The videos that “El Carnicero de Giles” published on his networks
Luis Fernando Iribarren remained at large as of Friday night. Dubbed “The Butcher of Giles,” he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his family and had been in prison for almost 29 years until last Wednesday, when he left the Olmos prison to attend a course at the Faculty of Law at the University of La Plata and did not return. Since then, nothing is known about his whereabouts.
After the leak came to light, videos that Iribarren shared on his TikTok profile began to go viral on social media. There he presented himself as a lawyer and talked about his daily life, complained about urban problems and gave legal opinions on criminal cases, among other things.
In the latest video, published at the beginning of August, he filmed himself while walking through the streets of La Plata with the aim of complaining about the state of the sidewalks. “Those of us who walk without problems don’t have any complications. But you can imagine how bad things can be for older people, those who have difficulty getting around, with these conditions of the sidewalks,” he said.
In another clip, he recounted a bad experience he had with a delivery man, mentioning that he almost ran him over at the exit of the Faculty of Economic Sciences. “Here I am, luckily and miraculously in one piece: I was almost knocked over by a motorcycle. The authorities are going to have to do something, these motorcycles go at 2000, they don’t respect traffic rules. It’s out of control,” he complained.
The fugitive has more than 6 thousand followers on TikTok
Among the content he shared with his more than 6,000 followers, the convict also addressed issues related to his knowledge in law and notary. He cleared up other users’ doubts, gave them recommendations to avoid falling into scams, reported on police events and gave his opinion on media events, such as the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa in Villa Gesell, sharing his points of view from a legal perspective.
On his social networks, he even commented on cases similar to those he committed, giving opinions on the legality of conduct such as the dismemberment of human bodies and the low punishments for theft. In one of his most replicated videos, he commented: “Is dismembering a human body a crime in Argentina? If it was alive, yes. If it was already a corpse, no.”
Iribarren’s story remains a disturbing paradox. At the age of 20, he murdered his family on an August night in 1986, shooting them with a rifle while they were sleeping and burying them in a pigsty on his farm. The crime remained hidden until a decade later, when it was discovered that he had also killed his aunt.
Luis Fernando Iribarren
The chilling event became known in 1995, when the bodies of his father, Luis Juan Iribarren (49), his mother, Marta Langebbei (42), and his siblings Marcelo (15) and María Cecilia (9) were discovered in a mass grave on the family property in the rural area of Tuyutí, located about 25 kilometers from San Andrés de Giles. Previously, Iribarren had already murdered his aunt, Alcira Iribarren, on August 31, 1995. He first suffocated her and then hit her with an axe.
It was determined that he committed the murders while his parents and little sister were sleeping. He shot them with a .22 caliber rifle. Afterwards, according to the chronicles of the case, he went out, smoked a cigarette and killed his brother. The suspicion was that he did it because he felt displaced by the minors. During the trial, Iribarren confessed that he killed them because “he was angry with them.” The crimes took place in 1986.
“I was angry with them,” admitted the author of a multiple crime in San Andrés de Giles: he murdered his parents, his brothers and his aunt
“The Butcher of Giles” was 37 years old at the time of his conviction in August 2002. In the following years he had managed to obtain permission from the Mercedes Court of Enforcement to go on educational trips. According to sources in the case, last Wednesday he did not return to the penitentiary unit at 9:30 p.m. as stipulated, which triggered a complaint and a search operation by the authorities. Until tonight they had not found him.
