Viña del Mar psychopaths

Sagredo and Topp are currently the last people to be legally executed in Chile, and are the last people executed for common crimes. Chile abolished capital punishment for common offenses in 2001.

The sentence was confirmed in the second instance by the unanimity of the First Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Valparaíso, composed of the ministers Margarita Osnovikoff, Iris González and Guillermo Navas. The sentence was ratified unanimously by the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Chile, consisting of the ministers Osvaldo Erbetta Vaccaro, Emilio Ulloa Muñoz, Abraham Meersohn Schijman and the lawyers Raúl Rencoret Donoso and Cecilli Cáceres, on 17 January 1985.

However, both men were denied clemency by Augusto Pinochet, and they were executed by firing in Quillota on 29 January 1985. Their hands were tied, they were strapped to chairs, and they had circular red paper targets placed over their hearts.

Jorge Sagredo and Carlos Topp Collins confessed extrajudicially, judicially and publicly to all their crimes. In this way, both were found guilty and sentenced to death, a sentenced first handed down on 8 January 1983 by the minister in visit Julio Torres Allú.

Sagredo and Topp Collins were brought to justice on 8 March 1982, and declared guilty by the Minister in visit Dinorah Cameratti on 13 March.

Relatives of the victims lobbied against the executions of Sagredo and Topp since they believed the two men were connected to a higher-ranking death squad. Sagredo said he and Topp had committed some of the murders after being given drugs and promised money by a "crime club" that included a prominent building contractor and five other "executives" who wanted to eliminate political opponents of the Pinochet regime. Only one "executive" was identified Luis Gubler Diaz, a building contractor and member of a prominent Vina del Mar family. Diaz had close ties with intelligence squads during the violent repression of leftists after the 1973 coup.

The Viña del Mar psychopaths (Spanish: Psicópatas de Viña del Mar) were Chilean serial killer duo Jorge José Sagredo Pizarro (22 August 1955 – 29 January 1985) and Carlos Alberto Topp Collins (25 January 1950 – 29 January 1985), both members of the Carabineros de Chile. They committed ten murders and four rapes from 5 August 1980 to 1 November 1981, in the city of Viña del Mar. They were the last men to be executed in Chile before the practice was outlawed in 2001.