Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 7:25:26 GMT
Thanks to the coverage of the crimes and the trial of El Jarabo , El Caso managed to sell no less than 480,000 copies of a single issue . In recognition of his contribution to the overwhelming sales success, the director of the weekly newspaper sent the murderer a box of cigars through the police officer who interrogated him. They say that the prisoner spent the day before his appointment with the scaffold smoking like a madman.
In the seventies the Galindos crime and the UFO sightings were famous . The possible visit of extraterrestrial beings became fashionable. The Case exploited this interest Fax Lists with stories referring to the possible visit of beings from the planet Gemide, as would later happen with those from Ummo. The population was very sensitive to the incursion of flying saucers. It had been a few years since the sighting on Mount Rainier and the Roswell incident. Readers devoured those stories that embedded science fiction in their daily reality.
Everything had a place in the weekly. Even the 'arrival' of aliens to Earth. (Photo: Historical newspapers since 1900)
When talking about this magazine it is necessary, and fair, to make something very clear. It is one thing that the publication could be sensationalist due to the information it disseminated, and quite another that this sensationalism was carried out by second-rate journalists. Quite the opposite. El Caso was a pioneer of investigative journalism in Spain . Very valuable editors worked in its editorial office.
This is the case of Pedro Costa , who would eventually end up being a film director and author, among other works, of the television series La Huella del Crimen . Enrique Rubio also stood out , later known for his TVE program Investigacion en march , but who was an extraordinary investigator, specialized in the genre of scams, thefts and frauds.
However, the magazine's most famous reporter was Margarita Landi . The emblematic journalist worked on El Caso between 1953 and 1987. She became so well known that she earned the respect and affection of the police, who gave her the nickname Subinspector Pedrito . So much so that sometimes they sent her a car to take her to the scene of the crime and, when she used her own means, she traveled to where the incident had occurred in a sports car with which she overtook the police who were going to investigate the crime in question.