By Melody Gross 
Lucas Miranda, 15, was choked to death and hanged, simulating a suicide, by two of his colleagues from the Tabor reception center in Palmilla, in a plan drawn up between the three. Prosecutors believe that the defendants, Leandro and Ricardo, who were 16 and 17 years old, committed the crime for the pleasure of killing and seeing the victim in agony, taking advantage of Lucas’ depressive state, who requested the murder.
The crime occurred on October 15, 2020, and the body was found in February 2021. The plan was to strangle Lucas to death at his request and hang him to simulate suicide in front of the police, but gravity betrayed him. defendants. The cork oak branch that carried the body slipped and Lucas dropped his knees to the ground the day after the crime. The two accused then decided to remove him from the tree, wrap the body in a sheet and throw it into the well.
The crime was planned earlier this month. The victim complained of being bored with life and asked his colleagues to kill him. Leandro and Ricardo agreed. Two days earlier, Leandro had suffocated Lucas until he lost consciousness. When he regained consciousness, Lucas asked her to kill him this way. On the day of the crime, the three went to the bush area near the center of Tabor and Leandro strangled Lucas to death. Then, with the help of Ricardo, Lucas was hanged from a cork oak.