'Facebook Killer' breaks his silence: "I am not a monster"

The man identified as Derek Medina, but known as 'The Facebook Killer,' spoke for the first time with a media outlet after being sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Jennifer Alfonso, in 2013.

The entire conversation was recorded on video.

The crime carried out by the young man, who was 31 years old at the time, generated great international attention after Medina took a photo of the victim's body and published it on Facebook.

He now says that when he published that image, he did not do so “with cruel intentions.”

The horrendous murder occurred in the South Miami townhouse where they lived. At that time, Medina and Alfonso, 26 years old, shared a life together as a married couple.

“If I hadn't kept shooting, she would have killed me. I would have died. And you would be doing the interview with her instead of me,” he said about the events that took place that morning in the kitchen of the residence, which became the crime scene.

But Derek was not the only one who spoke with the team of reporters who work for Telemundo 51 and the network that published the special report. The victim's mother also broke the silence and reacted to Medina's statements.

“That story about him that he was an abused man and that he was, his life was at risk or whatever you say. That is ridiculous,” Carolyn Anderson assured journalist Gloria Ordaz of that news space.

The woman added: “I feel sorry for him because he took his own life. Everything that has happened and everything that he says that has turned him into a monster, that is his fault, that is his fault, that he is not able to look in the mirror and see his own guilt."

Others involved such as investigators and agents who worked on the case also contributed their testimony.

Confessions of the Facebook Killer is part of a series of journalistic works titled “Anatomy of a Crime,” with Ordaz at the head of the production team.