From the Supreme Court document:
Murder of Joana Cipriano.
These are, according to the initial trial, the facts that were proved in court, and those that were not:
"II. FUNDAMENTATION
9. Matter of fact according to the appealed court
9. 1. Facts considered to be proved:aj) the arguidos then decided, conjointly, to cut the minor’s body in order to make it possible to store it in the deep freezer that existed in the living room;
al) to pursue that purpose, the arguidos provided themselves with a knife and a metal-cutting saw that were available inside the house, instruments that were apt to obtain the results that they intended, within approximately 30 minutes;
am) with said instruments, helping each other, the arguidos cut CC’s body, separating the head from the torso and cutting the legs at the knee area;
an) each one of those body parts was placed inside plastic bags – the head in one, the torso and part of the legs in another and the two legs below the knee in a third one – and after they knotted up the opening of the bag that contained the head, they tried, at least, to place said bags inside the deep freezer’s three compartments, leaving blood from the minor on several areas inside the deep freezer’s second drawer;
ao) the arguidos did not place the shoes that the minor was wearing, inside the bags, and all the pairs of shoes that the minor was using that summer, stayed inside the house;
9. 2. Facts considered not to be proved:20- that the arguidos knotted the opening of the bags that contained the torso and the legs;
21- that the arguidos effectively placed the three bags inside the tree compartments of the deep freezer;
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