Book launch: The Psychopaths of Viña

At the beginning of the 1980s, a series of crimes shook Viña del Mar and shocked the entire country. What seemed like a quiet city became the scene of one of the most high-profile police investigations in the history of Chile, marked by the discovery that those responsible were two officials in charge of maintaining order and security.

In Los sicópatas de Viña, the writer and journalist Alfonso Alcalde reconstructs with rigor and sensitivity one of the darkest episodes in the Chilean police chronicle. Through a story of great narrative force, the author follows the development of the crimes, the investigation, the trial and the psychological profiles of Carlos Topp Collins and Jorge Sagredo Pizarro, known as the "Viña psychopaths."

This publication transforms real events into a profound reflection on the fear, violence and contradictions of a society that saw how those who were supposed to protect it became its main threats.