Millionaire Executive Alberto Izaga Judged Insane After Battering Daughter to Death

May 01, 2008

Shortly after millionaire insurance executive Alberto Izaga, 36, attended a motivational seminar given by South African explorer Mike Horn on May 29, 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland, the high-flying Spanish-born Londoner, according to friends, appeared to have been deeply affected by the conference, on which he reportedly had become fixated.  In fact, it was the first thing that he began talking about with his wife when he awoke the next morning.  Four days later, on June 3, after recalling having viewed the movie, Bug while on a recent vacation to the U.S., and after having not slept for at least 72 hours, Izaga attacked his two-year-old daughter, Yanire, by bashing her head against the wooden floor of his multi-million pound flat that overlooks the Houses of Parliament.  Bug, which is about a man and a woman who were driven insane by insects crawling beneath their skin, was directed by William Friedkin, the man who directed The Exorcist in the early 1970s.  It had been the only movie with available seats at the time they had decided to see a movie.

The night before the attack, while Izaga and his wife walked to a riverside restaurant for dinner, Izaga began gesticulating to no one in particular. Much to his wife's surprise, he also began talking to himself.  When he awoke at 4:30 the next morning, June 3, he startled his sleeping wife when he began punching a pillow and crying, apparently over not being able to sleep.  For the next several hours he walked around the apartment, ranting about such things as religion, the movie, Bug, and a secret sect that he believed was recruiting financial executives like himself to take over the world, before walking into the sitting room where he picked up little Yanire, who had just woke up, and began shouting "muerte," Spanish for death, as he shook her, and said:  "I know what to do.  I have to kill her."

Horrified as Izaga began slamming his little girl's head against the floor, his wife made a desperate attempt to get help by placing a call to a friend.  The friend, however, did not answer the phone.  Instead, the friend's cell phone's voice mail recorded...

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