{"id":499981,"date":"2026-02-12T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/nazario-mercedes-known-as-the-serial-killer-is-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:05:30","slug":"nazario-mercedes-known-as-the-serial-killer-is-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/nazario-mercedes-known-as-the-serial-killer-is-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazario Mercedes, known as the \"serial killer,\" is sentenced to 30 years in prison."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ocoa.- \u2014<\/strong> The Collegiate Tribunal of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of Ocoa imposed a sentence of 30 years in prison on <strong>Nazario Mercedes<\/strong>, 66 years old and known in various judicial processes as an alleged <em>\u201cserial killer\u201d<\/em>, after being found guilty of the death of <strong>Daylin Darmelin de los Santos Ram\u00edrez<\/strong>, 23 years old, mother of four children, in an event that occurred on <strong>March 19, 2022<\/strong> in the municipality of <strong>Rancho Arriba, province of San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\nThe court found Mercedes responsible for the murder of de los Santos Ram\u00edrez, a case that moved the community due to the circumstances of the event and the victim's age. The young woman, who had four children, was killed in her own community, which prompted an intense investigation by the Public Ministry and mobilization of judicial authorities.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Aplazan juicio contra Nazario Mercedes acusado de m\u00faltiples homicidios en Ocoa\">http:\/\/Aplazan juicio contra Nazario Mercedes acusado de m\u00faltiples homicidios en Ocoa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nNazario Mercedes has been implicated in various judicial processes for his alleged involvement in multiple homicides of women in different provinces of the country, some of them with events dating back to the <strong>1990s<\/strong>. Among the cases attributed to him are crimes recorded in <strong>San Pedro de Macor\u00eds (1995)<\/strong>, <strong>2008<\/strong>, as well as an attempted homicide in <strong>2014<\/strong>, and the death of another woman in <strong>Villa Altagracia in 2024<\/strong>, which contributed to the social perception that he was an aggressor with a history of violence against women.\n\nThe sentence, which seeks to apply the most severe penalties contemplated in the Dominican Penal Code for crimes of this nature, includes a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison, which Mercedes will begin to serve in a penitentiary center in the country.\n\nFamily members of the victim and other people linked to the cases have closely followed the development of the judicial process, which also represents a message of rigor in the fight against violence against women and the search for justice in events that have generated national shock.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocoa.- \u2014 The Collegiate Tribunal of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of Ocoa imposed a sentence of 30 years in prison on Nazario Mercedes, 66 years old and known in various judicial processes as an alleged \u201cserial killer\u201d, after being found guilty of the death of Daylin Darmelin de los Santos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36952],"tags":[40706,42400],"class_list":{"0":"post-499981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-justice","7":"tag-condemnation","8":"tag-nazario-mercedes"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Justice"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}