sulky from "Los Pinos" to "La Buena Suerte", where his brother Dionisio was staying with his twelve-year old daughter Sarita. After killing his brother with two shots from a double-barreled shotgun, he then beat Sarita with the weapon's barrels and threw her down a well. Banks then fired other two shots into the well, killing her. Juan Gaitán, who arrived shortly after, was also gunned down by Banks as soon as the worker dismounted from his horse. Banks then traveled back five kilometers to "El Trébol", where he met another rural worker named Claudio Loiza. After convincing Loiza that Dionisio was sick and needed aid, they go to "La Buena Suerte". Partway between the two ranches, Banks shot Loiza to death and hid his body. Once again at "El Trébol", Banks spent the rest of the evening with those staying there; Bank's sister María Ana, his brother Miguel, who was terminally ill, Miguel's wife Julia Dillon, Gaitán's little daughter María Ercilia, and the other two Dionisio's daughters, Cecilia and Anita. At night he awoke his sister, convinced her to come to "la Buena Suerte" to check on Dionisio, and shot her in the back along the way, dropping her lifeless body from the sulky. He returned to "El Trébol", woke up Miguel, his sister-in-law Julia, and fifteen-year-old Cecilia, and shot them each to death. He left five-year-old Anita and four-year-old María Ercilia alive and locked them in a room, not before providing the girls with water and hardtacks. In the first hours of 19 April, Banks sought the help of the family's doctor, Rafael Marquestán, who lived in the vicinity of "El Trébol", claiming that all his family had been murdered in a robbery attempt by Loyza and Gaitán, whom he had shot in self-defence, and asked Marquestán for a ride to Azul. While on his way to town on the doctor's car, and still carrying the shotgun with him, Banks suspiciously suggested that no autopsies would be needed. Once at his house in Azul he ordered seven coffins by phone to the local mortuary. This because he knew that Loyza's body was still unaccounted for. Then Banks tried to contact his friend Agustín Carús, a renowned lawyer, who eventually refused to assist him. Banks' story According to Banks, he came upon Gaitán and Loiza after they had attacked his family. Banks then shot Gaitán dead and wounded Loiza, who