crime of Fuencarral street
1888 CE.
Shown on the map at 40.425°, -3.701°.
The crime of Fuencarral street (also known as the murder on Fuencarral street or the case of Fuencarral street) was a murder that took place in 1888 on the second floor, left side, of number 109 of Fuencarral Street in Madrid. This number does not exist on the current street map, since it jumps from number 107 to 111, with gate number 1 of the Glorieta de Bilbao roundabout between them. Therefore, number 109 would correspond to current number 95, on the corner with Divino Pastor Street. On the morning of 2 July 1888, neighbors alerted the police, who discovered the body of Doña Luciana Borcino, widow of Vázquez-Varela, lying on her back, covered with wet rags that had been doused in lamp oil and set on fire. She was found in a closed room. In the next room, they found a bulldog and Doña Luciana's house-maid, Higinia Balaguer Ostalé, both sleeping under the effects of a narcotic drug. The investigation by the police had the Spanish society of the time on tenterhooks. This was one of the first crimes reported by the Spanish press and it even reached the upper echelons of the political class.
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