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SPAIN: Prolific Serial Killer Transitions While Serving 127-Year Sentence, Is Now Being Held In A Women's Unit

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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.” 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. Dubbed “the angel of death” by Spanish media, Vila was arrested…

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The case is not isolated and at least two other prisoners have asked for a change of sex. One of them is the killer of two policemen in 2004, who he raped and killed in his apartment in Hospitalet.

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Joan Vila, known as the Olot caretaker and sentenced to 127 years for the murder of eleven elderly people at the La Caritat residence, has begun a gender transition process and has been transferred to the women's module of the Puig de les Basses penitentiary center, where he continues to serve his sentence.

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Without permits after 16 years in prison, the courts kept him in closed detention despite his request for progress.

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He is known as Olot's warden (Girona), Joan Vila, who is serving 127 years in prison at Puig de les Basses Prison for murdering eleven elderly people at the residence...

·Madrid, Spain
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abc broke the news in Spain on Wednesday, April 15, 2026.
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