Explore sourced Ecuadorian criminal cases with legal outcomes stated precisely. The collection covers femicide, murder, sexual violence and institutional failure while separating criminal convictions, international state responsibility and unresolved individual accountability.
Conviction or equivalent adjudicated outcome verified from reliable reporting or official records.
Diana Carolina Ramírez Reyes was killed in Ibarra on January 19, 2019, after a prolonged public hostage crisis. Yordis Rafael Lozada was convicted of aggravated femicide and sentenced to 34 years and eight months; the police response prompted official scrutiny.
Open case file →Juliana Campoverde, 18, disappeared in southern Quito in July 2012. Jonathan Carrillo was convicted of kidnapping resulting in death and sentenced to 25 years; the appellate court upheld the judgment while ordering authorities to continue searching for Juliana’s remains.
Open case file →In January 2019, a woman protected publicly as “Martha” was sexually assaulted at a Quito bar-restaurant. Three men were convicted of group rape and each received 29 years and four months in prison.
Open case file →Nine-year-old Emilia Benavides disappeared after leaving school in Loja in December 2017. Two co-defendants were convicted, and an appellate court later increased their aggregate prison terms to Ecuador's 40-year statutory maximum.
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Karina del Pozo, 20, was killed in Quito in February 2013. David Piña, Gustavo Salazar and José Sevilla were convicted of murder and received 25-year sentences that survived later appellate review.
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Ecuadorian singer Edith Bermeo, known as Sharon, died in Santa Elena in January 2015. Her partner Geovanny López was later convicted of femicide and his 26-year prison sentence was upheld on appeal in January 2016.
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Ecuadorian lawyer María Belén Bernal was killed inside Quito's police academy in September 2022. Germán Cáceres was convicted of femicide; Ecuador's National Court reaffirmed his 34-year-and-8-month sentence in August 2026.
Open case file →Cases remain here only when reliable evidence supports that classification.
Santiago, 17, and Andrés Restrepo, 14, disappeared after police detention in 1988. Ecuador accepted responsibility and four officers were convicted, but the brothers’ remains and full accountability remain unresolved.
Open case file →Paola Guzmán Albarracín, 16, died in 2002 after sustained sexual abuse by the vice-principal of her state school. The Inter-American Court held Ecuador responsible in 2020, but the domestic criminal process produced no valid conviction.
Open case file →Crime by Region separates final court outcomes from allegations, institutional controversy and unresolved questions. Each dossier keeps charged, uncharged, acquitted and convicted people in distinct legal categories; the Martha file likewise excludes a person whom prosecutors declined to accuse.