José María Manuel Pablo de la Cruz Jarabo Pérez Morris was born on 28 April 1923, in Madrid, Spain.
Jarabo hated the United States and it was there he committed his first crime, trafficking of human beings, for which he was arrested and sentenced to a term of three years in prison.
In Spain he befriended many wealthy people and began a career as a professional gambler, using the money that his mother sent him from Puerto Rico.
In 1950 he began to drink and take drugs heavily, and as the years went by his financial situation became more dire because his mother stopped sending him money.
Planning to murder Fernández and not wanting to leave a witness, Jarabo took a clothes iron and hit the woman across the head.