Here's a story about one of his massacres from Historia Dominicana en Gráficas:Wow so in essence he was the founder of sister wives show ..
Commemorating the 71st anniversary of "The Massacre of El Número" - Total of 10 murders
In the cab of Porfirio Ernesto "Prim" truck that June 1, 1950 were two drivers (Juan Rosario and "Califón") and Porfirio Ernesto himself. On top of the bed of the truck were three assistants known as "Los Cibaeños", a pregnant woman who because of her size was called "La cosita" and the chicken merchant Zenón Alcántara.
The truck was always traveling the same route so it was easy to plan the crime.
Porfirio Ernesto "Prim" was shot dead, six passengers were killed with clubs by a military commando and then their bodies were thrown into the truck by a cliff known as "El Número".
As the truck got stuck and did not fall to the bottom, they were forced to set it on fire to cover up any evidence of murder. The seventh, driver Juan Rosario, survived because he posed as dead.
Despite his serious burn wounds and bruises, he managed to walk about eight kilometers. Then, he was picked up by a Samaritan transporter who took him to the hospital in Baní where Juan described the ambush, the clubs, the fire and the woman's pleas repeatedly to the nurses, doctors and then to Porfirio Ernesto's own brother, Dr. Víctor Manuel Ramírez Alcántara. Hours later, the driver Juan Rosario was killed at night in the hospital itself by unknown persons.
As if that were not enough, they also murdered another witness who dared to confess. The historian Santiago Estrella Veloz tells us:
"Dr. Ramírez Alcántara had to take the path of exile. However, before that and five days after the crime, Police Sergeant Alejandro Méndez came to his office, who told him with details of all the details of the murder of Prim and his companions, details that he knew perfectly well because he had received an order from Colonel Teodoro Noboa Martínez to participate in a "special mission" with members of the Army.
"Hours after his meeting with Dr. Ramírez Alcántara, Sergeant Méndez was arrested and taken to the Police Palace in Ciudad Trujillo. That same night they handed the body over to his wife, who was told that the sergeant had hanged himself."
But this sequel of deaths is not over yet. In his book Trujillo: La herencia del Caudillo (pp. 152-153), the former head of the SIM northern region, Victor A. Peña Rivera, also recounts this massacre and contributes an interesting detail. The woman on the truck bed was pregnant and was the wife of a police sergeant stationed in San Juan de la Maguana:
"To avoid complications, the immediate chief of that police officer received orders to arrest him incommunicado. And then they decided to give him an injection of poison, explaining that he had died of the heart. This sergeant had been in the police for many years, he was a loyal servant and his record of service was excellent."
Because it is a vile massacre of seven people (including a woman) plus the murder of two witnesses and a murder as a sequel, we decided to include below the detailed account that Juan Bosch makes of this rogue act under the title of An of blood in the land of Trujillo, written the same year in which the massacre occurred.
What motivated this bloodthirsty premeditated and well-coordinated action against Porfirio Ernesto Ramírez Alcántara in that they also eliminated the seven witnesses plus a military and a policeman?
Porfirio Ernesto's brother, General Miguel A. Ramirez Alcántara, had become an enemy of Trujillo since 1930. In the Cayo Confites expedition of 1947, he was the commander of one of the battalions, although this invasion was aborted for treason. He also led, together with General Juancito Rodríguez, Luperón's expedition. His sister Cristina, who lived en Nueva York, she was also a sworn enemy of the dictator. Miguel A. Ramírez also stood out militarily as a member of the Caribbean Legion in the Costa Rican civil war, being a general of the troops of Figueres, a democratic leader critical of Trujillo.
After moving to the United States, he played a prominent role among the Dominican exile. For the purchase of weapons for a new military action against Trujillo, he was sentenced to prison in the United States. All this was more than enough to compromise the lives of the brothers who still lived in Santo Domingo, Porfirio Ernesto nicknamed "Prim" and Dr. Víctor Manuel Ramírez Alcántara. Prim was a prosperous transport entrepreneur. With the punctuality that characterized the dictatorship when it came to eliminating an inconvenience, its destiny marked by the unforgivable crime of carrying the same blood of an anti-trujillista came inexorably to Porfirio Ernesto. Soon after, Dr. Víctor Manuel Ramírez Alcántara and several members of that family took refuge in various embassies to save their lives.
They also killed a fourth brother, Ángel Darío Ramírez Alcántara ("Unito"), who was kidnapped and disappeared in Havana, Cuba (see section CRIMES III).
As the professor and writer Juan Bosch tells us in detail this cowardly and bloody case in which they wanted to simulate a mass accident (eight people), we refer the reader to the professor's article: An of blood in the land of Trujillo.
The fact that they had clubs in their hands demonstrates the intention from the beginning to simulate an accident (the blows to the body would be due to the fall off the cliff). This is possible when the victim can be easily killed with a few clubs. As Porfirio Ernesto was a big and strong man, and as he put up formidable resistance, the number of blows he would have received to be able to bend him would be inconsistent with the blows by accident. Probably because of that and because in order to kill him they would have to give him many more blows, they decided to execute him with gunfire and that is why they did not throw Prim's body inside the truck along with the other seven but had to disappear his body pierced with bullets.
Readers should remember that during the dictatorship the Dominican people were almost completely unarmed. Weapons were completely banned and anyone discovered with an illegal weapon ended up in a torture center. Almost all the military and police had to leave the gun in the barracks when they went home. Only Trujillo's trusted officers could carry the weapon 24 hours a day. As for the anti-trujillista militants, some managed to seize a weapon with a lot of work and kept it well hidden until the moment absolutely necessary to use it.
Therefore, when the dictatorship wanted to eliminate someone in the street without it being known that they were government henchmen, they resorted mainly to clubs, knives or strangulation because death by shot in a totally unarmed town necessarily meant that he died at the hands of the military. When they were shot dead, then the body disappeared, unless they wanted to chastise the local population.
Naturally, as always, if the people were scandalized, the Benefactor claimed total innocence of what happened and promised prompt and certain justice. We repeat what has been pointed out by those who knew very well the natural duplicity of the dictator. Trujillo's simulation of being totally on the sidelines of these murders was known to all those around him and to the population who were tired of always seeing the same melodrama of innocence and indignation when they could not hide the crime.
No middle- or high-ranking officer who valued his own life and who had an allergy to the gruesome tortures on his own body was going to incur a massacre of this magnitude on his own, without the order of the highest hierarchy. The ease with which Trujillo eliminated his own henchmen was well known. In addition, the fact that the one who headed this criminal command was the head of the military aviation and Trujillo's confidant, Gen. Federico Fiallo, something unusual, indicates that the order came directly from far above.
As if the above were not enough, it should also be noted that this massacre was well planned because in advance the command had asked Porfirio (Prin) to transport about eight soldiers, who would be his own murderers (of him and the seven passengers) and that those of the command in the jeep were prepared with clubs to kill them with sticks and with this to be able to simulate an accident. In addition, there were other military men waiting in advance on the heights of "The Number" to help with the assembly of the "accident".
Seven killed to silence witnesses and make the accident credible
Plus a soldier killed for speaking.
Also the husband of one of the victims so that he would not investigate
All that to be able to kill only one man, Porfirio Ernesto "Prim"
Simply because he was the brother of an anti-Trujillista militant abroad
Text: Heroes of May 30, 1961