Looking after your neighbor's box of dildos: what could go wrong? In fairness to the Spanish woman who agreed to store her neighbor's sex toys, what ended up happening was not exactly something she could have seen coming, even if the favor was still unusual. That's because she found a severed human head in the box. The woman's neighbor and owner of the sex toys/dead guy's head, 61-year-old Maria del Carmen Merino, was arrested by Spanish police after her neighbor finally discovered the decapitated head. She's currently facing homicide charges. How did Merino's neighbor find the head, you ask? She was walking around her house and noticed a stench coming from the box of what she believed were sex toys. She thought, "Wow, my neighbor's dildos are pretty smelly. Ugh thanks a lot Maria. You could've at least run these through the dishwasher before you brought them over." So then the woman opened the box of sex toys and found the human head. Then she had a panic attack. (Seeing a decapitated head where you thought dildos were supposed to be will do that to you.) Then she called the cops. According to Merino the head belongs to her ex-boyfriend, 67-year-old Jesus Maria Baranda. Merino claims that Baranda's head was dropped off at her doorstep after he went missing in February. Merino was going to call the police and everything but Baranda's severed head was, Merino says, the only memento she had to remember her beloved by, so she kept it. (Apparently Baranda hadn't left behind a tie or watch or coffee mug.) This story doesn't totally add up in the eyes of the authorities, however, because it appears that Merino took the head to her neighbor's after police informed her they'd be stopping by her place to investigate. And, though it's unclear if the police feel this way, it's pretty fishy that Merino told her neighbor the box with her ex-boyfriend's head in it was actually dildos. What better way to ensure that someone isn't going to open that box than to say, "Oh, what's in there? Just a bunch of penis-shaped stuff I stick inside of me." https://rare.us/rare-humor/neighbor-sex-toys-severed-head/ Spanish women can be insane. However, this raises the legal issue of whether hiding the body always necessarily indicates guilt. Could there be any chance (however small) that this woman's story could indeed be true? That her boyfriend was abducted, the head dropped off on the doorstep (not extremely that uncommon with the organized crime that goes on in Spain) and the insane woman in her grief wanted to hold onto the head and in her insanity didn't want police to take it away. Spanish women can be very passionate, this story isn't entirely beyond all plausibility of something a Spanish woman might do. I'm actually not completely sure the head indicates guilt, because if she had wanted to hide the man's body, what happened to the rest of the body? You'd think she would have tossed the head with the rest of the body, what logical reason would there be to keep the head? How would that help conceal the murder? (i.e. You bury the body off somewhere but you keep the head in a box in your home?) Of course it's equally likely this woman killed her boyfriend and kept the head out of an act of passion, that part she may not have entirely been untruthful to police about. Passionate love and murder may not be so clearly separated in a crazy woman.
