him as a useless, unemployed, perverted and mentally challenged being.
On the morning of November 15, 1992, Barreda was having a nice day, until he became mad for the unpleasant treatment his wife gave him that particular day, so he took his beloved shotgun a 16,5 gauge, double barrel, Vda. e Hijos Victor Sarrasqueta shotgun (which was given to him as a gift by his mother-in-law) and killed his family. First he shot his wife down with a blast to her chest very at short distance in the kitchen, then Cecilia (his oldest daughter) who was standing near his mother was murdered. After doing so and as he was reloading his gun, Adriana came running down the stairs shouting, she didn't reach the lowest step as she was killed with a blast to the head before. According to him he saved the best for the last, he went and shot Elena Arreche with a double blast to the back and then another double blast to the head. After killing them all, pillaging and violently and fiercely raping their dead bodies trough their open wounds (although this last charge was not considered in the court), Barreda collected all empty shells, trashed his house (with the purpose of faking a robbery); drove his Ford Falcon to a park and threw the shotgun and the used shells there. At around 5:30 pm he went to a motel with his longtime girlfriend (both of them had an extramarital affair) Hilda Bono. At 10 pm previous going to a bar nearby, he returned drunk to his home, called the police, and told them a robbery had occurred at his home. Later he finally confessed all his crimes including many minor driving related feloniesand other teenage related vandalisms, like some apartidist graffitis on public houses.
On May 7, 2008 Barreda was put under house arrest. And will live with his 71 years old, girlfriend Berta "Pochi" André on a flat on the street Vidal 2300, in the Belgrano neighbourhood. Also many graffitis appeared on the streets putting Barreda`s heterosexuality in question and others trying to get him out of the neighborhood.
In 2003 argentinean punk-rock band Ataque 77 released an album called Antihumano on which there is a song called Barreda´s Way, who pays homeage to the famous dentist. They also released a video for that song which quickly became very popular and one of their most succesful songs on this album.

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