A double murderer who cut up one of his victims and hid part of the body in a suitcase is thought to have been inspired by his own crime novel’s grisly plot line.
Investigators in Spain believe Pierre Danilo could have been acting out the events of a crime novel he co-wrote with a serial killer while serving a previous jail term for drug smuggling, the Times reported.
Danilo, 36, knifed hairdresser Alberto Enrique Ferrer to death before dismembering his body in the bath and packing the torso in a suitcase.
He then murdered Blas Gámez, a police officer who was investigating Mr Ferrer’s death. Mr Gámez had visited Danilo at home in Valencia and was stabbed in the chest on Monday.
Police officers at the scene shot Danilo dead.
Spanish police said they are now “exploring a series of theories behind these incidents”.
Danilo, from Gothenburg in Sweden, was imprisoned in 2004 for 14 years for smuggling drugs from the Netherlands to the US. While in prison, he wrote a novel called With Death as a Shadow with serial killer Ricard AR Nilsson.
According to the Times, police believe victim Mr Ferrer, 42, was Danilo’s lover.
One witness described seeing Danilo moving a suitcase, while detectives followed a rough trail of blood traces to the flat where Danilo had gone into hiding after the murder, believed to have taken place on Sunday night.
Mr Gámez was stabbed in the chest – the same as the murders in the crime novel – when he tried to arrest Danilo.
