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Hugo Bustamante, the "Drum Killer" and Amber Cornejo, Is Dismissed in Two Other Murders

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Hugo Bustamante, the “drum killer” and Amber Cornejo, is dismissed in two other homicides Hugo Bustamante has resounded in...

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The Court of Appeal of Valparaíso decreed the definitive dismissal of Hugo Bustamante, known as “the drum killer”, of the murders of Elena Hinojosa (55), and his son Eduardo Páez (27) perpetrated in 1996 in the commune of Villa Alemana. Initially, the Court of Letters of Villa Alemana sentenced Bustamante to ten years and a [...] The entry Court of Valparaíso oversee for double homicide to Hugo Bustamante, the “murder killer” was first published…

The Supreme Court will review the decision that overturned the conviction for two murders committed in Villa Alemán in 1996. The Supreme Court will have to resolve the future judicial of Hugo Bustamante for a double homicide committed in 1996 in Villa Alemán, after relatives of the victims filed a cassation appeal for The post Hugo Bustamante: family seeks to reverse dismissal for double homicide first appeared on El Observador.

The subject will not receive a sentence for the deaths of Elena Hinojosa and her son, Eduardo Páez, in 1996 in Villa Alemán.

The Valparaíso Court of Appeal overturned the 10-year and one-day prison sentence that Hugo Bustamante Pérez had received for the murders of Elena Hinojosa and her son Eduardo Páez, committed in June 1996 in Villa Alemana, according to the newspaper La Estrella de Valparaíso this Monday. In its resolution [...]

Bustamante, nationally known for killing his partner and her son in 2005, and then reoffending the life of his partner’s daughter, Amber Cornejo, in 2020, is an emblematic case of the Chilean penal system. Currently, he is serving a 40-year sentence for this last crime.

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El Mostrador broke the news on Monday, October 26, 2026.
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