According to the website Series DiaryThe Netflix launched this Friday (26), a true crime that promises. The miniseries arrives on the platform The Asunta Case, portrait of one of the most shocking criminal cases in the police and judicial history of Spain that mobilized great press coverage and moved the entire population. This is Asunta Basterra, a Chinese girl who died of asphyxiation at the age of 12. Her adoptive parents were convicted as co-perpetrators of the crime.
Asunta died on September 21, 2013. On this day, Rosario Porto (Candela Peña) and Alfonso Basterra (Tristan Ulloa) went to the police to report their daughter missing. Hours later, the girl’s body was found near a road in the city of Santiago de Compostela.
The miniseries covers all sides of the investigation until conviction. News of the crime shook all of Spain, and Rosario and Alfonso were promptly identified as possible masterminds of the murder. What would lead parents to end their own daughter’s life? What hides behind this perfect family?
The miniseries shows the couple in three phases: before the divorce, after the divorce and after their daughter’s murder. Rosario and Basterra were separated when they decided to adopt Asunta as a baby. She was a lawyer, he is a journalist. The relationship between the two has always been tense, including infidelity.
In October 2015, a popular jury found the Spanish couple guilty of drugging and asphyxiating Asunta; they were sentenced to 18 years behind bars. According to the prosecution, the murder was premeditated by the couple, but carried out by the mother.
The screenwriter and producer Ramon Camposshowrunner of the miniseries The Asunta Casemade a documentary about the investigation, released in 2017. Now, it presents new elements in the six-episode fictional plot, in which you can delve deeper into the relationship between the girl’s parents, uncovering motivations and addressing their psyche.
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