Marcello Aravena's IQ is extremely low as tests performed by police psychologists after his arrest in 2006 showed he had a vocabulary equivalent to that possessed by an eight year-old boy.
24 Facts About Marcello Aravena
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The most notable aspect of Marcello Aravena is his ape-like face, which frequently led him as a both a boy and as an adult to have nicknames such as "the Great White Chilean Ape" and the "Mountain Gorilla".
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Marcello Aravena was a tae kwon do enthusiast who worked as a bouncer in strip club owned by Mushey, the secretary of the Winnipeg Bandidos chapter.
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Marcello Aravena was considered by those who knew him to be a follower, not a leader.
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Marcello Aravena worked as a boxer and a mixed martial arts fighter, usually losing his matches held across the Prairies, but was felt to be useful as "muscle" for the Winnipeg Bandido chapter.
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Marcello Aravena had an MMA fight in Steinbach scheduled, so it was agreed that he would not go with Sandham to Kellestine's farm, but fly out alone after the fight.
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Marcello Aravena recalled that Kellestine would smile and say "mm-mm good" before eating excrement, which led him to the conclusion that Kellestine was a "little bit of a weirdo".
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Kellestine told Marcello Aravena to get him beer and water for the rest.
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Kellestine told Marcello Aravena to tell the men on the roof that everything was fine, which confused Marcello Aravena as there was no-one on the roof.
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Marcello Aravena stood guard over the prisoners, threatening them with his baseball bat if any tried to escape.
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Marcello Aravena was ordered to place his body inside of his tow truck, through he professed to be believed that Krarakis was going to the hospital despite being dead.
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When Marcello Aravena handed Kellestine another handgun, Sinpoli was finally finished off by a shot to the head.
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Marcello Aravena did not have an official Bandidos patch to wear, so his mother sewed up a pseudo-Bandido patch to go with his biker jacket.
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Marcello Aravena's mother sewed up fake Bandidos patches to be worn by the rest of the chapter, whom Sandham had falsely claimed now to be "full patch".
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On 16 June 2006, Marcello Aravena was arrested in Winnipeg on eight counts of first-degree murder along with Mushey and Sandham.
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Marcello Aravena did not resist his arrest and instead kissed his dog, Harley, before being handcuffed.
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Marcello Aravena was charged with "constructive first-degree murder", meaning that through he had not killed anyone himself, the Crown alleged that he had aware of the plans to commit murder and that by assisting the killers by standing guard that he was just as much guilty of first-degree murder as those who did the actually did the killing.
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Kellestine was defended by Clay Powell, a Toronto lawyer best known for defending Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones after he was arrested for heroin possession in Toronto in 1977; Sandham was defended by Don Crawford, a lawyer used to defending "ambitious dimwits"; and Marcello Aravena was defended by Tony Bryant, well known in Ontario for his dogged defence of the serial killer Paul Bernardo at his 1995 trial.
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Marcello Aravena began with describing how in Chile, his father had abandoned his mother when he was a toddler, and how he came to Canada as a child looking for a better life.
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Marcello Aravena testified his IQ was very low as he failed grades 7,8, and 9 before dropping out of school in grade 10, saying he just could not handle learning, and that his principal accomplishment in life was losing MMA fights.
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Kelly noted that Marcello Aravena, who stood 6'2, weighed 280 pounds and was very muscular, did not try to help Flanz despite the way that Kellestine kept pistol-whipping and insulting him for being Jewish.
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Marcello Aravena answered that he didn't know, saying he was a very stupid man who had much trouble when it came to thinking.
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Marcello Aravena's behavior was later used by the Crown at his appeals to prove he was indeed a violent outlaw biker.
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Marcello Aravena is currently serving a life sentence at Stony Mountain Penitentiary in Manitoba with no chance of parole.