A violent criminal with an extensive record of sexual offenses has reportedly begun the process of “transitioning” to “female” while serving a 93-year sentence for the sadistic murder of two female police trainees. Pedro Jiménez García may soon be entitled to request a transfer to a women’s prison.
Born in 1969 in Barcelona, Jiménez entered the penal system as a teenager. At 16, he was placed in a juvenile facility. From there, he spent the majority of his adult life behind bars, with brief periods of temporary prison leave (permisos penitenciarios) that would consistently end in new crimes.
In April 1992, while on a six-day prison leave, he was detained for committing a rape in an early indication that his freedom could quickly result in renewed violence.
The pattern repeated years later, on March 27, 2003, during what was described as his first prison leave in over a decade while serving a 30-year sentence for two rapes. Jiménez followed a 19-year-old woman into her building. Armed with a knife, he forced her into her unit, tied her to a bed, sexually assaulted her, and threatened to kill her if she reported the attack.
While the young woman did seek out the assistance of law enforcement, her case ran into consistent stalls. It was initially processed not as a sexual assault prosecution but as a lesser offense, and for a time it was archived. Meanwhile, Jiménez was returned to prison but, crucially, remained eligible for future leave.
A second prison leave authorized in May 2003 was temporarily suspended after the attack, but the suspension did not last long. By 2004, judicial oversight allowed his leaves to resume under the justification of trialling social reintegration.
Jiménez was granted a new prison leave in 2004, spanning from October 3 to October 6. Within that narrow window, the worst of his crimes would occur.
After being released into the community for his leave, he spotted two women who would become his new victims; María Aurora Rodríguez, 23, and Silvia Nogaledo García, 28. Both women were police trainees from León and shared an apartment in Bellvitge.
What followed was a sustained and brutal attack.
Jiménez forced his way inside their home by holding Aurora at knifepoint as she was entering the building. He restrained both of the women before sexually assaulting Aurora and stabbing her to death. He then turned his attention to Nogaledo, killing her as well. The violence was described in court as marked by extreme cruelty and sadism.
Before leaving, he set fire to the apartment in an effort to destroy the evidence of his crimes, but the bodies of the two young women were later discovered amid the wreckage.
Jiménez did not return to prison when his leave expired, instead fleeing to hide in a friend’s shack in Girona. On October 7, 2004, he was arrested after authorities located him and linked him to the crime.
As the investigation into his crime widened, it quickly became clear that the Bellvitge murders were not an isolated act.
The unsolved 2003 assault resurfaced when the victim recognized Jiménez after seeing his image in media coverage. DNA evidence later confirmed his involvement, tying him definitively to that earlier crime.
En 2004, Pedro Jimenez asesinó a puñaladas y violó a dos mujeres policías en prácticas durante un permiso penitenciario. Fue condenado a 93 años.
— Contra El Borrado de las Mujeres (@ContraBorrado) April 17, 2026
Según El Confidencial, que cita fuentes penitenciarias, ha pedido iniciar el proceso de cambio de sexo registral aunque no ha empezado… pic.twitter.com/8f8VC1wRuD
Court-appointed psychiatrists assigned to profile Jiménez described him as exhibiting psychopathic traits and a high degree of anti-sociality, but fully aware of his actions.
In 2008, Jiménez was convicted and sentenced to more than 80 years in prison. However, the ruling was later annulled by the Supreme Court on procedural grounds, which determined the case should have been heard by a jury.
The case was re-tried, and, in March 2010, a Barcelona court sentenced Jiménez to 93 years and 11 months in prison for the murders, sexual assault, and related crimes. Under Spanish law, the effective maximum time he will serve is set at 40 years.
Separately, Jiménez was sentenced to 16 years for the March 2003 assault.
Jiménez was sent to serve his sentence in Quatre Camins prison, but requested a transfer to another institution after a documentary about his crimes was released and other inmates became aware of his extensive history of sexual violence. He claimed that his safety was not guaranteed in Quatre Camins, but it is unclear if he was ever moved.
Earlier this month, El Confidencial published an article revealing that Jiménez has now filed a request to begin hormone replacement therapy and was now identifying as a “woman.”
Jiménez is the second notoriously violent inmate in Spain to announce his decision to “transition” in the past month.
As previously reported by Reduxx, one of Spain’s most prolific serial killers is now being held in a women’s correctional unit after beginning to identify as transgender while behind bars. Joan Vila Dilmé, also known as the Olot nursing home killer, is reportedly now going by the name “Aida.”
One of Spain's most prolific serial killers has been moved to a women's correctional unit after beginning to identify as a "woman."
— REDUXX (@reduxx) April 15, 2026
Joan Vila Dilmé, now known as "Aida," is serving a 127-year sentence for murdering 11 people.https://t.co/mA3mhdbH8C
Vila, 60, was sentenced to 127 years in prison in 2013 for the murders of 11 elderly residents at the care home he worked at, 9 women and 2 men.
After Vila began feminizing hormone therapy, he was moved to the women’s unit at Puig de les Basses prison in Figueres.
In 2024, Spain passed a controversial “trans law” which massively broadened the scope of protections and privileges for those who claim a transgender identity.
The law, passed on February 16, 2024, granted anyone over the age of 16 the right to change the gender reflected on their official documents without any social or medical proof of transitioning. While women’s rights advocates expressed concern with the result the law would have on males being given access to women’s spaces, including domestic violence shelters and prisons, the law went into effect on May 2 of that year.
In the region of Catalonia, where both Jiménez and Vila are incarcerated, transgender inmates have the right to request transfer to a women’s unit or women’s correctional facility. While authorities claim to assess requests on a case-by-case basis and weigh the nature of the transgender inmate’s crimes, Vila’s transfer suggests that even violent transgender-identifying inmates are successfully being moved to women’s facilities.