Maje, the nurse who convinced one of her four lovers to murder her husband

In August 2017, the Spanish nurse María Jesús Moreno Cantó, known to his relatives as May, 27, had a husband, named Antonio, and four lovers.

The romantic and wild adventures of this young woman of great beauty and a strong power of seduction, far from remaining in the private sphere, were made public following a brutal crime that shocked everyone. Spain. Was when Salvador, one of the lovers of May, stabbed to death Antonio, the nurse’s husband.

The murder took place on the morning of August 17, 2017 and who persuaded Salvador to accomplish it was nothing less than May, who had been trying to get rid of her husband for some time. Today the lover and the nurse are in prison. Both were found guilty of being, one the perpetrator and the other the instigator of Antonio’s crime. Salvador was sentenced to 17 years in prison, and she, one of the 22.

The woman, who lived with her husband in the Valencian district of PatraixFrom then on, she was known in the Spanish press as “the black widow of Patraix”.

Maje was born in Novelda, province of Alicante, and according to the profile that La Voz de Galicia makes of her, she comes from a family of good economic life in this municipality, and with strong religious convictions. Before entering a nursing career, she attended college in the religious order of the Carmelites, where the aforementioned media say she was known to be a withdrawn girl, although “Very coquette”.

Apparently, all the teenage shyness of the young woman was gone when she left her small payment, and visited cities with a more hectic social movement, like Barcelona and Valencia. After the crime of Antonio, during a telephone conversation with Rocío, a friend of the party, May he confessed to the lifestyle he chose to spend his days with. “We are very crazy. We love to party with hot guys. I moved with my Antonio, may he rest in peace, I did not want it, ”said the young girl laughing, not knowing that her phone was intervened by the police.

Already installed in Valence, May I worked as a nurse in the Manises Hospital and also in a nursing home in the Valencian municipality of Flux, which was run by Catholic nuns. Through these jobs, the woman used shifts and overtime that did not exist as an excuse to lead a double or triple life. In this way, she had secret adventures from her husband, but also from her lovers, who didn’t know he was dating other men.

Thus, the same year of the crime of Antonio, the nurse had an extramarital affair with four men: Thomas, a physiotherapist With whom she dated for eleven months, until March 2017, although they continued to see each other until October of that year; Joseph, a publicist with whom she spent the night before the day her husband was murdered, and with whom she went to live for some time after the crime; Sergio, a guard from the city of Barcelona, ​​who defined him as “A sexual predator”; and finally Salvador Rodriguez, guardian of the Manises Hospital, who, as was later learned from witnesses, had absolutely captivated him to the point of manipulating him at will, and causing him to commit murder.

“This letter is a declaration of love for you, I love you above any obstacle, any inconvenience, I love you because you fill me with life and make me feel like the right woman. most important in the world. Your Maje, your witch, your ugly … But at the end of the day … yours! ”He wrote the call black widow patraix in Salvador in the first days of her meeting, in 2015, when she was about to get married Antonio.

For 2017, according to what the judgment on the nurse collects, May she brought up the idea of ​​killing her husband. “I want him to die, I wish him harm, it will pay dearly”, wrote the woman to Thomas, one of her lovers, in June 2017, speaking of her husband. The woman therefore groped her loved one to see if the physiotherapist would dare to go that far at her request. But that did not happen.

Salvador, instead, he replied in the affirmative when May He asked her if he would commit this crime for her. They then accepted, according to what the newspaper reports The country, that the fact of blood would occur in the garage where he kept the company car Antoniowhen he got in the car in the morning to go to work.

7:40 a.m. Aug 16, 2017, Salvador he waited squatting in the parking lot for Antonio get in his car. In love with May he took with him a chef’s knife with a sheet 15 centimeters long by 4 wide that the same nurse had given him, as well as the keys to the parking lot in the street Calamocha from Valencia and the license plate number Peugeot 208 of the company of her husband.

As for the husband of May He faced his vehicle, his killer pounced on him and stabbed him six times. Four of them pierced his heart. Antonio Navarro he died on the spot, but his body, surrounded by a pool of blood, was not found until the afternoon of the same day, by a neighbor of the place.

When the police questioned the widow of AntonioShe noted that instead of being devastated by her husband’s death, in her statement to the law, she only looked at her phone screen and apparently didn’t stop chatting. It is therefore that justice decided to “type” his smartphone and they discovered not only their parallel lives but also signs of what could be the instigation of the crime.

The woman had concocted with her lover Salvador The alibi that her husband was assaulted and murdered during an attempted robbery, but the theory nowhere closed and the indications of the wiretapping clearly pointed out that the bill for the crime was paid by Widow of Antonio and his lover.

Finally, January 10, 2018, the police have enough evidence to arrest the two lovers, Maje and Salvador. First, Salvador He took charge of the crime and released her from prosecution, but when he learned that the nurse was having a relationship with another man in prison, he was filled with resentment and decided to speak the truth. Is this May She wanted to get rid of her husband without needing a divorce that would leave her with no inheritance, no life insurance and no widow’s pension.

At November 2020, after a trial that held all of Spain in suspense, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community condemned 22 years in prison for María Jesús Moreno, for the stabbing murder of her husband, Antonio, in the summer of 2017. One of her lovers and material perpetrator, Salvador Rodrigo, was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

The woman spends her days at Picassent prison, where she has been locked up since 2018 and, according to Spanish media reports, her seduction practices remain intact. The Iberian media El Español reports that, during her incarceration in this mixed prison, the woman entered into a love affair with a man convicted of murder, whom she would cheat with another prisoner, a 59-year-old man, recognized guilty of sexual abuse.

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