He kidnapped, raped and murdered his victims between July 2, 1995 and September 14, 1996 Months before the crimes, he had been released on bail after raping another young woman in 1989 Next summer of 2023 he will serve 25 years in prison and will be released, although he was sentenced to 69 years in prison Sonia Rubio, Natalia Archelós, Mercedes Vélez, Francisca Salas and Amelia Sandra García. They are the five women who murdered in cold blood, between July 2, 1995 and September 14, 1996, Joaquín Ferrándiz, one of the most dangerous serial killers in the history of Spain. Ferrandiz was arrested on July 29, 1998 after the failed attempt to kidnap a woman. Already at that time, the agents had been watching him since February of that year, when he also failed in another attempt to kidnap a young woman, who managed to escape from her and gave her description to the police. After her arrest, he was placed in provisional prison until January 14, 2000, when Ferrándiz was found guilty of five counts of murder, one of attempted murder and another of negligence resulting in injury. In total, the Provincial Court of Castellón sentenced him to 69 years in prison and to compensate the families of the victims with 130 million. Release Next summer of 2023 he will serve 25 years in prison, the maximum allowed by law despite the fact that He was sentenced to 69. However, as the Mediterranean of Castellón points out, he will not be able to approach the towns where he committed the crimes for another 10 years. During his confinement in the Herrera de La Mancha prison (Ciudad Real), he is being a prisoner exemplary and has served as an orderly. In addition, he has never requested a permit to leave prison or the third degree from the Penitentiary Surveillance Court, despite the fact that since 2015 he could have already enjoyed this regime of semi-liberty. Repeat rapist Before being arrested and sentenced for the death of five women, Ferrániz committed his first crime on August 6, 1989. That day, he intentionally ran over an 18-year-old motorist. In the incident, the young woman suffered a broken ankle and Ferrándiz offered to take her to the hospital in her vehicle. During the journey he led the girl to an area away from her and raped her. A crime for which he was arrested, after another driver who witnessed the accident identified him. After the trial, he was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In those years, he shared a cell with another man convicted of murdering his wife. From him he copied the modus operandi that he later employed in his murders. In 1995 he was released on parole after his friends and family started a campaign defending his innocence and denouncing his internment as unfair. His good behavior in prison was also taken into account for his early release. Only a few months after returning to the streets, Ferrándiz began his escalation of violence. His first victim was Sonia Rubio, an English teacher whom he kidnapped in Benicassim (Castellón) at the exit of a nightclub on July 2, 1995. The body of the young woman was found in bushes on a road between Benicàssim and Oropesa del Mar (Castellón). A year later, in September 1996, he raped and murdered another young woman, Amelia Sandra, whom he kidnapped outside a nightlife venue in Castellón de la Plana. After his arrest on July 29, Ferrándiz confessed to the agents the murder of three other women who practiced prostitution in Castellón, Natalia Archelos, 24, Mercedes Vélez, 29, and Francisca Salas, 24.