Territorio negro: Crímenes reales del siglo XXI- AUDIOLIBRO

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Welcome to Odiburg. Editorial Planeta presentsblack territory real crimes of the 21st century
by Manuel Marlaska and Luis Rendueles,narrated by the authors you Ares, one
of the thirty- six investigators towhom has been entrusted the resolution of the

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most extraordinary of crimes, the theftof a human life. You speak for
the dead, you come to thosewho are no longer in this world.
The check with your pay may comefrom the D A, but damn it
after six beers. You can convinceyourself without too much trouble that you work
directly for God. Our lord DavidSimon, murder. My job is just

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like anyone else I sleep a littlebit and I don' t like what
I see. Former police officer anddetective Germandaretta, played by Alfredo Landa in
José Luis García' s cran film. Ernest HEMINGWII said the world is a
good place to fight for. Iagree. In the second part, Detective
Somerset played by Morgan Freeman in DavidFincher' s film Seven. Before I

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started, I wrote Lorenzo Silva inthe foreword to our first book. Thus
they kill today' s two thousandtwo themes that a society can be characterized
through its pathological expressions. The Spanishmurderer of the 20th century and the beginning
of the 21st is undoubtedly very differentfrom the one recorded in the 19th century

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or in the 1950s, because thesociety in which he is born and acts
differs in a very sensitive way fromthose in which he is born. Almost
two decades have passed since we publishedthat work in the first twenty years of
the 21st century. We have continuedto be journalists of events and to observe
these pathological expressions of reality, crimesand crime from our reporter posts to tell

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them week in black territory. Thesection that we have had for thirteen years
in the program of Onda Cero Julián, the wave directed by Julia Otero,
and this observation post has served usto verify that the killers have changed,
as well as the researchers and techniquesthat they employ to pursue them. There

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are vertiginous times when pause and reflectionseem like things of the past and instant
consumption also fills our entire profession,whose exercise is sometimes reduced to briefs,
texts or urgent tweets. We havehad the privilege of writing this audiobook,
which continues with the calm and restnecessary to address in depth thirteen murders and
some of them I have spoken andwritten much about others practically nothing. Our

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intention has been to offer a completeview of crime in this twenty- first
century in almost every corner of ourcountry. For this audio book pass women
who die and women who kill,murderers moved by jealousy, for money,
for planuns, for madness, criminalswho manage to get away with impunity and
others who commit terrible acts soaked withhatred, drugs or alcohol. We have

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always sought to maintain absolute respect forthe victims, a principle that has always
guided our professional steps. As wellas those who take care of taking off
the streets, those who have doneso much harm. In this audio book
you will see policemen, civil guardsand mossus, doing their work often little
understood or unknown. For the public. Serve this audio book of homage to

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all of them and their inexhaustible struggle, To clarify the most extraordinary of crimes,
as David Simon says, the theftof a human life, a life
in the suitcase. In the suitcasewe put all his clothes, his school
stuff, his chromes, his books. Josefa, Caesar' s grandmother,

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Juana Tei, life fits in asuitcase. Refugees fleeing desperate war carry suitcases
in which they put what is necessaryto rebuild their lives. Far from the
horror the Jewish prisoners climbed the cattletrains that drove them to the extermination camps
with suitcases that were looted by theNazis, while their owners were dying to

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liganate the cyclone be in the gaschambers. The Spaniards, who in the
fifties of the last century were lookingfor a better future for themselves and their
families in German or Swiss factories,crossed Media Europe with suitcases of hardware,
just as migrants who arrived on theisland of Ellis had done a century before
to live the American dream. Thelife of Caesar, a nine- year

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- old boy, also fit ina suitcase that they found on 23 November
of the year two thousand and ten, two brothers who had gone to destroy
a wooded area of the camel's camel in the municipality of Mahon,
south of the island of Menorca.It was a red suitcase, large of
synthetic fiber from that of those usedin long journeys or in removals in which

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entire stocks fit, especially if theyare as short as Caesar' s.
Upon opening it, the two brotherssaw between piles of clothes and other objects
what clearly looked like a skull withfragments of hair and scalp still attached.
Along with these unquestionably human remains,were stacked summer and winter garments, several

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chrome comics, a school case,a digital watch with plastic strap and two
small cubes of methacrylate with a spiderand a scorpion. Caesar' s life,
the discovery set in motion the policeand judicial machinery. The municipal term
where the Mahon suitcase was found isa national police mark, so the homicide

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group of the Judicial Police Brigade tookover the case within a few hours.
The agents knew they would need thehelp of their colleagues in the General Commissariat,
the elite of the criminal investigation basedin the Canilla Complex in Madrid,
from where the databases of missing personsare managed and centralized. There were two

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solid threads to pull from to beginthe searches, the body and the accompanying
effects. It is rare for amurderer to dispose of his victim' s
body and leave his dearest objects withhim. Just as the ancient Egyptians did
in their funeral rites. The forensicsVíctor Verano and Juan Luis poncela of the

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Instituto de Medicina de Gal de Baleares, were responsible for performing the autopsy of
the human remains, which were transferredby helicopter to Palma de Mallorca. His
examination found that the body, whichstill retained some soft parts, despite the
advanced state of decomposition to which itwas found, was a child between ten
and twelve years of Spanish or LatinAmerican origin. The dentures and detailed study

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of the growing bones shed that agerange. Something more difficult was to set
the date of death. The dateon which the minor' s heart had
stopped beating the coroners leaned towards aconservative calculation and established a very broad time
fork. The remains were between oneand three years old and it was impossible

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to find out the causes of thedeath. There was no trace of the
viscera. The few soft parts thatsurvived the necrophagous fauna showed no signs of
violence and, in view of theX- rays, the bones of the
little one did not show fractures.While the child' s body was thoroughly
checked by the doctors responsible for makingthe corpses speak, homicide and scientific police

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officers were trying to find some lighton the objects contained in the suitcase.
Clothing was conventionally purchased in department storesor stores with hundreds of branches throughout Spain,
which made it difficult to find thetraceability of clothing. It did draw
attention to summer and winter clothes.It gave the impression that whoever organized the

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sinister baggage had been worried about emptyingthe victim' s closet. In the
suitcase were found two comics, Naruto' s albums seven and nine, one
of the most popular characters in themanga drawings. The Glénat editorial certified to
the police that the publications had beenput for sale throughout Spain during the two

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thousand three and two thousand four,a period somewhat prior to the estimated date
of death, which did not helpto narrow down the time of the crime.
A few letters from wrestlers from thewww and the American League of Professional
Struggle, a mixture of sport andshow very popular in the United States and

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that in Spain enjoyed some success inthe early years of the 21st century,
gave a more reliable clue to theresearchers. The prints of those mountains of
muscles with names as peculiar as theundertaker or King Mystery, had gone from
distributing in Spain in two thousand seven, three years before the terrible finding,
the search would begin. From thatdate, the homicide officers of the Balearic

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Islands and those of the General Commissariatof Judicial Police searched their own databases and
those of the Civil Guard and theregional police in search of a complaint for
disappearance filed between January of two thousandseven and two thousand ten that could correspond
with the child in the suitcase.About 2, 000 disappearances of minors are

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reported each year, and it israre for a child to lose track of
him or her without anyone claiming ormissing him or her. The search was
unsuccessful. On the island of Menorcathere was not a single complaint at that
time and in the rest of Spainthey also did not find any that conformed
to what the police were looking for. The body resting in a cold chamber

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of the Balearic Institute of Legal Medicineremained unnamed. Twenty- four hours after
the finding, the officers returned tothe effects of the suitcase. The two
cubes of methacrylate with a scorpion anda spider were part of a collection that
regularly arrived at the kiosks every September. For years, so they were going

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to be of little use. Therewas only one need to analyze the school
case that was eaten by moisture andnecrophagous fauna. Inside there was a compass,
two blue pens and one black BICmark, several colored pencils and a
thousand- square cream eraser, verypopular among the boys for the sweet aroma
that comes from removing the eraser ofthe elastic rubber that kept it attached to

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the case. The police found aninscription that was going to be crucial to
the investigation, with a child-specific spelling. Someone had written c s
a r j F. It wasnot necessary to have lived on 22nd b

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of Baker Street, in the companyof Dr. Watson to conclude that the
owner of the case, presumably thechild in the suitcase, was named Caesar
and his surnames corresponded to the initialsj F. With that certain fact,
the investigators returned to the list ofcomplaints, but there was no answer.

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There was not a single César jF among the thousands of missing minors in
Spain, either in the records ofthe Balearic hospitals and in the schools of
the Autonomous Community, so they extendedtheir search to the archives of the National
Identity Document of Ney. They lookedfor minors with those initials who had yet

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to renew the document, hoping thatthe DN and Chico would have expired in
the last few years after their murder. Bingo that inscription Caesar wrote in his
case was the key clue to hisdeath. César Juana ta Fer Ernandez,
born in Noya on March 6,1990, and domiciled in the same town

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of Coruñesa, had not renewed hisdocument, expired two years ago. The
databases contained only the name of hismother, Mónica Juana te y Fernández,
of whom he had taken the twosurnames, which made it appear that no
one had recognized the fatherhood of thechild. The police found that the woman,

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who received social assistance as a singlemother, had recently renewed her deney
and resided in Mahon, barely sevenkilometres away from the place where Caesar'
s body was found, forty-eight hours had passed since the discovery of
the body and the siege of thepolice investigation narrowed over there. Then more

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than an alleged filicidal mother who doesnot report the disappearance of a child of
barely ten or twelve years old,there could be only one motive. She
was responsible for that disappearance. Thehomicide cops designed a strategy to keep her
not suspicious of any chance of escape. They found that Monica' s parents

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lived in Galicia and that César hadbeen enrolled until June 30, two thousand
eight at the Felipe de Castro Collegein Noya, where he finished third grade
with good grades. Since then ithad ceased to exist for the Spanish education
system, and it had certainly ceasedto exist. Soon after, as they
suspected. At that point, theinvestigators, the police, made the call

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to Victor as routine, grandfather Maternodid not want to raise suspicions and the
mother felt persecuted. We don't know anything about the kid. She
' s been living with her motherin Menorca for over two years, but
she' s not answering our phone. I don' t care, but
we' d like to know aboutthe child. He' s grown up
with us. The fishing man byprofession seemed to want to vent with the

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agent who called him who spoke abouthis grandson. With regret there was no
choice but to go after Caesar's mother. The officers thought he could
try to flee after seeing the newsof the discovery of the body in the
suitcase, spread mostly by local media. The woman opened the door of her
house to the police on 26 Novemberof two thousand and ten. Not even

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seventy- two hours had passed sincethe beginning of the investigations. Monica,
where Caesar is, your son askedwithout further ado one of the researchers on
the threshold of the house, two- story, number ninety- one St
Lawrence Street. Behind the woman,the cops guessed the figure of a man
who you are. The police waitedfor him without turning away Demónica' s

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gaze, who was unable to hidehis nervousness. I' m her boyfriend
Something' s wrong. Monica approachedthe policeman who appeared to be in command
and almost in a whisper, makingit possible for no one else to hear
him s sor responded by ceasing tosee his father in Galicia for seven years.
Monica left her house handcuffed, andVictor, the man who lived with

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her and didn' t understand whatwas going on, was taken to the
police station to make a statement.In principle, as a witness, the
investigators knew that he was born inwatchful almería in a cheese shop in Mahon.
I had a lot of the answersthey were looking for. He was
the first one they heard. Iknew Monica in an Internet chat at the
end of two thousand and seven shecalled herself Muki. We liked each other,

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she came to Menorca. Shortly afterwardswe hooked up and in February or
March two thousand eight came definitely becauseI told him there was work here.
Victor was demolishing his girlfriend' svital journey. Since his arrival on the
island. The woman worked as asecurity guard assistant at the airport, at
the maxipa bakery and at the timeshe was arrested as a cleaner at a

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car dealer hired by the Euro GroupYou didn' t know she had a
son. He never told you abouthim, not ever. He never told
me to have a son. Hedid not tell you about Caesar, his
son, a child born in athousand nine hundred ninety- nine. The
agents had the dene and kid's file in front of them. With
his photograph. I knew a boynamed Caesar, but Monica told me he

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was his nephew. It' sthat same boy said pointing the photo was
with us for a few days inthe summer of two thousand eight, but
he' s his nephew. Thehomicide agents knew that Victor was telling the
truth was yet another victim of MonicaJuana Tey, the woman who had built
a new life in Menorca after eliminatingany trace of her previous existence. The

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detainee' s boyfriend told her thatMonica had told her she was an orphan.
According to her, her father haddied in an accident at sea when
she was a child, and hermother in two thousand seven the previous year.
To know him nothing, he tiedher to Galicia. Tell us about
the boy. When it came whenyou stopped seeing him. It arrived in

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early July. He told me hewas his sister' s son and that
he would spend ten days with us. We went to pick him up.
He brought a big suitcase to theairport. It looked like this one.
The agents showed him the picture ofthe suitcase found in vinidal. Yeah,
yeah, it looks a lot likethe one Caesar brought in. Maybe it
' s the same. The pieceswere fitting and the siege was closing on

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Monica, whom the researchers preferred tolet mature in the dungeons before questioning her.
They intended to speed up the legallimit of seventy- two hours by
which the police may detain a detaineebefore bringing him before the courts. At
that time, they would arm theentire accusatory building against the woman thanks to
the testimony of the witnesses and theevidence that locked their devices, the mobile

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phone and the computer. How longwas Caesar with you? Where I lived
then. Victor was a very valuablewitness, as the investigators had suspected.
He told the truth because as theminutes passed and he realized the seriousness of
the facts, he wanted to clearup any doubts about his responsibility for the

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child' s death. It's been ten days. We lived on
a flat on Thirty- eight AmazoniaStreet. I spent the whole day away
from home working eight to eight whileMonica and the kid went to the beach,
the kid, and comic books andbooks. I drew. I was
very fond of her. I kepthugging her and I remember calling her Mom,

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and Monica was telling her I'm not Mom, I' m
the tit. She told me shewas raised in her house and that'
s why she was so attached toher. One day, when the kid
went back to work, he wasgone. Monica told me she was back
in Galicia with her parents. Yousaw him again. No, I haven
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' s dead of course, butwhat did he say to you? I
asked him the next summer, twothousand nine, if the boy was going
to spend a few days with usagain. She started crying. He told
me never again. I' dask him about Caesar who died in Galicia
in an accident. Monica' sgigantic lie. Juana ty was gradually falling

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apart as the testimony of the manfor whom she decided to leave her life
behind in Galicia and there, inNoya, the police searched for the missing
pieces to expose the arrested Victor andJosefa. Monica' s parents told agents
that Caesar was the son of ayoung man from Noya named Ivan, with
whom Monica didn' t even livetogether. In fact, he had the

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child when they had already broken hisrelationship and denied the parent a paternity test,
even though he insisted heavily on doingit because he was willing to practice
as the baby' s father.Shortly after the baby' s birth,
Monica began living with Alberto, aboy from Lousame, a villa located seven
kilometers from Noya. He was thefather of Caesar, who also received the

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pampering and affection of Alberto' sparents who became grandparents. In fact,
although not legally, Monica' sparents, who met her grandson' s
fatal fate in the police station.They told that Alberto and his daughter,
who worked in a supermarket, livedtogether until the end of the year two
thousand and seven in Noya. Theyeven had a date for the wedding scheduled

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for the following year and had distributedthe invitations in the last months of that
year. Two thousand seven was whenMonica, turned into an Emma Bovary of
the nets, decided to leave herlife behind and travel to Menorca in search
of her particular lord Boulanger, Victor, the watchman of a cheese shop,
whom she claimed to have fallen inlove with. After a few virtual conversations,

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the woman had no qualms about leavingAlberto and his parents in charge.
Already settled in Mahón, Monica decidedto return to Galicia in the first months
of two thousand eight to take thechild with the maternal grandparents Victor and Josefa,
and thus break any link with Alberto, the man she had left standing
at the foot of the altar.The boy finished the course at Noya'

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s school, where he was enrolled, and Monica' s parents insisted that
she assume her responsibility as a motherand take the boy with her. The
grandparents knew that at any time thechild' s father could try to claim
his paternity and then custody of thechild, according to the police, in
June Monica agreed to stay with Caesarand promised to find him a good school

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in Menorca. When he last sawhis grandson. Josefa Deshecha recalled at the
police station that July one of twothousand and eight. It had been over
two years. On July 1,we took him to Santiago airport to go
with his mother to Menorca. Ibought him the last number of narutos,
some stories he liked very much sothat they could entertain the plane in the

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suitcase. We put all his clothesin him, his school stuff, his
chromes, his books. Caesar carriedin that suitcase his entire existence, which
he considered essential to continue his lifewith his mother. After that day they
didn' t talk to him,they didn' t hear from him,
they didn' t tell them anything. The child' s mother. The
same day her mother left, shecalled us, told us that the plane

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had arrived late, but that theboy was well and happy we have never
been able to talk to her again. At first I called her six,
seven, ten, twenty times aday, but she never answered the little
one. We sent him gifts untilthey began to come back as an unknown
recipient and knew nothing more about hisgrandson. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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we knew things about him. Hercousin to a niece of ours, talked
to her on the Internet, senther pictures of César and she told us
more than 300 kilometers from Galicia,where they declared the grandparents of the murdered
child. The officers of the SuperiorPolice Headquarters of the Balearic Islands gutted the
computer and mobile phone of n arrestedand exposed the mantle of embasses with which

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Mónica Juanaty had equipped his new existence. They found on their mobile phone a
few images of Caesar in Menorca takenin the first ten days of July of
two thousand and eight. Some ofthem, like one where you see him
in a drawing bar. She sentthem to her cousin, the woman the
grandparents mentioned in their statement to thepolice on Facebook and on Windows Life Microsoft

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' s social network. Monica wasweaving a web of lies to make her
family believe that Caesar was still aliveat work. I' ve just been
transferred to Mallorca. Caesar is veryhappy and is going to class. I
' ll find you a school there. He wrote to his cousin on July
12, when the boy had alreadybeen dead for two days according to police

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estimates, and five days later hewrote back to his cousin to give him
more explanation of his alleged transfer.I' m very busy preparing things.
We' re going to Mallorca takinga very big r that from Caesar.
A few days later, on July30, he sent a message to friends
of Noya. The kid' sfine. He goes summer classes so that
he learns Catalan and does not takeit too badly when the course begins.

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For months, Monica Juana Tei wasshedding ballast by breaking ties with her previous
life, from which she had removedher main footprint. His son Caesar,
from time to time and always throughthe space in which the nets were best
developed, sent some message to propup his enormous farce. It' s

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all right around here. The boyI did yesterday Communion had a great time
it was him and five friends whomade in school a little snack and ready
many kisses of Caesar that speaks ofyou still. I think she' s
the only one you don' tforget. Monica wrote to her cousin on
November 2, 2000, when thewoman, five days later, asked for
details of the ceremony, Caesar's mother gave them to her. The

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boy was not a sailor, hewas well dressed, but not a sailor.
Monica Juana tey even supplanted her sonon Facebook, waving to her friends
and visiting a comic book website towhich the boy was regular. The Internet
was the universe in which he hadmet Victor, in which he had plotted
his imposture to cover up his crimeand spent many hours feeding his blog of

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my Space, terror to the Galicianin which he signed as Muke the jailer.
After being arrested, the judge orderedit to be closed and left in
the digital limbo the sinister drawings ofits author. If in Galicia Monica'
s relatives lived convinced that César wasstill alive with his mother in the Balearic
Islands, the woman was concerned aboutsetting up another story that would fit her

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life. The accountant of the cardealer in which she worked as a cleaner
and with whom she made good crumbsstated that the detainee had told her that
her son died in a traffic accident. When he was driving his brother,
he told me that' s whyhe didn' t take his family.
His brother felt guilty and his parentsreproached him. In that same job,

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a husband was invented with whom hehad been married for eleven years. On
November 28, two thousand eight,two days after being arrested, the police
decided to interrogate Monica Juana Tei.A monumental cathedral of evidence against her had
been erected in a very short time. The General Commissariat of the Scientific Police
had certified that the child found inthe suitcase shared genetic material with the subtracted

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one was Múnica' s son.Without possibility of error, Victor' s
testimony and that of the child's grandparents and everything they found on his
phone and computer turned interrogation into formalism, an offer of repentance and a possibility
of explaining the inexplicable in the firstattempt, Monica collapsed very soon. She

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said she was at home with herson, the boy, got into the
bathtub and she went upstairs. WhenI came down the boy had drowned,
he was not breathing, I puthim in a suitcase with his things and
took him to the mountain in thepresence of the detainee' s lawyer,
Carlos Maceda. The officers decided topostpone the statement and give it a new

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opportunity because the woman was enemically brokenand because her version had little credibility.
Hours later recovered, Monica, Juanayou confessed, started by talking about her
life trufating the story with a fewliars. When Caesar was one year old,
his father left without explaining and Ispent four years without knowing anything about

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him. He didn' t helpme financially, so I went back to
my parents' house, with whomI didn' t get along. The
officers knew already that Caesar' sfather did not even have the opportunity to
recognize his son because she denied hima paternity test. The lies went on.
He said he went from Galicia toMenorca to work, omitting the figure

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of Victor, the man he fellin love with. Through the Internet.
Monica said that it was her parentswho suddenly and without her, decided to
send Caesar to Menorca, something thatthe child' s grandparents denied. At
that time, I didn' thave a job, I just got family
help. I told my mother towait until September, but there was no
way. The ticket was already out, the detainee confessed that she had lied

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to Victor, that she made Caesarpass for his nephew, because she didn
' t know how he was goingto take it, that she was mother
Monica, why you killed him.I didn' t want to kill him,
I wanted to send Caesar back toGalicia and I didn' t know
how. One day I lost myhead was overwhelmed, stressed. My partner

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didn' t know the truth.I didn' t have a job.
I drowned Caesar in the bathtub andwhen he was no longer breathing, I
tried to revive him. He didn' t answer. I didn' t
know anything. I had my sondead in my arms crying. I had
three or four hours like this.Then I realized what I had done.
The woman acknowledged that she put allCaesar' s objects in her suitcase and

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burned her dene and salt or rcar from her house aimlessly and threw the
suitcase into the forest of Vinidal,where it was found. More than two
years later, the head of Mahón' s number two investigative court, Carlos
Javier García ten, sent Monica JuanaTey to prison while in the house from
which she was handcuffed, Victor triedto recover from what she had lived.

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A few days after the arrest,he received a call on the home phone
is there. Monica asked a man' s voice. No. He'
s not here. He' snot here. I' m just worried.
I always talk to her and shehasn' t answered me for several
days and who you are. I' m Augus, Monica' s boyfriend.

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Victor didn' t give credit inthe last few days. He had
discovered that he had lived with awoman whose words he could no longer distinguish
what was true and what was alie. Monica' s boyfriend is me,
I' m Victor, I'm not her boyfriend. You must
be Victor. His roommate told meabout you. Victor completely delinked himself from

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Mónica Juana Tey while Agus, aman resident in Tarragona, whom the woman
had also known on the Internet,continued his relationship with her to some knowing
who she was and what she haddone. Moreover, she married the woman
who was born in Palma prison inNovember of two thousand and eleven, shortly
before she sat on the bench ofthe provincial audience in October of two thousand

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and twelve. At the trial,he came after winning in April of that
year a literary contest convened in theprison of Palma de Mallorca with a tale
of terror titled The Twin Brother whowas the devil. The story is starred
by two twin brothers named Kensuke andNamie, names of the manga comics that
his son was so fond of.The story tells how the mother of the

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two children dies in childbirth just asNamie begins to breathe the maternal grandmother.
He considers, according to the account, that the girl has brought into the
world an evil spirit. The textcontinues with the life of Namie, introverted
and reserved, isolated from the worldin her room, where her family has
locked her in convinced that she isan incarnation of evil. The trial of

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Monica Juana Tei, which lasted threedays, served to make it clear that
everything worked well in her brain,that her crime was not caused by any
pathology. The psychiatrists made at theoral hearing a portrait of the defendant that
could match the definition of psychopath inany manual. He cheats, violates the
rights of others, lack of feelings, cold, acts without thinking whether he

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can harm others, whether he canmake them suffer or not. He acts
as he wants, but that doesnot prevent him at all from having the
ability to know what is right andwhat is wrong, to control his conduct
in spite and to assess the consequencesof his actions. Monica showed up at
the cabizbaja hearing, talking almost inwhispers like a dismembered woman and attributed her

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confession to the police station and incourt to the pressure of the police,
she returned to her initial version.I made Caesar' s bathroom I went
to the kitchen to clean the pansof dinner and I don' t remember
anymore. The next picture I haveis in the bathroom, with the child
already dead. I still want himfinished up in sobs. Consider the possibility

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that you would have killed the child. The D A asked him. Yeah.
The jury barely took ten hours todecide the guilty verdict. Eight of
the nine members of the jury consideredthat Monica killed Caesar with pride without the
victim having a chance to defend herselfand that she did so in the fullness

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of her mental faculties. The Presidentof the Court, Judge Eduardo Calderón,
translated the verdict into imprisonment for twentyyears, the maximum requested by the prosecutor
in his sentence, the judge narratedthe last moments of the life of the
trusty little Caesar and without any expectation, what was going to happen was already
put in the bathtub for in asurprising and totally unexpected way for the minor

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to hold his head with his greateststrength and submerged the water, thus keeping
it until the total asphyxiation reached,so that the possibilities of defense were completely
eliminated. Monica has already served halfher sentence. In less than ten years.
She' ll be a free woman. Today his crime would have been

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punished with permanent prison reviewable. Todie mercilessly is now the one where I
am not located. It' shis problem, not mine. Julio Araujo,
suspect in the murder of Sonia Iglesias. Deputy Inspector Carlos and the suspect
sat back in front of each other. In two thousand seventeen, Sonia Iglesias

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had been missing for more than sevenyears. Julia Araujo, Sonia' s
partner, looked eagerly at the policeofficer her black beast since they first met
at the same police station in Pontevedra. In August of two thousand ten,
Julio' s face, in jutowith the skin glued to the bones and
prematurely aged by bad life, alcoholand tobacco, sketched a grimace of annoyance.

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The subinspector, that rapper- lookingson of a bitch, as described
by a brother of Julio who sawin the police a distant resemblance to Eminem
knew that this gesture was the greatestdisplay of expressiveness that the suspect was going
to allow in the following hours.The two men knew well the script of
the conversation that was to take place. It had been repeated many times in

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recent years. From his first meeting, days after the disappearance of Sonia Iglesia
Seguirin, thirty- eight years old, mother of a child and dependent on
a more immoderate shop in the centerof Pontevedra. Then Julio was already the
prime suspect. The agents of thelocal brigade traced the first days of the

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investigations s s S S s NSof investigation that have remained unchanged. Since
then, the arrival of the subinspector and his companions from the homicide group
of the Central Audez, the eliteof the criminal investigation of the national police
served to reinforce that hypothesis that pointedin a single sense. Julio Araujo was
responsible for the disappearance of his partner. He was the last one to see

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her had a motive to end herlife and had the chance. The conversation
was a decal of the previous ones. Carlos with a gentle gesture, but
a harsh look, repeated the samequestions and received the same answers. Julio,
what did you do with Sonia onAugust 18, two thousand ten,

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you killed her, you dumped herbody and you came home. Right.
That' s what you say,but you' ll have to prove it.
Julio, we know you had anhour to do it, plenty of
time, an hour in which youcan' t explain where you were,
where nobody saw you. It's that time you' re not located.
It' s his problem, notmine. The police have dedicated thousands

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of hours, hundreds of thousands ofeuros and a good handful of their best
men and women to find the whereaboutsof Sonia Iglesias, to hand over her
remains to her parents and her son, Alejandro, a boy who was nine
years old when he lost his motherand who is already of age, but
nothing has served so far to finda woman who had no reason to abandon

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her family. On August 18,2, 10, all the investigators who
participated in the Baute operation and thoseresponsible for it had the same conviction and
had so informed the judges who hadtaken the case. Only Julio Araujo knew
where Sonia' s body was Aboutten years after her disappearance, I had

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a meeting in the central audez wardswith several of the policemen who have tried
to find Sonia and gather enough evidenceto accuse her partner. The phrase of
one of them perfectly sums up adecade of research and reflects the frustration of
all of them. We' vefaced the worst possible suspect. You have

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to get him to confess something thatonly he knows, not even in his
last months of life with the organismeaten by a cancer that ended his existence
on September eight of two thousand twentyJulio Araujo had a minimum of mercy to
tell what only he knew. Whathappened on the morning of August 18,

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two thousand and ten. On thatday, Sonia and Julio left the house
they both shared at number three inthe tower' s field street. Around

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00 in the morning. His son Alejandro was spending a few days
at the home of his aunt mariCarmen, Sonia' s sister. Julio
drove his partner' s car akalos daebu to a shoemaker' s place
on Archbishop Malvar Street a journey ofjust five minutes. Sonia Sons got out
of the vehicle and left two shoesto repair. While Julio waited outside the

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car, she returned to pile upin the car and when they had circulated
for fifteen meters, he decided toget off and continue his way walking,
because there was a small jam.That version is the one that Julio Araujo
held on to for ten years,without varying a single comma and despite all
the indications that put it in doubt, he always assured that Sonia got out

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of the car carrying two bags inthe direction of the city center, where
he was going to make some arrangements, and that he returned home and at
eleven forty he called his cousin,José Antonio Araujo, from the phone of
his home. The call verified bythe police marks at the end of the
critical hourly section of the void thatthe investigators have not been able to fill

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in in a decade the temporary spacethat runs between which Sonia left the shoe
shop. The shoemaker confirmed that hewas there and Julio' s telephone conversation
with his cousin was a little overan hour that until today no one has
been able to rebuild and during whichthe police are convinced that Julio killed Sonia
and disposed of her body in thefirst hours of the investigation. The disappearance

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of Sonia was already considered to behigh- risk disturbing. According to the
new police terminology, Massimoduti' sdependent did not report to work at the
beginning of her shift thirteen thirty,and that was unusual. Sonia was serious,
fulfilling and especially punctual. His companionswere the first to sound the alarm.

Just five minutes later, at 13 (39:35):
30 they called Julio now,
asking him about Sonia and telling himthat he had not shown up at the
store and that on his phone hewould jump his voicemail. That afternoon,
Julio himself and Sonia' s parentsand sister toured hospitals, shops and bars
in search of some trace of thewoman without result at twenty- one on

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but zero, Julio and one ofhis two children, the result of a
previous relationship, went to the policestation of Pontevedra to file the complaint for
the disappearance of Sonia on the middayof 19 August of two thousand ten,
when something more than twenty- fourhours had passed since Sonia swallowed the land.
The officers of the Pontevedra Judicial PoliceBrigade began to aim for Julio.

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At the same time, in differentoffices, he and Maricarmen, Sonia'
s sister, declared. The officersheard from the woman' s mouth something
that could be the motive for acrime. I saw Sonia one last time.
On Monday, August 16, atnight at his house, I went
to pick up his son Alexander,because he would be at my house until

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Saturday. Why he took the boy. Sonia was about to split up.
Those days when I stayed with thechild would be the days that Julio had
to use to pick up his thingsand leave. My sister had been with
him for eighteen years and in herlast four she gave him deadlines for seeking
a job, but she had alreadygiven up and decided to split up.

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Many macho crimes arrive just before orafter a separation. There was a reason
to kill a pattern of acting amongmen who murder their partners. The decision
to separate was mutually agreed. Mysister told me last week that she did,
but yesterday, when Sonia disappeared,I asked Julio and he told me

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that he didn' t know anythingbefore the summer. The only thing she
had told him was that if hecouldn' t find a job, they
would end badly. He knows someother sentimental relationship from his sister. Just
yesterday, when we were looking forSonia, my mother told me that there
was a Venezuelan man named Nito,who apparently liked how the two had partners,
they gave themselves a deadline to leavetheir relationships. Nito, who is

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actually Galician and is called Rafael habituallyresided in Venezuela and was the one who
gave the name to the operation thesongs of Venezuelan singer Carlos Baute sounded at
that time on all stations in Spain. His last name served to baptize the
police investigation. At the same timeMari Carmen allowed a possible motive to appear
in her statement. Julio Araújo gavefor the first time his version of the

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facts, the same one he wouldrepeat throughout the instruction. Sonia got out
of the car and he went homeand before the police he flatly denied that
he was going to split up imminently. The first steps taken by the investigators
of the Pontevedra Brigade were to searchfor any trace of Son Y on the

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morning of his disappearance. For thispurpose, they requested the recordings of the
cameras, the establishments and the trafficin the areas in which they could have
circulated to women on the basis ofJulio' s testimony and of two persons
who thought they had recognized her.Several officers walked through the possible routes of
the missing woman and checked where therewere video devices that could have recorded her

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passage. The images denied Sonia's presence there at that time, when
the police were taking their first steps, a call from the Guardia Civil Command
of Pontevedra turned the investigations around.A drug addict named Francisco Miguel had found
Sonia' s wallet to Churches themorning of her disappearance. On the left

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side of the road that goes upto the town of Obao, the man
went to buy drugs from the largestsupermarket of super- sufficients in the city
and found on the ground the walletwith five euros and the documentation of the
woman in a start of good citizen, went to the command to deliver the
wallet and in the five euros.Of course, the researchers stood in front

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of a map of the city andall came to the same conclusion. The
road that goes to Obao is inopposite direction to the house of Sonia Iglesias
and Julio Aragujo oteja the testimonies collecteduntil that moment and they sketched a first
cronogas. Two witnesses placed Julio inthe vicinity of his home at 11:

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30, an hour near the callhe made from his home. A little
more than an hour after Sonia waswith the shoemaker, an excessive time to
make that tour, but more thanenough to end Sonia' s life,
get rid of her body and throwher wallet in the vicinity of Obao.
Julio Araujo, fifty- two yearsold, with three brothers, son of

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the owner of a furniture factory,father of three children, two of them
with his first wife, already hadthe suspect sign in those first hours of
the Baute operation, a poster thatSonia' s mother just backed up with
her testimony before the police. Twodays after her daughter' s disappearance,
Mari Carmen Eirín was blunt. Mydaughter is not able to leave and leave

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her son what she thinks happened.While we were looking for Sonia. I
asked Julio if he paid any Portugueseto kill my daughter. He replied that
he had not done so, thathe loved her very much. His father
also told me that he was apoor bastard and that he had not killed
her. I asked him that becauseI think he' s incapable of doing

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it, and I thought he wouldhave given it to other people. The
woman finished drawing the family situation.Sonia kept the house with her most immodile
work, while Julio had exhausted theunemployment benefit two years ago and did nothing
to find a job. She gavehim between ten and twenty euros a day
and paid him up to tobacco,which had filled the patience of the disappeared

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Maricarmeneirin told the police that the separationof the couple was planned for that same
week after her grandson, Alexander,made the first communion on August 15 and
spoke to the agents of the affairsof Sonia with nest. In just two
days, the police had a completevictim analysis of Sonia. Churches had no

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reason to disappear. He was voluntarilyabout to break her alive with his partner
and on the horizon he was seeinga new relationship. The researchers also began
to meet Julio and to study hisreactions, which were at least curious yasmina
an employee of the inn. Thealbero near his home said that Julio went

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there twice a day for coffee orbeer and spent all the money he was
carrying on slot machines He also didso on the day of Sonia' s
disappearance, with his partner already missing. He took a fifth of beer tucked
into the bar, paid and triedhis luck with the change hours earlier.
According to Patricia' s testimony,a shopkeeper from the most immoduti store where

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Sonia worked, the same July,who threw coins at the bar machine,
came into the store crying and screaming, asking about her partner, who had
only been missing for forty- fiveminutes. Patricia was surprised. He seemed
to know that something serious had happenedto him. Despite these early suspicions about

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July, the investigation into Sonia's disappearance followed the usual canons. His
photograph was shown in taxis, trainsand buses all over the city. Border,
land, air and maritime posts weremonitored. Hospital databases throughout the country
were checked for registration at any hotel. The movements of your cards and your

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bank account were monitored. He contactedthe Spanish police attaché in Portugal to expand
the search for the neighboring country.Shops selling Jewels were visited. None of
the efforts resulted in Sonia being swallowedup by the earth. The researchers even
reconstructed the Communion of Alexander, heldon August 15 at the restaurant Quinta de

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Sanamaro. In my year, thirty- nine adults and seventeen children attended the
meeting and it cost two thousand andone hundred and four euros paid by Sonia
Iglesias. The police asked all theguests at which establishment they had bought the
gifts for the boy and checked thoseof similar sans had gone to change some
of them. On the key day, 18 August, management did not bear

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fruit either. Just a week afterthe disappearance of Sonia Iglesias, the agents
of the Central audeb homicide group arrivedin Pontevedra. For them used to coltkases
cold cases in their textual translation,crimes or disappearances that have been unresolved for
a long time. Addressing such ahot matter was an exception, a unique

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opportunity. The police reviewed the workof their colleagues in Pontevedra, who transferred
to their colleagues suspicions about Julio Arabujo. The work of the local brigade had
been impeccable. They had not lefta single loophole unchecked, but the goldsmiths
of the investigation thoroughly analyzed all thestatements taken by their companions and decided to

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summon again a few witnesses in searchof some detail, of a hole or
of a contradiction that uncovered a lie. On 25 August, a week of
ons after Sonia' s disappearance andher bispector, Carlos and Julio Araujo,
crossed their eyes. For the firsttime, the policeman wanted to see if,
as his colleagues had told him,the suspect was an iceberg. Julio.

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I want you to tell us indetail. What happened on the 18th
of August. I got up atnine in the morning in detail. Julio
well I got up at nine.Sonia stayed in bed sleeping I went to
the shower and when I was underwater, Sonia entered the bathroom to tell me
that my sister, Teresa, hadcalled me on the house phone. What

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your sister wanted to talk to meabout is a theme of the decorating shop
that keeps on telling us. Everythingyou remember. Sonia went back to bed
and was there about fifteen more minutes. He got up and put a washing
machine in jeans, a shirt andraujo underwear followed the game to the cops
wanted details they were going to getsick of them. Then Sonia was the

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ho- bathroom. He showered,washed his head and in the meantime,
I prepared the breakfast consisting of coffeewith milk and toast. Julio continued his
account full of detail without any transcendence. The contents of the sandwich that prepared
Sonia as she was dressed. Hethen repeated his version of the facts.
They came out of the house,they stopped the shoemaker. Sonia returned to

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the vehicle and got off seeing alittle jam. Now tell me where you
came home. What an itinerary youfollowed. Julio detailed his route and said
he entered his house at ten forty- five. What did you do when
you got home? I took theclothes out of the washing machine. I
took the clothesline. I opened itin the kitchen because the day was cloudy
and it could rain and I spreadthe laundry Then I snuck a few drawers

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in the pile, ironed some shirtsof mine and four more pieces of clothes.
I had a coffee with milk andat about eleven thirty or eleven thirty
- five, I called my cousin, José Antonio, from the landline to
know when he was going to goto Portugal to see a theme of a
furniture bear. Just finish the conversation. I went down to the bar the
albero, where I drank two bottlesof the Star brand and read the mark

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to the Voice of Galicia and theDiario de Pontevedra. No one could corroborate
that Julio Araujo entered his house atthe time he said. No witnesses had
seen him before eleven thirty and onlythe call of eleven forty was proof of
his presence at home a void toolarge, a void enough to kill Sonia
and hide the body. Julio recountedcarefully what others did, receiving a call

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from his wife' s partner,a visit to the store, a search
for hospitals. His account was corroboratedby numerous witnesses and he was aware of
it, so he told it loosely. The tension returned to the interrogation when
the investigators asked him what they alreadyconsidered a possible motive for the crime.

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Julio knew that Sonia wanted to endyour relationship and that there was even a
date on August 21st, so thatyou would leave the family home. No.
It' s no more true thateven you already had a flat to
live in your brother David' sproperty. No. It' s not
true that since the 16th of August, your son was at his aunt'

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s house so he wouldn' tbe present. When you left, you
didn' t know Sonia had along- standing relationship with another man known
as Nito to Venezuelan not Julio Araujo. He answered with monosyllables, without altering,
without changing the gesture, he deniedthe existence of the motive of the
crime, the imminent separation of whichthe whole environment of Sonia had spoken.

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Part of the work of those responsiblefor any kidnapping, murder or disappearance investigation
is to put a huge focus onthe life of the victim and the people
around her. Cassuistics is overwhelming.Most crimes are committed by persons close to
the victim. That' s whyinvestigators can' t leave a shadow or

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a dark corner in their lives andin the lives of suspects. The police
agreed to Sonia' s only gloomyspace, her relationship with a man known
as Nito. The Venezuelan. Rafaelis a man with a royal pillar of
forty- two years. He declaredin the Interior Department of the Spanish Embassy
in Caracas, Venezuela, a fewdays after the men in charge of the

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baptism spoke with him on the phone. She said she met Sonia in two
thousand six buying at the store whereshe worked. Since then they saw each
other twice a year and spoke onthe phone once or twice a month with
a cell phone that already kept thelocker of their workplace and that only used
to communicate with him. His relationshiphadn' t gone past some dinner.
In the company of friends. Hedenied that they had had sexual relations and

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said he knew since March of twothousand ten that Sonia and Julio had broken
their relationship. Sonia told him thatshe intended to separate from her partner and
when she wanted to do so.The last time I spoke to her,
the day before she disappeared, shetold me that two or three days later,
he would definitely stay home. Ihad lost my illusion for many years,

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though he never spoke ill of him. The researchers completed the familiar picture
of Sonia and Julio. The statementsmade it clear that the whole environment of
him was unaware of the woman's intentions to separate and the date of
her departure from home that she hadpointed out to Julio. His brothers Teresa,
Beatriz and David, and his sonsJorge, Juan and Julio assured that

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they knew nothing about the impending break- up, as did their cousin José
Antonio and his father Julio. Therewas only one exception between the suspect'
s circle. Luisa, Julio AraujoGomez' s girlfriend, son of Sonia
' s partner, to whom themissing woman had obtained a job in the
same shop where she worked. Luisa, like the rest of her companions and

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Sonia' s family, told thepolice that she was aware that Julio Araujo
had to leave the family home thesame week as the one in Sans apparition
and also knew the relationship of thewoman with Nito. Julio Araujo' s
efforts to deny the couple crisis puthim in the spotlight of the researchers,
especially when his efforts led him tooveraction. Sonia' s mother and sister

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again testified in the early days ofSeptember and told a strange episode in the
early hours of the search in thepresence of the two women and Sonia'
s father, Julio insisted that hehad no partner problem, as they all
said, to the point that thenight before he had had sexual relations with
her. To prove it, hesaid that in the trash can was still

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the condom they used in their intimateencounter in the registry of the couple'
s house In fact, a condomwith sperm appeared inside it, which was
sent to the biology laboratory. Policetechnicians revealed a fact that became one of
the strongest signs against Julio Araujo.In the condom they found only man'

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s DNA or trace of genetic footprint, sonia or any other woman, something
unusual when there is a complete sexualrelationship, as latex is impregnated with DNA
from the two participants in the act. Since the end of August, the
police had been listening to Julio Araujo' s telephone conversations, who was indifferent
and even jocoso in the face ofthe apparent tragedy of the disappearance of his

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partner without novelty on the front.My lieutenant told a friend when he asked
him about the progress of the investigation. Every time someone found women' s
clothes or shoes on the streets ofPontevedra, they went to the police station
to check if they could belong toSonia Iglesias. To this end, the
agents called Julio who showed no interestin these effects or any hurry to come

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to identify them. A report fromthe analysis of the conduct section of the
Central Criminal Intelligence Unit of the police, the Spanish mind hunters interpreted this behavior
as an indication of guilt. Julioknows for sure that it is impossible to
be Sonia' s shoes, becauseonly he knows where his remains are and

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between them his clothes and his shoes. Araujo continued to make his normal life
in the months following the disappearance ofSonia coffees alcohol slot. One of his
friends, who had known him forthirty years, told the police that once
or twice a month he had toaccompany him home because he was drunk and
unable to reach his home. Investigatorsheard how the suspect was being told by

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a company' s answering machine inan apparent state of intoxication. Well,
don' t touch my balls anymore than that cute woman. No one
has deciphered the meaning of that expression. Those responsible for the Baute operation deployed
all the human and technical means attheir disposal to find Sonia' s remains,
convinced that her body was in somecorner of Pontevedra, in a place

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where Julio could go and return.During that hour of emptiness, in which
there was no location, hundreds ofvolunteers and civil protection members from all over
the province joined the search, inwhich the police used a helicopter, and
the GEO divers, a special operationgroup, who dived into several points of
the Lérez River, whose margins werealso reviewed on foot. The surroundings of

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the Monte Castrove camp were traced,the excuse for the area of Vilariño de
pollo, farms were inspected in thevicinity of Avenida de Uruguay and a water
treatment plant. In subsequent weeks,the search was extended and not left unchecked
even a single well pitch to Granja, Canal or Acequia in mouth or castrated
Bishop, to Cañota Okimado, PonteCabras, Santa María de Alba, Banqueiras

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Autonovo and Chamiseira. In parallel tothese explorations, the family and friends of
Sonia churches, always led by theirsister Mari Carmen, called for batidas and
demonstrations for the disappeared and in sthey printed the whole city with posters with
the image of Sonia. In allthese activities there was a loud absence,

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that of Julia Nowujo, who wasnever allowed to see why you never go
to Sonia' s search devices.I, of those who organize their relatives
on their own, was asked bythe police in one of their interrogations.
I don' t have the bodyto beat. All that sounds like a
circus to me and I' mnot going to avoid hearing hurtful comments about

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myself, my family. I thinkgoing would bring me more problems than solutions
you don' t go, becauseyou have an explosive and violent character.
I don' t have a normalcharacter until someone takes me to the limit,
although it' s not easy toget me there. Where you think
Sonia is, Julio is dead.He would never have left leaving his son.
This statement made in the first daysof September of two thousand and ten

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clashed with that of at least fourother friendly witnesses of the couple who told
the police that Julio told his acquaintancesthat he had abandoned his family to go
to Venezuela with another man. JulioAraujo was summoned periodically to the police station
of Pontevedra with any excuses called towhich he responded with disinterest, tedium and

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even tired. Every time the agentsof the Central audez traveled to Galicia,
they met him informally or took testimony, always as a witness, without accusing
him of anything, without giving himthe possibility of not answering the questions that
asked him faculty, which only thosewho were engaged in criminal proceedings have.
They wanted to study his character hisreactions, but the suspect never deviated from

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his role of a cold- smellingtype that there was nothing strong enough against
him to put him against the ropes, while the police continued to investigate him
through other testimonies. But that lanepresident of Luz, an association of battered
women, went to the police stationof Pontevedra when he saw in the media
the image and name of Sonia Iglesias. She was the same woman who at

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the end of the year two thousandnine asked her for help. She wanted
to separate from her partner because shefelt threatened and said that her partner had
taught her a firearm. The truthis that no one else spoke to the
investigators about these threats. Julio's ex- wife and mother of her
two older children revealed that she hadseparated from him after eight years of marriage,

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after discovering numerous infidelities, many ofthem with prostitutes, and she did
not describe any violent behavior. Beyondan episode in which he broke a letter
from his lawyer about the separation andthrew all his clothes on the bed.
On May 11, two thousand andeleven, those responsible for the operation launched
an ordago. It was court-set day for the reconstruction of events,

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so they showed up unannounced at Julio' s house. Deputy Inspector Carlos,
along with other colleagues, knocked athis door at eight in the morning and
presented him to the then head ofthe central audeb, Commissioner Serafín Castro,
as part of a strategy of intimidationdid not work. The suspect repeated what
he had said so many times,although this time on the ground, indicating

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to the police why street he walkedwhere he stopped. The officers tested the
nerves of araújo made him recompose indetail the whole day of 18 August from
two thousand ten out of nine inthe morning to nine in the night,
time in which he filed the complaintin the police station. The movements that
the missing woman' s partner saidto have made were contrasted with the information

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provided by the telephone operators. Thepolice carefully studied the activity of the phones
of Julio and Sonia and the environmentof the suspect. The woman' s
stopped working during the critical hours andJulio' s recorded a call made to

Sonia at 15 (01:02:44):
11 on 18 August, which placed him far from where
he said he was at the time. The signal of Araújo' s mobile
was recorded in the antenna of MonteCastrove, a distant place from the center
of the city, an area thatpresented itself as an ideal setting to get
rid of a body. The policewent around that connection a lot. He

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asked the suspect several times why hehad been there, but he always denied
it. Months later, technology,so many times allied with criminal investigations,
sided with Julio, who conducted severaltests calling from the point where Sonia'
s partner said she had dialed thewoman' s number in ten percent of
the calls. These were passing throughthe antenna of Monte Castrove, a percentage

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sufficient to discard that connection as definitiveproof. As the months progressed, the
conviction that Julio Araujo was responsible forSonia' s disappearance became more and more
firmly established among the investigators. Theindications never conclusive evidence and his own attitude

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supported this hypothesis, but the teamof operation BAUTE raised the possibility that Sonia
' s partner had had the helpof someone very close to him. The
data of the telephone operators placed twopeople in the focus of suspicion. José
Antonio Araujo, Julio' s cousin, whom he called from his home that
morning that he had his phone offon the eighteenth of August until ten fifty

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- eight, when he positioned inMarin, seven kilometers from Pontevedra, and
David Araujo, Julio' s brother, which could not be located until eleven
twenty, when his phone was registeredin San Senso. Thirty- two kilometers
from the place of disappearance. Thepolice paid special attention to David for his
conflicting profile and a statement in thepolice station full of gaps. He said

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he spent the morning of 18 Augustat his home in San Senso and assumed
that his wife was at home,although he could not say so. The
researchers found a good beta in theirdubitative words. Your house is big enough
not to know who' s there. It' s a hundred and sixty
square meters and I know perfectly wellwho' s inside and who' s

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not. But that particular day,I don' t know if my wife
and children were there that morning onAugust 18th in Pontevedra. I don'
t know. How often he travelsfrom San Senso to Pontevedra almost every day,
also in August, in the monthof vacation. Yeah, also what
do you do when Pontevedra goes inAugust, I' m going to see

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friends and Cocaine Picker. In whicharea does it usually go to Pillar cocaine,
to many, among them to Obao. Investigators raised their ears. Sonia
' s wallet had appeared in aditch on the access road to that village,
as if someone had thrown her outof a car the day she disappeared.

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It' s possible that that 18thof August he was buying cocaine in
Ovao. I don' t know, but if I was there in the
morning, I had nothing else againsthim. It took several years for David
to return to the center of theinvestigation, when twenty- three months had
passed since Sonia Iglesias disappeared. Julyof two thousand twelve, the prosecutor requested

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for the first time the imputation ofJulio Araujo. He wanted to hear him
in front of the judge assisted bya lawyer and in a different framework from
that of the police units, fromwhich he left unscathed without a single scratch
on his presumption of innocence. Thepolice had provided a report a few days
earlier from the conduct analysis section ofthe Central Criminal Intelligence Unit, which indicated

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the reasons why Julia Araujo was,in the opinion of profilers, qualified psychological
officers studying the behaviour of victims andperpetrators, and the only suspect of the
disappearance of his partner, his attitudesand gestures, his contradictions in the statements
and the inconsistency of his fourth inthe critical hour, from leaving Sonia in
the Zapatero until he made the callto his cousin from his home, left

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no doubt. For analysts, thereport was the perfect excuse for the prosecutor
to ask for the July statement.As a defendant. The suspect remained faithful
to his character on the two occasionswhen he declared in court, in July
of two thousand twelve and December oftwo thousand thirteen, he did not depart

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from his first version, although thepassage of time was blurring it and fading
the details he gave in his firsttestimonies. Declaring as a defendant allowed him
to refuse to answer questions such aswhether he frequently passed out or the reasons
why he did not attend the demonstrationsin remembrance of his partner. After the
two statements, Julio Araujo returned homewithout spending a single day in prison,

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although this time with the condition ofinvestigation from which he was released. In
August of two thousand and fourteen,when the court number three of Pontevedra,
specialized in violence against women, closedthe disappearance of Sonia Iglesias for the first
time. In the absence of sufficientlysolid evidence against Julio Araujo, the Galician

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High Court of Justice and the Pontevedrahearing ratified the decision of the investigating judge
and rejected the appeals of the privateprosecution and the prosecution. In four years,
the police had not been able tocontribute anything that would serve, at
least to continue the procedure. Althoughjustice closed the Sonia Iglesia case until four
years after the land was swallowed up, the researchers remained committed to seeking the

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resquit for which to remove from thebowels of Julio Araujo, at least the
place where he had left his partner' s body. He received several messages
that appealed to a mercy of whichhe did not give a single sample.
He was offered to reveal the burialsite through an anonymous or intermediary, thus

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exempting him from having to confess.For those in charge of Operation BAUTE,
the priority had ceased to be thebringing to justice of a murderer. The
most important thing was to find thebody of Sonia Iglesias. None of the
ruses worked Araujo remained impenetrable stony.Several heads of the section and unit group

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of the Central Audez and the PoliceStation of Pontevedra committed themselves to the search
for Sonia from two thousand ten tothe present day, implicating themselves far beyond
what their duty and professionalism dictated tothem. At the time of writing these
lines, Commissioner Enrique Juárez, headof the Central audeb brigade, was a
few weeks after his retirement, whicharrived in October of two thousand and twenty.

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He told me in his office.I' m leaving with the thorn
of not having found Sonia, ofnot giving her relatives some remains to bury
in July. Divine justice has alreadybeen taken care of, as the one
here charged us, but we shouldhave hit Sonia and believe me when I
tell you we tried everything. CommissionerJuárez was in charge of the officers who
in the last months of two thousandseventeen and the first two thousand eighteen spent

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the last bullets to date to findSonia. The investigators of the homicide group
re- examined the entire file ofOperation Baute. They were looking for a
leak of water in the version somany times repeated by Julio Aragujo, an
oquedad to be able to strain alever with which to open the armored box

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of the lies of the only suspect. His exaggerated reaction aimed at denying that
Ayel was on the verge of separationto the point of ensuring that they had
had sex the night before he disappeared. It had been his thickest mistake.
DNA analysis made it very clear thatthe condom that Julio said he threw in
the trash with his sperm inside didnot pass through Sonia' s body.

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It was a staging and the detailedanalysis of his statements confirmed it. The
condom was found by scientific police officersat 15: 30 and 19 August at
the top of the trash can,as if they had just thrown it there.
In his statements to the police,Julio said that the morning of the

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previous day, while waiting for Soniato come down, he took the opportunity
to dump the garbage into the container. If I had thrown the condom into
the bucket of the house on thenight of the seventeenth or the morning of
the eighteenth. He would have thrownit into the community bucket with the rest
of the waste if he had forgottenit and not disposed of it. Until
the eighteenth day, when he returnedhome after leaving Sonia. On top of

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him, the remains of all daywould have been deposited, although his brother
and nephew spent the night with himand they must have eaten and drank something.
In fact, a pack of milk, sausage wrappers and a pack of
cigarettes were found in the trash.The condom was in the top layer of
the cube. It was clear tothe police that Julio had masturbated with the
condom, so that only his geneticfingerprint was there after he got rid of

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Sonia and had detached himself from thecondom with the clear intention that the woman
' s relatives or the police wouldfind him the security cameras also pointed to
some indication that disassembled the version ofaragujo, which he repeated on countless occasions,
even reconstructed his route After leaving Soniain the zapa, according to him,
he returned home directly, but twocameras recorded a car identical to that

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that which led to evoking them silvergrey, with four black doors and mirrors
in opposite directions to which Julio saidhe had followed in the critical hours the
ones close to Sonia' s disappearance. The quality of the images made it
impossible to find the license plate,but it is a very rare model and
even less so in a small townlike Pontevedra. The tour of the car

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recorded by the cameras led to SanMauro Street and there at number thirty-
three I knew, Julio and Sonialived during their first years of relationship in
a house in which in two thousandand twelve, a cousin of the suspect
found a modified detonator gun to usewith real- fire cartridges. The house
owned by the Araujo family had beenabandoned for years and in the telephone interventions,

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the police found that Julio refused tosell the property, despite its economic
constraints that worsened with the disappearance ofSonia. A confidence received by an agent
of the Pontevedra Police Station also helpedto give a new impetus to the case.
The police wrote a note stating thaton March 22nd, two thousand and
sixteen ana to David' s partnerJulio Araujo' s brother, said in

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a restaurant in San Senso, visiblyaffected by alcohol intake and drug use,
that Sonia Iglesias was dead. Shewas killed by her partner, Julio Araujo,
and he and his brother took herto a cemetery and buried in a
niche owned by the family. David, Julio' s brother, who regularly
went to obao to buy cocaine,was once again the subject of the investigation

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and had all the ballots to haveassumed the role of his brother' s
collaborator. The officers found that,in fact, the Araujo family owned the
San Mauro cemetery a total of twenty- eight niches of which eleven were occupied.
The campanto was located very close tothe house of San Mauro thirty-
three, that is, in thedirection that the Ebu Calos had followed the

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morning of Sonia' s disappearance.With all these indications, the result of
a thorough review of everything that hadbeen investigated for seven years, the police
asked the judge, in December oftwo thousand seventeen, to reopen the case,
decree the secrecy of the proceedings,allow the intervention of several telephones linked
to Julio David and his partner,and authorize the installation of recording cameras in

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the cemeteries of San Mauro and LaGraña, the population in which the Araujo
family usually summered and in the houseof San Mauro thirty- three. The
objective of the officers was to throwaround Julio the idea that they knew Sonia
' s body could be there andthus force them to move the body,
which would be recorded by the camerasinstalled by the police. Investigators made several

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moves to provoke the suspect. Theyfirst called to declare the year and on
February 21 they cited David and Julioas being investigated. Both refused to testify
and attended the records of the familypantheon of s O Mauro and the house
on the same street. That dayit was very cold and it was raining
in Pontevedra. Julio remained in theopen for many hours, which took agents

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to inspect every corner of the Graveyardestate. The search did not work,
but Julio was admitted to a hospitala few days later, suffering from pneumonia
aggravated by lung cancer that had sufferedfor a long time. Non- earthly
justice was beginning to fall on him, while the human was once again filing
the case. In June of twothousand eighteen, ten years after the disappearance

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of Sonia Iglesias, his parents survive. Her sister' s trying to keep
the case open. His son residedwith his father until his death in September
of two thousand and twenty, andthe subspector Carlos regularly returns to the files
of Operation BAUTE to try to returnsome peace to Sonia' s family.
The peace that Julio aragujo refused togive to them until the end of his

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days the killer who wanted to beJack Nicholson. If Daddy dies better.
Ruth Breton, six years ago shehad finally decided to separate from him.
She told a psychologist and then wrotethat she was afraid for me and my
children, Ruz and Joseph, sixand two years old. On October 8th

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of two thousand eleven, her husbandreported that she had lost the children in
Cruz Conde Park in Córdoba. Sixdays later, while police were investigating Maria
Aire by land, her whereabouts,Ruz Ortiz became afraid and telephoned José Breton.
The conversation was recorded by order ofthe judge and listened carefully by the
police. It was thirteen seventeen o' clock on October 14, two thousand

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eleven. The two talk about severalissues without relevance for a minute and a
half, until the woman can nolonger and confronts him. Okay, and
the kids. José José Breton hashis wife where he wanted his mercy.
Finally, she calls him back,picks up his phone again, not like
before his two sons disappeared. Thenhe decides to respond in a serious tone,
in the role of a responsible andconcerned father to the lack of results

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of the investigation that the police arecarrying out to find the children Children still
don' t know where they are. Nina, although I' d like
to, Ruth thinks her husband hassomething to do with the disappearance of the
little ones. That day they wentwith him. She' s convinced that
he knows where they' re interruptinghim asks him directly and you and you

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and I don' t make ruthclear and I believe it. No,
Joseph Breton feels that his wife isback in his hands, the same woman
who did not want to return tohim, the one who had announced that
from now on he would only seehim for children' s reasons, as
he told him that September when hetold him that he was going to separate
from him, that they would neverbe a couple again. In those three
weeks when he struggled to get herback and change her mind, her apologies,

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her promises of change, did notserve. Nor was the gift of
that book, the knight of rustyarmor, not even the bouquet of flowers
or the handwritten letter he had givenRuth. On October 7, when he
took the children to spend the weekendin Cordoba, a day before they were
lost forever. Now he' sback in control and he' s trying
to play with his wife, toset up a date with Solas, to

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regain intimacy. Well, that's why I want to tell you at
least so you can see it ifyou tell me about it. No.
Sure. Of course, Ruth,the woman refuses to see Solas with him.
Researchers don' t recommend it.He' s suspected of making years
for his children. If you agreeto see him, your own life may

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be in danger and the police whyyou don' t tell the police.
Breton checks that his trick hasn't worked yet He won' t go
back to Solas with his wife anddecides to go back to the father who
has lost his children, a poorman. I, to the police,
have already told him everything I know. You didn' t say anything.
But Ruth didn' t tell himanything. To the police, you didn

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' t tell him anything. Yeah, you took them and you give them
back to me? You took themand you give them back to me?
There' s a short silence andBreton speaks Ruth again. That' s
why I want you not to tellhim anything. To the police, you
took them and you give them backto me? You took them and you
give them back to me? Themother wants her children back. He doesn

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' t know if they' realive or dead. The only thing she
' s clear about is that herex- husband, Rus Y José'
s father, knows what happened tothem and where Russian Ortiz is, raises
the tone and screams louder and louder. You took them, you took them
back to me. Ruz Ortiz,a veterinarian from Huelva, had broken up
with her husband on September 15,two thousand eleven. She used to go
to a psychologist for help. Yourdaughter Ruth, had come to tell the

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pediatrician weeks ago if Daddy dies better. On September 22, the doctor explores
the two children to rule out thatthey were victims of abuse by the father.
He pointed out that they might besuffering psychological abuse. The maniae of
the man raised between pampering and beltingby his parents. Involuntary soldier in Bosnia

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and recently out of work, theyhad gone to worse not by chance.
José Breton was a fan of ca r. R. Jac Nicholson,
especially two of the roles he hadplayed. One was the writer of the
film' s best impossible, anunbearable guy, full of cleaning manias and
phobias that was redeemed for the loveof a woman. The other was that
of the glow killer, Stanley Kubrick' s film, where a family father

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who works as a guard at amountain hotel is increasingly acting violently against his
wife and son. Almost from thebeginning of the disappearance of the children,
the police suspected that the father didnot tell the whole truth pretoon began by
explaining to them that he had pickedthem up from the grandparents' house to
take them to a meal with afriend, that that food had been suspended

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that they had then gone to thechildren' s city and to the Cruz
Conde park, where he had lostthem. The investigators hesitated. To begin
with, Breton gave them the wrongmobile phone number of his friend Alberto,
with whom he was supposed to eatthat day, a number had danced in
his memory. He apologized later,but the truth is that he missed the
investigation. When the police found Alberto, he explained that he had not met

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Breton for lunch that day. Otherpolice officers also did not match the father
' s account. After only severalhours talking to two officers, Breton suddenly
recalled that he had also taken hischildren to the family farm of the burners,
which he himself had helped build withhis own hands. It' s
almost midnight, and when the policeescort him to the farm, they find

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that at the entrance there' sstill a huge bonfire. The father hadn
' t told them about anything likethat. The agents who have to help
themselves with flashlights in order to distinguishsomething see that there are dozens of small
bones, almost two hundred, someof the size of a Breton nail tells
them that they are remains of bugsthat his wife used in her veterinary practices

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and that, hurt by the separation, she had also burned in that pyre
other things of her, such assome notes and books. The phonense could
have done it that night, butit can' t determine whether it'
s human or animal bones. Thenext day the anthropologist of the national police,
Josefina Alamas, who had participated inthe identification of the bodies of the
victims of the Spaner accident and theattacks of the 11 m will arrive from

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Madrid She will be in charge ofsquare the area of the bonfire and collect
the remains to analyze you later inthe laboratory. From the beginning, the
researchers of audity, led by theCommissioner will be Fin Castro, clearly have
to look in three directions. Theplace where the father says that his children
were lost, the bonfire farm and, above all, the father himself,
his life, his behavior, hishistory. The same night they discover the

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bonfire there are two surprising episodes.The first starring Breton' s brother-
in- law. The man isout of his mind when he enters the
estate and comes to give a collegiato his relative while yelling at him where
the children are. José the agentswho have left a little wide sleeve to
the brother- in- law tosee if something interesting happens, decide to
separate them and avoid major evils.Then Breton' s brother- in-

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law goes to them. He knowswhere the kids are. He knows.
Hit them if you need to tellthem. Soon after, he' ll
arrive in the area. One ofBreton' s best friends is a former
civil guard and he also yells athim and rebukes him The cops will explain
the last conversation they had just afew days before. He asked me about

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the video and security cameras he hadinstalled in Cruz Conde Park, the same
place where he says now that hehas lost the children. It was a
question of knowing with which of thosetwo characters Jack Nicholson, that of the
comedy Agridulce or that of the horrorfilm, had more to do with José
Breton and whether that had influenced thefate of his children. When the audef
researchers found in a drawer in hisCordoba bedroom, Stephen King' s novel,

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on which Kubrick' s film isbased, they decided to baptize the
case as a glow operation in Breton' s parents' house, where he
had returned. After Ruth broke upwith him. The police also found manuscripts
written by the two characters, theBreton in love and the Breton calculator.
The two faces of that man wereshown in the letter they had given Ruth.

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The day before the children disappeared,when they stayed for coffee, he
was going to take the children toCordoba. At the weekend, Rud didn
' t trust him, even warnedhis sister- in- law Leticia to
watch the father and take care ofthe children. That morning, Breton presented
himself to his wife with a bouquetof flowers and an envelope. Inside was
a five- page letter reviewing hislove story. He apologized for his mistakes

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and begged him to live together again. His wife wouldn' t open the
letter there in the cafeteria. You' re not going to read it.
I' ll read it at homelater. I' ll call you tomorrow
and see what you think. Felipe, one of the central audible inspectors in
charge of the case, studied thefive leaflets and made a report on their

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content when nothing was known about thefate of the children and the father was
not yet charged. In his opinion, that might seem like a love letter,
but he was hiding much more.The veteran inspector wrote, beyond the
content, highlighting some paragraphs that appearnot to be related to the context of
the Charter. Indeed, it isa text in which Breton apparently asks forgiveness

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and shows his love, but inwhich several reproaches appear to his wife.
I am of the opinion that youcan always talk about things that don'
t get thrown in the towel withouthaving tried everything and above all, talking
about it don' t deny thatopportunity to change attitude. For my part,
what separates us so much repellence Iproduce you. Don' t tell
me that after so long, togetherwe don' t have a little bit

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of hope left. I' lltake care of it. I have eternity
to do it. The inspector concludedthat, far from being a love letter
as it appears, it could beconsidered a strategy to win back his wife.
The investigation and listening to Breton's phone, intervened shortly after the
disappearance of his children, showed hisother face, his true feelings and perhaps

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his plans for the future. Inthe Breton family house, on the Cordoban
street expensive Romero, the police alsofound several leaflets written by the man who
defined them as a draft. Inthese lines, according to researcher Felipe,
a strong load of motivity is alreadydrawn that has this right relationship with the
mobile phone, that is profiled andthat gave rise to the criminal acts that

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José Breton allegedly exercised on his childrenin a first Breton role teaches the character
of man in love and repentant familyof his mistakes. You and the kids
are my family and I don't want to give up on you.
I don' t want to missa single moment or second of your life.
Let' s give them an ideallife, be able to walk,

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take you to school, travel,take you to the doctor. So much
repellence I produce you enjoy Christmas,tell you I love you in the morning
flowers details of all kinds. That' s beautiful. I' ve failed
to lose you. I am apitiful soul without you I am nothing.
Let me come back on Sunday,don' t make me chain up asking
for a chance. Let me stayone day Poison ame, throw me in

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the river, at least I'll die happy. You think I can
give you better peace, a marriagethat has overcome the crisis and become stronger.
Now it' s gonna go betterevery day. What' s the
impediment, what' s my downside? But I said on Wednesday that you
were the person I trusted most andon Friday I threw in the towel.
That' s hard. Let meshare this wonderful gift that is life with
you, but in the same drawerkeeps another much less romantic draft. It

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seems written by someone else much morecalculating and cold. I' m interested
in whether Ruth' s working ornot what a chance I have. He
left on the 15th, even ifhe stays in custody, how can I
record the atmosphere in the family.He tells me it' ll be fair
with the floor. If I'm fair to compensatory aid, how much
you can ask me for maximum capgoes in relation to my pay. I

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don' t know what you think. Whether you' re waiting for the
master' s degree, the oneyou love for renewal, or you don
' t know what you want.He says he' s not with anyone.
In other paragraphs, Breton shows hisemotional state and how his manias,
like those of Yacnico, are thebest impossible his favorite film, making life
in his family more unbearable. I' ve got a lot of scrupulous mania

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that bothers me that sips the snotlisten to eat I have concepts that seem
immovable to me to have a patternto follow, but sometimes I don'
t know if it' s worthit maybe. I need to be with
someone exactly like me or not dateanyone. It would be nice to get
rid of the things that remind me. To her I am a bad person
and again, on another leaf,Breton shows his other face. If I

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file a complaint, it' slike declaring war a pension for women.
As long as I don' twork, I have to pay him.
It accumulates by the time you haveit. You can say my family pays
because they have resources, which Ican' t take custody of. For
me demand to see the children alreadydigital recorder you have no right floor to
half seventy thirty total custody mother weekends, alternates, freedom to see orthodonte glasses,

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support classes, my car, trousseauasto seventy thirty inventory block account Ruth
does not exist. When the fateof the children was not yet known.
Inspector Felipe, the investigator of theinvestigations, wrote that this duality in the
personality of José Breton in quiet hisor her way if one thinks about what
might be the fate of his children, now disappeared. That is why it

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must be taken into account when tryingto locate the whereabouts of the minors and
the situation in which they may befound. Breton' s life would also
offer some clues about the disappearance ofhis children. He was a blundering kid.
They studied the Trinitarians and then inhigh school. His friends called him
the bait. He enrolled in lawonly to get a scholarship and an extension

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for the mili, but he didn' t go to class. In the
year nineteen hundred and ninety- threehe enlisted as a professional soldier because I
was paid and stood by the house. I didn' t count on the
Bosnian war, where I would endup serving as an ambulance driver. Between
April and October of nine hundred andninety- four on his return with about
eight million pesetas saved. According tohis words, my most ghastly time begins.

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He didn' t work and goout often while diving in his past.
Investigators shot down the José Breton version. The man had stated that on
October 8 he took his children tothe children' s city and to Cruz
Conde Park, where he said hehad lost them around 18: 15.
It was a sunny afternoon in Cordobaand no father or neighbor of those questioned
by the police had seen the children. Commissioner Castro and his audible men and

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women were convinced that the bonfire bonesbelonged to the minors, but anthropologist Galama
had already pronounced herself that afternoon pointingto one of the pieces burned there is
a mouse femur. The Commissioner didn' t trust you. Since Sunday,
October 9, he placed a manof his confidence, Subinspector Luis. As
José Breto' s shadow couldn't choose a female policeman. Breton is

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a macho man and Louis would notwork He had to win Breton' s
trust, help him sing, anddefeat him. He' s a sensible
observer guy, a chiseled veteran,married to children. Then he started a
daily routine. Luis only separated himselffrom the reton to sleep every night after
the whole day on the farm ofthe burnettes. The officer took him to
his parents' house, the grandparentsof the missing children. When I left

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it on the portal, Beton's shadow reminded him of his phone number
Nero You can call me at anytime if you want to tell me something,
and I would give him one lastgood night' s message, almost
an order. Don' t fuckaround? Don' t make Gilipollices?
Investigators had already discovered that Breton hadanother girlfriend and that that girlfriend also broke
up with him. It was atthe beginning of a thousand nine hundred and

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ninety- seven. She was calledMari Carmen and left him for another boy.
So, Jack Nicholson' s fanwent to the family estate and tried
to kill himself inside the car.Dr Griote, who had prescribed tranquilizers,
went to a psychiatrist earlier. Hetook eighty pills and got into his car,
where he had left two camping padsopen. That time, his father

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rescued him and moved him to thehospital. In the late nine hundred and
ninety- eight he met Ruth Ortiz. It was a crush. They married
in two thousand two and lived togetherin Cordoba. In two thousand and seven
they went to Huelva until she decidedto break up in September of two thousand
and eleven. The woman' sstatements to the policemen trying to find her
children explain the end of the marriage. Breton had accused his political family even

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of wanting to poison his young son, and had prohibited them from approaching them.
He told me you can have thekids you want, but they'
re for you The kids were afraidof him. When the little one doesn
' t want to eat, hegives it in his mouth. I asked
for help at the Andalusian Women's Institute. I was referred to by
a psychologist, and that' swhere I understood everything. Joseph annulled me,
made me hate come back, closedthe circle of my friendships, of

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my roots. He' s jealousof everything around me. She decided to
split up and told her husband,who responded like this. How you'
ve done to me. This isthe second time that happens to me.
Preton promised then to let his politicalfamily see the children begin treatment for their
mania, but Ruth went to herparents' house she was not going back
with him. On the same daythat her children were going to die,

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Ruth wrote a letter to her lawyerdefining her husband as manipulative, jealous,
envious, obsessive, macho, intolerant, unloving and not attentive. During those
days of October, Deputy Inspector Luisspent two hundred hours with Brenton while his
companions would be dismantling his version,checking security cameras, reconstructing with the father
himself, with dolls and with otherchildren. The place and the way he

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said he lost them. Nothing fitseven the place where he said he parked
to go down to the park withhis children. The reconstruction shows that that
afternoon, a traffic signal, didnot leave enough space to open the car
door for which he said he hadlowered his young son. In their talks
they put their inspector inside the burns. Breton seems confident. Even Alegre repeats

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the version he has told about howhe lost the little ones and does not
care about the bonfire to which thepolice make him approach up to three times
without result to overcome his coldness,his armor. People ask her how Ruth
will be, because she has tobe suffering a lot. The answer leaves
little doubt of their feelings. Themore I' ve suffered, Rush is

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a daughter of Whore. A sonof a bitch. I say it here,
I say it in front of ajudge and wherever. Just a day
later, Bretón Recio is experiencing excellentnews. Dr Lamas' report concludes that
the bones found at the stake ofher estate are animal bones. Faced with
the confusion of the policemen themselves convincedof having found the crime scene and the
remains of the little ones, Bretonand his shadow are inside the house,

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while other defeated agents continue to collectbones. Ruth betrayed me by her family,
ate her coconut. Now I wantedto keep half of a flat my
parents paid for and I also wantedto stay with the children when I was
the one who took care of them, the one who bathed them, the
one who fed them the doctor wascarrying them, but Ruth worked Joseph.
I didn' t like her working, but I had to give in to

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a master' s degree that madeher spend more time away from home.
The cop has to listen to moreof Breton' s vexations towards his wife.
I' m the one who paysand here she fucks every day whether
she wants to or not that quietday because the police scientist had given her
the right. Breton also speaks ofhis experience in Bosnia as a military.

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I don' t know how theygave me several medals because I was the
most cowardly, but very soon hekeeps showing his hatred of his wife,
of his children. He' snot talking He' s comfortable insulting his
wife. I don' t wantit, you know. I don'
t think I' ve ever lovedher. When I met her, I
thought she was a good person andthat' s why I married her.
I didn' t want to havechildren and now it was me who didn
' t have to take care ofthem. When I met Ruth, I

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had another Conchi girlfriend. I marriedRuth because one day Conchi wouldn' t
give me a kiss. He toldme he couldn' t because he had
a phlegm. That' s whyI married Ruth. I don' t
trust Ruth has secrets I don't know. Once when we lived on
this farm, I read her diary, I read little were, especially women
' s things. Then I waslooking for him and he was gone.

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I guess I' d take himto his mother' s,' cause
I looked him up a lot oftimes and I never found him. It
' s okay. Joseph, I' ve split up twice, too.
Of course, in my case,it was me who left them in your
case. The policeman who seeks toprovoke him to confess what he has done
lies to him. Preton lowers hishead and doesn' t respond. People
try to pick up the thread.He wants me to keep talking if possible
about his children' s future.It' s okay. Man, you

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got time to remake your life.Yeah, Rudia' s forgotten, but
that doesn' t stay on thefloor. Hey. That night Breton is
satisfied. The search has lasted allday and they haven' t found anything.
The bonfire is discarded. The investigationmust begin from scratch exhausted. The
cops order pizzas for dinner with himand he gets loose. He starts telling

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jokes the agent that his shadow istrying to calm him down. You want
to party, uh, because there' s not a guitar that if you
didn' t play breton, youdon' t cut guitar, no,
but music that I have now I' m not going to be the first
to dance eh to the stupor ofthe agents, the father of the two
missing children enters the house of theestate and returns with an old radio cassette.

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Soon after, he seems upset.He has only found a tape of
José Luis Perales and says that remindshim of Ruth there will no longer be
music, but very soon he recoversand tells in fun tone. Another story
that leaves the shadowed policeman amazed.A few days ago, I went out
of my fucking way. I hadnever been, but a friend encouraged me.
We were going together, but inthe end he wasn' t in

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Cordoba. One night I was justfucking in. I' ve already been
charged 20 euros. That was verydark. There were several whores and I
decided for a roberta. His namewas Romanian, very high and with many
curves. He told me he chargedme sixty euros to suck my dick and
I went to a room. Whenshe undressed, I saw that she was
no longer curved or tall. Hewore heels and stuffing. She started sucking

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on me, but I didn't get tied up. In the end,
I cheered up and wanted to dotit. What' s that,
Jose? Well, I wanted todot it, but it tells me it
' s 90 euros more. Breton' s laughter attracts the attention of other
cops who come to hear the storyof what you' re talking about to
his partner nothing, Este, whois very relaxed and who says he'

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s gone whores. Breton repeats forthem his encounter with Roberta then Pletorico enters
the house and appears on the porchwith a bottle of white wine. It
' s fresh. He had itin the fridge. We' ll have
a couple of cups. That's too much for the shadow cop.
No, Jose, it' s2: 00 in the morning. It

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' s not time to drink wine. We have to work tomorrow, Breton
Take discipline. The jokes are over. He is concerned about his father’
s illness and again points to hiswife in this house. I lived with
Ruth for four years. We werevery happy. One day, she told
me that the ceiling of the livingroom was very high and I lowered it
a meter. Your pussy wants thelower roof, I' ll take it

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down and it' s over.Another day he said it was hot in
the bedroom and I told him yourpussy is hot, because I put you
to go conditioning. I always didwhat her pussy wanted. I don'
t understand that now the Great Whoreleft me lying down. She had a
friend Alfonso. I was always thinkingabout him. I once told him if
you want to fuck him, Itook you to Madrid to fuck him on
the street. I' m apiece of shit, but in my house

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I' m in charge of Ruth' s plan. I had to put
my pants down and write him thatletter to come back. I put things
I didn' t think of,but I knew you' d like them,
and the Great Whore didn' teven tell me what else I could
do. On October 12, theofficers took Breton to his parents' house.
In this register, the police arefound the prescription of Dr Riote,
dated to 27 September, in whichhe prescribes motivation and orfidal. The shadow

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cop is watching him. It seemsquiet. A few minutes later they go
to the living room and people seethat Breton is glued to the Tenso wall
as if his jaw were untied witha lost look, he decides to go
to him. Where those pills are. I don' t know where you
bought them at a pharmacy. Idon' t remember which one. The

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cop checks that Breton controls his emotionsvery well. He knows that the finding
of the recipe has put him intension, but the chive, a smart
guy with an intellectual ratio of onehundred and twenty- one far above average,
is able to master and disguise fora few minutes. Soon after.
However, Breton is tall and yellsat his brother Rafael and his mother as
well. The defeated woman sits onan armchair and I don' t fly

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to arms. The father was alreadysitting and riding down while the officers searched
the rooms. At the end ofthe search at the door of the Breton
house, he approaches the police.He knows that the cameras in the area
and the reconstructions have denied it.His children couldn' t get lost in
the park because they didn' tget in and he' s going to
improvise another story about how they disappeared. I' ve been thinking about it

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a lot. I think I lostsight of the kids when I left them
alone for a little while. Wegot out of the car and I had
to go back for something. Ileft them alone there for a little while
on the street before I got tothe park and I never saw them again.
Two days later Breton is with hisshadow cop and another officer. There
' s a lot of people atthe police station' s door and also
at their parents' house. He' s asking for a favor. I

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don' t want to see thepress. I don' t want pictures
taken. Let' s go toa quieter place. Come on, the
agents are following him. Breton leadsthem to a remote area in Villafranca.
Subinspector Luis decides to remind you ofthe evidence that disassembles your story, some
of which have already appeared in thepress. There' s a security camera
that recorded how you got to JosePark alone. That is a very forceful
and very serious test. You'll see what you' re doing,

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but I think it' s bestthat you say what really happened and get
it over with. This is thebest thing for everyone. Breton insists on
his version once again, but hisinspector has made it strong to try to
close the story. All right,if you think you can fool others,
keep telling that story. But I' ve been with you a lot of
hours about the park with me.It' s not good for you.
José. We both know that thekids never made it to the park,

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that you killed them and that youdon' t want to know about it.
Pretoon breaks tears approaching the cop andhugs him that people respond by closing
their arms on the suspect' sback as he hears him asking for help
sobbing what I do. What doI do, because tell the truth,
Joseph, we are willing to helpyou, but you have to tell where
the children are. The cop seesBreton worried almost mutely knew that his version

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was falling apart before the investigation.A few minutes later, however, the
man who wanted to be like JackNicholson remakes himself and shows great mental strength.
The agent realizes that everything has beena theatrical scene staged by Breton to
buy some time and suddenly think suggestsgoing somewhere else and leading the cops to
the whale swamp. A few minuteslater he asks them to leave he says

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there may be a journalist nearby.It leads them to the organization the sun
and seems to come up. Againhe has remade himself, he speaks again
of trivialities, he insults his ex- wife and his political family again.
Frustrated, the cop knows he's missed a chance to solve the case.
Look. Joseph, you' rewasting our time. All I want
to know is where the kids are. Tell me where the kids are.

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Fucking Breton reacts calmly almost challenging thecop. It' s not going to
help you know the truth, becauseif that' s the case, stop
me now and whatever happens, notJose, first to the kids and then
if you want to leave, you' re not the important one. Here
the important ones are the children.The night was falling in Cordoba when the

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police then insisted that we go afterthe children. Preton doesn' t answer,
despite Dr Lamas' opinion that thebonfire bones were not of the children
in the people, and all hercompanions are convinced that Ruz and Joseph didn
' t come out alive from theburns, so she insists. Let'
s get the kids to the Bretonestate, he stays thinking and he answers,

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but there' ll be reporters there. We can go look it'
s almost night. I don't think there' s anyone left over
there. If we see journalists,we leave it for another time. Preton
accepts and they' re going tothe burns. You don' t see
anyone in the area. But thepoliceman feels that the bait has been mentally
recomposed along the way and he's going to back down his shadow cop.
If you want us to come in, we' re in, but

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it' s a waste of time. Okay we don' t go in
totalia, there' s no light, we' ll look at it calmly.
The policeman does not lose patience orconviction that Breton murdered his children on
the family estate. Think that everyday that happens like this is worse for
you It' s hard for youto hold on like this for a long
time and we' re not leavinguntil the kids show up. That end
of the seams, the shadow policemanrested from his drop of the mission,

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but on Sunday Breton called him themotive was eighteen, thirty- five.
He asks where he is and suggestsgoing to the estate. I can take
her to my parents. It's been a really bad day, and
I want to take you to getsome. The air' s calming down.
The investigator buys time and asks himto wait. Breton ignores him and
barely forty- five minutes later hestands at the door of the estate.

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He sees a police car parked atthe entrance and decides not to continue.
That Sunday afternoon, Breton calls hiswife Ruth to tell him that the letter
he has read about the children inHuelva is very nice and that he has
nailed down what he has told himto bring them. Just thirty seconds after
the conversation is over, he dialshis cell phone again. This time he
calls Conchi, the young woman hefooled with years ago. Agents who listen

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to the call cannot believe how itchanges its tone in such a short time.
Again the two characters of Jacnicolso Iam remembering fourteen years ago when you
rejected me a kiss because you saidyou had a phlegm uy a lot of
years ago of that, Jose,I have recorded all the conversations we had.
How' s the weekend? Well, I' ve been going on

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a bachelorette party. When you cansee me for a long time, I
haven' t seen you, butsurely you' re prettier, where are
you working now? I' vebeen out of work for 14 months before,
and you, where you are now, work. I' m in
Cordoba. I don' t havea job, but you, you,
you, when you get married Conchiwhen you find a boyfriend, you'

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re married uff. That' sa long story. I have to tell
you in person. My heart accelerateswhen I remember the few experiences we had
together. You' re still livingwith your parents, my mother. My
father died in the same neighborhood,Garden City. Yeah, I' m
still here. You' ve stoppedsmoking, not drinking, I don'
t drink anything. I tried tosmoke and I can' t. When

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I see more of the bill,it makes me sleepy. Hey, you
' d let me walk you homeone day after work. Yeah, whenever
you want how you are. Physically, the last time I saw you,
we didn' t say hello.I was with a girlfriend who was then
about eight years old, don't forget the day you least expect it
I' ll go find you atwork. Maybe tomorrow I' ll see
if you' ll make a littleroom for me in your life. Pressured

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by the police and the press.With his missing children, Breton was calling
an old girlfriend to ask her out. The investigators will later discover that,
one day before killing his children,on October 7, he had already called
Conchi' s house without finding herand posing as a coworker. On Monday,
17 October, the shadow policeman seesvery restless. Breton notes that he
wants to be nice to him andtells the breads he has with an old

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girlfriend. I' m meeting Conchiaat eight o' clock in the afternoon.
For what. Well, to rememberold times. As they walk,
the chive remembers before the police hisstory with Conchi He explains that he had
called her Remora his little friendship.Fourteen years ago, the agent decided to
cut it. José, I knowthat story. I' m not interested.
We' re here for the kids. Let' s go get the

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kids. Breton' s answer surprisespeople who think it might be another attempt
to buy time. I can talkto my family earlier about what you'
ve done enough harm to them.What do you want to get your family
into to save you, your Bretonstays silent for a few seconds and makes
a request. I can stay herefor a few minutes and think. The

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cop notices it' s about tobreak and squeeze. There' s nothing
more to think about. Jose givesthe face once and for all, you
know what' s there. Youhave very little to think about. The
agent accompanies him to the car andleaves him sitting behind alone with the open
door preton remains thoughtful. The policeretreat a few meters, a few minutes
until they return the time is over. Jose, let' s go to

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the estate and tell me where thekids are. Breton nods and goes with
the two cops to the burns.They walk in the car with him and
close the door. Just get off. They walk towards the orange groves.
They step on the ashes of thebonfire. The police are slowing down to
the dry preton. It also bringsyou some memories of this suspicious Joseph fire

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bending down your head. You haveto be brave, Joseph, what you
did is hopeless, but you canend the pain of other people and tell
what Joseph happened. The children arehere. Right. Breton only utters a
word nearby. They enter the houseand sit on the sofa, bend your
head and grab it with your hands. I mean, we have to go

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to the police station to take yourstatement and tell you where the kids are.
Okay, Vale, stop me Thetwo cops are leaving the estate with
Breton to the police station. Onthe way, he' s just gonna
break his silence. Once I hadto call Conchi I had met her and
I won' t be able togo. The agents let him make the
call. When they hear him speakto his old friend, they find amazed

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that he is not yet defeated.The guy doesn' t suspend the appointment,
just the square until later. Hethinks it won' t give him
time to arrive at eight, butyou can see him later. In fact,
when the cops search him later,they' ll find two condoms in
his pocket. In case that appointmentended well in the police station, the
officers encourage him to declare the truth. They put him through offices and rooms

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where they have left, as alwaysin the last few days, photographs and
memories of their children to see ifthey remove him inside. But Breton'
s statement is going to be disappointing. He insists again on his version.
When he concludes, he asks tobe allowed to call Ruth for what,
so that she knows what happened forme, the cops agree. Maybe he
' ll finally tell the truth ormaybe use that call to keep torturing his

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wife. When she answers, Ruthkeeps asking where the children are. He
almost gave them up for dead andeven offered him a future. The children
will always be there and that's it. We have to pull forward.
That' s the advantage we have. Then you' re going to
bring them desperate question the mother.I have to bring them in later or
later. If I' m nota man, he' s done it

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again. He is finally arrested andbrought before the judge who orders his imprisonment.
Nothing is known about the fate ofthe children. December 28th, Ruzo.
Ortiz goes to see her husband inprison. They' ve prepared it
psychologically and I' m wearing amicrophone that will record the conversation. He
' ll ask again about his children. It' ll be useless again.
Bretona replies that she had done nothingto the children, that she had not
given them to anyone. In thatsituation. Breton was able to throw in

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front of his wife that he wouldnot have picked up the phone when he
called her on October 8, alreadyon the estate of the Quemadillas, moments
before killing his children. According tothe investigation, your mother lied to my
brother and told him that you weren' t there and you were there by
five minutes. Calling where you were. Saturday from jail. Breton would be
hailing for her innocence to a nursewho asked her name. He spewed,

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but you don' t know whoI am. I said that as soon
as he got depressed, he wouldfind out where his children were and point
to his wife' s family asresponsible. He claimed to have a console
and read a lot, especially thesaga of the Lord of the Rings.
He was able to start a supposedhunger strike because he was not allowed to
watch television or read newspapers. Hedidn' t want to miss the Real
Madrid games. He concluded it whenthey promised him that he could read the

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like in marta. Shortly after hiswife’ s visit, another hunger strike
began. It was Christmas. Elevendays later, he weighed two and a
half pounds more than when he beganhis protest on December 30, he starred
in a simulated suicide attempt that resultedin some elbow injuries. Time passed without
news of the children. The farmof the burners had been erected without any

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result. Commissioner Castro was convinced thatBreton had burned them at that bonfire,
but the head of Anthropology of theGeneral Commissariat of Scientific Police had said they
were animal bones. Just in caseafter checking thousands of clues, thousands of
alternatives, from visionaries to nonsense,several decided to send images of those bones
to Dr Francisco Echeverría, one ofthe most prestigious forensics in Spain. When

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he saw the photos, he hadno doubt they were human bones. When
he examined them, he gathered theinvestigators in a room and gave them a
master class. Dr Josefinalamas had toacknowledge her mistake. One of the researchers
would remember after that Dr Alama isoverly involved in those days of work on
the estate. They had even allowedhim to get too close to the suspect

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and talk to him in those endlessdays. She was a scientist and Breton
ended up manipulating her. Haya hadalso sold him out of her film.
That cop doesn' t forget thatwhen Dr Alama later met them at the
car the night, the police anthropologisttold them. I don' t think
he did it. Poor man,how will a father kill his two children.
Bones are from animals. José Bretónwas sentenced to 40 years in prison

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Cruz Ortiz tries to remake his life. The Commissioner will be without castro and
retired. He is convinced that anyday now that his case has been forgotten
and is not on television, themurdering father of his two children in Cordoba
will finally confess his crimes and willdo so for the same reason he committed
them to hurt his ex- wifeagain for the last time. A guerrilla

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on the way, I took hisclothes off. A body breaks down faster
without clothing. We all know that. There is no need to study Miguel
Ángel Muñoz Denistien Killer. My motherdied when I was three. My father
decided that my two brothers would liveat inter and that I would stay with
my grandparents. When I arrived,I saw that there were as many as

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sixteen people living in 70 square meters. When it was time to eat,
it was impossible to bear. Then, my father got married again, but
I got very upset with my stepmother. She used to do santeria rites,
toss the cards, and behave strangely. My brother had a very serious car
accident. He was crippled for life. My sister left home. At sixteen
years of age as a teenager.I took marijuana and joined anti- system

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groups I did in the thousand witheighteen years past a time I went to
live in an empty flat owned bymy father. There I set up a
storage room to drink marijuana. Tomake up for the expenses, I had
to rent rooms to two foreign women. I was not happy that they were
there and made life impossible for them. He would take the window out of
the kitchen so they could get cold, put a black hand on the door

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of the room. Because of him, I couldn' t take my colleagues
to smoke marijuana. Every afternoon mydinner affiliated me to Cnet and I was
an active occupation. In the yeartwo thousand one I was arrested in Italy
during anti- globalization protests. Ihave a three- year- old daughter.
Then I split up and a littleover two years ago, I came
to live this unsuspecting and lonely place. I' ve failed in almost everything

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I' ve tried. I don' t want or expect anything from life.
Statements by MiguelÁngel Muñoz to psychiatristsJosé Cabrera and Alfonso Garrido. It
' s only a mile walking aboutten minutes. It' s worth it.
It is said by the best informedguides and also by the most veteran
pilgrims. If you are making theway to Santiago along the French route and
you leave the city of Astorga,you have to deviate for a little while

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to pass by Castrillo de los Polvacares. It is a small village that preserves
the essence of the maragatos the oldJewish route. Josephin, a twenty-
four- foot- tall German womanMorena, listened to the guides on September
20, two thousand and fourteen.He left early from Astorga and turned away
to see that town around ten o' clock in the morning. He had

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breakfast in Castrillo already. Then heresumed the march and arrived a place with
a lot of vegetation felt lost.The guide did not clearly explain how to
return to the road and continue theroute towards the end of the day stage.
In the location of the hook,a woman was somewhat uneasy because there
was no other pilgrim in sight.Then he saw a yellow arrow next to
a cross. It seemed different fromthe others who marked the way. It

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was more crappy, it was printedon a paper and then colored. He
decided to follow her and started walking. A few minutes later, JoJo faked
a large hedge and in the backgroundthe silhouette of a lonely house there was
a large bush that left to hisright twenty meters beyond. He saw with
fear that the seasoned vegetation was troddenwith fresh footprints, as if someone had

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sat there. A few meters laterhe found some binoculars lying on the ground,
as if a person had bet inthe area, possibly to hunt suddenly.
The young German heard the powerful voiceof a man calling her Way Ron
Way and asked her to come tohim to approach. He realized that the
guy covered his head with a balaclavaand tried to run away, but he

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jumped by his side as he spokealmost to him in a strange mix of
Spanish English. The foreigner would thenremember three sentences that her exaltant repeated to
her No way, No way Germany, no police, No police. The
young woman then taught her attacker theguide to the Camino de Santiago to make

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him see that she was a pilgrimand that she had been lost, but
the hooded man already knew all that. It was he who had painted that
yellow arrow to divert the women totheir hunting place and he was not going
to let her go With a quickmove, he took her from her head
and threw her against the baden onthe opposite side of the road, already
on the ground she threw herself onit and pulled out an electric pistol with

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which it caused shocks to her neckand her left leg pulled her hair trying
to drag her to some place,as if she were a defeated and trapped
prey. But the German pilgrim stoodup for punches and kicks. He also
screamed until he saw his attacker stopbetween surprised and shocked. Defeated. The
man in the balaclava. I wasjust right to repeat no police. No

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police, and he gave up takingher wherever she had her lair. Josephine
took the opportunity to take out afifty euro bill and throw it at the
hood' s feet before running behindhis back. While he had not dared
to turn to look at him,he heard the man screaming again. No
police, he kept running and thevoice went off. She was relieved.

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She was convinced that this man wasnot looking for money, but was going
to hunt her down. The Germanpilgrim had survived to tell and denounce it.
The hooding of the area of themaragatos is not the only danger of
the Camino de Santiago. Along theseformidable routes to compostela, there are rich
exhibitionist thieves and even sexual aggressors whoseek lonely pilgrims, preferably foreigners. This

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is a subject little less than taboo. Nobody wants to talk about it.
There are no official or unified datafrom all areas of Spain through which different
sections of the Camino de Santiago pass. They don' t spread. Perhaps
why would he run the risk ofscaring the pilgrims left alone in the province
of León? About 12 million eurosa year. About one hundred and thirty
zero women make their way every year. According to official data, some dare

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to travel alone. They are thepreferred victims of these predators. Many of
those who suffer more or less seriousattacks. They do not report them and
return to their countries. A yearbefore that assault in the heart of the
Margatería, a neighbor of Valladolid confessedthat he was betting in different places of
the French route Compostela between the provincesof Palencia and León. Or they called

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the pilgrim rapist and attacked at leastone twenty- six- year- old
American woman, one Korean and oneGerman, both thirty- six. In
the same two thousand and fourteen,a Pakistani was arrested and sentenced after forcing
a Swedish pilgrim to make him anaffellation on the north road as he passed
through Deva, Guipúzcoa and Porto Marín. Then the Guardia Civil had a peren
rio the Dutchman accused of raping aGerman tourist. In the year two thousand,

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my son came to live in atownhouse that we had in the villa
where my wife and my other invalidson were living. Miguel didn' t
want to take his brother to therehab center if I didn' t give
him money. He was a verybad student at the age of 14.
I put him to work with me. He was distributing meat in Madrid.
Then he went to the military andstarted to Torcerse met with people who smoked

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marijuana. I didn' t wantto work anymore. He made life impossible
for us at home and I toldhim to leave. He got into a
second- hand car. In theyear two thousand and three, I decided
to put that villa on sale.Miguel stayed in the house while I got
a buyer and closed. Everything.He was there for a few months and
dedicated himself to destroying the villa.Once I put it in his face,

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he got like a beast. Nothinghappened that day because I didn' t
want to face him. I realizedthat Miguel was not a normal person at
the time. One day celebrating mywife' s birthday, we invited him
and he didn' t want tocome by the restaurant. He phoned me
and told me he heard the otherslaugh I told him we were partying,
but he said he thought they werelaughing at him. He went wild and

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showed up there. I' dstop him and stop his feet. I
was threatening everyone. Since then,Miguel always believed that people were talking about
him, that MiguelÁngel Muñoz's father was looking at the psychiatrists who
examined his son. It' sonly ten minutes walk. It' s
worth it. Javier Pombo had wellconnected with Dennis Tiam, a pilgrim born

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in Hong Kong and raised in theUnited States. Both had coincided on some
stages of the road and suggested tothe woman who had been head of projects
of a pet company and had takena sabbatical year to travel the world that
the next day crossed by castrillo delos polvacares. There were other days that
also recommended it, even the oneused by Deniss himself and Javier were not
anyone. He was a great-grandson of writer Concha Espina, a feminist

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pioneer who put castrillos for bazaars onthe map of literature by writing in nineteen
fourteen his novel La sphinx Maragata Denis, which some comrades he had met making
the way to called Arizona because shealways went with a Western hat. He
decided to follow those advices. Hestarted the road just a month earlier,
on the 6th of March in Pamplona, and traveled about twenty kilometers a day.

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She was thirty- nine years old, single and broke up with her
boyfriend. He decided to quit hisjob. He traveled through different places in
Asia and after watching Way' sfilm, he was encouraged to make the
way. She wanted to change courseand thought that this experience would help her
reflect and charge the batteries before startingher new life. Upon his return to
the United States, he was planningto settle in Oregon. No one would

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ever see her again since she cameout of the Polvacares. Only his killer,
his brother Zedic tempem, would reportto the Spanish police from the United
States, who knew nothing about hersince April 4. On that date,
Nice had raised money in Orbigo hospital. The next day they were waiting for
her at a hotel in the townof Goose. Stage- end didn'
t make it. His cell phonewas off. There was either no response

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to the e- mail messages.When his family filed the complaint. Fifteen
days had passed without news from Denis. Astorga police then started a sweep to
try to find out what might havehappened to him. The woman suffered from
a rhythm, so she could havesuffered a heart accident. In principle it
was trusted that the Pilgrim had lefttraces of the last few days through the

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signal of her mobile phone, butthat path did not bear saving and methodical
fruit. Denis used to pay forhis phone while doing the different stages of
the road. Even for whole days, in the year two thousand and ten,
I learned that Michelangelo was living witha girl. She got pregnant,
but he disagreed and broke the relationship. Miguel came to tell her that he

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was going to report her for gettingpregnant. In the end, she went
to live in a hippie village ina caravan in the town of Navalquejigo.
When she gave birth, Miguel wasin northern Spain. The next day he
arrived in Madrid. At the hospitalwere my wife and a friend who had
gone to see the Baby and bringher some details. When he saw them,
Michelangelo became very angry and said hewas going to report them for taking

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pictures of the girl. Then,when they left, he forced his partner
to return the gifts and called hisstepmother to tell her everything and threaten her
not to appear again. Out there, my son never trusted anyone. Never
statements by MiguelÁngel Muñoz' father. I met Michelangelo in the year two
thousand and ten. We were boththen in the CNT union, in what

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was called various trades. He workedas a gardener in Villanueva de la Cañada
acuópolis. He told me that hehad been arrested about 2, 000 years
ago in Italy during a protest againstglobalization. He had also been in Central
America, Colombia and Mexico, wherehe had relations with guerrilla and Zapatista groups.
We live together for a year ina busy organization. When I got
pregnant, he broke the relationship.I then went to navalquejigo near the Escorial,

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and he was in villages occupied nearPamplona in the cab or urial to.
I think, since my daughter wasborn in two thousand and twelve,
we' ve rarely met. Iwent to live with my daughter in a
nun' s residence where I followedMiguel and was thrown out of the occupied
villages in Navarre and a caravan ofmine was installed without my permission. Then
he went to a village about eightkilometers from Astorga. Sometimes he asked me

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to go there with him, butI don' t trust him. I
think he just wants me to goand do all the daily work for him.
At first, Miguel seems like anaffable, calm person, but when
you know him, you realize he' s an aggressive person. You can
' t take him. The opposite. He likes to dominate the situation.
He hasn' t hit me,but he' s been ready and he
' s threatened me several times.He' s envious, jealous, and

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a compulsive liar of racists. Itexists and makes homophoous comments. I don
' t want to know anything abouthim. Statement by María José, former
partner of MiguelÁngel Muñoz and motherof his daughter. The researchers collect earthy,
exhibitionist data and various incidents that wouldhave taken place in that area of
the road and in the nearest localitiesremember the attack suffered by another brunette woman

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with Asian features two years ago,in a very close area and also that
of the German pilgrim. The previousyear, on 23 April, Inspector A
Patricia, a young Madrid police officerassigned to the Astorga Police Station, had
a hunch and decided to approach thehermit' s house, a guy who
lived alone near Castrillo de los Polvacaresand who she herself had arrested after the
German attack. The man who hasbeen isolated from the world is called Miguel

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Ángel Muñoz, who has lived therefor a little more than two years in
a prefabricated house within a farm ofmore than five thousand three hundred square meters.
He' s got a relative inthe area, but he doesn'
t make social life. He's separated and he' s the father
of a child. The German womanhad been attacked near his house, which
made him a suspect. After theassault and the complaint, a police sub

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- bispector went to the house withher, but the pilgrim could not recognize
him as her aggressor, who waswearing ski masks. Neither did they find
the taser gun nor any more evidenceto accuse him, just some binoculars very
close to the house. That wasthe broken goggles of the pilgrim. A
few days later, the judge orderedthe guy to be released, but there
was something about him that the youngpolice officer Patricia did not like, which

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warned him out loud about what hisintuition told him. I don' t
know why it gives me that youand I are gonna meet again. This
was a very quiet town until itarrived. He started having trouble with people
passing by his house. He onceargued about it with Fernando, the doctor.
They almost got to hands. Thepeople of the village no longer passed
by. In addition, there havebeen robberies in the area in the orchards.

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They also took the posters from thehunting grounds. They have changed the
arrows of the Camino de Santiago atthe exit of the village, so that
the pilgrims have to pass irremediably bythe house of Michelangelo. Last year I
saw him bothering several pilgrims by hisside and telling them working things at the
Cuca la Vaina restaurant I have beentold that he has gone several times to
ask them for food from the worksin very bad ways. Statements by Esteban

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Salvadores, President of the Neighborhood Boardof Castrillo de los Porbazares. A year
after her first meeting, an inspector, Patricia returns by surprise to the prefabricated
house of that hermit. This timehe gets angry and proclaims that he knows
nothing about the American woman. Thefirst thing pilgrims always do is give trouble,

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protest. They search his house andhis estate again without finding anything.
At the end of April, twothousand and fifteen police officers from a group
of homicids from the Autez Central,an elite unit based in Madrid, were
added to the case to solve themost complicated crimes throughout the country. LAUDE
agents travel to the area, observethe behavior of MiguelÁngel Muñoz and also

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collect all the work of their astorgacompanions. Some data are alarming. Another
man who attacked pilgrims in the areahad disappeared. He was a poacher who
had just fifteen days earlier jumped awoman to touch her on the ground.
Two of these agents, Miguel andCarlos, then locate another laughing fellow plus
a guy who worked as an assistanton a nearby estate and who had some

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priors for sexual crimes. They won' t forget that interview We' re
going to ask you about the missingpilgrim. I don' t know anything.
The man was very nervous. Sothe cops decided to squeeze it a
little bit. What did you doto Denis in front of the two cops
interrogating him in the middle of thecamp? The guy fell to the ground

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fainted. The agents who then discoveredthe kidnapper of denistiem revive him and raise
him continue to ask him questions,but the man plummets again in front of
them twice more. Then they'll find out he' s not Denis
' kidnapper. He is simply arobber of distraught pilgrims in front of whom
he masturbated, who even wallowed onthe tracks of some animals he hunted the

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last time he confessed to another womantwo or three days before Dennis disappeared.
The investigations are discovering more characters ofinterest to the case, another man with
a history of gender- based violencehas also left his home, coinciding with
the disappearance of the American woman.Police officers in charge of the case have
up to eight suspects, including ErmitañoMuñoz. Everyone lives Homerodean about twenty kilometers

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from the stage of the road whereit has disappeared. Denis, the ninth
suspect, has a very different profile, has no face or name. It
' s only on social media.At the end of April he writes a
shocking message on the Facebook page thatis open in search of clues to locate
Denis via an identical lady doing theCamino de Santiago. Next to the text

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includes a photograph of a bloody fieldknife signed with the hashtag Here I catch
you, here I kill you.Police investigators track the computer from which the
message was written had been spread throughseveral false profiles leading to a young woman
from a family in the province ofHabil. When they reach his door,
they discover that the one responsible forthat bloody message was the girl' s

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brother, a 12- year-old boy who was only looking to draw
attention three months after Denistin' sdisappearance. The case seems to be stalled.
It is in that summer that thethen President of the Spanish Government,
Mariano Rajoy, receives a very specialletter. I know this may hurt some
sensitivities in your country, but considerasking for immediate help. The Feb was

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sent from the United States by SenatorJohn Mackane, a former candidate for the
presidency of that country. The veteranwar senator and representative of Arizona' s
neighbors, the state where Denis'family lived, encouraged Rajoy to appeal to
the U S federal police to solvethe pilgrim' s case. President Barakobama
received another much more personal letter fromthe White House. That summer of two

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thousand and fifteen, our beloved daughterof Nis has disappeared in Spain for more
than 120 days. You have twolovely daughters. Since we arrived in the
United States we have worked hard tobe good citizens and to transmit American values
to our children. We gave themthe necessary education so that according to their
commitment and talent, they could achievethe American dream. Dennis had reached his

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dream, but now she' smissing. The U S Embassy tells us
that we rely on the Spanish policeto learn about the new developments in the
investigation. After more than 120 days, we are still waiting for some news.
Please help us find our daughter.Call the Prime Minister, Mr Rahoy
and Ask him, to instruct hisgovernment to tell us what they know,
what they don' t know andwhat they are doing to find our daughter

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from the United States. The Spanishgovernment is encouraged to offer a reward for
any clue about Denistian. Meetings areconvened at the Ministry of the Interior.
The American embassy is squeezing at itshaking Central Audé police who are participating for
the first time in meetings of sucha high diplomatic level vis-à-
vis politicians. The police firmly rejectthe idea of the reward and transfer that

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the investigation is going well and thatthere are already solid indications against a person.
MiguelÁngel Muñoz, the hermit,my nephew, appeared again in Madrid
in the year two thousand eleven,when at the demonstrations of the Fifteenm he
came to my fish shop and toldme that he was living a brunet.
I saw him again some time later, in the summer of two thousand and
fourteen in Astorga, and I invitedhim a few days to the village of

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Valdemanzanas, where the family has someland. It was the holidays we spent
a few days and I saw thatI was nervous and bad about money.
In September he called me and askedme to let him say that he lived
in my village house because he neededa place to register and receive financial help.
We met on October 12th and Igave him the key to the house.
He told me that when the socialworker had come to visit him,

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a neighbor would hand her over tohim. The point is, then I
found out that he stayed there forseveral weeks. When I decided to reform
some things in the house, Ialso changed the locks. A week later,
a neighbor called to tell me thatsomeone had cut down the eight fruit
trees in the garden and that myrose trees had been fucked. In February
two thousand and fifteen I went tothe village and could no longer enter the
house. I called a locksmith andfound out they' d put staples in

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the door locks. I didn't report it, but whoever did all
that had to be Michelangelo. Statementby Jesus, uncle of MiguelÁngel Muñoz,
a police report of July 10,considers the skillful position that Denis had
disappeared of his own free will tobe exhausted. It also rules out that
they suffered a heart accident during theirfinal stage along the way. There Miguel

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Ángel Muñoz, the hermit, isalready mentioned as the main suspect of the
disappearance of the American pilgrim. Theresearchers have reconstructed their past and claim that
they have been dissociating themselves from society. They' re asking the judge'
s permission to tap into that larcenycharacter' s cell phone. That'
s not going to work because Muñozbehaves like a guerrilla or a maquis.

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He makes his own bread breeds somechickens, sells a few eggs, knows
the area palmo a palmo and takessecurity measures. It appeared on any side
of the road walking by bicycle.June 15th, two thousand and fifteen.
Besides, he had stopped using hisold cell phone when he wanted to talk
to someone on the phone. Hewould travel to Astorga and get into a

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lobby called Blaya. I saw Twowooden stakes with painted yellow arrows similar to
those used to mark the Camino deSantiago. One was between Villatán' s
road and Jauja' s road,where Michelangelo lives. The first arrow confuses
the pilgrims who, if they followher, have to pass by Michelangelo'
s house. The second, atthe end of that road, already leads

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back to the true route of thepilgrims. I told my cousin that I
was afraid to stop by twice thatI went out for a walk near Michelangelo
' s estate. I saw thatsomeone had used oak branches to narrow the
way, so that you could onlypass by one side. It reminded me
of the waiting places that hunters useto catch their prey. All those things

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had never happened in the village untilMichelangelo arrived. Statement to the police of
a neighbor of Castrillo de los Porlvazaresin August. News about the interest in
the case in the United States andthe possible collaboration of FEB and in the
investigation comes to the ears of Muñoz, who is going to star in a
risky episode, is presented in courtand reports that the police are harassing him

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talking about geothermal cameras and helicopters,listening patiently and sending him back home.
Inspector Patricia' s going around.For the next few weeks I was walking
around the mountain in his area.Sometimes I thought that, since I am
Morena, like all the pilgrims theyhad attacked, maybe I would open my
luck and take a surprise. Butthe pilgrim hunter didn' t attack the

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Paisano police. I knew perfectly wellwho she was. More fortunate he was
soon to see with another management ofthe investigators had found out that Denis,
the missing woman, had in hermacuta about five hundred dollars of emergency fund
in case something happened to him alongthe way to Santiago, decided to ask
the banks if Muñoz had made anysuspicious income of money. Officially, that

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hermit received only a pension of fourhundred and twenty- six euros per month
for the citizen' s income.On September 7, the bank' s
response arrived, where the Junta deCastilla y León received this aid. Muñoz
had been there on April 17,barely twelve days after the disappearance of the
pilgrim. He traded US dollar billsworth one thousand thirty- three with sixty
euros. On your bill. Theemployee the branch did not trust to be

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the real one and photocopied the notes. The analysis of those dollars would reveal
that two of them had correlative numbers. It was the Denistian Emergency Fund.
The researchers came to see victory theemployee of the cashamar branch in Astorga,
where Muñoz had exchanged the dollars foreuros for his account, recognized the photograph
of Ermitaño and recalled what happened.He wanted the money to be given to

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her immediately, but she explained thatshe could not do so. I had
to check that the tickets were authentic. The man existed to collect it soon
and she made photocopies after checking thathe didn' t have much affective in
the account and had never changed currency. Muñoz had not been abroad in recent
times and soon after bought a newmobile phone. Some neighbors explained to the

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police that they had seen him lookbetter and even wearing expensive mountain clothes.
Ten days later, he canceled hisold checking account and opened another one.
He acquired a chainsaw and an extractionpump for the septic tank located on his
huge plot of Jauja road. Itwas also made with small bags that serve
to store decomposed organic waste. Officerstry not to lose sight of him,

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but it' s not easy.The suspect of the disappearance of the pilgrim
took many precautionary measures, leaving hisbicycle hidden in different places. It'
s very difficult to track him becausehe doesn' t have fixed schedules or
customs. There' s only oneplace you don' t usually miss.
The school graduate is taking out thetitle of that and attends support classes at
the Astorga Language School. On September3, MiguelÁngel Muñoz has two exams

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at the FaustínÁlvarez de León StudyCentre. In the morning he examines science
and at four o' clock inthe afternoon in English. When it ends,
researchers see another man driving from Leonto Astorga, about forty- five
minutes on the way. This isa young soldier of the military emergency unit
who would participate in the search forDenis' body, not knowing that he

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had been so close to his killerthey say goodbye in Astorga. Then Michelangelo
returns to his hermit farm. Theywon' t see him again. That
' s where we were going toEnglish- speaking support classes together that day
I told him that I had beenloving him to ask him for notes,
but that his phone always gave meoff. He told me he had it
broken. I asked him if hewas going back to the classes that started

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on September 24th, and he toldme he couldn' t. He had
to visit his partner in Madrid andhe thought he was going to suspend the
exams. I was planning to showup again in Asturias. Statements by Miguel
Ángel Muñoz Muñoz' s fellow studentfeel watched by the police almost surrounded like
a cornered animal. He' sseen a helicopter flying over his estate.

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He thinks there are even FBI investigatorswho have come to hunt him down with
the most sophisticated methods possible. Hedecides to run away, but before doing
so he leaves as every afternoon apair of socks and a pair of boots
hanging from the railing at the entrancefor those who watch him. Think it
' s still inside on September 4. Two plainclothes policemen who come to his
estate see that in the back ofthe house they are no longer there.
The large solar panels that provided electricityare huge, they can' t get

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far. Maybe he sold them.The SNS police track in junkyards and in
clean spots in businesses and on socialnetworks. No result. They live in
two occupied centers, on Maragata Mountainand on the outskirts of Astorga. They
send a companion to the old cityoccupies Navarre, from where he was expelled.
They check his family' s housesand his ex- girlfriend' s.

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The hermit has vanished a bus driversays he traveled to Benavente, in
the province of Zamora. Researchers locateother travelers who do not recognize them.
The money trail and technology will betraythe Hermit again. At 1340 hours on
11 September, someone takes out 50euros at an ATM in Grandas de Salime,
an Asturian town on the road.The police are notified immediately. The

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Bank' s security cameras show stumpsentering the branch with backpack cane and pilgrim
boots from large salima. It isquite isolated and it is not easy to
reach by road. There is nopolice station. There are only two municipal
agents there who have never dealt withany murderer. Researchers in Madrid have to
buy time for their colleagues to arrivefrom the nearest Luarca, ninety- three

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winding kilometers away. One of theaudible inspectors calls a local policeman' s
cell phone. You have to findthe guy from the bank footage. We
' ve sent our people from Luarca, but it' ll take a while
to get there Locate him and keephim from leaving town Don' t let
him know you' re a copHe' s a murderer, but I

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' m in uniform. Change theroom to look for it. Five cops
are on their way. Two goby car from Luarca. The road is
convoluted from Madrid. Subinspector Carlos goesup by helicopter with two GEO agents.
They don' t even know wherethey can land on salime grenades. Their
group leader is in charge from Mardand locates a suitable site outside of the
entire movement deployed for capture. Muñozis like other pilgrims, quietly drinking a

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beer on the barge' s terrace. He' s being arrested there and
taken up to the helicopter to movehim to the crime zone as soon as
possible. Subbinspector Carlos knows that themoment to set foot on his land in
Astorga is fundamental at that moment thedetainee will know that his escape is over
and there will be no turning back. And that' s when Muñoz approaches
the cop and tells him he wantsto tell him where the pilgrim' s

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body is. Carlos listens carefully.Last night it rains and that morning Muñoz
indicates where Denis' body is,although he claims that he found it by
chance by the smell. Thinking itwas a dead animal, they' re
taking him to the Squid to sleep. There, cops buy ham sandwiches and
cokes and have dinner with him toavoid problems. They are located near the

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security cameras that record that improvised evening. The next morning they are carrying out
a reconstruction of what happened. Theywant to leave the door of Muñoz'
s house, where they believe thathe provoked the encounter with the pilgrim and
then attack her. When they're starting, Inspector Jesus, the homicide
group leader, approaches the suspect andasks him something about to recognize how.

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He first attacked Denis with a stickand then cut his neck with a white
gun. Muñoz shows him police concernabout his high school graduate. I passed
the English test. I' msure you know that. The investigator decides
to take the opportunity to earn histrust so you can see that I'
m not going to lie to youat all. I' m telling you,
we know and you' ve suspended. I don' t want to

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fool you on the way to theplace where you' re going to confess
your crime. Muñoz observes the Maragatfields through the Ventanilla, where he ended
up isolating himself from the world ofa society in which he did not fit.
Look at the cop and tell himafter today I' ll never see
this again. Inspector Jesus knows thatit is true to lower the glass so
that it breathes for the last timein many years the air that comes from

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Mount Teleno, the summit that separatesthe maragatería from the Cabrera. Legends tell
that their winds, called bufas orwitches, depending on where they come from,
disturb the behavior of the most unstable. Thousands of years ago, the
Astures were there worshiped by the Tilenusgod of strength, brightness and struggle.
Even today it is said that therewas a ladder of a hundred steps of

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gold that reached the summit, wherethere was also gold, and that the
inhabitants of the mountain were going downin the clouds. The court record shows
Muñoz surrounded by people and cameras.He' s in the judge he tutors,
and so are the investigators. ThePilgrim' s killer looks like a
missionary or a coworker.He' s got a beard, he
' s scruffy. He' sgoing to explain to them that he assaulted

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Denis but didn' t want tokill her, that he then left his
body naked in a place where thewild boars sleep about 150 meters from his
house, that he burned his clothes, his mobile phone and his pilgrim sticks,
that, when the police began toinvestigate, he took advantage of a
full moon night to dress completely inblack, transport the body in a wheelbarrow

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to a far more distant and hiddenplace almost two kilometers across the Monte countryside
and two regional roads, the sameroad that has now guided the investigators a
dead body weighs three times more.People don' t know, but I
do. It was so crazy.All of a sudden, all the stress
I had made boom I took herclothes off. A body breaks down faster
without clothing. We all know that. There' s no need to study.

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I had to take her hands offbecause when I grabbed her I thought
that between her nails or whatever,she could leave me her fingerprints. I
cut them off with a little kitchenaxe. Then I put some reference points
like that stone. MiguelÁngel Muñozduring the reconstruction of his crime, Muñoz
feels the protagonist When Inspector Jesus askshim where Denis' hands are, he

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turns to him and answers everything inhis time. We are facing a man
in juto, quiet and distrustful,with a fixed and penetrating gaze in prison
is usually only suspected of everyone believesthat they listen to him and are watching
him. We are facing a relativelyyoung man, with a broken childhood and
youth without stable referents, with anunstable and erratic personality. He has always

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been considered a nobody who has failedin most of his personal, social and
labor projects, all of which hasled him to develop a feeling of hostility
towards the society in which he lives, with affiliation to all kinds of anti
- system groups, occupation, anarchistsand, in general, marginals. After
the tragic episodes being investigated, hehas become an important person. Cameras,

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cops, journalists, doctors, whichhas given him the only moments of Gloria
in her random life. He doesn' t expect anything from life. Forensic
medical report by Drs Cabrera and Garridowho interviewed MiguelÁngel Muñoz at the Mansilla
prison of the mules. Still excitedby his Gloria days, Muñoz went to
his estate for the last time,accompanied by Inspector Jesús and Agent Javier to

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pick up some things to take tojail. You' re gonna spend some
time there, take advantage of itand grab some stuff. Tells him one
of the autistic agents. Get somenovels. You' re gonna need to
kill time. There are many fictionbooks, essays, political topics that explain
that you can take four, notmany more. When you see that the

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killer has chosen, the cop can' t resist you recommend one. The
hermit shows him a book by LuisSepúlveda, the Chilean writer based in Asturias
until his death. Years later,he' s called an old man who
read love novels. When he returnedto Madrid, the head of the homicide
group read that wonderful novel he couldnot help but smile was the narrative of

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the trip to the jungle, ofthe retirement of a huraño guy who lives
as a hermit in South America andhis relationship with the environment with a tribe
that welcomes him until an incident causesthem to press and leaves him totally.
Only the guy then devotes himself toreading novels that he learns almost by heart.
It was the image of what MiguelÁngel Muñoz thought he was himself before
he became a murderer. Muñoz hasbeen in prison ever since. At his

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house. The police found more thanthirty- eight zero euros from a family
inheritance. He didn' t takethem to the bank and he didn'
t need the money he took fromDenistien. Two years later, one of
the inhabitants of Mount Teleno went tohis estate and burned down his house.
No one knows who Denis Decirei's cousin was, but she was in

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charge of representing the family in theirrelationship with the researchers. From Hong Kong,
where he lives, he has continuedto maintain contact with the police throughout
these years. In April of twothousand and twenty, during the worst days
of the coronavirus pandemic, the familyof that woman murdered in Spanish camps sent
a new message to laudance agents.This time it wasn' t to talk
about Denis, nor about his killerHi Sorry to bother you. I just

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saw in the news that in Spaindoctors auxiliary nurses do not have masks or
protective suits. I' m goingto buy a few masks n ninety-
five or medical level three to sendthem to some hospital in Madrid. I
could suggest to which medical center itwould be better if I sent them.
He knows if police officers are alsoshort on personal protection issues such as masks
and gloves. I hope you're all right I pray for you every

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day. A thousand hundred fpp twomasks arrived in Spain and were handed over
to civil protection and distributed by severalhospitals in the Community of Madrid. The
mother of her children, if Ibury them well, don' t catch
me either Sergio Morate murdering Laura delHoyo and Marina or Caninska just met.

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She' s called Mary Jesus.Everyone calls her Mariage and is a housewife
from Cuenca who also works in thefamily furniture company. She seems fragile,
but she has brought her family forwardwith two bred sons. He' s
20 years younger and he' snever been to that city before. He
' s Andalusian aditan, a strongbig guy with shaved hair. His name

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is Frank and he is part ofan elite unit of the national central laudity
police responsible for investigating the most complexcriminal cases in Spain. Her youngest son,
Sergio, a thirty- year-old, a gym and computer lover,
is missing, as are two youngfriends, Marina or Carinsca, twenty
- four years old, born inUkraine and Laura from the twenty- five

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hole and a well- known andrespected family in Cuenca. All three mothers
have gone to the police to filethree reports of disappearance. Very soon.
The investigations point the man to SergioMorate. One of the missing girls,
Marina was her boyfriend for four yearsand had broken up with him a few
months ago. The other one,Laura, was Marina' s best friend.

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The Cuenca police are asking for helpfrom the central audity and the case
is assigned to the homicide group.The first afternoon, two policemen from that
elite unit, Officer Frank and InspectorAdriana, moved to the basin. The
story looks bad. From the beginning. On August 6, several agents tracked
down the home of Río Gritos Streetin the Arnatura organization, where Sergio Morate

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lived, on the floor that hisparents had given him. There they find
two bags in the clothes of theirmarine Gnovia that had been picked up that
afternoon by her friend. It wasthe last chapter of his relationship with Sergio.
The fringe that they had pending onthe floor, where there are no
traces of blood or signs of violence. The cops have also discovered a lot
of black flanges used to dominate thehorses were under Morate' s bed.

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Soon after, researchers locate in Laura' s car a chebro lez callos parked
about 500 meters from Sergio Morate's house. Inside there are personal belongings
of the two friends, including theirmobile phones, their bags and even the
medication one of them took for aheart problem. He painted faith in that
intrigue. He painted that the mancould have done something to his ex-

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girlfriend and her friend and then maybekill himself, as some macho killers do.
On the afternoon of August 7,in Cuenca, the Andalusian mother and
police are sitting in the back ofa forgonette. The woman, a lady,
begins to open herself up to thatstranger who most possibly suspects her having
come to find her son, toarrest him and to put him in jail.

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Vera. My son, Sergio,had lost some time a few nights.
When he was having dinner, suddenlyhe was silent looking at a fixed
point on the wall I was askinghim what was wrong with him and he
was telling me nothing. Mom,I' m thinking about my stuff.
That mother had suffered a great dealon another occasion because of her young son.
It was after another girlfriend of hisbroke up with him. Seven years

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ago, Sergio did not accept thebreak- up and two weeks later he
quoted her at his house with theexcuse that he had to hand her some
items. Once they were alone.He took her cell phone, threw a
room, stripped her naked, pulledher clothes off, and took several photographs
that she put in a pendraif atwo- hour torture that ended up with
the victor giving orders. Now getdressed and get out of my house.

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If you don' t come backwith me, I' ll hang your
photos on all social media. Everyone' s gonna see them. This has
to be argued for the good orthe bad. If you don' t
come back with me, I'll kill myself that time. He was
reported and sentenced to three years andtwo months in prison for illegal detention and
threats. He served only a yearand a half in prison and returned to
the streets. That' s whenshe started going to the psychologist and psychiatrist

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encouraged by her mother, who wasworried about those violent explosions of her son.
So in the summer of two thousandfifteen, the woman who spoke to
the Andalusian policeman was very distressed withthe possibility that Sergio could have repeated those
behaviors with sailor. Laura, theinvestigator sees her suffer and hears her cry.
The officer has studied two years ofpsychology, but above all he has
dealt with many murderers and has metmany surviving victims. The mother seems to

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him from the beginning one of thosevictims. She is telling her missing son
' s pattern of behavior, hisauthoritarian traits also with her and her father.
While processing all that information, thecop doesn' t know what'
s going on with him, buthe feels his nose and eyes getting more
and more itchy. He' sconstantly sneezing. During one of the searches

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of the houses and factories very closeto the police device are the morate dogs,
of which his mother is now responsible. At the end of that long
day, the autez officer will discoverthat he suffers from alerge to dogs.
His fellow basinmen keep looking for cluesabout the missing. They locate a neighbor
who saw the two women downstairs inthe urbanization. About to go up to

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Sergio' s house, I waswalking the dog. One of the girls
was talking on her cell phone tosay she was arguing with someone. Marina
was talking to Sergio. She wantedhim to take her bags down the street
with his clothes. He wanted meto go upstairs and pick up his flat
alone Nothing to go to his friend. In the end, Marina will give

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in, but with Laura she wantsto end that story. Don' t
see your ex- boyfriend anymore.The agents move heaven and earth a young
woman from the town of Palomera,the village of the Mother of Morate and
where he spent many summers since hischildhood. He explains that he has seen
him spend several nights of the lastweek driving his old SUV to the nearby
mountains. Some testimonies suggest that thefugitive may have a marijuana plantation hidden in

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the area and that he would comeup at night to control it. The
mountains are near the place where itoriginates, the Huécar River, with hundreds
of roads that no one passes through. When they search the all- terrain,
the agents find an old shovel boughtfrom a Chinese bazaar and a pack
of piles with only one left.At the end of the family ias they
had found a flashlight with the purpleDNA inside it had the other identical batteries.

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Everything indicated that the man had beenpreparing the attack on his ex-
girlfriend and also the place and theway to hide it without being seen.
Several friends of Sergio would remember neverforget a conversation they had with him on
the terrace of a Palomera bar daysbefore everything changed forever. Sergio approached them
and asked them if you committed acrime where you were going to get caught.

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He gave the answer. The bestplace to hide from Brazil. He
had seen on some television series thatthat country had no extradition treaty. On
August 12, two thousand fifteen,six days after the disappearance of Moratica the
two women, a police group searchesthe furniture factory that the family has in
squealing on the Cuenca road to Guadalajara. There are Morate' s parents,

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too. The Andalusian policeman is veryattentive to them. While his colleagues are
looking for any clues that will allowMarina and Laura to be found. Sergio
' s also trying to pass themthe uncle. I do as humanly as
possible and also tries to hear fromyour work something that this marriage says in
case it could be used to solvethe case. Suddenly the cop starts to
notice something' s going on.He sees his companions murmur and move quickly

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in and out. Then the Adrianainspector approaches him and sets him apart a
few meters so Sergio' s mothercan' t hear what she' s
going to say. We' releaving, Frank What about the girls?
We have to interrupt the search.A man walking his dogs found Laura and
Marina' s bodies in a scrubarea near the birth of the roecar.

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Sergio' s body isn' tthere. The case becomes a double murder
with only one suspect, a fugitiveto be hunted down. Sergio Morate,
the little son of mariaje a fewmeters away. Sergio Morate' s mother
contemplates dinner without knowing for sure whatis happening. So the Tom Andaluz man,
that unknown cop who' s helpingher in the most difficult moments of

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her life. He approaches her andspeaks to her with delicacy. I'
m sorry we have to go.The mother has been afraid for six days
that that could happen. He preferredto think that his son had left with
the two women. Maybe I could' ve threatened them like he did that
other girl years ago. Maybe he' s taken them somewhere, but he
desperately wants to think everyone' sokay. In those moments of anguish,

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the mother even wishes the three hadan accident, but her head tells her
that this is not what has happened. The mother keeps begging that her son
hasn' t hurt Laura and Marina. Mariage is very religious. He believes
especially in the Virgin of Lourdes.But at that moment, on the ship
of the family business, the motherunderstands what is going on. That'
s why he asks the police howmany bodies they found and whether Sergio is

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also dead. Tell me if there' s all three of them or not.
The police officer grabs Morate' smother' s hand. It'
s a tough scene. Looks likehe almost apologizes for not finding the third
body, but deep down he's telling him that his son is not
a victim, that Sergio is thekiller I' m sorry mariaje is just
the two of them. The police' s huge hand isn' t enough

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to hold the woman. The motherfalls on her knees on the floor of
the old ship. The officer andhis colleagues see it break in half,
but they have a job to finishand they must leave there. You won
' t forget that scene. Justtwo months later, he will be the
father of his first child. Whenhe was investigating the disappearance of the three
people in the basin, when hetalked to that mother, his wife was

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pregnant. Years later, as heremembers, his eyes still moisten. When
the policeman and his companion arrive atthe wells of the river, about eleven
kilometers from Palomera, other officers willexplain that a man walked the dogs in
the area known as the Still Life, and that the animals detected a very
strong smell, they ran out anddiscovered the improvised tomb. The man thought

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he could be tattooed of a deadanimal. It was Marina and Laura.
Next to them. The agents collectsome old rusty tools like a race,
also a water graff, very specialwith the image of the Virgin of Lourdes
and the sanctuary where pilgrims come toask or thank God something. The cops
decide to have Morate for murder.Their investigations have led them to Romania.

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They know their old car is parkedat the door of their compadre' s
hispan house in the village of Lugoy. The two had met in a Spanish
prison when Sergio was serving a sentencefor the attack on his first ex-
girlfriend, and up there he hadcome to Serge Morate driving the car.
They had ripped off his license plate, but it' s the same Tibiza
sea with the same old gollion.On one side, Spanish agents accompany Romanian

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policemen who enter the house and takehim away. He was the godfather of
the boy who had had his oldchauffeur partner. Days later, when the
French policeman sees Morate' s motheragain, the woman is destroyed. Your
son. He' s a murderer, a double killer. The woman suffers
for the other families, also forher son, her son who will return

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to Spain any day. Turn thevisit and ask him for some details.
It shows the water grip that hasbeen found next to the pit. It
' s a very strange, almostunique bottle. The woman is going to
solve her doubts with the same sincereattitude she has had since all that hell
started. Yes, it' sa bottle of water from the Virgin of
Lights. I have one just likeit here at home You want to see

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it. The cop thinks he mightbe looking at something interesting much more when
Morate' s mother comes back afew minutes later empty- handed and explains
to him how weird he had abottle just like it here at home,
but it' s gone. Theyboth understand without speaking the claw was the
same. Her son had taken herto finish the hole where he wanted to
leave his ex- girlfriend' sbody. Laboratory tests on that bottle of

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miraculous water abandoned next to the pitwill discover adn of Sergio Morate. When
he leaves that lady' s houseto the Gaditan policeman, the pylon hammer,
the big guy who gets the killersto trust him, he realizes that
that afternoon he didn' t sneezeeven once there wasn' t a single
dog' s hair especially in thelittle room where we' ve been talking
well. The killer' s mother, aware of his allergy, had cleared

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the whole house of conscience so thathe could breathe well, while searching for
evidence against his son. On theafternoon of September 5, two thousand and
fifteen, a military plane from theMinistry of Defense landed in Torrejón de Ardoz.
Inside the guards and handcuffs came SergioMorate and another criminal arrested in Romania,
who was much more nervous and aggressiveduring the flight. Just touch Spanish

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soil. Agents of the orgyo hadto take him quickly and there sitting on
the plane, Sergio Morate waited.A few minutes later, the ladder went
up at Udez officer Frank and theChief Inspector of Cuenca, Francisco Sánchez Paco
Fran, had talked long and hardwith his mother and feared that the detainee
did not want to talk. Hetells his partner about it. I think

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this one' s gonna come closedin Plan Roca. He has thrown himself
weeks in Romania, watching and listeningto everything that was told about the case.
He knows we' re keeping himhere and he thinks we' re
going to break into Saco against him. The Chief Inspector agrees with the young
officer to walk Luz. They bothdecide to break the scheme for Marine'
s killer and Laura gets on theplane and they see him coming up and

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sitting in the seats across the street. They' re all alone. Good
Sergio, how was the trip.You' ve had turbulence. You'
ve been treated well. The killerdidn' t expect those questions. He
responds quietly as he especially looks atone of the cops that big guy like
a closet short accent unmistakably from thesouth, as the truth is I'

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ve been fine. The agents offerhim something to drink and Mora confesses that
he is thirsty, they leave himthere sitting on the plane and return with
a bottle of water. When theygive it to him, the Andalusian cop
tells him how you see the situationwhat you expect to happen now. Most
killers the cops who stop them know. They are not great brains or provide

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brilliant answers to the motives for theircrimes. They almost always respond with phrases
made, deny guilt, or makea fuss with more or less clumsy attempts
to apologize for what some have done. Morate didn' t cry once,
but he didn' t keep quieteither He said four words that I'
ve messed up. Then he rememberedaloud the person who had helped him most

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in his life, the person Ihad not heard and what my mother would
be suffering. How' s mymother, because you' re true.
He says he' s looking atthe cop. Sergio Morate has been in
contact with his mother several times sincehe was arrested in Romania three weeks ago
and the woman broken by what hehas done. His son has begged him

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not to add more pain to thefamilies of Marina and Laura, and he
has also told him about the policemanwith whom he has spent hours venturing,
opening up. Since that terrible Augustafternoon, my mother has told me about
you. He says to listen toyou, that you' re a good
guy. Morate respects the specialist ingaining the confidence of the murderers. The
investigator responds quickly. You know youshouldn' t lie to the detainee or

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give him false hopes if you don' t want to lose your trust.
I don' t know if I' m a good guy, I don
' t worship. What I knowis that I' m here to try
and get you to spend a lotof time in jail. Morate was restless.
He wanted to know how many yearsof conviction Caerle could have followed other
famous cases of murder and noted withinterest the controversy in Spain over the permanent
prison that had just been approved inCongress. He decided to ask the cop,

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they' re gonna put me inthe permanent prison. I don'
t want to. That' strue that I killed Laura of course,
but she was there. What Iwas going to do, the investigator knows
Morate can' t be sentenced topermanent prison for legal issues. Decide not
to explain. They' re bothplaying a game of chess or muse The
killer wants to know what he knowsabout the crimes, what evidence there is,

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what part of the truth can keephiding from him. The cop wants
me to talk, but he can' t ask you directly. It would
be illegal. He can only gethim to tell things for himself during a
banal conversation, because he wants todo it and spontaneously. Morate just assumed
he killed the two women. Whenhe explains it, it doesn' t
break at any time, it doesn' t convey any feelings. As for

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the navy he strangled with a bridlefor horses, with such ferocity that it
reduced from twenty- three to eightcentimeters to the diameter of his neck.
He won' t explain anything justthat when his ex- girlfriend broke into
his apartment that afternoon, he lockedthe door. Then it was for her
Morate. He says he doesn't remember any more, but he insists
Marina deserved it. He loved.First. Laura tried to escape, but

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she couldn' t open the door. His killer won' t tell,
but he chased the terrified young lady. He hit her from behind on the
left side of the head. Thenhe punched her in the cheekbone and finally
strangled her. Laura from the holedied because she passed by his house when
he had planned to kill poor Marina. Laura goes on to say morate without
too much conviction once to the copwho listens to him. The first conversation

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between the policeman and the killer insidethe same plane in which they brought him
from Romania lasts almost an hour.The Chief Inspector of Cuenca, witness to
that talk, realizes that Morate hasconnected with his partner. You' re
speaking naturally, but you must leavethe plane. The killer must be transferred
from the terminal of Torrejón de Ardozto Cuenca, a journey of about 120
kilometers almost without words. The twocops decide to get Frank in the car

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with Morate and don' t splitup with him. Perhaps during the swallowing
to the police station and the dungeons, the killer will continue to converse with
the policeman who recommended him to hismother. Morate' s still restless.
He wanted to know what signs werealready pointing inside the vehicle towards the basin.
The policeman leads the conversation to themotor cars. Another one of the

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killer' s hobbies, a littleadventure, to go with a cracked fang
to Romania. I' m notsure you hit him well as a slipper.
Not so much, and I heardradar pending. If he saw a
license plate reader, he' dturn around and pick up. On the
other hand, Morate continues to saythat during his escape of more than 1,
800 kilometers, he was almost thirty- six hours sleepless who stopped twice

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to buy Red Bull to keep hiseyes open, which also had to stop
many times at gas stations, everytwo times for three to fuel and explains
it, he poured very little gasolineevery time of twenty in twenty euros.
I couldn' t run out ofmoney if the car left me lying down
before I arrived in Romania and Iwas very tired, not just because of
the trip. Morate tells the copthat he had holes for more than a

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week after committing the murders. It' s just digging a ditch in the
bush like you did, man,you don' t get an idea.
The stone was very hard. Itwas impossible to dig there. I'
ve stung many times, but Iwas very hard. I came to give
him bread and that didn' tcome down. He had opened a hole
to put only one person in forhis ex- girlfriend. I wasn'

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t counting on killing Laura too,the friend, so when I was exhausted
I couldn' t go deeper.He left them naked lying there. It
was a safe place. No onewas going to deviate along that path,
but at that time he decided thathe had to change plans and leave the
basin. He knew he wouldn't be able to use the alibi he
had prepared the days before. Thatafternoon, another friend from the prison,

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a Colombian criminal, was going topass by the basin to pick him up.
They' d both go to agig at Reggaetón later. I'
d bring him home later. I' d have witnesses had been out.
When they asked him about his missingex- girlfriend, I' d say
he didn' t know anything aboutnavy. He had been on his way
a long way from there. Rememberinghow his plans had been twisted, Morate

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could not help a few words thatsounded almost like a challenge to the researcher
with whom he was taking confidence.If I felt them right, don'
t even catch me fucking buried inbald. The lime sacks have broken the
ice. Morate is no longer agarment. He wants to know the evidence
they have against him and the copleaves him. Talking to this killer likes

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computer science. He was dedicated toinstalling applications in a more or less pirated
way. I was updating the tontonof some friends. I spent a lot
of time sailing. Policeman Frank risksand in life has put me with you
as much as you want to thatwhen they end up in forensics on your
computer we get you how far youbought the lime to bury them. Morate

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sees the set and climbs it allthe way up. I used a server
on the rector. The cop listensattentively. He realizes that Morate knows the
deep web, the dark zone ofthe Internet and that he knows how to
leave no trace of his searches.He suspects that the killer' s computer
won' t find a clue tothe preparations for his crimes. This time,

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Morate defeated him, but Frank knowshe has to say something. You
can' t let that issue endlike that. So improvise. Yeah,
man, a NASA penis cloud.You' ve been cheered up by that
little win. Morate also gives detailsof his moment of greatest danger during the
escape. It happened already in Italianterritory, when a car hit his from

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behind, he could not afford tostop and fill. The papers from the
accident would stop him The guy drivingto the other car came to apologize.
I wanted to fix the insurance papersand that said it was his fault I
couldn' t stay I gave himmy hand and ran away from there the
shadow of the permanent prison, tobe checked. What they know about him,

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what he did, what evidence someneighbor has. He saw him taking
Marina and Laura' s bodies outof his house, bringing them down to
the garage, putting them in thecar. How fucked up he is.
Sergio Morate wants to extract information fromthe policeman who had done good crumbs with
his mother. There' s notmuch left to get to the basin.
He' ll put him in thedungeon there. It' ll be late,
you won' t be able toask him any more. So speed

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up your story. When I wasgoing down to Marino' s parking lot
to put her in the trunk ofthe car, I heard a noise and
I lost the police investigation. Ihadn' t figured out which vehicle Morate
moved yet. The two corpses oftheir victims to bury in the bush.
He' s got his old manstuffing himself with the one Romania traveled with.
Also a border galopel. Some testimoniessuggest that he may have been able

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to use another car, that ofhis friend Raúl. It doesn' t
catch on, too. Fran decidesto try his luck. Our trunk'
s hot. It' s toosmall, and you' ve got it
petted with things. Besides, howdid you put Marina and Laura there morate,
presume intelligent and when boasting answers yes, uncle, having someone else'
s car, I will use minefor that, because worse you put it

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to me your friend' s car, Raul another ibiza with a small trunk.
I didn' t put them bothin the trunk just to one navy
to the other I put it onthe floor of the back covered with black
garbage bags. That car' sgot the tinted crystals. No one could
see her, but the fucking neighborsaw me. There wasn' t really
any neighbors. Even though it allhappened around five o' clock in the

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afternoon, no one discovered Morate,dropping the bodies in the elevator from his
third floor to the garage to putthem in his friend' s car,
first Marina' s car, thenLaura' s car. But the killer
is convinced there was a witness.He heard a noise and the cop won
' t get him out of hishorror. We know that. Sergio Fuck,
how can you not know if theysaw me, because the neighbor told

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me? Not what do you thinkif you see a person carrying a bundle
from the garage this time Morate buysthe police bluff. I knew it,
fuck, look what I fucked upin the parking lot. When I heard
the noise, he stood behind theparking column, but he saw me.
I know you saw my car linedup the streets of Cuenca. The asphalt
is wet. Morate looks out thewindow and shows some relief less than rain,

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uh, and you don' tcare if it rains so much,
there' ll be fewer people atthe courthouse door to tell me things.
Morate doesn' t want him putin Cuenca prison. Everyone knows him there.
They' re going after him.After what you' ve done,
they' ll make your life verydifficult. He' s already been to
prison after attacking that other girlfriend whohad the courage to leave him. You

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know. That world knows what theydo to famous killers and rapists. The
fame of vanity also has a morbidside for some criminals. A certain pride
sickens the zero citizen who, asin the old song of Joaquín Sabina,
becomes someone thanks to the blood thatmade run that phrase from which then his
trunk in prison. Patrick Nogueira,the guy who killed four family members in

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piod in two days, I'll be the cover of all the newspapers
in the world. You' vebeen in homicide for a long time,
four years, Frank responds, andby that time you' ve been in
some famous cases. Yeah, Breton' s. Also José Breton, who
in October of two thousand eleven,almost four years before Morate' s crimes,

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burned his two children alive in Cordobato get revenge on his Russian wife
ortiz she as a navy with Sergiohad had the courage to break with his
man and try to start a newlife. Mora wants to make it clear
that he' s not Breton.For him there' s a lot of
difference between the two of them orhe wants there to be. He has
also killed two people, but inreality he only wanted to kill one and

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they were adults. Breton got 40years in jail. I can' t
fall so much, I can't. Breton killed two children at the
entrance to the police station. Fromthe basin there is no one claiming Kelo
Linchen Morate breathes then sees a familiarface. They' ve grown up together.
They' ve coincided in the basinhundreds of times in the gym where

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I went to get into the mallsbefore I had that fucking animated testicle cancer.
The killer greets him. What areyou doing here? Javi. You
see, I start at the courthouseand the first person I have to stop
a known person from arresting you,Sergio Morate, responds quickly. He'
s not just that anonymous kid fromCuenca anymore. That zero citizen you'

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ve arrested a famous Javi. I' ve been brought on the Ministers'
plane. I' ve been inthe waiting room of the airport used by
the king I' m like BretonI' m famous. When they'
re gonna put him in the dungeon. Morata insists to Officer Frank, who
has observed the scene. He wantsyou not to take him to Cuenca prison.
But above all, he wants toknow if it' s true what
they said on television while he washiding in Romania at his friend Isbn'

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s house. He wants to knowif Marina, his ex- girlfriend,
the woman he strangled with a bridleto hold horses. He had married another
man while in Ukraine. They saidit on TV. You have to tell
me, man It' s truehe got married. I' ve been
told there are pictures of the weddingand everything sure you have. You have

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to show them to me. Ifyou show them to me, I'
ll tell you how the cop didit. She knew it was true,
she even had some marine images onher mobile phone with her husband, but
she decided not to play that card. It seemed to him that it was
unnecessary suffering for morate and that,in addition, seeing those photographs could make
it close, that it would staymute forever. You won' t see

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them. Today, Sergio and Idon' t have to show them to
you. Try to get some sleep. I' ll see you tomorrow morning,
Frank goes down to jail. Morote' s awake waiting for him He
asked me to come down. Hedoesn' t want to talk to anyone
else. The day begins as itended the night before. Uncle, please
show me the wedding photos. Don' t start. Sergio, the killer

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knows the cop won' t givein this time either. He himself has
given him a card he can playwith. Morate wants two things, not
to go into the basin jail andsee the photos of the marina wedding,
but he also knows that it mustbe practical and asks when I will be
able to sell my cars for whatyou want to do that. Now I

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' m gonna have to pay fora good lawyer. There are no killers
who want to show the police howwell they' ve done it, how
well they' ve planned it.Morate had some of those moments with the
autez agent, as when he explainedwhat he did after killing the two women
and putting them in the car,that on the afternoon of the murders,
possibly with a body in the trunkand another under the back seats, he

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passed through the residence where his grandmotherwas living, that his strange mother saw
him at the door and greeted himwho decided to enter that with the bodies
in the car, he also wentto the terrace of a bar where some
friends were. The cop makes himsee that he took huge risks, that
that was a clumsy thing, whyyou did that. I was interested in

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being seen by everyone seeing that Ihad done the same thing as a normal
day. Your friends will remember.Then they offered him to stay for a
drink, but Sergio said his headhurt. His first plan had failed.
He was going to kill Marina andthen he was going to go to a
reggaeton concert in Alicante with a friendof his in prison, a Colombian who
was on leave on those days.When the man came to Cuenca to look

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for him, Morate told him thathe had Marina inside the floor, that
he had killed her, he hadmessed her up brown. The Colombian didn
' t want to eat brown andwent to Alicante. Then he went back
to jail. He didn' tsay a word to anyone, nor to
the police. Frank and other policeofficers and civil guards in charge of talking
to criminals know that there are veryfew natural killers. For most of them.

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The key is crossing the red line, killing to take a person'
s life. Once it' sgone through, everything can happen. It
' s about getting out unscathed,subsisting, hiding, looking for an excuse.
Sergio Morate decided to cross that redline and kill his ex- girlfriend.
He' s prepared it thoroughly sincehe' s already returned to the
basin. He was cuddling while buyingthe flashlight, the shovel, the batteries,

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the lime in his conversations, likethe police officer of Laudez, never
showed regret for what he had done. What' s more, when he
talked about marina, he went upto the tone and got angry. They
say she left me at Christmas,but I was her boyfriend until March.
Hell if he sent me a selfiabefore he got on the plane in which
Ukraine was leaving and told me thatI was going to miss a lot the

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grudge made him lie Marina had deservedit. There was no other way to
solve that. Laura was different.Morata had asked about her family. She
didn' t have to go upto her flat that afternoon, but there
were times when we were boyfriends thatMarina was lying to me. She told
me she was working at a clothingstore in Alicante and was partying in Barcelona

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with her friend Laura, who hungpictures fuck every time we argued. She
was on party photos with Laura.Somewhere, Marina, a strong, brave
woman with immense blue eyes, leftMorate Harta from her jealousy and movies,
from the broncas she was riding andfrom her whining, asking her forgiveness.
Maria Luisa, who had been firsther boss at the restaurant, the secret

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of the cathedral in Cuenca and thenher friend would explain it. Then Marina
told me that she had written aletter and that she was going to send
it to Morate' s family lawyerin case something happened to her. He
told me if anything happens to me, I don' t want this bastard
to get away with it. Thepolice never found that will of Marina.
Maybe she never wrote it, atleast she didn' t send it.

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He just decided to break up withSergio and start a new life. Far
away, another friend, Barbara,would tell the court she condemns Morate,
who had seen several times marks andbruises on Marina' s arms and face
once told me and my mother thatafter an argument, he wanted to drown
her with his own hands. Shethen gave him a kick from the eggs

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Morate would then accuse him, Marina, even of causing cancer in his testicles
from that kick. I wanted togive her pity and fear, fear and
pity to keep her tied to himwell attached as with some barbarous horse flanges
came to record on her cell phonea conversation she had with Marina was on
April 7 of two thousand fifteen,four months after she wanted to break up

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the relationship and four months before Sergiomurdered her, said the bastard follows me
everywhere. If I leave, I' ll be liquidated. I' ll
have to go to Ukraine to getaway from him. Marina was scared.
I thought Sergio was able to hiresomeone to take her down. During all
those months since the Christmas of twothousand and fourteen, Sergio Morate kept giving
the can to Marina to return withhim. She never reported harassment and ill

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- treatment. I didn' twant to do that, especially so that
I wouldn' t suffer Sergio's mother, whom I had taken so
much love for. Mother Mariage wasnot to blame for what her son was
doing. Finally, Marina left Cuencaand Spain, but he traveled to Ukraine
to apologize. Her family was amazed, and she accepted to settle down at
an aunt' s house. Inthose days, Marina didn' t even

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want to see him, although theyspoke on the phone before Morate returned to
Spain alone and defeated those days ina country she knew nothing about. Stayed
at the house of strangers, theydidn' t open his eyes either.
Later, when Marina was due toreturn to Cuenca on June 3, Morate
decided to show up at Barajas airportto pick her up and take her in
her car. That didn' tgo well either. The girl' s

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father saw Sergio at the terminal andforced him to return to Cuenca. Only
she didn' t want to seehim, but she was there in her
city, in her territory. I' d go back to him or die
the time for the cop would beover very soon. I' d take
you in love with the extremist prisonin Madrid. Far from Cuenca, as
he wanted. The Tribunal was goingto sentence him to forty- eight years

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in prison, eight years more thanJosé Breton, the murderer, whom he
said did not look like before sayinggoodbye. Outside he wanted to know why
he hadn' t tried to askfor help before committing the crimes and you
knowing how you knew you were withthat run running around killing Marina. Why
didn' t you tell the psychologistor psychiatrist Mira. I' m thinking
of doing this crazy thing. Ionce thought I' d tell you yes,

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but what they would have done tome. Then giving me some pills,
Morate' s mother would be suffering. I' ll keep doing it
Sometimes I couldn' t help butfeel the guilt thinking about what I had
done wrong so that your little sonwould have become a criminal. Your son
was supposed to go to jail.Of course the damage was enormous, but
she was afraid that he would bebeaten, harassed, cold, not to

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eat well. The families of theirvictims will never recover their lives. To
the Frank cop who keeps listening tothe excuses of all kinds of murderers.
He doesn' t forget what Morateintended with his harassment His ex- girlfriend
confessed to him several times. SergioMorate had chosen Marina. She had to
be the mother of her children.That or nothing. The demon stopped at

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user. I' ve been trainedto kill and I' m going to
go get you to kill you.I know who you are. Daud Janito
Ortiz, suspect in the murder ofMaricha Osorio, Elisa Consuegra and Pepe Castillo.
It is late guarding the homicide groupsmeans eating the brown that emerges in
the corresponding police demarcation during the hoursthat this guard lasts, without schedules or

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conciliation possible. The phone may ringin the middle of the night, with
the first lights of dawn or whena cop' s daughter goes dancing on
the stage of the endof- year gala. If we talk about
Madrid, being on guard certainly meansthat at any moment we have to lift
the corpse of someone who has decidedto end its existence, to go to

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a house where a guy has endedhis problems as a couple to the bravas,
or to face an enigma whose cluesdo not pass from a body perforated
by bullets, lacerated to blows orbroken with a white weapon. It is
late guard in Madrid is almost alwaysequivalent to eating a brown of biblical dimensions,

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but that of the twenty- secondof June of two thousand sixteen exceeded
any expectation. And homicide cops aren' t exactly optimistic people. They'
re in charge. Those who wereon duty that afternoon were the subject Vadillo,
Officer Manu and Police Buddy all attachedto the Fifth Group of the Vadillo
and Buddy Judicial Police Brigade had raisedmany dead in their already long careers.

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But the scene they saw coming infront of the 40th Gate of Marcelo Usera
Street south of the capital was unusual, not even in a city like Madrid.
Three bodies covered with sheets and thermalblankets surrounded by the aparatage of the
toilets that they could do nothing tofind a breath of life, the homicide

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police broke through the cloud of uniformedand sanitary agents and took a look at
the corpses that the firefighters had pulledout minutes earlier, when they extinguished a
small fire on the first left ofthat property two women and a man,
they with their throats slashed, hewith his head pounded. First conclusion.

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Nobody dies like that in a fire. The arson, according to firefighters and
common sense, had destroyed a partof the floor that housed a law firm.
Very soon the agents knew the identitiesof the three corpses, two employees
of the maricha firm Osorio Riverón,fifty- one years old and Elisa Consuegra

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Gálvez, thirty- one, anda client, taxi driver Pepe Castillo Vega,
forty- two friends. Relatives androommates of the deceased appeared on the
stage when the bodies had not yetbeen removed and informally confirmed the identification they
all swirled weeping next to a manwho quickly caught the attention of the police.

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It was the lawyer Victor Salas,the head of the office, turned
into the scene of a triple crime. I got here at six and ten
or so because I slept longer thanI expected. After lunch there were two
customers on the street who told methey had been there for a while.
Waiting for no one to open thedoor to them, I noticed smoke coming
out of the office windows and whenI went up I saw that I couldn

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' t get in and I calledthe firemen. Victor Joel Salas Coveñas was
born in Peru in nine hundred andeighty. A promising career in the world
of law was being forged there.When in two thousand eight he met from
his position as chamber rapporteur equivalent toour lawyer of the administration of justice with
a process in which there were severalletters belonging to a powerful clan of Mexican

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and Israeli drug traffickers. A judgesubstantially lowered the sentences for the narcos,
a ruling that Victor Salas himself haddrafted, who denounced the judge for misdemeanor.
Shortly thereafter, one of the magistrateshe held in his hands. The
procedure was killed and Victor Salas suddenlyended his career in Peruvian justice. He

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saved his family, crossed the AtlanticOcean and settled in Madrid, which was
Peru' s youngest assistant prosecutor.He worked as a painter and distributed pizzas
while studying to validate his law studiesat Complutense University, until in two thousand
nine, with the Spanish degree underhis arm, he opened an office in
the populous Usera neighborhood. They werethe hardest times of the banking and furniture

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crisis, in which Salas was ableto see a prosperous caladero. His business
focused on buying real estate and hismain customers were the Chinese merchants who took
the premises that the crisis had leftat ridiculous prices. The Chinese' money
served the lawyer to open his firmand hire his first employees, Cuban Maricha,
mother of a daughter and Elisa.Their bodies, along with that of

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the Ecuadorian Pepe, were still hotwhen Victor began talking to Vadillo and Manu,
the officers of the fifth group atthe headquarters of the judicial police brigade.
His partner Buddy stayed at the crimescene with the members of the scientific
police, hoping that the fire wouldhave left some clue about the perpetrator of
the triple crime. A cop distrustsa criminal lawyer like a patient does a

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dentist. You never know what surprisescan come from each other. Vadillo,
a big guy with patient, butimplacable, police manners and gestures. He
listened stoically to what Victor his Idaof Peru told, his hard beginnings in
Madrid, Officer Manu Espigado, quietwith a smart look, remained expectant.

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Let' s go to what happenedand Victor tell us. Deputy Inspector Vadillo
had three people killed and needed answers. Today, at fourteen forty- one,
I got a call from Lisa,one of the law firms. He
told me that he had arrived atthe office to an unknown client who only
wanted to interview me about a caseof companies in which there was a million

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euros per way. I asked Elisawhat that person looked like. He replied
that he was a strong- constitutedman, that he had gotten into the
bathroom and that he was a weirdguy. We decided to tell the client

to come back at 5 (03:08:28):
00. When I returned to the office,
I was surprised to hear Elisa witha somewhat fearful voice, because she is
a woman of great character. Afew minutes later I called her again asking
if the man had left the bathroom. He said no Then, when I
woke up from the nap, Ididn' t call either Lisa or another
lady maid, I didn' tpick up her phones or the one from

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the office. Vadillo and Manu gotalert. That weird guy could be a
hit man sent by a client disgruntledwith courtroom work as a lawyer, but
a crime professional is more neat atkilling. It happened at the U S
Marshal' s office It was forty. She was a slug. He'
s received threats from someone lately sincehe' s been in Spain. Last

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week I argued with a client abouta labor process that was filed because he
didn' t show up for hearing. He told me you' re going
to remember me something more vivid.We know what kind of clients your office
has. The officers had already foundout that Salas had made a fortune representing
drug traffickers. Look I have aclear suspect Victor. He wanted to arouse

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the interest of the investigators and hegot it. Who' s my girlfriend
' s partner, Irina, awoman who lives in Frankfurt. The man
is named Dahoot Hannit Ortiz, aVenezuelan nationalized American. He served in the
army. He' s been toAfghanistan and from there he came back with
post- traumatic stress. It wasvery waxy and came to threaten me on

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the phone a month ago. Whatdid that man say to you? He
told me I' ve been aU S soldier. I' ve been
trained to kill and I' mgoing to go get you to kill you.
I know who you are Leave Airinaalone She' s my wife I
never thought she' d meet thethreat I even told her I had friends
at the Juárez Cartel. That threathad color for the agents of Grupo Quinto

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Vadillo, Manu and the head ofGrupo Bernal They agreed that the thread of
the former military could be good,but they did not want to rule out
the rest of the lines, especiallythose related to the activity in the courts
in Peru and Spain, from whomhe had saved his life by having prolonged
his nap more than the count.Victor Sala left the brigade as a protected

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witness and under police escort twenty-four hours a day, while at the
crime scene, scientific police officers weretrying to find some clue in a disastrous
scenario, such as any fire,the inspection served to determine the conduct of
the fire. The killer covered thebodies and prisoners with papers, the smell

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and the evidence revealed that gasoline hadbeen used to celebrate the flames. The
officers took away the remains of abottle and its stopper found under the desk
of the office, along with dozensof samples and a peculiar object they found
in the bathroom, a business cardwith a sinister logo and the words Juarez
Cartel, exactly the same union ofthe crime that Victor had spoken of.

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Investigators asked for footage from the camerasof the two stations closest to the crime
scene to subway and did the samewith four EMT bus lines and a dozen
establishments located in the vicinity of thelaw firm. The killer must have passed
one of those sites and his imagehad to be recorded. He started one

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of the most tedious tasks of anendless homicide investigator hours stuck in an office
in front of a computer, seeingimages looking for a shadow of a ghost.
Not far from the offices of thejudicial police brigade at the Forensic Anatomical
Institute of the University City, thebodies of Maricha, Elisa and Pepe were

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carefully studied to certify the causes ofhis death and reconstruct the movements of his
killer. In full murderous fury,Elisa had stab wounds on her chest,
right cheek and neck and a largecut on her neck that severed Maricha'
s marrow. The criminal slit hisneck in a single cut and Pepe burst

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his skull with five heavy blows witha blunt and blunt object. On the
23rd of June, two thousand andsixteen, barely twenty- four hours after
the triple crime, Victor Salas returnedto Group Five with new features. He
had spoken to Irina, his Germangirlfriend, and the wife of the one
the lawyer had targeted as a suspect. He has told me that since the

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twentieth day Dahud has not returned toher mother' s house two, where
the food she left her house.He also told me that he' s
not the boswag in polo that heusually uses. Irina tracked him down.
He talked to him. Yes,he said today that he didn' t
answer his calls because he had thephone in plane mode and he hadn'
t noticed. She told him thatshe no longer lives with Irina' s

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mother because she moved into the homeof a friend from the university, a
man named Aditilla. In addition,he sent him a photo showing the ticket
for a purchase he made with hiscredit card at a Murzburg establishment at 14
hours yesterday Dahot, the only suspectwith a name and surname had provided his
wife with an alibi for the dayof the crime without anyone asking for it

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as surprising as incriminating. The agentsof the Fifth Group agreed that it was
essential to listen to the woman whowas at the centre of the plot.
On 28 June, newly arrived fromGermany, he declared to the investigators Irina

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Tripple, thirty- six years old, a German Rubia, almost platinum with
features that revealed his Slavic origin,explained to the Spanish police, with the
help of an interpreter who had marriednine years earlier Dahood Hanit Ortiz, a
forty- six- year- oldman born in Venezuela and nationalized American.

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They met when he was stationed atthe American military base in Isbainfurt. After
nineteen years of service in the armyand with the rank of sergeant, Dahood
was expelled for falsifying documents to receivea grant, a fraud that resulted in
a four- month prison sentence.Since he was released in two thousand fourteen,

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the former military had not returned towork, although in two thousand fifteen
he enrolled in a master' sdegree in the direction of companies. She
was the one who, with herjob in a pharmacy, supported the family
economy. Investigators already had surnames andeven a story of their suspect, but
they needed to know more about themarriage why someone could have triggered a massacre

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about two zero kilometers from the couple' s place of residence. What his
relationship with Dahoot was like. She' s been mistreated on occasion I'
ve had psychological ill- treatment ontime, but more recently I' ve
never reported it, but she's gone to therapy. Tell us how

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you met Mr Victor Salas Irina relatedthe crush. On 16 April he went
to Madrid with his mother and sisterto attend a Spanish course and met the
lawyer at a discotheque. On thetwenty- first day, dances served to
keep them from leaving her until the23rd of April. The relationship continued at
a distance with clandestine messages and calls, until on 19 May, Dahut ripped

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his hands off his phone and sawa conversation at Whatsapp between the woman and
the lawyer based in Madrid. Whathappened, how he reacted. He called
Victor through the Whatsapp app and askedhim who he was. That same day.
On 19 May, he left homeand was missing for a week until
he showed up at my mother’s house, with which he gets along

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very well about sixty kilometers from myirritable home. She told the officers that
while her husband was out of thecommon home, they kept in touch.
Dahoot sent him a couple of conversationsthat he had had with Victor, his
lover, the former soldier showed lovewith his wife. That' s all
I have and I told the lawyerthat for him she was just an affair.

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I love her very much and I' ll treat her better. I
admit I didn' t do verywell. The woman told the investigators that
Dahut' s days were repentant withfear of losing her. From the 14th
of June she called her every dayup to three times on the same day.
When was the last time you sawDahoot? On Monday, June 20,
he came home to see the dogs. We ate together, left at

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nineteen zero, zero and a half. Time later he called me on the
ground. It was normal. Thenext day, June 21st, he didn
' t call me, which hemissed me. Homicide agents were approaching the
key day on June 22. Theywere already almost convinced that that afternoon Dahood
was very far from Germany, butthey needed to place him in Madrid,

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in the USERA neighborhood what happened onthe 22nd. At eighteen forty- two,
Hiria consulted her mobile to make sureof the hours. While I was
talking, Tahud called me. Itold him I couldn' t take care
of him and I' d callhim. When I got home, I
listened very badly, very far awayand asked him where I was, but
he didn' t answer me anymore hanging up. He sent me the

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location, something I didn' tunderstand. At twenty zero six he called
me back we talked two minutes becauseit was heard as before, very far
away and he told me he wasin a basement. Two hours later,
at twenty- two zero he calledme Victor and only told me to protect
myself, to get me into asafe place and asked me where my husband
was. What she thought When Victorcalled her, she thought her husband had

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done something. I thought something badhad happened and I tried to locate dahot
I called him up to eleven times, but I didn' t track him
down or he was paid at fifteensixteen. The next day, 23 June,
I managed to talk to him Dahuzcalled me sixteen minutes. I asked
him a lot of questions, especiallywhere he had been why he hadn'

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t contacted me. He told mehe didn' t realize that he had
the phone in plane mode and thathe sent me the location the day before,
because I had asked him where hewas. He told me that he
was at the home of a friendfrom the university, an Indian boy named
Aditilla, with whom he had goneto live. He explained to me that
it looked so bad because the housewas a basement and when it looked at

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the window it was very windy.In the hours before and after the crime.
Tahud showed unusual erratic behavior, butnothing placed him in Madrid. Irina
told the cops that her mother confirmedthat Dajuta had disappeared her days with her
vehicle, a 13- year-old polo volkswag that uses gasoline as fuel.

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Same fire accelerant used in the Userafire. Her motherin-
law didn' t tell her aboutthe alleged move and the woman told her
daughter that she had only taken acouple of things. In addition, Dahoote
sent Irina several photos, some turtles, the ticket of a restaurant in Germany
corresponding to the 22nd of June andan image of himself with a boy with

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oriental features. Irina closed her statementby reporting a series of strange calls she
had received in the last few hours. Yesterday, 27 June, at 4
a m, I received a callfrom a cult number. It was a
Spanish recording of a man with adistorted voice. I couldn' t understand
much, but I did hear Victor' s name, something about his tongue

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being cut off by a warning thathe wouldn' t go to Madrid and
that my family was in danger.He then released an English recording that read
the following listens carefully. You're interfering with our organization. You will
not travel to Madrid to see VictorSalas. Don' t travel to Madrid
tonight or ever. You' rein danger. If you see it,

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you and your family are in danger, your tongue will be cut off.
He has also received similar messages inRussian and German. Who knew that only
Victor was coming to Madrid, althoughDahuz called me a few days ago to
tell me to stay out of anytrouble and that it was dangerous to approach
Victor. I know he' sbeen collecting news about the crime online.

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I checked with a BBC page whereone of the victims was said to have
had their tongue cut off. Infact, Dahud taught that news to my
mother to see what kind of peopleI was involved with and to prevent it
from being Madrid. He went crazyand began shouting and beating when he realized
that the man he had killed wasnot Victor but a client of the office.

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That confusion explains the special treatment thatthe killer gave Pepe the scoundrel with
which he had fractured his skull.Da Hood thought he had fulfilled his mission
in Madrid, despite the two collaterallosses Elisa and Maritza. In military terminology,
Hirina declared for four hours had beenbrave and had told the officers everything

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she knew. His testimony served tocertify that Dajuz was a time bomb,
but it was not enough to placehim at the crime scene the key to
any homicide investigation. The next morning, the woman returned to the Fifth Group
and told researchers that Dahut had calledher in the last few hours. Several
times she only answered on one occasionand the former soldier told her that he

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knew he had gone to Madrid withVictor, which she denied. In addition,
the woman provided the recordings with thethreats received on her phone and the
positioning and photographs of the ticket ofa restaurant that Dahuot sent to her on
the day of the Triple Crime,the suspect' s fourth. After listening
to Irina, the investigators had littledoubt that Dahood was responsible for the crime.

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His image, which fits perfectly withthat of a strong veteran high warrior
with a bare skull, reached allthe computers of Group Five. The history
of crime and its resolutions are fullof small details. Already with Andoil,
in the nineteenth century he endowed hisSerlot Holmes with an observational capacity above the
common mortals, all investigators are butheirs to the detective of Baker Street Gemma.

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One of the components of the FifthGroup was fixed on the stopper of
the water bottle collected under the deskof the office where the crime had taken
place. It was small threaded greenand in it you could read the brand
Volvic. That mineral water is solda lot in Germany. He said as
if such a thing was the mostvalid vestige found by the scientific police officers

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the clue that linked the user scenarioto Germany, the country to which the
main suspect came. To confirm this, the agents contacted Volvic' s commercial
distributor in Spain, who corroborated theagents that this water is only sold in
our country, with the sport plugin the form of a nozzle and that

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the brand is indeed a sales leaderin Germany and England. With this data,
the researchers concluded that the bottle arrivedfull of gasoline to Madrid. The
stopper was the last piece of thepuzzle and the most important. Eight days
after the crime, the agents ofthe Fifth Group sent the judge an account

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of how the events could have occurred, based on the evidence obtained during a
feverish week. According to this reconstruction, Dahood, a madman in Celos,
after checking that his wife was havingan affair, collected information about Victor Salas
on the Internet and travelled to Madridby road before taking the petrol necessary to

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fill the bottle of water Bolvic andleft his phone in Germany ready with some
device to access it remotely and,in case of any call that the positioning
of the mobile would place it inGerman territory. The investigators highlighted before the
judge the military training of the suspect, which could include knowledge in the handling

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of communications. On the 22nd,around 2: 00 p m, he
went up to the office and askedabout Victor Salas and when he did not
find him, he locked himself inthe bathroom, at which point Lisa spoke
on the phone with the firm's owner. He left the card of
the Juárez Cartel in the toilet asa false clue and drew the white gun
he had on him. He leftthe bathroom and threatened Lisa and Maritza to

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get into a room where he executedthem, killing them with the precision of
a professional kill. He then waitedseveral hours for Victor Salas to arrive.
At that time he found a palanquethe used to beat to death pepe,
the client, who he might haveconfused with Salas. Then he emptied the

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bottle he had filled with gasoline.He spread the papers over the bodies,
set fire and left the crime sceneon the road at eighteen forty- two.
Shortly after the lawyer arrived at hisoffice and realized the disaster, he
telephoned Irina to secure his quarters andreturned to Germany. In the first week

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of July, Juan Carlos Peinado,the magistrate, received by hand and vadillo
the policemen who had carried the weightof the investigation and Bernal the leader of
group V. After reading the reconstructionof the facts prepared by the agents,
he was not too enthusiastic. Hewas unbelieving about the theory of the former

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military transmuted into a 21st century hotel. He asked for more evidence, more
foundation to lift his accusation, becausehe still thought that the key to the
crime was in court relations with hisclients linked to drug trafficking. Investigators knew
they' d only find more evidencein Germany. There resided two key characters
in this story. Aditilla, Dahut' s friend and Irina' s mother,

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who had been with the suspect inthe hours leading up to the crime.
The times of justice are almost alwaysbehind those of human passions. While
the haired judge reread the crowded homicidegroup with large doses of skepticism, Hirina
remained in Madrid, protected by VictorSalas and his escorts and Ida Hood continued
her journey nowhere. Between the 29thof June and the 5th of July.

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The wife received 27 calls from herhusband and a hundred months and Whatsapp never
answered on July 5 without an arrestwarrant to stop her. Dahud flew from
Frankfurt to Madrid on an Iberia flight. He was in less than an hour
at the airport and at eleven forty- seven he left for Bogotá. It

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had been two weeks since the crime. The images of the killer crossing the
high deck doors captured by the securitycameras served as an exit gun for the
Fifth Group to begin the hunting ofhis piece in the Middle World, a
search in which the section on thelocation of fugitives of the General Commissariat of

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Judicial Police and their relations with agentsof several countries would play a fundamental role.
Despite his jutballing of Colombia, hispersecutors suspected that he would be in
Venezuela, his country of origin,where he had relatives who could shelter him.
While the judge haired in his officein Plaza de Castilla he was making
the twirl. When the investigators askedhim to allow them to travel to Germany.

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In search of more testimony that definitivelyabrogate the accusation against the former soldier.
On the same day as Dajuta leftfor South America, a frightened irina
returned to Grupo Quinto to give astatement, not knowing that her husband was
already thousands of miles away. Thewoman told the police about the calls and
messages she had received from her husband, in which she blamed her for all

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her ills and threatened to take herown life. Irina taught the agents a
message from Whatsapp from Da Hood thatgave a good idea of her state of
mind. Now I understand why youabandoned me. I' m a piece
of shit and a drama. Ican' t go on like this.
I' m disappointed. I hopeI can recover. I don' t
want to live like this anymore.This isn' t living. I don

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' t want it anymore. I' m sitting at the pole because I
can' t find myself. Ijust bothered you 22 times and you'
re still there. Please don't get involved in anything bad and if
you' re still with that man, give yourself up completely. Don'
t get mad if you really wantto help him. Don' t get
involved in this investigation, don't disinformation or opinions. Let them do

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their job. You are yourself andit is better for you to stay neutral
and out of the question, regardlessof whether you can help, do not
expose yourself to unnecessary dangers. Enjoylife. You deserve to be lucky what
I' ve never been able togive I' m sorry while I was
testifying, Ilina received a new meseof dahot that she showed to the cops.

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Yesterday I was gone. When Itexted you, I had taken several
tranquilizer pills and it wasn' tright. Please answer me. I need
to clear up a few things foryou. The SMS increased the fear of
the woman, who confessed to beingafraid to return to Germany, unaware that
Dahood was far away. I needto think. I' m baffled.

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I know my husband is having ahard time, but I don' t
think he was crazy enough to cometo Madrid and kill three people. It
' s true that I could makehim have enough military strength and preparedness,
but I can' t even imagineit. The woman recognized the pictures of
her husband at the airport a fewdays later and provided the police with a
disturbing piece of information. Minutes afterhaving talked to a victor at his home

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about the possibility of going to livetogether in Barcelona, he received an SMS
from Dahoot in which he told himin English in Barcelona it is very hot
for dogs. The woman handed overher laptop to the agents. His colleagues
from the Brigade' s 25th Groupruled in a few days that someone had
introduced two spy programs into their devicethat allowed them to know all the activity

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of the device and even see throughtheir camera and listen through their microphone.
All the data was sent to themail accounts of the suspect Dahuz. I
thought I had everything under control.Irina lost her job at the pharmacy because
she refused to return to Germany,terrified of the thirst for revenge from her
ex- husband. The summer monthspassed without great progress in the investigations,

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beyond the verification that Dahood had crossedthe border between Colombia and Venezuela through the
Cúcuta pass on July 7, twothousand and sixteen. The day after his
arrival, the agents of Grupo Quintoreturned periodically to the office of Judge Peinado
to ask him to expedite the rogatorycommission and Germany that would allow them to

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travel there to question Editilla, Dahot' s friend and Irina' s family.
The magistrate gave them long and evenin the amazement of the officers,
he announced that he would ask hisprivate German teacher for help if he needed
to translate something. While the fugitivelocation section of the central audio was pulling
its strings from the headquarters of theCanillas police complex. Dahuz' s North

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American nationality motivated the Spanish police tocontact the iu s mathls, who focused
their investigations in Miami, where theformer military officer had his residence fixed and
his closest environment covered him. US agents even set up a trap in
complicity with the army to get Adajuzto travel to U S territory with the

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false excuse of regularizing his situation.Jordan was another scenario of the search.
The father of the suspect had thisnationality and even there came the inquiries,
which went definitively to Venezuela and Colombia, where Spanish agents moved to provide data
to their South American colleagues. OnSeptember 16, two thousand and sixteen,

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Dina returned for the fifth time toGroup Five. Dahot was far away,
but he wanted to keep the situationunder control. He had called her asking
her to give her powers to sella house they both had in North Carolina,
United States. In return, hetold her it would make it easier
for her to be married. Hethreatened me by saying that if he didn

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' t, he would get tome and the police couldn' t stop
him and told me he was closerto me than I imagined. The officers
who had gained Irina' s confidenceat that point reassured her. She was
told that Dajuz was far away andthat she had protection in Spain and Germany.
The woman taught them a conversation ofWhatsapp that took place moments after the

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call This time I will not failit. I promise you won' t
fail. I want the whole tripplefamily n s s NS or no other
last name. Europe is fantastic.I love it, but I don'
t like all the terrorists and Syrianscoming very easily through other countries and I
' m surprised how they can getto Europe. I know you' ve

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ruined my life. Don' tbe responsible for causing me any more pain.
Do the right thing. Immediately hesent him a photograph of Madrid with
the very nice words and the followingmessage a person I loved one day said
I love Madrid and I hate it. Try not to hate him too Irina
understood the messages as a threat.The reference to terrorists was nothing more than

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a warning. If they get there, I can also get to Germany or
Spain and end you. Time wasrunning out for investigators. The crime occurred
in June of the two thousand sixteenand the agents knew that data had to
be requested from a telephone operator.The deadline was two thousand and seventeen in
June. After a year, anyinformation about the movements or flames of ares

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a phone were unrecoverable. Finally,in May of two thousand seventeen, Vadillo
and Manu traveled to the German townof Gurzburg. Judge Peinado agreed to energize
the rogatory commission thanks to the lefthand of his inspector Vadillo in that city
of a few hundred and twenty zeroinhabitants, in the heart of the Bavarian
State, almost completely destroyed by thebombs of British aviation in one thousand nine

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hundred and forty- five, theSpanish agents found the answers they lacked to
complete the devilish puzzle of the TripleCrime User. The most anticipated statement for
the officers of the fifth group wasthat of the Indonesian Aditilla Petru Dorontelide,
Dahhood' s fellow student, theman who, according to all indications,

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had provided a fourth for the authorof the Triple Crime. At eight fifty
on the fifteenth of May, twothousand seventeen, Vadillo and Manus sat down
with Aditilla and began questioning him inthe presence of a German prosecutor and two
policemen, with the help of twointerpreters, extracted for four hours the information

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they needed to tighten the police andjudicial siege around the former military. Vitilla,
a twenty- eight- year-old economics student, began her testimony
elusively. Accommodating the gaps in hismemory. I didn' t remember anything
about what happened. In June oftwo thousand and sixteen. He did acknowledge
that Dahood had ever slept at homebecause he told me that he had problems

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with his wife, but I don' t need the dates. The agents
were cooling it in memory. Withthe information they had, they showed him
a photo of Editilla and Dahood ina restaurant, the same image that the
former military had sent his wife tomake him believe that he had not moved
from Gurzburg. You remember this picturewas a store that bab ordered pizzas and
a few beers. He remembers theday he was there, he only stays

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in the afternoon. He remembers whetherthat meeting took place between the twenty and
twenty- six of June of twothousand and sixteen. I don' t
remember. The Spanish police were awarethat this image had been taken in the
hours after the crime with Dahot recentlyarrived from Madrid, so they varied their
strategy The day they were made.That picture noticed something that would draw his

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attention to da Hood' s behavior. I had a wound in my hand,
two big cuts told me. Idon' t know what story happened
to him. The highway had usedfast glue to close the wound. The
homicide agents knew that Maritsa and Elisadied as a result of the wounds of
a large knife with which the killercould have been cut. They showed again

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the photo in which a bandage wasseen in Dahot' s hand He remembers
the bandage with which he had coveredthe wound. I gave him that bandage.
Dahuta had put fast glue on herand I gave her the bandage was
a Band- Aid. The policearrived at the key moment of the interrogation.
Aditilla was a fundamental piece to rebuildthe killer' s run- in

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and they needed to cure the amnesiawith which he had presented himself to them
they began to squeeze. It isvery important that you remember what happened at
least the three days before the photoencounter is difficult. I can' t
remember I can help you remember.That image was taken on the 23rd of
June of two thousand and sixteen.That doesn' t help me when they

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first met that day. It wasbetween 7: 00 and 9: 00
in the morning. Vadillo and Manuslooked at each other as accomplices. There
was already a starting point Adahuz wouldhave given him time to travel in just
over twelve hours the distance to Madridfrom Gurzburg. The fourth floor was falling
apart. You can tell us whereit came from. Mr Dahot made no

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comment on where he was coming from. He just said he had an accident
on the highway and that the woundwas hit. To it. Mr Dahut
had his car with him when hewent to see him. Yeah, he
' s always with him. Thecar was damaged. He said that he
had changed a wheel and that hehad hurt himself by doing so. Who
took the picture. Tahud wanted tosend it to his wife so she knew

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we were together. You saw thewounds. I could describe them more accurately.
I had an open cut two centimeterslong in one hand, or I
don' t remember which one.He was still bleeding when he came to
my house. Besides, he hada little scratch on his leg. He
showered in my house and that's why I could see the scratches.
You thought those injuries could be causedby changing the tire. No. The

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German prosecutor touched the right key toactivate aditilla. It was clear to him
that the juda ortiz wanted to takehim for stupid. Yeah, he just
wanted me to think that the injurieshad occurred when he switched to the tire.
I knew that couldn' t betrue. I didn' t think
so either He wanted to take mefor stupid. That was also one of
the reasons I ended my friendship withhim. He was nice out of interest.

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The prosecutor continued to dig open withhis seemingly impertinent question and what he
wanted from you. He gave mehis phone, cell phone and credit card.
He told me to use them tomake his wife think she was in
Gurzburg. You can remember when yougave Dajuz the phone back to the card.
I don' t remember. Thosepresent in the interrogation kept an expectant

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silence, thinking it through. Ithink I gave him back his cell phone
and card the day he took thatpicture. After that day I never saw
him again. We talked on thephone. He wanted his wife to call
again, tell her he' dbeen with him. At first I told
him I was going to do it, but I didn' t want anything
to do with it. That's why I didn' t answer his

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calls and then he blocked his number. Then he got more and more violent,
but I didn' t want totalk to him. The Spanish agents
let the German prosecutor continue to takecharge of the interrogation. Dajuz told him
why he wanted him to keep hiscell phone or card. He told me
he was seeing another woman. Keepyour cell phone and your card. A
few days he only gave me thosethings once and in the time he had

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Dahoot' s phone in his possessionhe received some triple Dirina call to that
phone yes Vadillo and Manu couldn't stand it anymore. They were very
close to unmasking the killer' sfourth. They put out the question waiting
for the answer they needed. Whatdid you do while ringing the phone with

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Irina' s call? I calledthe one who had taken Dahuz and hit
both phones so Dajuz could talk tohis wife. Mystery solved with this rudimentary
procedure far removed from the cabals thatthe researchers themselves had done based on the
former soldier' s communication knowledge,Dajuz made his wife believe that he responded

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to his calls from Germany, whenhe was actually killing in Spain. That
explains why Irina heard him far away. As told by who told him to
do so, the hot Aditilla seemedto break down the interrogation. A whole
police art was giving the expected resultto the point that at that time the

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Indonesian taught the officers a motive,opened the contact app and showed the number
Dahut had used in the hours beforeand after Usera' s crime. It
was the phone that Spanish agents neededto track to accurately fix the criminal'
s movements. The interrogators wanted tofinish demolish Dahut' s quarter. They

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showed Aditilla the ticket photograph a restaurantthe suspect had sent to Irina can tell
us when, why and who takesthis image. The picture was taken by
Da Hoot, but later he orderedme to pay for my meal at daim
' s restaurant and with his card. That day, on June 22,
two thousand and sixteen, I didso at fourteen one. At that time,

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Dahood was at the crime scene.What' s more, the sickle.
He also ordered me to go tothe Macfit Gymnasium in Gorzburg after lunch
and register me with his membership cardand so he did about fifteen zero zero.
In addition, Tahud had ordered meto buy and pay for food at
the supermarket with his card. Ididn' t and Da Hood was pretty

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angry. That' s why DaHood explained to him why he had to
do all that, and he toldme to make sure that his wife thought
he was in Gurzburg. Our policehad rarely faced someone with such a large
forensic conscience. Usera' s killercarefully prepared the crime and his fourth.
Even so, the Fifth Group hadcompletely knocked it down, so much so

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that when Aditilla left the office inwhich she was testifying, Manu and Vadillo
exchanged an accomplice smile the equivalent ofhim. We already have him so eager
for any investigator. The homicide agentsmet Lirina in Germany and interrogated her again
in the presence of German police officersand the prosecutor of Burzburg. The woman
repeated what she had said in herstatements in Madrid, although she provided some

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further details that Dajut grabbed a knifeand threatened to commit suicide when she found
out about her affair with Victor andhit her head against the wall to the
point of making a gap in theforehead. In addition, she detailed her
husband' s military record, whichincluded missions to South Korea and Iraq,
where he was wounded, which earnedthe purple heart a distinction from the army

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that rewards fighting courage. Isbert Lana, Irina' s sister, also testified
to the Spanish agents and provided anemail that gives Hoot sent her on September
5 of two thousand sixteen and whichis the closest thing to a confession.
I' ve done horrible things.This has been an accident or whatever,
believe me people can lose their mindsand I lost it on their return to

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Madrid. Vadius and Manus knew theycouldn' t let go for a second.
They asked the judge to ask thetelephone companies for the call traffic and
positioning of the number Dietilla had providedthem with the phone that Dahut had in
his possession while he disappeared from Germany. June 22 marked one year of the
crime and that was the deadline foraccess to data storage. On June 9,

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17, Bernal, the leader ofthe Fifth Group, told the sceptical
judge Peinado of the steps his suspecthad taken between twenty- one sixteen on
June twenty- first, two thousandsixteen, and twenty- two twenty-
one on June twenty- two,Tahud had remained in Spanish territory. The
Movistar company' s information provided adetailed map of its movements at nine o

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' clock on the evening of the21st. The pre- crime Dajuz was
in the town of oyarzun, alogical step from Germany to Madrid. The
next day, around eight in themorning, the antennas placed the suspect'
s phone a few meters from Marcelouser' s portal forty. The crime
scene remained there until fourteen thirty-seven, when the motive went out,

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coinciding with the time when he brokeinto the office asking for Victor Salas shortly
after the killing ended and leaving theplace. At eighteen nine o' clock,
Dahut' s phone was turned onnear the roundabout of Pyramids, very
close to the scene of the events. The antenna recorded even the call that
Dajut simulated making to Irina through theprimitive system revealed by Aditilla. At that

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time there was no basement in Germany, as he told her, but in
the Madrid neighborhood of Moratalaz. Subsequently, and following the logical route back to
Germany, the phone was registered athis pace in San Sebastián de los Reyes,
Madrid and Pradales, Segovia. Onthe 15th of June of two thousand
seventeen, the head of the FifthGroup gave the judge a detailed account summarizing

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a year of investigations, a yearin which his agents managed to prop up
all the accusations against who had beentheir main suspect since the first moment.
The judge. This time do issuedan international arrest warrant against Dahuo ortiz for
the murders of Pepe Maria and ELISA. Shortly afterwards there was a vacancy in

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the homicide section at that time,led by Kique González Reales, a typical
police officer passionate about the investigation ofReal Madrid and le zepellin Ki, who
had eyed a promising inspector who hadnot just decided to step into homicide.
He handed over his candidate to areport summarizing the investigation into the crime of
user Toma. We do these thingshere. Read it and tell me if

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you' re coming today, thatpromising inspector is the head of Group Five.
The investigations of the fugitive tracing sectionmade it possible for Dahut to finally
be arrested on October 12, 18thin Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, where he
resided protected by his sister and mother. The Spanish authorities requested his immediate extradition,

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which was on the right track untilthe Spanish Government recognized Juan Guaidó,
the leader of the opposition as thePresident- in- Charge of Venezuela,
in February of the 19th. Thereal politician doesn' t understand crimes and
since then nothing is known about thepossible handover of the killer. Victor Salas
follows his trail, because I oweit to Lisa, Maricha and Pepe and

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some information assures that his status asa former U S military has served Dahoo
to enjoy a comfortable imprisonment. Whilerevealing information to the Bolivarian military leadership.
The top doesn' t snag.I can' t live with this nightmare,

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but I haven' t had thecourage to take my life. Rubén
maño assassin of vanesa ferrer hung inthe void, the waist leaning on two
branches of a tree and arms andlegs suspended in parallel made a wink with
the skin clear, lacerated and coveredwith brush and a grey shirt full of

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reddish spots and raised to the chest, which leaves in sight a white bra
of the same color as the thong, does not wear any more clothes and
bare feet reveal the footprint of theground stuck as if they had dragged it
to that hole on which the loosemanena blows Castaña sprinkled with brisses and dirty
of his own blood that falls andcovers a face congested by death, an

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agent of the seprone of the CivilGuard divised the untied body hung from a
tree about eight meters from the ground, at eleven o' clock on the
morning of Friday twenty- eight Octoberof two thousand sixteen, on the top
of the borricos, a hole thirtymeters deep, where the inhabitants of the
nearby village of Chella Valencia threw thecorpses of the farm animals for the land

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to be swallowed. The discovery endeda search that had begun fourteen hours earlier,
when Carmen Ciges went to the GuardiaCivil de enguera barracks to report her
daughter' s disappearance. Vanessa hadreturned from work at seven o' clock
on Thursday afternoon and the food shehad left the girl ready was intact.

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She had said goodbye to her thenight before and the next morning the youngest
had not appeared in high school.The Civil Guard' s mountain rescue specialists
took the body from the bottom ofthe hole with care as if it were
a survivor of an accident, andhoisted it up the vertical walls to the
top surface instead of from where itmust have been thrown. They also extracted

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from there a dirty, old,smelly duvet, the improvised shroud and a
women' s cow jacket that werea few meters from the body and had
been hooked in the vegetation. Thebody was lying face up on the stretcher
with which he was rescued. Thecriminalistic agents of the Guardia Civil impregnated with

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ink the index finger of his righthand and obtained an impression of the footprint
of actuating n before tar his handswith bags to preserve any trace that might
have remained in his nails in afew minutes. The coincidence of this necrodactiary
review with that of the database ofthe national identity document gave the body rescued
from the hole a first name,surname and history. The body belonged to

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Vanesa Ferrer Ciiges, born on April24, 2000, and killed 36 hours
before her body was 15 years old. One day before his death, on
October 25, two thousand and sixteen, Vanesa was in Navarres, a town
near Chella. There lived one ofher best friends, Sara and her boyfriend

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Mark. The next day there wasno high school class for a student strike,
and Vanessa had dinner at Sara's and spent the night with Mark,
an eighteen- year- old boyshe had been dating since February.
They were the most popular couple intown. The last day of her life,
Vanessa ate with her boyfriend. Shetook a soda at a pab in
Navarres and waited for Julia, anotherof her closest friends, to pick her

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up to go to the cinema játivawith her and with Estefan another young gang

at 20 (03:51:09):
30 Vanesa arrived at her chella house. There his mother made
him a glass of milk with cookieswhile the woman was messing around in the
kitchen. The girl repeated the cantinelaof the last few weeks Mom for Christmas.
I want you to buy me abike. Carmen Ciges doesn' t
remember if she answered him, eitherif she kissed him. After Vanessa told

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you I' m leaving with myfriends, I' m back at 12

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00. At midnight, Carmen used to be deep asleep. At six
thirty he left home to work ina factory of pure canals and always lay
between twenty- two and twenty-two. Her husband’ s car accident,
which had him prostrated from two thousandfour in a wheelchair with a broken
marrow, caused the entire household loadto fall on her. Vanessa Alba'

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s older sister was studying a healthmodule in Valencia and Carmen was working from
sun to sun to meet all thoseexpenses. The girl left her house in
the middle of town. On theway he crossed with Sissy, a well
- known woman and greeted in Chellatwo thousand and four hundred inhabitants. It

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was difficult to find an unknown Manesato travel nine hundred meters on foot before
reaching the number forty- eight ofSan Antón Street, a road survey with
stairs. Along the way he crossedseveral messages of whatsapp with his friend Sara,
truffled with emoticons. I' mgoing to Rubén' s now,
but I' m smoking with Luisand my cousin and tomorrow I' m

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going home. Good life. Goodbye, Vanessa' s neurons. I control.
Mark was also the recipient of someof the messages that Vanessa sent.
As I walked. The boy hadjust returned, from training. I'
m here and how about regular machn. Mark never saw the double blue check

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that his girlfriend had read his lastmessage sent at 22: 00. Twenty
- five minutes later, Vanessa arrivedat her destination, a two- storey
house, uninhabited and without electric candy. I was waiting for her there.
Whoever was about to become his killerhad the body brimming with alcohol, drugs,
and testosterone. The house of StAnthon forty- eight was the mincer

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and smoker of Reuben Maño, Simon, one of the little cocks of the
people, a bad rural tea withpretensions of ampon. In the house were
usually Captain and Kira, the twodogs of the family, and up there
led Ruben to his conquests and hisfriends to get up on alcohol, or
ros and cocaine. At twenty-one years old, the young man had

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been arrested for theft, fighting andgender- based violence. In his criminal
curriculum he wore a restraining order fromhis last albija partner, a Lithuanian wave
or one, and a breach ofthe measure. Since his teenage years,
Rubén was a regular of mental healthservices, diagnosed with attention and hyperactivity décisis
disorder. The consumption of alcohol,cannabis and cocaine had recorded their state to

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the point of converting coexistence with theiryounger sister and unviable parents. His record
spoke of a lack of impulse control, explosive reactions, breakage of leak objects,
and calls to the Civil Guard tostop his feet. Reuben did what
he wanted without anyone setting limits,neither his parents nor the law. That
twenty- sixth of October of twothousand and sixteen seemed to be one more

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day in the plumb and anodyne existenceof Reuben morning rose late. As always
he never got up early and soonbegan to consume alcohol and drugs, almost
always in the company of Luis,from whom he had not separated since he
was seven years old. Luis Nano. Let' s go fishing Ana'
s albufera with the band that areover there to med Victor chaid Rumen and

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Judith. I' ve got twograms of them being traded for weed by
a guy. We make a fewstripes so that the fishing goes better.
This is a pain in the assCome on, let' s go to
Chella I' ve got to paya 30- euro piece of weed to
the foal. Take me in yourcar, Luis, another line while we
wait for the foal. You're not going to have Hatiba' s
car school with you. Luis,see if you can get the points back.

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I' m driving so you don' t get caught achella back here
that I have a little bit ofpharlopa left and we' re done fucking
it. We' ve already eatenthe two chickens for volvaite and caught another
half gram to follow the party.Boy Globe, we got better. We
' re going to Gabrie' shouse, which I don' t want
to be seen like that in thevillage. Some coves with a tail with
Gabry and Vicente, the cousin ofVanessa, how beautiful the girl is.

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She' s quite a woman already. I see your photos in the knupshat
and it puts a lot of canutoson me and we' re going to
end the media we' ve caught. Let' s go get some more.
I' ve already been to thecemetery with one that passes us another
way. You don' t trustme, but if you know me all
your life, we' re goingto a fucker. You accompany me if
I give you the pasta back toGabri' s house and more drinks with
him, with Vicente and with thepolero who has arrived now the most popped
in town, those who have badvice. Che leave the fucking console and

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we' re going to get inand there' s little that lasted between
so many going Luis leave me thirtybucks and I catch another medium that I
want to fuck a turkey and itgoes the perico. Luis, he'
s going to 30 bucks, he' s not going to come. I
' m sure I' ve stayed. Luis, Ruben' s close friend
since they were children, followed theparty on his own. Shortly before eleven
o' clock at night. Hearrived at Eloy' s house, another
of the twenty year- olds whoformed the hermitage gang. As they themselves

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called themselves, because Anne' shermitage was their usual meeting place. Luis
continued smoking joints and drinking before leavingGabrie' s house, which Rubén had
abandoned minutes earlier, began receiving communicationsfrom Whatsapp from his friend. The first
came at twenty- two forty-two. What are you doing here still

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smoking and almost dry after you leaveme the car for ten minutes. Just
don' t ask what the hellyour motherfucking freak is for. Between twenty
- two forty- two and twenty- two forty- two, Reuben morning
sent ninety- one messages to hisfriend asking for the car insistently, without
giving him the reasons for that urgency. Minutes before midnight, Luis arrived in

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his vehicle at number forty- eightSan Antón Street. Ruben was waiting for
him in front of the garage door. If you don' t tell me
what you want the car for,I won' t leave it to you,
why you want it to fuck theold man. Luis knew that his
friend and former partner occasionally met,despite the restraining order that weighed on him.
Yeah, yeah, that' swhat it' s for to fuck

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me. It takes only ten minutes. Luis gave him the car keys reluctantly.
At least let me come in andwait there. No. No,
no, that albija is inside anddoesn' t want anyone to see us
together. Don' t fuck withme, Ruben, I' ve seen
you more times. No. Pleasewait for me out here. Luis waited
sitting on a street stone while hiscolleague moved the car to the garage door.

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He spent ten minutes listening to theengine of the vehicle on and headed
to the garage that was closed.Rubén got sweaty and weepy, Rubén,
I' m not leaving you thecar to fuck anybody. Luis opened the
copilot' s door and inspected thefront and rear seats. There was no

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one there. Ruben with his jawuntied, his eyes glassy sweating through all
his pores and made a bundle ofnerves implored him once more five minutes,
Rubén left him five minutes, Rubénripped out before Luis finished the sentence.
It wasn' t five minutes.It took Ruben a little over half an
hour to return to the house ofSan Antón. Upon arrival he lay down

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a few minutes later, Luis,unable even to lie down because of the
effect of the cocaine he had consumed, heard his friend snoring. Two o
' clock in the morning. Luisarrived at his house and drank a glass
of milk, making sure that hisfather and sister, who were awake,
did not see the coke and alcoholhad left a more than recognizable mark on
him. Another night that ended witha chestnut at 7: 30 p m

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on 27 October. Carmen Ciges,Vanesa' s mother, arrived home after
her long working day in the kitchen. The dishes he had left his daughter
to eat were still intact. Uponreturning from high school, a bad beat
began to beat in the woman's heart. She called Julia to Vanessa
' s best friend, in caseshe slept with her, she hadn'
t been there or gone to class. Julia thought that, as on other

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occasions, her friend' s painfulrules had forced her to stay home.
Sara, another girl in the gang, started getting messages from Whatsapp. Like
Albija Stefan, Judith Vanesa had notgone to class. Her mother didn'
t know anything about her and Marx, neither did her boyfriend. The gang
of 15- year- olds whoshared with the missing high school classes.

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Dead rats in the square and confidencestypical of the passage to adulthood were mobilized
in Chellas. Family and friendship tiesheld together almost all its inhabitants, especially
the young. Vanesa was cousin ofVicente and Carlos, two of Rubén Maño
' s best friends and his inseparableLuis, who were among the older ones
who courted the younger girls who soldthem the marijuana they smoked. Vanessa and

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her friends. The elders also soonlearned about the disappearance of the minor.
Ruben wrote at nineteen forty- sixon 27 October to his friend Luis Vanesa.
He didn' t go home.Luis replied that he already knew and
Ruben offered to promote a fight.Let' s go get her or something

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at nine o' clock tonight.Carmen, Vanesa' s mother, showed
up at Enguera' s Civil Guardbarracks to report her daughter' s disappearance,
Natalia, Julia' s mother,had gone to her house to look
for her. Before going to thebarracks, the two of them asked about
Vanesa at Pap Harlem, the villageassembly center, where all the young people
ended up passing by at some pointof the day, no one knew anything

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about her.“ Carmen, wemust go to the Civil Guard,”
Natalia told the distressed mother. Ifnothing' s happened to him, we
' ll give him two shits,but we have to report it. Natalia
knew Abanesa well. That summer oftwo thousand sixteen had taken her on vacation
and had been the depository of someconfidences of the youngest, her relationship with
Mark, her first love, theproblems in her home, her motherhood,

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made her foretell that something terrible hadhappened to the girl. Carmen Ciges gave
the agents all the data of theyoung woman and the contacts of her closest
friends. One of them, Sara, spoke to the civil guard in the
first few minutes of the investigation.Last night, Vanessa told me that a
boy from the village was going toRubén' s house. He texted me
that at twenty- two There wasalready a man, someone to start looking

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for. The agents asked Sara forRubén' s phone and immediately called him
Vanessa. I haven' t heardfrom her in three days. I'
m worried, as everyone had mether yesterday, but she didn' t
show up. Investigators used the youngman' s reaction, even less when
they found out that he already hada large criminal record. They wanted to

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see his face, look him inthe eye and see how he responded with
two guards in front of him.At about ten o' clock in the
evening, a couple of officers knockedat the door of Reuben' s family
home. You weren' t withVanessa last night. No, it'
s not. I was with somecolleagues smoking joints late. Sure, Ruben

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was on the phone a while ago. You told us you haven' t
heard from her in three days andtell us you didn' t see her
last night. No. All Idid was cross a few whatsapps with her
and we' re gonna meet,but she didn' t show up.
So, show us, those messagescome on, I' ll delete the
conversations. I' ve erased them. The officers already had a first suspect

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in Rubén' s reaction to hisrecord. Investigators red- lined the enunciation
line for gender- based violence andthe fact that someone placed it with the
missing woman in key hours put itunder the Civil Guard radar. The so
- called Reuben had an immediate effect. Pap Haarlem a local stale in the
center of the village. It isthe meeting point of the young people of
Chella. On the night of October27th, when the news of Vanesa'

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s disappearance had already spread throughout thetown, Luis, Rubén' s close
friend, Carlos I of the missingwoman and the former Rubén' s partner,
passed by. Luis, convinced thatthe night before, albija had had
relations with Reuben. In his carthe youngest hesitated. I got it.

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I know everything. I know whatstick you' re on. I don
' t know what you' retalking about. Luis, I don'
t know what you know. Idon' t know what you mean.
Alvija, a close friend of Vanessa' s, was at that time on
the news of the missing woman.In the middle of the conversation, Reuben
appeared sweaty and fast. Luis gesturedto the almija to keep her quiet.

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How can you be sitting here witha missing manesa? Who' s coming
in my fucking car. The CivilGuard has come to find me no one.
Luis is depending on our Watsapp.A few minutes after leaving the pap,
Luis began to receive messages on hisphone from his friend that albija could
read perfectly and made him see hisformer partner as a suspect in Vanesa'
s disappearance. Alpija called her boyfriend' s father as a civilian guard at

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the nearby canal station and told himwhat he had seen. Just Irse Rubén
del pap sent Luis a message tellinghim that if the Civil Guard asked him
about what they had done the nightof Vanesa' s disappearance, he said
they had been together all night.Some gobios the Civil Guard asking all over
town. Luis already knows what hehas to say, that we were together

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all night, that he didn't tell about the car that screws everything
up looking for Vanessaye, but there, in the simics they don' t
find her. Sure, the guardsare going to ask everyone. I'
m going to write to everyone sothey can make it clear to Gabric that
he' s busted and doesn't even know what he' s saying.
I' m warning you right now. Gabrie, a girl disappeared yesterday.
She came from the movies. Wewere at your house. I was
coming, but he didn' tcome and Luis and I went to my

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mother' s to sleep. I' m sure they' ll call you,
tell the truth that we were atyour house, and we went to
blow it. Get out of hereYou remember we didn' t leave,
Luis and I were gonna blow it. That the Civil Guard investigates everything yes
bro. I think she' llbe with someone out there or, Gabriel
Luis controlled by St Vincent, Idon' t tell her anything that'

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s blown up and Vanesa' sfriends who will be looking for her like
crazy. Julia. I' mgoing to write Julia what a strong male
the Civil Guard has come to askus. Yesterday he told me that we
were at Gabri' s house andsmoking and he didn' t come at

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30. I was already at my mother' s house with Luis,
who we almost always slept together sawher at the lookout. I'
ve been told, it can't be that I waited for someone to
have a stomach condition, as youall saw yesterday, even if you saw
us and talked to her. Yeah, the Civil Guard knows that, and
you met her at the lookout.Julia' s going to tell you the
rest of the gang that they're going to be sheep that I was

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at my mother' s sobando house. I' m going to write to
her boyfriend branded on Facebook that Idon' t have his phone, that
he finds out too and hey peoplefreak out yesterday they did talk to us.
We told him we' re smoking20 if you want, but he
didn' t come I don't know. The Civil Guard is here
to ask questions about what. Timehe spoke to you. I have no

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idea, because I delete all thechats and I and Luis went to my
mother' s house to sleep fuckingdude what a rage I' m climbing
up the walls. I haven't even had dinner and the Guardia Civil
comes and asks me questions and stilltells me that it will be my turn
to declare I' m dizzy andover my friend I don' t know
where she is. I' mgonna get mad at her. I do
know if I know where he is. But there, in the simics,

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they don' t find her.The earth will swallow it, like the
animals of the field they threw there. The night of October 27th, two
thousand and sixteen. Almost no oneslept in Chella, Jorge and Carmen'
s parents. Fear of a fataloutcome grew as hours passed. The girl
' s friends crossed messages all night, doing cabal about what would have happened

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to her friend The Good Great thoughta solid fourth was built with the messages
she sent. Sitting on the nightof the events sleeping at his mother'
s house, in the company ofhis friend Luis, the Civil Guard prepared
the search device with the assurance thatthey were facing a disappearance with very poor
prognosis. Julias, Vanessa' sbest friend, didn' t keep an

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eye all night, reread the messagesshe had exchanged with Ruben. She knew
that the relationship between Vanessa and himdidn' t go much further than smoking
joints together or coinciding with more people, and she also knew that Rubén had
gotten heavy with her friend once commentingon her photos in Snuphat telling her how
beautiful she was at six to fourin the morning she resumed the conversation with

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Rubén. It' s just thatthings don' t add up. Rubén
told him we were smoking. Itold him to come if you want.
He said okay, I told himto let me know. He told me
you' re still there and Isaid yes and he didn' t come.
What do you think? Fuck ismy friend. I don' t
know anything else, too. Juliatell me something. Rubén, I'
m blocked. I don' tknow what to say to you as normal

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as we all are, but you' ve read well what I' ve
told you. Yeah, take iteasy. Julia' s clear. If
the guards call her, she'll show them what I' ve written
and you' ll tell Sara,Fanny and everyone in the gang that Vanessa
' s boyfriend will have gone tosee the Civil Guard. I' m
gonna write him back on Facebook howyou' re gonna come talk to me.

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If you want, he' shere to talk to me now.
I' m sure they' lltalk to you, too, because you
were the last to talk to her. What time did he tell you that
he was already going at eleven quarterpast nine, at nine impossible if he
had just arrived home and had tohave dinner and all and a quarter past
ten it wasn' t at eleven. I was already home with my mother.

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She hooked up at ten forty-seven last time who she talked to,
because I don' t know whatsapps. The Civil Guard is going to
do cheche when they come you'll call, they have your number to
see if they call already. Theguards tell them this and they prow that
they look whatever they want that theydon' t find in the Imicas there
swallows the earth. Just a fewhours after Rubén communicated with Mark, a

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seprona agent spotted Vanesa' s lifelessbody, hung from the branches of a
tree almost at the bottom of thetop of the borricos. The vegetation prevented
the corpse from falling to the bottomof the hole, where it would have
been practically impossible to find it.When she hadn' t been officially identified
yet. News of the discovery ofVanessa' s body jumped on the phone.

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The enguera officers who had taken chargeof the complaint informed their colleagues in
the homicide group of the Judicial PoliceOrganization Unit of Valencia along the way.
The specialists in solving crimes were collectinginformation from their colleagues at the enguera post.
Rubén Maño was the main suspect inhis reaction when he was interrogated informally
the message that albija told him thathe had sent his friend Luis and his

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background put him in the focus aroundthe location of the finding cordoned off by
the Civil Guard agents, began toswirl neighbors of the town and friends and
acquaintances of the girl At one inthe afternoon. The discovery of Vanesa'
s body was already a certainty foreveryone, also for Reuben they have found
it. Fuck everything I do.I didn' t want to hurt him

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I was going to jail. ThereI go, I don' t know
what to do. I' mgonna go online. He' s having
such a hard time in prison.What do you have to do to jail?
Go to jail. I have towrite to Luis what you say,
man, and he just told methat Amanda guy what you killed her.
You were with me, man,yeh yeah, male, shit on god,

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Luis, what a male thing Everyoneagainst me at the foot of the
top, next to Vanesa' scorpse, homicide agents observed the obvious signs
of violence on the girl' sbody, without the need for a forensics
officer to certify them. The CivilGuard planned the steps to be taken in
the following hours. Rubén' scontradictions and his close relationship with his friend

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Luis put the two of them inthe spotlight of the researchers. The sergeant
of the enguera post began to dialRuben' s phone, which did not
respond. While the young man soughtinformation about the discovery of the body on
the website of the Diario de lasProvincias and began a flight to nowhere.
I' m going to take thebike and see the yaya to volvaide that
I don' t know if I' ll see her any more if I

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didn' t know what she wasdoing anymore. I' m going to
jump from the top of the castle. I' ve killed a girl,
the girl they found, and Ididn' t want to argue, so
it' s out of hand,I' ve already gotten into everything.
I' m gonna call Mom,Mom, I' m gonna kill myself,
I killed a friend inadvertently. Idon' t know what happened.
I took a lot of drugs.Mom, I' m going to jump
out of the castle. I'm leaving now I don' t want
to live. Beatrice Simon had beensuffering from her son' s excesses for

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many years. He went as faras to put the medication between the snacks
to subside the beast that seemed tocarry inside his son' s call,
telling him that he was going totake his life. From the ruin of
the fortress of the sixteenth century erectedon the banks of the river sallent was
the logical end of a life offights, broncas and desperate arrests. The
woman called her husband, the mandialed Ruben' s phone in hopes of

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avoiding suicide. Dad, I killedher. I didn' t mean to.
I had drunk, I had takena lot of drugs. I didn
' t want to kill her.I don' t want to go to
jail. I want to die.Eduardo Omaño convinced his son that he should
surrender, that he must finally facesome of his actions. He agreed with
him that he would go looking forVolvaite and together they would report to the

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Civil Guard that at that time hewas already looking for him as the author
of the murder of Vanesa Ferrer.A patrol participating in the device met Rubén
' s paternal grandfather in the vicinityof the family home. My grandson said
he killed the girl they found atthe tops. He says he' s
going to kill himself, he's going to throw himself from the top
of Volvaite Castle. Enguera' ssergeant dialed the suspect' s phone again

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and finally managed to talk to him. He tried by all means to lower
his teno and his anxiety. Ruben, you have to turn yourself in.
We' ll meet somewhere and pickyou up. I don' t want
people to see me. I'm afraid of what they can do to
me. I' m gonna killmyself. No, Ruben, no killing
you. See you and explain everything. No one' s gonna see you.
We' ll put you in acar and tell us in a quiet

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place. Go home and we'll meet you there. Meanwhile, the
suspect' s father called zero sixty- two announced that his son had confessed
to the crime and that he wantedto commit suicide. The agents agreed with
him to pick him up at hishouse in Chella. Minutes after three in
the afternoon, Rubén and his fatherappeared in the vicinity of his house on

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Joaquín Navarro Street. Around the place. They had begun to gather together for
dinners from neighbors until an early verdictof Reuben' s guilt had arrived.
The rooster of the place, thelocal ampon mutated in a frightened kid who
hardly dared to look up when hemet the agents. The guards quickly put
him in a camouflaged car and drovehim away, away from the anger of

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the village to the barracks of theGuardia Civil Lejátiva. During the twenty-
three kilometers separating the towns of Chellaand Játiva, Rubén did not stop crying.
The Lieutenant and the Guardia Civil deHomicide had already claimed his piece and
now needed to reassure him and closethe case with the author' s confession.
I' m afraid of going tojail. I want to kill myself
repeated over and over Rubén tomorrow comequiet boy. Now, when you get

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to command, you tell us calmlywhat happened. Nobody' s gonna do
anything to you. The road servedto calm the detainee who spontaneously began to
tell what he had done. Ikilled her at my house in San Antón.
There we always saw Vanessa and Iwhat happened. Wednesday night. I
' d gotten a lot of coke, smoked joints, drunk a lot.

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I don' t know how ithappened. It was all so fast.
Tell us in detail, how youstayed with her. I sent her a
whatsapp and I stayed with her atSt Anton' s house. When she
came back from the cinema, whenwe got there, we took some joints
and slept together. She wanted to, you didn' t force her.
No. It wasn' t allmeaningful. When we were still in bed,

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I told Vanessa that I had meta cella girl I liked and she
went crazy to calm her down.I grabbed her in the back and surrounded
her neck with her right arm soshe would stop screaming. I was crazy
and what happened. Then I realizedhe wasn' t moving. I started
calling her by her name, butshe didn' t answer. I looked
at his eyes and had them open. I realized she was dead. What

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did you do with the body?I took a blanket from home to which
the bed dogs use and wrapped itto move the body. I asked my
colleague Luis for the car. Heknew what you had done or saw the
body of vaness. No. No, Luis didn' t notice anything.
I told him I was taking agirl home. I put the body in
the trunk of the car and tookit to the tops. There I threw

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it away what you did with hisstuff the afternoon of the next day.
On Thursday I returned to the houseof Saint Anton. I took a white
plastic bag from a supermarket and threwtwo cans of coke at me, several
butts and mobile phone, slippers andvanese pants and bag it in a container
on San Antón Street. The investigatorshad what they wanted, a full confession,

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even if it had been spontaneously andwithout the presence of a lawyer,
a prerequisite for its validity. Thehomicide officers pampered Ruben 24 hours to rectify
his confession the next day with therequirements of the Criminal Procedure Act. So
was Reuben tomorrow extended his statement.He said he had had sex sporadically with

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VANSA for months. On the nightof her death, with her body full
of alcohol and drugs, she anallyand vaginally penetrated her and the girl'
s fit of anger caused him toshut her up, taking her life inadvertently.
The story a thousand times repeated,the same story that Enrique told Win
of the killer of Dianaker or AnaJulia Quezada, the author of the death

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of the boy Gabriel Cruz. Theyboth wanted to make the jury believe that
they unintentionally killed and both ended upwith a permanent prison sentence that could be
reviewed. The same one they requestedfor Rubén Maño, the Prosecutor' s
Office of Valencia and the particular accusationexercised by lawyer Juan Molpeceres, on behalf
of Vanesa' s sister and parents. In July of the two thousand and

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twenty, the Valencia hearing was thescene of the trial against Rubén Maño,
a view that the 19th pandemic delayedseveral months in a room with little public
and full of masks. The defendanttestified for 27 minutes and was limited to
answering his lawyer' s questions.The young man varied his version of the
facts with regard to the responses hehad given to the civil guard and the

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investigating judge. I no longer hadpored sex with Vanessa. They were just
friends who stayed once in a whileto smoke joints. She had sex with
Manesa that night. His lawyer askedhim. Not only did we kiss four
and have four superficial caresses, butyou didn' t declare that. When
he was arrested, even before theCivil Guard and before the judge he said

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something else. I knew that everyonewould think wrong, that everyone would think
that I had raped her, ifthey thought that I had had intimate relations
with her. I didn' twant them to think I killed her.
By the way. It was anunfortunate accident. Why she didn' t
tell the truth Before the judge,the lawyer they put me on told me
to keep the same version as ifI contradicted myself, no one would believe

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me. He never intended to killher. I' ll never take him
in my soul as long as Ilive. I can' t live with
this nightmare, but I haven't had the courage to take my life.
You regret Rubén' s counsel.I wanted a shocking statement ending.
How can I not regret it?If she was a girl' s charm,
I didn' t mean to hurther. God knows, I never

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wanted anything wrong with her and I' ve ruined the lives of two families,
yours and mine. I' mno longer worth anything. I don
' t care if they take meto the electric chair. I can'
t and I won' t forgivemyself in life. I' m sorry
and I apologize to her, herfamily and mine. Take the penalty imposed
on him by the Court. Thesumo, the penalty that Ruben claimed to

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assume at the end of his testimonybefore the Tribunal between sobs. It was
the maximum penalty provided for in ourpenal code, a permanent prison that could
be reviewed. The defendant told thejury his truth, but the People'
s Court did not believe him.And on the basis of the witnesses and
the experts who passed through the Audienciade Valencia, he was found guilty.
The President of the Court wrote asentence that, in her section of proven

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facts, still recounts with the coldlegal language the torment suffered by Vanessa Ferrer,
a fifteen- year- old girl. Thus, vanes shakes that house
that lacked electric light because he thoughtthe defendant was in the company of his
friends. Juaness arrived at that houseminutes after twenty- two twenty- three

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hours. Once inside, the defendant, who had really deceived her and was
alone and in order to satisfy hersexual desires. After Vanessa' s refusal
to maintain any sexual relationship, shebegan surprisingly to give her strong blows to
the head face and body that lefther. Semi unconscious or shocked, the

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defendant, Taking advantage of that stateof semi unconsciousness and commotion of Vanessa,
after removing her slippers and trousers,threw her to the ground and putting her
on her knees and elbows resting onthe ground, penetrated her abruptly anal and
vaginally, causing her injuries to thevagina and anal tearing then, taking advantage
that Vanessa was semi unconscious or shockedby the blows received without any possibility of

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defense, strangled her from the backwith one of her arms, causing her
death by asphyxiation. The defendant.I knew Vanessa was only fifteen years old.
The maja puppets already in the hospitalenjoy that empanada made with love message
from María Jesús Moreno to her husbandhours before he was murdered. Black widow.

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That' s how we call thisoperation. Esther, the head of
the homicide group, sketched a nastysmile. The day before, August 16th,
two thousand seventeen, a neighbor ofCalamocha Street, in the Valencian neighborhood
of Patís, found in the communalgarage the sewn body stabbed by Antonio Navarro
Cerdán, an engineer of thirty-six years. Esteer and his group had

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taken care of the inquiries since thetime of the removal of the body and
it was time to baptize the newlyopened investigation. The names of the operations
are a stamp of the state securityforces and bodies that give him talent and
imagination to choose the word that willaccompany all the actions that are instructed.
The Malaya operation for the gout Malayathat calmed and ended up flooding with corruption

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on the coast of the Sun,the operation punic Latin word to designate the
pomegranate, the tree that coincides withthe surname of the one who was almighty
chief of the pepe Madrid Francisco Granados, the operation NEMO in relation to the
fish, the family appeal of theboy Gabriel Cruz. Few times the names
of the operations reveal as openly theirobjective as the one chosen that time by

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Esther, the veteran inspector who commandedthe homicide group of the Judicial Police Brigade
of Valencia. The Black Widow LatroyectusMactans is a small spider widespread on the
American continent, a species whose peculiaritylies in the fact that females kill males.
After the mating, Antonio Navarro's widow had just left the group

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' s office when the chief decidedto baptize the operation with the common name
Latrodectus Mactans. María Jesús Moreno sangan attractive 27- year- old nurse,
went to the headquarters of the brigadeaccompanied by her best friend, Rocío.
In separate offices, Esther and anotherveteran homicide inspector Leo, along with

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thousands of others in the group,spent a long hour with them, inquiring
about all the details of the victim' s life. Before, without anyone
knowing, they contacted the deceased's family and co- workers. At
that first glance to your surroundings.Made, from telephone calls, Antonio Navarro
seemed to have no macula, noeconomic problems, no enemies, no addictions,

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a complimenter in the engineering company forwhich he worked and very much in
love with Maria Jesús Mage, whomhe had married eleven months earlier. On
September three, two thousand and sixteen, the victim' s urgent portrait was
wrong with the circumstances of her murder. Six certainties knifed to the chest,
four of them straight to the heart, shot when he was about to get

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in his car to go to workbefore eight in the morning. Harmful sirlers
with a white gun don' tusually get up early, they don'
t use violence that lethal and certainand, above all, they take the
booty and Antonio kept all its effects, including the wallet with money and cards.
The first thing the investigators thought ofseeing the crime scene and the victim

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' s wounds was that someone waitedfor the engineer crouching between the cars and
attacked him in a surprising way.The body did not present a single defense
wound and with the intention of securinghis death, a crime on demand,
a hit man who had the wrongtarget. The police found that one of
Antonio Navarro' s neighbors was acriminal lawyer, a muddy world in which

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everything is possible, but soon theyruled out that the lawyer was the real
target of the crime and that Antoniohad died of a fateful confusion. Not
even twenty- four hours had passedsince the discovery of the body and the
homicide agents had a lot of informationabout the victim when his widow began to
testify and paint an Antonio quite differentfrom what they had begun to know thanks

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to the testimonies gathered. The deceased, according to his wife, had a
very strong character and would not havehesitated to face any caco that one would
have surprised, stealing or simply prowlingaround the garage and, of course,
would resist a heist without anyone askinghim. Magic talked about her marriage relationship.

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The cops who questioned her were verypossessive. He didn' t like
me having friends or going out withthem, so I lied to him once
and Antonio caught me because I wasalways looking at my phone. He mistreated
you, beat you up once,never. At the same time, in
a nearby office, the leader ofthe Esther group spoke with dew the best

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friend of maje, who insisted onthe controlling and possessive character of the murdered
engineer. Maje told me that Antoniodidn' t take her to company dinners
or to any peer meeting, becausehe didn' t want them to comment
on how good the inspector was ina thousand interrogations. He saw in his
witness a loophole, a crevice throughwhich some light could enter to begin to

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illuminate the case and he threw ahook and she had some scroll, some
friend with whom she looked more.On the 21st of May we went out

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00 and met two guys. One of them, Joseph,
swapped the phone with maje. They' ve kept talking for Whatsapp and
sneaking around because Antonio was very jealous. When the two women left police stations,
Leo Esther and his companions exchanged impressions. He told you magic about the
boy he met in May A certainJosé asked the boss. Not at all,

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but the dead man was very jealous, because the friend did sing.
He says the magic was happy andexcited since he met him. Let'
s see if the shots are goingaround. We' re gonna ask the
judge to let us in on thewidow' s phone. The on-
call judge didn' t authorize Magen' s phone puncture. He did not
believe that there was sufficient evidence fora measure that limited the right to privacy

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of communications of a person who wasat that time only a victim. The
inspector and sterno got discouraged. Iwas sure it would be a matter of
a short time before, in theeyes of His Lordship, the grieving widow
began her metamorphosis to the trodectus mactans. That' s why the group leader
talked to Maje almost every day andchecked how she breathed. I was calling

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her with any excuse from her husband' s current day account data. Five
days after her statement in the homicidegroup, the nurse exposed her strategy.
I wanted to take the initiative tolead the investigations around the crime, not
leave a single loose end. Iwanted to tell you something. The day
I was there in police station,I told some lie. I heard that

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Rocíos spoke of a Chico José andI want to tell all about him.
Esther was extremely understanding, falsely close. Nothing happens this afternoon we go to
Novelda and you tell us Esther,subspector Blas, one of the
group' s most veteran investigators,and Johnny, a policeman, moved to
the Alicante town from which they wereoriginally. Maje and Antonio. She had

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gone there to spend the first daysof the duel, tucked in by her
family. His statement was a minefor the cops. I didn' t
count a few things out of shame. Before marriage he had a very good
relationship with Antonio, but after thewedding, he became very controlling. It
changed a lot. I was verydisappointed and I started to meet other guys
on the nights I was partying.I just kept seeing two of them.

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Who they are. We need theirnames. The first I met in March
of two thousand and sixteen. He' s a physiotherapist named Tomás. We
started hanging out for a walk,having dinner. We had sex. Although
he knew that I had a partnerand that I was getting married, he
tried to convince me not to marry. I knew the conversations I had with

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Antonio and he told me it wasn' t good for me. We keep
seeing each other until the wedding.After the honeymoon, even though he wanted
to keep up with our relationship,we were just friends. Antonio found out
about this story together. July oftwo thousand sixteen. He picked up my
phone and found a Thomas whatsapp inwhich he sent me a song and a
romantic message. Antonio asked me toexplain. I lied to him and took

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it out of my mind. Itold him he was just a good friend
and he believed me. The agentsrealized that Magen chained lies with amazing naturalness.
He began by saying that before hemarried, everything was going very well
with Antonio, but he revealed thathe was unfaithful until shortly before his wedding.
The researchers smelled the blood the gapsin the testimony of the widow and

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Joseph, that boy who told us, dew who he is after marrying had
only fooled with some men, dancedsome kisses, nothing serious. But in
May Rocío and I met two boysand started seeing me with one of them.
Joseph didn' t tell her Iwas married. I liked him a
lot, and I was afraid he' d stop dating me. If he
found out, Mage showed the copsJose' s pictures on his cell phone.

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He only the two posing seemed excitedand proud of his conquest. He
' s licensed in advertising. Wealways saw each other at home how he
didn' t know you were married. The officers recalled that whatsapp' s
profile photo of the woman showed animage of her and the deceased in a
mellow attitude. I didn' teven suspect you for that. Yesterday I

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stayed with him to tell him thatshe was married and what had happened to
her. Antonio I told him that, as I spent the night before the
crime, the police had to tellhim and give him his name. He
replied that, of course, hedid what he had to do and was
very surprised in shock. Then,of course, explain to us where you
were the night before Antonio' smurder in police station. I told you

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I was working, but it's not true. I spent the night
with Jose. During the day,Antonio and I went to the beach.
We were fine like other nights.I told my husband I was going to
work, but I went to Jose' s house. I took pastries for
dinner the next morning I went tothe hospital and the noon I found out
what had happened to Antonio. Thecops left Novelda' s house looking normal,

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trying to disguise the hunter' ssatisfaction, who knows he' s
found the good track of his prey. This was reflected in their next report
to the judge, in which theyasked to intervene the phones of Maje and
José Antonio. He led a verynormal life, without enemies, without debts,
which leaves his wife' s infidelitiesas the most likely motive of his

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death. Office of the homicide groupto the investigating court fourteen of Valencia on
August 23 of two thousand seventeen,the last week of August and the first
of September of two thousand seventeen,with the telephones of maje and his lover
already intervened by court order, thegroup of homicides was half gas with a
good part of his vacation staff.Around the corner. Tragedy hit Operation Black

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Widow' s team. Sub-spector Blas Gámez was murdered on September 12,
17, when he tried to identifythe suspect of having killed and quartered
a man in the district of Rusaza. A few hours earlier, a neighbor
found a suitcase with a torso inside, no head or limbs. The trail
of blood dripping in the transport ofthe sinister baggage led to Hablars and another

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companion to a portal number seventy-seven on the Swedish street. There they
ran into the killer Pierda Nile,a thirty- six- year- old
Swede who fatally stabbed blah when herealized he was a cop. His partner
shot Danilo dead, but he couldn' t do anything to save the deputy
inspector' s life. Father oftwo children and with twenty- two years

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of experience in the investigation of homicides, the mourning for the tragic loss of
Blash was in parallel with advances inthe investigation of the crime of Patrais.
The wiretaps on the majesty' sphone served to get to know the widow
' s two faces. When Iwas talking to old friends or close people.
To Antonio, the woman was agrieving manual. He said that he

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had not been out of bed fora month and that his diet was limited
to one yogurt a day. Thereality was quite different. In the month
that followed the crime, Mage wenton a trip with her lover Adenia,
with her friend Rocío to Barcelona andwent out several nights of party. In
those days he intimated with Sergio,an agent of the urban Guard of the
Catalan capital, a meeting that heremembered with delight. Speaking on the phone

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with her friend Rocío, on September13, two thousand seventeen in a conversation
the homicide agents heard. Maje,you and I are so crazy. I
do, but Maje, I know, Maje, we like the move.
Let' s be honest. Ofcourse, she has to be moved with

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sex, Maje, because if Ihad to throw it after reconciliation, I
didn' t feel like it,and with this one I' m going
to fuck like I fucked in thebathroom. I do, but, Maje,
this one did you good, orwhat, Maje, if you did

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it right, I almost ate thecrystal, dew I almost ate the fucking
glass and had more ass than Idid. Sergio himself told the police months
later his meeting with Maje that tookplace in Alicante on the weekend of September
9th and 10th. A friend andI met two girls, one named Rocío
and the other Maria. I starteddancing with Maria who after knowing that her

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name is Maje and my friend withRocío, I hooked up with her at
the disco and then we all wentto our hotel. As my friend and
Rocío went to bed. I proposedto Maria to go up to the upper
floor where there was a Jacussi.She liked the idea and we climbed to
the top floor of the hotel,which gave access to the terrace. As
the terrace door was closed, Maryknelt down and fell on me. Then

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I entered it on the landing ofthe elevator. When we finished we went
down to the room and saw thatmy friend and Rocío were still in bed,
we got into the bathroom where Iwould penetrate her again. She was
very fiery and carried the Sergio Imageninitiative. They did not repeat the appointment
tower, although, according to him, they spoke several times and she sent

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him pictures in which she appeared naked. The widow felt liberated and happy,
as she told Rocío in a conversationrecorded by the police on September 14.
Maje, I' m happy nowand thank God I didn' t think
of having a baby, no matterhow much I like babies. I suck
aunt, well, yes, Maje, and I' m going to be

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happy now and I' m goingto make the life I want, not
yet with whom I don' tcare. I' m having a good
time. And now with you Ican make any plans I want. The
personality of Magic surprised and disgusted equalparts of those in charge of searching its
dark corners. The investigators of thehomicide group found out that the widow had
had a well- off childhood andyouth thanks to the income of her father

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' s plumbing company. Mage hadthree brothers, but one of them died
in a thousand nine hundred and ninetyin an accident, which increased the religiosity
in which the family lived. Membersof a neocatechumenal order Mage, like his
brothers, went to religious schools andhis relationships until he began his nursing face
in Barcelona were limited to a narrowand suffocating circle of companions of the Christian

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groups to which Antonio Navarro, thevictim of the crime, belonged, ten
years older than she knew him becausehe was his brother' s best friend
and in the last year of careerbegan to date him. Then came the
engagement, the wedding and the crimeand all to the bite of small and
big infidelities. Homicide investigators repeat that, in their specialty, haste is very

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bad companions. The investigations into acrime have little or nothing to do with
those of drug trafficking or robbery,in which action is necessarily taken at a
precise time. The arrival of ashipment avoid the next blow to a bank.
The killer' s action ends assoon as his victim stops breathing.

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From there, investigators have 20 yearsof statute of limitations for a murder,
according to our legal system, togather evidence and lock up the person responsible
for the crime. Although the sparkthat ignites the or are usually arrives much
earlier, especially if you have asuspect who will always make a mistake.
Esther knew that that spark would comeand that her black widow would slip at

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some point, even though three monthsof listening to her phone had only served
to accuse maje of being a frivolousand her lover, with whom she practically
lived to not find out about herpartner' s sexual scorns. The spark
came on November 8. Magi calledat ten twenty- seven in the morning
a man identified as Salvador Rodrigo laPiedra, never having spoken on the phone.

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Since the police monitored the women's conversations, the talk alerted the
investigators. Mage was shown in theearly bars of the call in her weeping
version. I' m not okay. Until Salvador lit the fuse the homicide
group needed. The police transcribed thedialogue, as follows, with notes and
capital letters, including Salvador, yourmother, has all the reason you have

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to disconnect from your house and ithas come to my mind that to a
certain extent you will also have todisconnect from me, because I will remind
you every day that you see methen, Maje, what is going to
never Salvador, for it has givenme a beastly downfall Maje, already,
but that is that you will putit in your head. I mean,

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don' t try to put yourthoughts on mine because you' re gonna
be wrong. Salvador. The otherday I called the police, Maje,
what do you say, Salvador,my friend, Maje, ah, Salvador,
my friend, my friend, MajeGod, save, don' t
do crazy things, eh, Salvador, I didn' t call my friend,

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no, I won' t docrazy things. No. Don'
t worry, Maje, what aSavior, and I asked him like that,
you can look at me and helooked at me or he looked at
me. You haven' t toldthem anything about everything. Maje, yes,
Salvador, there is another person therewho I don' t know who
is a certain, José Antonio,I don' t know what. I
don' t remember the last name. Maje, yes, yes, I

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told him about him, too.The publicist you remember the publicist Salvador and
I' ve also been told thatyou' re going with him to Italy.
Maje, yes, but with morepeople. Salvador, then, has
given me a downfall, because,of course, the researchers were perplexed.

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The conversation. Salva was a wimpin the hands of a lady. She
cried like a child when she learnedthat the woman was planning to go on
a trip with her lover, thetalk continued to give first- rate material
to the police. Maje, listento me, I mean, they'
re investigating me, Salvador, youor him, because he knows. Salvador

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lamented at the realization of the dimensionof the relationship between Maje and José,
but she only wanted to know towhat extent it was in the focus of
the investigation. Maje, I thoughtI was going to be ruled out and
I' m out investigating Salvador,at least him if you told him that
you have something with him, becausethey investigate and they' ll have seen

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that you' re going to Italy, Maje, that is, that they
' re tapping my phone and everythinguntil that moment, Mage thought he had
everything under control. The so-called Salvador Rodrigo, unknown until then to
the police, alerted her and agreedto a meeting with her friend that same
day. Half an hour after hangingup the investigators had no doubt that Salvador

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was somehow involved in the crime.You' ll have to disconnect from me,
because I' ll remind you everyday you see me said and Magic
' s excessive reaction when he announcedthat he had spoken to the police.
His wife knew a people and Salvahad asked him about the trip to Italy
was as solid a sign of hisinvolvement in the events as a smoking gun

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in the hand of a murderer.The appointment was monitored remotely by homicide agents.
Maje and Salva walked down Jesús streetuntil they reached a café where the
police photographed them and was able tosee closely the one who at that time
became the main suspect in the murderof Antonio Navarro. Esther, the head
of the group, reflected in herreport her impression of being outstanding as a

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researcher and as a woman. Itattracts the attention that Salva does not respond
to the same profile as the restof the lovers of Magic of which we
have knowledge, Tomás, José,Antonio and Sergi, all young, athletic
and attractive boys as she maje isa woman of only twenty- seven years
with a very attractive physique and thatis arranged a lot and saved. She
' s forty- seven years old, and she' s unappealing at all

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about the kind of man she likes. As for the conversation, he has
at all times a submissive and docileattitude toward it. Almost begging. For
much of the conversation is sobbing,while she shows herself more dominant and colder
office of the homicide group to Valencia' s 14th investigative court of November 10,
two thousand seventeen Salvador, twenty yearsolder than Antonio Navarro' s widow,

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He was married and had a daughter. I worked as a nurse'
s assistant at the same hospital.Burning health, researchers gathered as much information
as possible about that weeping man humiliatedby the black widow. Still listening to
all his conversations. The punctures discoveredthe existence of an Hidden Culebra phone held
by Mage, a line in thename of Salva, which they only used

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to talk to each other from Julyto October. Both were communicated thirty-
four times by this procedure, whileMaje and Salva spoke twenty times with their
official phone. He always called fromMay to August 9, a week before
the crime, then absolute silence untilthe call that put them definitively under the

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spotlight of suspicion. For three weeks, the agents of the homicide group heard
the conversations between Maje and Salva.Neither the fatal women of the golden age
of Jo Ollywood' s black cinemacame as long as they heard the woman
make plans with José Antonio, whichincluded the purchase of a flat and the
possibility of having a child. Theywere frightened to see how Salva offered to

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go home. When necessary, fixthe heater to take it to novelda.
She, in return, allowed himto talk up in tone and gave him
a shirt because he said he rememberedhim. The reports produced by the investigators
did not save qualification to define therelationship between the two suspects. Magen'
s attitude in the relationship is totallyinterested and he is using and manipulating Salva

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for his own selfish ends Salva usesan excited, enthusiastic and jovial tone,
sometimes touching ridicule. Mag uses anemotionally flat tone, as if he really
did not have any kind of affection. Towards Salva office of the homicide group
to the investigating court number fourteen ofValencia on December 5, two thousand seventeen.

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During the month of December of twothousand seventeen, the homicide agents were
heard from Magic and observed how heinteracted with his entire circle with Joseph,
his partner. He closed the purchaseof a flat and made travel plans with
his closest friends. He lamented thepainful sex life he had had with Antonio
Navarro, as opposed to the onehe had with his current partner, and

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to Salva he told a bunch oflies and made small concessions, as he
did to have a pizza with himwhile giving his ears away. You know
that I am all the time rememberingyou and he nourished the hope of going
to live with her at some pointand remained his most faithful and safe servant
to the point of, for example, offering to take her to the airport

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when she went to Italy with Joseph. During the same month of December,
the scientific police handed over their homicidecolleagues a report on the contents of Antonio
Navarro' s phone. Whatsapp's messages between him and his wife showed
the researchers a sharp picture of thetrue relationship of the couple far removed from
that given to them by the woman. So, on June 4, Antonio

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wrote to his partner I don't want someone to have dinner during the
week and sit on the couch andwatch the phone until bedtime and when we
have a day off, each onhis side and I don' t want
anyone to put their hand on me. I don' t go that way.
Antonio, waxy and dominant who haddescribed more in his police statements.
He was really a man in lovewith his wife, whom she had once

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assaulted. A month later, onJuly 2, Antonio asked his wife for
sincerity. You can come home thisafternoon. I need you to talk.
I' m not well, I' ve been thinking a lot and I
need to talk it over. Ijust need you to be honest when you
come in to know if you've failed me at the sentimental level.
We' re a marriage and therest of things we have to get through

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together. That' s not howI' m going to go on.
I need someone who doesn' tmind my voice, who understands me,
who helps me, and who isher absolute priority and the same for her
if you don' t want tobe that person. Tell me on August
3, two weeks before the crime, Magel sent her husband the following message.
Cari I took off the night ofthe fourteenth by the night of the

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fifteenth. That' s not howI do two in a row. Homicide
officers believe that on that date Majehad already set the time and day of
her husband' s death. Ifshe worked the night of the 15th,
he could park his car in thegarage, and thus made sure that on
the morning of the crime 16th August. He would be in the parking lot
where he was killed on the nightof August 15. Mage was not working,

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but at his lover Joseph' shouse, from where he sent Antonio
a message at twenty- one tothirty- six, less than twelve hours
after his death. Puchi already inthe hospital enjoys that empanada made with love.
There are times when investigations run atone point and are prolonged in time
without progress or with very small stepsthat are never enough to reach the exploitation

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stage, that is, the arrestsand searches that culminate any police operation.
The black widow operation had stalled.The homicide group was clear who was responsible
for the murder of Antonio Navarro Majeiand Salva had been reported in the November
8 conversation, but in their subsequenttalks they did not say anything explicit enough
to put them at the disposal ofthe judge and make sure that he would

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send them to prison. In suchcases, the wasps must be shaken and
the prey must be seen to finishoff. Researchers discussed several options. They
thought about touching Jose Antonio, thecouple of maje, who they were sure
had nothing to do with the crime. Calling him to testify could provoke what
they were looking for a reaction fromthe suspects, but Esther, the group

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leader, casually found another path ofvice. Antonio' s brother had very
bad relations with Maje, who hadworsened when they began to discuss the deceased
' s inheritance. He was alsothe one who regularly asked the inspector about
the progress of the investigations. We' ve got it now, but this
takes time. We have to gatherevidence, and that' s what we

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' re on now. Vicente Navarrotold her. Esther had little hope that
the message would reach Maje, sincethe woman and her brother- in-
law were not speaking, but thistime luck was on the good side of
fate. He wanted that on December28, two thousand seventeen, the day
of the Holy Innocents, the policehad what they were looking for the conversation

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they needed between their two objectives.In it Mage told Salva that he had
argued with Vicente and her husband's family for the distribution of the inheritance
and that Antonio' s brother.I had spoken to Esther, the chief
of police, and I had toldher that the investigation is now complete,
that there are still a few moreevidence to be collected, but they already

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have the suspect with names and surnames. Salva was shown to be a real
quijote, willing to protect his belovedfrom wind and tide and as a perfect
ignorant, ignorant of police procedures andwith an amazing sense of impunity. Maje,
imagine your heart. I couldn't handle it, I didn'

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t believe it. They' veleft me out of place. Save now,
but don' t be afraid.Maje, no, save, no,
ma' am, but then justice, what the fuck. Salva,
you' re not afraid for me. Don' t be afraid anymore.
I' m telling you, Maje, okay, and justice, I mean,
it doesn' t exist. SalvaMira will exist, I suppose,

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but perhaps what has happened is thatthey still have someone who would have had
a crime and they want to gathermore information to talk to that person.
Maje, that' s what Ithought. Salva because to see me they
would have to be investigating me theyare not investigating me you hear me,
Maje, how you know saves tosee to be able to tell me I,

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to be supposed to be quiet,first they would have to stop me
to ask me. I' dhave to go to the police station and
ask if I have a record,if I don' t have a record,
if I have a quarter, ifI don' t, if I
have anything like that. They shouldhave found out and I have to participate
in it because I' m nota suspect. If you don' t
stop me, you have no dutyto investigate my life. I' m

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a normal person, I' ma nice person, yes, yes,
on foot saves. They can't even pick up a phone if they
don' t tell me to bein detention. Let' s do this.
I mean, I' m nota terrorist you suspect. Yeah,
yeah. I have to know.It' s all right, Maje He
' s missed me. I mean, I was glad they found the real
suspect. But on the other hand, I got very nervous because I don

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' t know how they' rehandling it. Salva not because they'
d have to find out, look, they could come to work, they
' d have asked how long I' ve been. If I' m
clear about all that, you haveto find out. They' d have
to do a lot of things thatI' d end up understanding, but
they' d have to know andI' d have to tell them.
Obviously, Maje, I' dhave been arrested by now. Yeah,

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yeah, they' d have stoppedme by now, Maje, yeah,
yeah. And I' ve alreadythought about all that this morning. Save.
First thing, first thing? Firstthings first are my statement. First
things first. First of all,what do you think of this? Maje,
of course, save and it hasn' t happened, Maje, then
I breathe. It doesn' tsave, yeah, yeah, I tell

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you to breathe. Okay, breathecalmly. In the rest of the conversation,
Maje, he continued to fatten himselfto safety, probably because he was
barbing that the time was approaching whenhe could betray her. I' ll
stay with you, you' lltake me from behind, you' ll
lift me up, and I'll lose my mind. I' m
confusing things. I don' twant to be with you there by your
side and make our plans again andthe usual. I can' t tell

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you anything else that I love youand that I' m thinking about you
constantly. The talk was closed withan appointment on January 2. Five days
later they' d meet at atorrent bar. The police weren' t
going to miss that meeting. Severalyears people shook and recorded what they said.
Despite the noise and poor quality ofthe recording, what they talked about
was enough. Salva, whatever happens. You, you' re not gonna

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have anything to do with it.Maje, you' re lying to me
to keep me calm. Salva,I have a doubt about the garage key.
Maje, where' s the key? Salva, no one leaves that
door open. The only way outis closed. If they' ve taken
your statement, Maje, what doI have to say? Save. If
they ask you, you don't know anything, Maje, then you

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took it from me. You,Salva, who' s gone missing already,
Maje, but I didn' tsay that. Save say you don
' t know, Maje, thatyou took them. Salva, I did
take them out of the bag.Homicide agents were aware of the importance of
what they had just recorded. Thetwo suspects prepared their statements in the face

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of an imminent arrest. They neededto agree, especially as regards the keys
that Salva accessed the garage where hekilled Antonio Navarro, the weakest point in
the story that the killer was willingto tell that he committed the crime without
Maje knowing anything that neither of themknew at the time was that their phones
had also reported them. Salva tookthe precaution of having his own off.

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On the morning of the crime helit it an hour after he killed Antonio,
but the two suspects' phones weretogether between 13: 30 and 15

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30 on the day of the crime in the vicinity of Mage' s
sister' s house. Probably therethey commented on what happened hours before in
the caraje of Calamocha street, whereto that now lay the lifeless body of
Antonio Navarro. After this appointment,the police, according to the judge and
the prosecutor, decided to arrest thecouple at six o' clock in the
morning of January of two thousand andeighteen officers of the homicide group were stationed

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in Maje' s homes and savedhim. However, he did not spend
the night there, but at thehospital in Manises, where he was arrested
at nine fifteen. She was interceptedby two agents 25 minutes later as she
left Jose Maje' s house.Like the scorpion of the popular fable,
she did not cease to be herselfeven in her first moments deprived of liberty,
in which she flirted with the twopolicemen who guarded her. Esther,

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the group leader, let her maceratea few hours before meeting her face-
to- face, with whom shehad spoken so much in the months of
research and to whom she had givena false sense of closeness. Maje thought
I was still dominating the situation,but Esther, how you bring me here,
how you think I' ve beenable to do something like that.
Magic still trusted her weapons of seductionand wanted to assert what she thought was

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a trusted relationship with the researcher.Maje, you' ve fallen with the
whole team. The inspector made itclear with her tone, with her gesture
language and with her gaze that thewidow was her detainee and she, the
head of the investigation, in anotheroffice of the judicial police post, Salva,
thought that she could still leave Airosoor at least save her beloved and

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insisted on making an agreed statement.The group leader took the idea out of
Salva' s head. We haveevidence to lock you up for many years,
and to a lady who' salso in custody. You' ll
see what you want to tell us. We' re not gonna make a
deal. With you the investigators firstheard Mage was sunk and had to take

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advantage of the moment, when shehad been in detention for eight hours,
they began to take her statement.Inspector Esther put out the first question that
sounded like a gunshot. You agreedwith Salvador Rodrigo to plan and execute the
death of your husband Antonio Navarro.Yes, the monosyllable was a full-
fledged confession, though what came nextfilled it with Matices. Mage introduced Salva

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as a man willing to do anythingfor her, who had only thought of
divorce. I told him that Ihad to fix things by getting divorced and
he told me not to worry,that he was going to fix it and
I had already thought about what todo. Shortly after, in another conversation
he told me that the best thingfor me was to finish Antonio and that
the best place was the garage ofmy house, because there were no cameras

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there. Mage wanted to give theimpression that she had been overwhelmed by events
in which she had hardly participated.Overflowing with Salva' s decision- making
and initiative, we met again atthe end of July for coffee in Torrente.
Salva asked me for the keys tomy house to get access to Antonio.
I just didn' t believe thatSalva was going to do something to

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her. Antonio didn' t seehim able, but I let him through.
Salva made a copy of the keysand returned them to me in the
middle of the day. From thatday I did not see him again until
16 August. If I spoke tohim on the phone and he told me
everything was still standing that was thebest option and that I didn' t
worry about anything. He told mehe wasn' t going to tell me
how he was going to do it, not to ask him anything, and
he didn' t want me toimagine anything or to suffer. You didn

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' t try to avoid it.You didn' t take the idea out
of her head. I told himit didn' t make any sense to
let me face my fears about divorce. But Salva was obsessed with protecting me
to the point where he showed upunder my house. In case something happened
to me. When I was arguingwith Antonio, you knew when it was
going to happen, what day hewas going to kill Antonio. In that

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conversation, Salva told me he wasgoing to finish off Antonio on the 16th
of August in the garage in themorning. That' s why I went
to sleep that night with Jose inthe morning I woke up at his house
and went to work. I didn' t know if anything had happened,
because I was left with Stalva wherewe wouldn' t have any contact.
But in the middle of the dayhe called me and we met at three
o' clock in the afternoon atmy sister' s house, he told

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me that he had killed Antonio.He gave you some instruction when you talked
to us. He didn' tjust tell me not to worry because I
had nothing to do with it andto make my life. The researchers did
not believe the magic run over bySalva' s impetus nor did they understand
the unconditional surrender of a man whoseemed to have killed. For nothing.

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He' s asked you, exceptsometime for some consideration in exchange for the
favor he' s done you.It' s never more a couple of
months ago he put a life insurancein my name without me knowing anything I
got mad at him. When Ifound out, at least she had sex
with him very sporadically and only sexally. I' m not physically attracted to
him. Salva thought that after killingAntonio, we were going to form a

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family together. He told me,after Antonio' s death, that he
was going to leave his wife,but I told him not to because I
had fallen in love with José andwe were going to buy a house together.
The police once again knew, thanksto the conversations they had heard,
that they never told Salva the wholetruth about their relationship with Joseph and that
they continued to feed their hopes.She also cheated until that same day on

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Joseph, her partner, who declaredpolice independence at the same time as she
there found out that maja was accusedof having planned her husband' s death.
She was shocked that she started datingher thinking she was single and only
found out that she was married whenDon Maje revealed to her that her husband
had been murdered. Despite the magnitudeof the embuste, she decided to stay

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with her because I liked a lotof magic. He told her more lies.
He told her that at the timeof meeting her May two thousand seventeen
she no longer lived with her husband, that she was forced to marry him
because of family pressures and because herwork as an engineer sometimes forced him to
travel with her to Muslim countries andthere they had to be married. Immaculate
Salva' s wife also declared inthe homicide group she resisted believing that her

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husband had killed anyone. He revealedthat since August of two thousand seventeen,
the date of the crime, theyslept in separate rooms, although they led
an absolutely normal marital life and neversuspected that their husband could have an extramarital
relationship. Before finishing his statement,he wanted to put on record that Salvador
is a very good person. Italways helps everyone. He' s an

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exemplary father and I' ve neverargued with him. Esther, the leader
of the group and instructor of theactions of left sea last one day Salva
in the dungeons at thirteen twenty onthe eleven of two thousand eighteen began to
take her statement and she did soby throwing the same question to Maje María
Jesús Moreno and you arranged the deathof Antonio Navarro. Yes, two detainees,

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two full confessions. You were thematerial author of Antonio' s death.
Yes, the material author was me. From there, Salva did not
get out of his role, hedescribed his relationship with Magic, first as
friendship and later as more than friends. Salva said that, after an accident
in which several compañeros of Antonio Navarrodied, we both started fantasizing about the

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idea that Antonio was not there andwas born little by little, the idea
that he died, but the ideaof who it was was I who gave
the way to kill him. Itoccurred to me that it could be in
the garage where not many people werepassing and that I knew I wasn'
t being watched. That would bethe ideal place. Mage had some involvement
in this idea. She asked mefor details of how she was going to

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do it, but I never gavethem to her. I thought August was
the ideal date because there weren't many people. I accessed the garage
with a key that Maje gave meto park my car. How you chose
the day to kill Antonio. Ichose him when I found out about the
days Antonio worked in August. Don' t tell Maje about the day.
In fact, I think she didn' t think I could kill Antonio.

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Salva told the crime in detail.He described the weapon to a 14-
centimeter blade onion knife that he acquiredin a hardware store and confessed that he
put on some nitrile gloves and stabbedAntonio after increparing him and afearing his attitude
with majesty. Then she got ridof the clothes she was wearing in a
trash can and threw the gun intoa blind well on a redwood farm,

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where the police recovered it thanks toher instructions. After the crime, she
went home, prepared the food,ate with her daughter, and stayed nice
at her sister' s house.He told you it' s done.
The researchers knew what Maja and Salva' s true relationship was. They had
heard them and had even seen themtwice in the last few months, but

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they wanted to hear how he livedwhat happened. Later. You talked about
Magic, and you talked to herabout what happened. I don' t
remember when in October maybe, butwe talked very little. I' m
worried about how this Magic and that' s why I didn' t want
to talk about it. What arelationship you have with Magic. She currently
has a relationship with a certain Joseph. We have a friendship relationship. We

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share many things, though not asboyfriends we get out of work and from
time to time we have sex.I' ve been wanting to separate myself
from my wife for eight years,but I didn' t kill Antonio.
That' s why I never thoughtabout starting a formal relationship with her.
When Mage stayed widowed, then savewhy you killed. Antonio. I don
' t know. Act without thinking. I had nothing against him. I

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just thought it would be good forher. She, for her family,
wouldn' t take a divorce.I love her very much and I just
want her to be happy. Salva' s testimony corresponded faithfully to his role
throughout history, a puppet in thehands of a woman capable of handling men
at her whim. The police foundin the detainee' s backpack a few

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letters that the two exchanged in twothousand sixteen, in the months leading up
to Mage' s wedding, writtenin a teenage language and initialled with hearts
and with the mark of the carmineon the woman' s lips. She,
while planning her liaison with Antonio andhaving sex with Thomas, described mellow
phrases and promised her loyalty. Withthis brief letter, I want to tell

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you that I love you, thatI need you and that I' m
going to take care of you andpamper you that I' m yours and
that I promise to be faithful toyou, because I need nothing but a
man like you. By my side, the agents of the homicide group closed
their crowded, two confessions and themurder weapon recovered. The judge sent to
prison the two arrested persons who wantedto nuance their statements before him in police
headquarters. Maje said she recognized thatshe was annefic with Salva at the death

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of her husband, because I didnot understand the knowing question of the importance
of the detail of the keys withwhich Salva accessed the garage. He said
he gave it to him so hecould park the car and make the purchase
paint the detainee like a crazy guyof love. For her Salva wanted to
see me happy. I was changingshifts to agree with me and I was
obsessed with myself. He came tosay there was no way to stop it.

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He' d gone crazy. Salvawanted to emphasize even more before the
judge the innocence of Mage. OnlyI participated in Antonio' s death.
Mary Jesus had no participation at all. I talked to her about it,
but only I decided and executed it. She gave me the keys in case
I couldn' t find a placeto park. When I was going to
see her, the investigating judge didnot want to close the statement without giving

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the detainee a last chance to explainit. You are obsessed with Mary Jesus
and that led you to commit thecrime. I' m not obsessed with
her. I' m very fondof you. It' s not true
that she killed her husband because ofthat obsession. It' s love and
not obsession. What I feel forher got out of hand when Salva Image
had been in prison for a month. He passed through the group of homicides

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Thomas, the lover with whom MaryJesus confessed to having maintained relations until his
wedding and that he was about tothrow the marriage away. His testimony uncovered
many more lies from the black widowand showed the true extent of her ability
to manipulate. The first thing thatsurprised the agents was that Tomás Image'
s relationship lasted much longer than shehad confessed. It began in May of

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two thousand sixteen and lasted until Octoberof two thousand seventeen, although it was
interrupted in the months immediately before andafter the wedding. So Mage had the
ability to have sexual relations in ashort period of time with her husband,
with Thomas, with Joseph, withSalva and with Sergio the Urban Guard.

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In addition, Mage' s loverrevealed to the police that the woman had
told him that the murdered engineer wasvery sick with cancer and that he did
not divorce him to the point thatwhen he revealed that he had died,
he thought that he had been killedby the disease. He later told him
that he had been killed by Islamistterrorists who wanted to steal his car.

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Tomás gave himself to the police acopy of his June 4, 17th,
two months before the crime. Theconversations revealed that the woman was already looking
for a candidate to eliminate her husband. Maje, I' ve had trouble
with Antonio Van to operate on himand he wants me to be with him
and I told him this can't go on. So we have to

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cut this situation. I can't do it anymore. I want to
leave Valencia, Tomás, the firstthing I have to tell you is that
if you leave Valencia, we'll leave together. The second is that
Antonio doesn' t want to understandanything, because he doesn' t realize
things. I want you to leanon me That' s what I'
m good for, too. Maje, I' m overwhelmed, I hate
him, Tomás, I know,Maje, he considers me to be his

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property. I want him to die. Don' t hold it, Tomás,
and if you see it that way, imagine how I see it,
I don' t want to crossit across the street. Maje, I
hope he dies. I don't care what you think. I wish
him a bad one, Tomás,I' m here with you. I
don' t think anything. Bad, Maje, squealing the shit out of

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my head, driving me crazy,Tomás, I have to breathe where I
' m serious. Right now I' d be able to do anything to
fuck him up and leave you alone, leave us alone at once. Maje,
I wanted to die. Today,Tomás, don' t ever say
that because of a filthy wretch.You can' t think that makes me

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sick, I already gave it tome. But now more, Maje,
it mistreats me. Honey, Iswear, I' m psychologically destroyed.
This is going to pay dearly.Tomás, fuck his whore. Mother,
I swear I' ll kill him. You thought you' d report him
because I' d support you 200percent Maje, I thought I' d
end his life. Tomás, yes, me too, but I don'

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t want you to destroy your lifefor a rat like that. This conversation
gained special value for Thomas, afterlearning of Magen' s involvement, the
murder of her husband and that thematerial author was one of his lovers.
So he told the police. NowI think that when Mage told me that
she was ill- treated and thatshe had thought of ending Antonio' s

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life, she was throwing me aglove to see if she accepted the invitation
and that it was me who wouldkill Antonio, as she ended up doing.
Save the surprises for those responsible forthe black widow operation didn' t
end up there. Three months later, in May of two thousand and eighteen,
the officers took statements from a newlover of Mage, a co-
worker named Manuel, who confessed tohaving had sex with the nurse from the

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spring of two thousand and sixteen untilthe murder of Antonio in August of the
following year. Manuel also accompanied hislover in the moments after the crime and
even took charge of transporting by carthe parents of the murdered engineer the payroll
of men of Magic and kept growingand the lies that told them so little
in their first sexual scorns. Theblack widow told Manuel that Antonio had left

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her to go to Buddavia to work, although soon after Antonio, Manuel Salva
José Sergio Tomás, was married.The list did not end Magen' s
imprisonment at the Picassent Prison with modulesfor men and women and common areas.
He has maintained relations with some inmate, while Salva lived his particular metamorphosis behind

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bars. In the three interviews thatthe psychologists had with him between April and
May of two thousand eighteen, hedid not want to speak in detail about
his participation in the crime, buthe did record his discomfort because they did
not let Mage see the fact ofwhich the prison psychologist was responsible. His
daughter and one of his brothers willbe the only visits he received in prison,
where the days become eternal and thereis plenty of time to reflect.

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In November, after ten months ofdeprivation of liberty, Salva asked to testify
before the training game to strip offhis knight- errant costume. In this
new testimony he made clear that thecrime of Antonio Navarro was a plan elaborated
and conceived half between him image Hedid not want to be hurt or to
be frightened. He wanted me totake him down. He said between tears

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and sighs. Salva revealed to thejudge that in principle they intended to assassinate
the engineer in July, but thatthey had to delay their plans until Mage
convinced him to park his car inthe garage, where the ambush between the
two was planned and gave an almostdefinitive detail. She gave him the keys
so he could access the parking lot. On the day of the crime,

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María Julida Martínez Ballester, Salvador Rodrigo' s defense attorney, wrote a brief
brief of provisional conclusions for the trial. In a few lines he summed up
the story of love and death ofnice and save. The only truth is
that Salvador Rodrigo the stone, hasalways been a puppet in the hands of
the accused. María Jesús Moreno Singed, who, from the moment she met
him, was aware of the attractivepower he had over him that he used

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for his own benefit to deceive him, manipulate him and get Salvador, madly
and lostly in love, to doanything for her. In the trial delayed
by the pandemic and held between Octoberand November of two thousand and twenty,
Salva reiterated his latest version and incriminatedMagia in the preparation of the crime in
a testimony interrupted several times by thesobs of the accused. Through the oral

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hearing, the lovers of Mary Jesus, her puppets and all her collateral victims,
her mother, her brother and hersister, Antonio' s parents and
brother and Salva' s ex-wife, a small woman with a fragile
appearance and a broken voice, adead woman in life, passed by as
witnesses. The jury issued its verdict. After discussing only six hours Maje and

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Salva were guilty of the murder ofAntonio Navarro. Three and a half weeks
later, the President of the Court, José María Gómez Villora, h o
orca the sentence that sentenced the nurseto twenty- two years in prison and
seventeen to save an illusion in thehands of a predator, as her lawyer
said in her report, the syndromeof the beaten child Mom, I want

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to go with you Sarah Feraru.Four years the ear stuck to the door
on the other side absolute silence.The members of the child protection service team
reached the threshold of the first Bof number forty- three of the Torquemada
cardinal street in Valladolid. Thanks tothe clever trick of calling the doorman of

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several neighbors identifying himself as commercial postmen. Once they were in front of the
floor, they found that the doorbellof the house did not work, as
did the telephone. They beat thedoor, one, two, three,
four times by name called the girlsthey suspected were inside. Sarah Andrea Abrid,

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we' re from social services.We just want to check that you
' re okay. We were talkingto you a few days ago, across
the door. Andrea, 12,wrote whatsapps to her mother. He typed
with fear as if the noise ofhis fingers on the touch screen of the
phone were to betray his presence andtried to keep his four- year-

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old sister Sara silent. They're knocking on the door. His mother,
Davinia, a thirty- six-year- old military doll of the
Army of Earth, answered immediately," Make sure Sara does not cry and
does not deport" It' sworth terraz carefully the mobile room door in

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silence just in case shhh. Thesocial workers gave up. They left the
floor that August one of two thousandseventeen, for the second time, in
a few days, without anyone openingthe door and with the assurance that there
were two girls alone inside. Onthe other side, in the living room
of the house, Andrea breathed whenshe stopped listening to them. Little Sara

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had obeyed her older sister and hadnot made a single noise. Davinia,
the mother of the girls, hadlong been shopping in a market pending the
departure of the social services team fromthe vicinity of her home. The minors
were not alone. Roberto, whomthe whole family knew as Pop, wrote
Davinia a message before entering attentively tothe mobile phone. Davinia went up to

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her house an hour after the socialworkers knocked on her door and made fun
of them again. No one wasgoing to tell her how to take care
of her daughters, her brothers,a doctor or a psychologist. Bob was
right. He was a wise manat what time he had taken Sara to
the hospital. The one child protectionteam of the Junta de Castilla y León

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had come to Davina' s housefor the second time. August Day of
two thousand and seventeen went unannounced becausethe woman had taken them away. I
wanted to postpone until the third dayof August the meeting essential to assess the
state of care and care of minors. Days before. On July 28,
the same team had gone to thefloor and no one had opened up to

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them after Davinia telephoned with the excusethat they had changed her shift at work
and could not attend them at homethat day. As they had agreed,
the psychologist, the social worker andthe minor assistance technician in the social services
unit had to decide the future ofSara and Andrea after the juvenile prosecutor'
s office transferred the open file tothem. After Davinia' s visit with

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her daughter Sara to Campo Grande Hospitalon July 11, Dr Daniel García Villarge
was a veteran. He had turnedsixty and had been practicing medicine for more
than three decades. She didn't like what Sara, the four-
year- old girl, saw thather mother had taken to Campo Grande Hospital

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' s emergency room. Her clotheswere stained, her hair was dirty and
tangled, and when the doctor exploredher mouth, he realized that she was
completely septic. The caries had destroyedall the teeth and the alveolos were black.
He took the girl to the dentist. He' s got his teeth
devoured by the streets. Yeah,yeah, but the dentist told me to

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wait for his milk teeth to shutup. What a dentist told you that.
I don' t know. Ican' t remember the answers.
They didn' t convince the doctor. Davinía came to the ER and said
she didn' t know why herdaughter had such swollen lips. The little
girl' s lips were edematous andgave the girl a helpless appearance according to

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her gaze and her fleeing and fearfulattitude. The doctor looked at the bruises
on the baby' s arms anddecided to make a full examination of the
girl. The doctor left Lavinia nodoubt about the imperative of his tone.
With naked sara, the doctor foundthat his underwear was very dirty and that

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the bruises occupied much of his body. The buttocks the inside of the thighs,
the chest. Some brands were recentand others could take seven or ten
days there. Their colors ranged fromthe living purple to the yellowish green.
How all these bruises have been done. She' s very nervous. He

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' s falling too much. Besides, he jokes with his older sister.
They play tickling and sometimes they gethurt. Davinia pointed out that Andrea remained
silent outside the emergency box. We' re going to run a blood test
to check for clotting problems and thatcauses the bruising. Dr García Villar disappeared
from Davinia' s sight and askeda nurse to warn a colleague, Dr

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Isabel Zurro, a forensic examiner onleave who could better assess the child'
s injuries. While Davinia wrote toBob, the man she had shared her
life with for three weeks, whenshe managed to drive Sarah' s father
out of the house to wait foranalysis for bruises. Analytic yes, a

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blood count. They' re sodangerous. Dr Isabel Zurro arrived in the
box where Sara and Davinia waited eightyears of experience. As a coroner,
the Santa Cruz de Tenerife was shotwhen judging the bruises of the little girl.
The bruises of the girl, accordingto her opinion, were the product
of grips, fingers, especially thoseof the inner face, the mullies and

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strong whippings. They did not correspondto the mother' s version of the
games with her sister. A 12- year- old girl isn' t
strong enough to leave those marks.The suspicion began to grow in the mood
of the doctor who explored the girl' s genitals had the complete hymen and
there was no sign of injury inthat area. Sara' s careless state

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through her mouth had never passed atoothbrush thought and the injuries suspected of being
due to ill- treatment alerted thedoctor, who called one one two and
asked the police to report to thehospital. Davinia looked incredulously at the plates
shown to her by the Paisano police. The officers identified themselves as members of
the group of minors and asked himthe same questions as the doctors. How

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had these sema been made tomás thechild, why had his mouth so careless,
who took care of her. Thewoman insisted that Sara was very nervous,
that she played with her sister,that she fell. The explanations also
did not convince the officers who transferredDavinaa and her two daughters to the police
premises to question her who lives athome with you, me and my daughters.

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Andrea, who is only recognized byme and Sara, her father,
my ex- partner, Marinel Feraru, lived with us until the fourth of
July that we ended the relationship.He' s gone to the UK to
work with his brother. When shesaw the girl the last time on the
day or on before she said goodbyeto her in the Plaza de España.
My sister Rosana was present. Thepolice questioned her again about Sara' s

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bruises, without getting a different answerfrom what she had already given her relationship
with her former partner. We hada lot of discussion and he was abusing
me psychologically. I don' twant to say anything else about what that
abuse consisted of. I don't want to say anything about that.
We inform you that you have theright to be assisted by a specialized legal

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counsel from the legal aid service forwomen victims of sexual abuse and assault.
You can report your ex- partnerright now. No. I don'
t want to report anything. AllI' m telling you is that Marinel
mistreated my eldest daughter, beat her, pushed her, threw her, slapped
her, told her I didn't have a father. I can apply
for a protective order and be transferredto a foster home with your daughters where

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I' m safe. The officersof the children' s group offered Davinia
all the protection mechanisms that the lawmakes available to victims of gender- based
violence. I don' t wantany of that. He' s hit
his ex- partner Sara once ortwice. One time his hand went off
and he marked his ass, butthe bruises of now are not of that.
It' s been the girls'thing. I' ve already told

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you. At the end of hisstatement, Davinia wrote to Bob. Then
I' ll tell you we're not home yet. I love you
so much. The next day hewrote to him again giving details of his
passage through the police premises. Ihaven' t mentioned to you at all
what you need to be disturbed by. I told you you didn' t
have to go unless healing her doeseverything. They' re filmmakers. They

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think they' re smart. RobertoHernández Hernáiz Bob, thirty- five years
old, lived for weeks with daviñaand his daughters stayed in the care of
them. While the military was working. The woman didn' t tell the
doctors or the police. He didn' t want anything to spoil his love
story, and less now that Marinelwas far away, far away. Marinel

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Feraru, thirty- seven years old, was in Romania on 11 July.
He had arrived there the morning ofthe previous day after a three- day
bus trip in Spain. He hadbeen without a steady job for several years
and thought that in his home countrythings would be better for him even at
the cost of separating from Sara,whom he adored. Marinel met her daughter
' s mother on Facebook in Decemberof two thousand and ten. He then

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lived in Valencia and da Avinia.The social network was passing the dead times
left by the course he was doingin Calatayud Zaragoza. Messages were exchanged for
a month, until Davinia told herto come meet her that her daughter Andrea
and she were very lonely in Aragon. Marinel had nothing to anchor him to
Valencia and in January of two thousandeleven he moved to the town of Zaragozano,
where he lived with Davinia and Andreauntil the girl finished the school year.

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The couple and the youngest resided inCabezón de Pisuerga, Valladolid and Burgos,
where Sara was born on July 1of two thousand thirteen. At the
end of two thousand and fifteen movedto Valladolid. There Marinel never had a
steady job and the relationship with Daviniawas twisted until the 14th of May of
two thousand seventeen, the woman toldhim that she did not want to continue

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with him. He had connected witha boy through a social network of contacts
called Roberto Hernández Bob and was amechanical specialist in aircraft maintenance. Roberto was
human. He boasted of his mechanicaland computer skills, whenever he had occasion
with an algorithmic calculator. I tookthe EMEI out of any phone quickly giving

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to a button I wrote to impresshis conquests, although that supposed qualification only
sought him sporadic jobs. He livedwith his parents in Medina del campo Valladolid
and spent a lot of time onsocial media. Through one of them.
Badu met Davinia during the Holy Weekof two thousand seventeen. At the beginning
of May they began to talk aboutWhatsapp. His talks went up in tone

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until the night of May 14,Daviña and Boca met in a café near
the woman' s house. Thatday, Marinela was still sleeping on the
flat she shared with Davinia and herdaughters. The military told Bob about his
problems with his daughter' s father, who he announced he wanted to break
up. The same day he metin person his love of Badú, on

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May 24, Roberto, like apeacock, extended his plumage in front of
Davinea. He pulled his computer skillsto get into the woman' s email
and facebook accounts. He told herhe wanted to stop Marinel from hacking into
her networks by posing as a prostitute, just like some of her friends had
done after breaking up with their partners. Bob snorted xenophobia in his messages.

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Fucking Romanians, machos, jealous,abusive, lazy mobsters. I disgust them.
Davinia answered with emoticons, with facesof fright and Bob would come up
making it clear that he was analpha male or jail or anything. A
shot in the head and trash can, as I touch some of my sisters
disappear. I do it in liveiron. I already did it once with

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a Spaniard, because you see,if Romanian I hit him well, tied
him up, threw him in ahole and covered him with sand. A
friend of mine took it out forme. He would have stayed on the
30th of May, Bob spent hisfirst night at Davinia' s house,
which gave Marinel fifty euros to goto sleep at a boarding house. The
next day, the woman did notgo to work or take sar to school.

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He wanted to hurry the hours withhis new love. Since then,
Bob entered and left Davinia' shouse intermittently, while Marinel traveled to Madrid
for a few days in search ofwork and slept more than two weeks in
his daughter' s mother' scar, which allowed him to get on
the floor as long as Roberto wasnot there. As of June 22,
Roberto settled permanently in Davinia' shome, along with his daughters Andrea and

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Sara, whom he already knew andwith whom he had spent time at home.
On June 5, the couple hada conversation on whatsapp with the little
protagonist Go Laughter. With Sarito.It' s my tail, and it
tells me what it' s liketo be cool with kids. The good
thing is that he takes off hisclothes, he partys and points out he

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' s cool with threesomes. OnJuly 7, Sara saw her father Marinel
Feraru. For the last time.Bob waited impatiently at home next to Andrea
come tell Sara I' m goingto eat her ass. Only four days
later, on July 11, Sarawoke up with swollen lips and her body
accumulated the bruises that saw her atCampo Grande Hospital. Bopa had left home

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that morning, after spending the previousdays with Davinia and her daughters. The
woman wouldn' t let an hourgo by without writing to him. Then
I go to the pharmacy for bruisingand mouth infections. For bruises, it
is best to reactivate the booby circulationfor da Viña, the man who knew
everything and solved it. We'll go to the park because I'

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m embarrassed and I' ll goto the pool. Minutes before noon and
before the child' s condition,Davinia decided to take her to Campo Grande
Hospital. He told Bob that hedid everything he could to avoid visiting the
doctors and that seems to have beenbeaten up. Put some ice on it.
I' m not a doctor,you know they' re going to

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ask him and he' s goingto say it was Andrea or I'
m wise. Remember, I'm not telling you that she' s
getting nervous about the Romanian. Well, you' ll know for sure that
I' m going to tell him. The visit to Davina and Sara hospital
triggered the alarms of those who havethe task of protecting minors with machinery made
up of competent professionals and handed overto their work, but immersed in a

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little agile gear. The juvenile groupof the police brought the case to the
attention of the juvenile prosecutor' soffice, which alerted the social services of
the Junta de Castilla y León on25 July, two weeks after the passage
of the ward through the hospital.A day later, Davinia and her two
daughters arrived at the headquarters of thechild protection section. With the medical and

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police reports in front. The officialsexplained to the woman the seriousness of the
matter. She tried to downplay theimportance. Those bruises are one of the
typical fights between brothers and Sara hasvery sensitive skin. That' s why
marks come out. A dermatologist toldme the girl had atopic hermatitis. The
young very anxious nervous, stumbles,falls look. Medical records don' t

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say that. A coroner saw herat the hospital and said those bruises couldn
' t have been done. A12- year- old girl wasn'
t her sister. When I'm done with all this, I'
m gonna report those doctors. Itis a shame that they say that I
do not attend my daughter, Laviniawas outraged as a victim of a conspiracy
waged by health police and social serviceofficials. The woman explained that she had

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been a soldier for eighteen years andwas destined for the 22nd regiment, where
she enjoyed a reduced working day.Who cares for your daughters When you work
and there' s no class likenow. Sometimes in s charge my brothers
and until he went to work outsidedid my partner, Sara, keep hiding
the existence of pop installed in hishouse for weeks and since he left his

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ex- partner takes them to anursery near home. In kindergartens she doesn
' t admire the twelve- year- old girl. Well, it'
s more of a ludotheque than anursery. Tell us ludotec is what it
' s called and where it is. I just don' t remember.
I' ll look at it.The social workers did not believe the woman
and began to think that the girlsspent a lot of time alone Sara has

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a broken mouth full of cavities.Why can it be, because I gave
her to suck until very late andbecause her father gave her a lot of
trinkets how she treated her ex-partner to the girls. Since he'
s gone, we' ve beenmuch quieter when he was there. I
' ve become more afraid of whatI could do to myself than of what
I could do to the girls.We' ve had a lot of discussion,

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and that' s why I askedhim to leave. He' s
never reported it or asked for help. I don' t want to get
in trouble. The scenario facing socialservices did not seem alarming. The police
had approached the case as an episodeof gender- based violence and the alleged
abuser. Sarah' s father wasfar away the board officials valued the case

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as level two. There was noimminent risk and they assumed that the mother
would protect her daughters from any danger. She just finished the interview She wrote
to Bob We' re done soon. I' ve been questioned. Now
the girls were coming up. Thesocial workers met minutes later with the minors
Andrea and Sara. The older womanthought a lot about all of her responses,

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she proved blocked. The little girlwas not separated from her sister.
She needed a part of her skinto be in contact with Andrea' s
permanently looking for her shelter and protection. Andrea Jakin, you' re safe.
No one' s gonna know whatyou' re saying. The workers
tried in vain to earn the girl' s trust while her sister held on
to her. Some stuffed dolls servedfor Sara to stage how her father sometimes

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beat Andrea, until the older sistermade a subtle gesture to stop the exploration
of the girls served very little.The officials told Davinia that two days later,
on July 28, they would showup at their home to see the
environment in which they lived. Beforethey said goodbye, they warned him.
Don' t forget one thing.Your obligation as a mother is to protect

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your daughters. The one Davinia protectedabove all else was Roberto. Since his
relationship had moved from the virtual tothe real plane. He behaved like a
teenager who lived his first love.He hid his existence from doctors and the
police. On July 11 and dayslater, he would say that he was
invisible when he was told that thecourt had opened proceedings on suspicion of ill

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- treatment and could call him asa witness. Bob made it clear that
he preferred to remain clothed in themantle of invisibility with which his partner had
wrapped him.“ I prefer notto hear,” Roberto replied to the
possibility of going to the courthouse.They said he has a lack of hygiene
and they' re going to seethem home. No one has to go

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without a bell to see what theycall it. That' s why you
don' t have to go tothe doctor. You have to go for
more serious things and not for me, the less they see me the better.
Roberto had disabled the doorbell and telephoneof the house, thus guaranteeing impunity
in his den the apartment he sharedwith Davinia and the two girls. The
Campo Grande hospital alarms weren' tthe only ones to jump. Those summer

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days of the two thousand seventeen,Rosana and Pedro, Davinia' s brothers,
witnessed the deterioration of the state oftheir niece Sara. Between 23 and
28 June, Marinel was in Pedrajasde San Esteban Valladolid with Andrea and Sara.
There they saw a couple of bruiseson his body, but they didn
' t care. In her fouryears of life, she had never had

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symptoms of being a battered child andher father' s behavior with her had
always been free of macula. OnJuly 14, three days after Sara'
s visit to the hospital, aniece in Davinia observed several injuries to the
girl' s fingers and feet.Her mother told her that the little girl
had caught herself with a door andthat the wounds on her feet were barefoot.

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On Sunday, July 16, Peterorganized a meal in Pedrajas, to
which he invited Davinia, her daughtersand Roberto, whom they had met.
Days ago. Pedro recalled in courtthat Sara refused Roberto and he was at
all times very nervous. At dinnertime, Sara' s uncle touched the
little girl' s finger and shecomplained. David, we need to get

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the girl to the hospital. Hecomplains a lot about his finger and may
have it broken. Davinia was aliento what she heard and saw around her.
She was kissing Roberto on a sofadavi She had to be taken to
the emergency room. He insisted theman takes his health card. Tavinia gave
the document to Peter. I'm not taking her. After what happened
at Campo Grande Hospital, Pedro wentwith Sara to theÍscar Health Center,

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from where she was referred to theValladolid Clinical Hospital for an X- ray
and there they found that the littlegirl did not have a broken finger.
Peter bought the antibiotics for his nieceand sent her a Photodavinia of the cure
they had done to him at themedical center. She just answered how exaggerated.
The brothers in the vineyard realized theenormous dependence the woman had on her

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new partner since they had begun livingtogether. She had moved away from her
family and her daughter, Little Onewas getting sadder, something they attributed to
her father' s departure and morephysically deteriorated swellings bruised more blows, something
for which they could not explain.The 28th of July was an important day

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for Daviña. The social services hadagreed with her that they would go home
to check the state of Andrea andSara in their surroundings. Davinia went out
to work early at home. Theystayed bob and the two minors. The
woman soon received a loving message fromher partner. At eight fifty- six,
bob wrote him pretty. I loveyou so much. Davinia announced that

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she would call social services to cancelthe scheduled visit on the same day.
Bob urged him to do it Theimportant thing is to cancel it You'
ll see how you got Jaleo tosee if it gets into your head.
You called the people here who werecoming. I was telling her that Sara
was looking for her like a madwoman. I' m lying in bed and
he' s already walked in threetimes and told him he was going to

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masturbate a cock. I' llsee if I fall asleep or another rooster.

Minutes before 11 (05:35:52):
00 in the morning. The conversation between the couple
ended with dozens of moticonos representing kissessent by Davinia. Three and a half
hours later, Sara had a hugebruise on the left side of her head.
A stain of a bright red spreadfrom the temple to the maxilla along
and from the eyebrow to the earwide. Hey. I wake up.

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Now, Sarita, in your roomI have entered and you have the left
side of your swollen face. Ihallucinate, Roberto, told Davinia about her
daughter' s condition and sent hera picture, a terrible image of the
little girl with a bruised face.What happened? He hit the table.
We' ve entered the room andit looks like there' s been an

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earthquake. The bed without sheets fromtop to bottom pisses whole. Davinia told
Roberto to put ointment on him andtreat the inflammation with ice. Although the
gravity and deviceiness of the hematoma wereperfectly perceived in the photo, the woman
lamented as if a sort of cursehad fallen on her and did not stop
to think for a single moment aboutthe fact that the deterioration of her little

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daughter coincided exactly with Roberto' sarrival at her home. He had put
the monster in his nest and wasnot able to see it. On the
contrary, he continued to do everythingin his power to protect him. I
think I' ve got an evileye or something happening to me. I
' m not taking her anywhere.I' m so afraid to go to

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the doctor. Things always happen tome. The Vinia fulfilled the word given
Roberto and called social services to cancelthe home visit. He excused himself by
saying that his shift had been changed, that it was impossible for him to
be at home. The social workerwho attended her gave her no truce.
We have to see the girls tellus what day care so and let'

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s check it out is that they' re not in a day care.
They' re home. The Viniawas running out. I noticed her being
surrounded by Andrea and Sara They're alone at home. No, they
' re not alone. There's someone with them. Who' s
with them? Your brother, yoursister. No. No, no,
no, a friend, a friend. You didn' t tell us anything

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about a friend when you were hereWhich friend is that give me. His
name is Roberto. Davinia revealed forthe first time her best kept secret,
Roberto what else, Roberto Hernández welltries to be at your house on August
1. At two o' clockin the afternoon, we' re going
to assess the situation. Davinia's conversation with the social services team caused

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this to be presented at the woman' s house. A few hours later,
the door phone didn' t workand the doorbell didn' t work
either. The officials left pending avisit on 1 August. A little more
than an hour later, Peter arrivedat his sister' s portal. The
doorman didn' t work and calledDavinia, who was returning from the barracks.

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She tipped Roberto off, there's my brother, say he'
s hit himself better than nobody comes. Rolls after today that I don'
t see anyone. Berto' swishes didn' t come true. Davinia
and Peter entered the house. Sara' s uncle saw the girl lying on
the couch while Bobb put an icepack on her face. What happened here.

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Peter saw in horror the bruise thatstruck the left side of the girl
' s face. I don't know He must have fallen. Roberto,
dressed alone in shorts, responded nervously. Andrea, sitting on the other
side of the couch, wept andtried to explain what could not be explained.
I was in my room I wentout and saw her like this.

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I don' t know what happened. Peter was amazed at the scene.
Roberto moved away from the little girl' s situation and asked her to bring
him paint to paint the floor ofwhat you' re talking about. Bob,
look at the girl. We've got to run the emergency room.
Davinia jumped while she was tending herdaughter. He' s not going
anywhere. If I go to ahospital today, they take the girl away

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from me. Roberto left the house. While he or she or two brothers
continued to argue. A few moreminutes, Pedro looked in Andrea for the
answers to what happened, but thegirl only cried. Finally, the man
left home and went to look forhis sister Rosana, with the vain hope
that between the two they would convinceDavinia to take Sar to the hospital,
but the woman' s concerns weredifferent. He wrote to Roberto I'

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m so sorry. Really. Ilove you so much. I' m
so sorry about all this I'm gonna listen to you. Like you
said, I' m not openingthe door to anyone or going out.
I just want to be happy andthey won' t let me. I
need a lot. I' mgoing to personally make sure my brothers don
' t get into my life.While Rosana and Pedro stood in front of
Davinia' s portal, they calledher on the phone, wrote her whatsapps

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and knocked on her door for fourhours, waiting in a bench, in
front of the building and in anearby café. They even contacted the police
but the officers told them they hadto go to a police station to file
a complaint. The messages between Peterand his sister in those hours are revealing.
Davinia only cared that there were nomore leaks in her lair than her

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bob kept safe leads to the ER. Peter insisted on it over and over
again. The girl' s hitherself and it' s coming down.
That' s it, but leaveme alone, leave us alone, I
know what I have to do toyou. I' m leaving her alone,
but the girl we' re nottaking. Robert and I leave me
alone, and we' re goingto leave on our own, too.

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You' re embarrassing me, sotake her and tell us where your daughter
is. Take her for your health. You' re looking for trouble where
there aren' t. He's freaking out, Robert, let'
s not dramatize what' s goingon. The child is psychologically ill and
is one after another, one afteranother. In a short time Sarah'

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s body, a four- year- old girl, was accumulating traces of
violence that no one could find,explanation, wounds to her hands, bruised
feet all over her skin, tumultuouslips, the huge brush on her head,
the marks on her body also obscuredher character. She went from being
a playful, affectionate, nervous,and blissful child to becoming a fledgling,

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quiet, sad, and, aboveall, frightened child. Sara was terrified
on August 1, while the childprotection team knocked on her door and called
her and her sister by their names. Bob sitting next to her on the
couch was watching her not to sayanything. The staff members left for their

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headquarters with a written decision reflected intheir report. In view of the lack
of collaboration of the mother and theconcealment of information, as well as the
risk situation in which the minors arefound, the assessment commission decided, on
August 2, 17, on thedeclaration of helplessness of the two minors with
a measure of guardianship and residential care. That August 2nd, Sara woke up

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very early. When her mother finishedputting on her uniform to go to work,
she saw that her daughter had dressedherself and held on to her mom,
I want to go with you.He repeated him as he clung to
the daviña woman, woke Roberto,Andrea still slept. He put his little
daughter in the room he shared withBob, left her in bed with him.

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Two hours later, Roberto scored oneone two on the recording. A
nervous man is heard in light yearsof lead and Rayana safety in the pimpry
that usually looked send in an ambulance. The girl, who is not breathing,
I came to see her in bedand she' s white. The
poor one. Sara' s hearthad stopped beating. The emergency team that

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came after Roberto' s call toone, one or two found her in
Asistolia. I woke up and heardher room and the girl wasn' t
breathing. Roberto repeated no movement tothe toilets who managed to make the little
girl' s heart beat again intermittentlythe life of Sara Iba and Cristina Ramos,

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the nurse of one one two,came and noticed that the little girl
had all her face bruised while lookingfor a vein to place a line on
her. What happened to his face.“ You are the child’ s
father,” the nurse asked.Roberto hit himself. The other day with
the table. I' m nothis father. The father is a Romanian
piece. Cristina glanced back at Sara' s toenails. Some of them were

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up in fresh blood. This didnot correspond to a normal picture of cardiac
arrest. He told the team's doctor, Dr José Manuel Aceves,
who asked his partner, the driver, Carlos Paniagua, to call the police.
The first national policeman to go upto Sara' s home found a
scenario that was not normal, asshe recalled months later in her court statement.

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While the sanitaries sens forced to savethe girl' s life lying on
the floor of the living room,her mother remained cold without shedding a single
tear and her sister remained in thekitchen, without saying a single word,
eating milk with cookies alien to thetragedy that unfolded a few meters from her.
For an hour, the health carestaff of one, one, two

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tried to insufflate Sara' s lives, which she was taken to the clinical
hospital. Behind the ambulance, thepolice took Andrea, Davinia and Roberto in
a patrol car. Upon arriving therewere people from the group of minors,
the same ones who met with themother of the little girl just twenty days
earlier in Campo Grande hospital. Daviniafelt her armor leaping through the air,

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how the moat with which she hadsurrounded her new existence with Roberto disappeared.
As your daughter went into brain death. She had time to warn her love
with a message be careful that they' re all cops. They' re
the same people who intervened the othertime they went on civilians. The officers
asked Avia and Roberto separately about whathappened. She said she was working and

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he repeated what he had told thetoilets. She woke up and when she
went to see Sara, the girlwas inert and alerted one, one or
two. The police were interested inthe clever bruise the little girl had on
her head, Bobby Davinia said shehad been hit, but her versions diverged
over the date of the accident.The mother said she had been taken to

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the pediatrician, but she could notsay the doctor' s name or address.
Andrea, Sara' s sister,kept a disturbing silence about the police
' s questions. Minutes before eightin the afternoon, Roberto began to testify
as a witness before the police.He lied from the first moment. He
said he knew Davinia from the yeartwo thousand two and that in the two

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thousand seventeen they met again in Valladolid. It gave him time to lie very
little more. The coroner had examinedSara, who had already had brain death
and had found that she had tworecent anal fissures and an injury to the
vagina and that and that she hadnot been immen had been the victim of
sexual assault. We have to interruptthis statement. Roberto, you' re

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under arrest. An hour later,the police went to find Davin at the
clinical hospital. You' re underarrest. To Davinia during the journey to
the police premises, the woman complainedof the curse, which she thought had
fallen on her. Whenever I'm on call to my daughter something happens
to her, it looks like Adrededoes. Salah ceased to exist the next

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morning, August 3, seventeen thousand. His mother testified to the police that
afternoon that she noticed that sarra wasafraid of Roberto, but that he did
not care. He wouldn' ttestify both ended up in prison. Forensic
doctors Helena san zif and Luis FombellidaVelasco performed the autopsy of Sara' s
body. They described in detail allthe injuries she presented, the girl'

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s battered body, various injuries,the location and age, and the indubitable
signs of the sexual assault she sufferedin her last hours of life. They
thoroughly explained the mechanism of death.The cranial trauma caused by death has been
caused by acceleration and deceleration movements occurringinside the head box, by pushing it

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and colliding against a flat surface thatcontunes by hitting the head in the front
area with a large blunt object.This mechanism forms and compresses the skull box
without reaching the fracture. The doctorsconcluded their report with a terrible medical definition
that summarizes Sara' s horror inher last weeks of life, since her
mother decided to put a monster inher home. We are facing the syndrome

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of the beaten child. Marinel Ferarureceived the news of the death of her
daughter in Romania, arrived in Spain, declared in court and hired attorney Isabel
Palomino of Despacho Vallisoletano Negotia to defendher interests. The lawyer told him about
the seriousness of what happened with Saraand specified from the help of a psychologist
to explain in detail the injuries describedin his daughter' s autopsy report,

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Roberto Hernández was sentenced to permanent prisonreviewable to Davinia Muñoz the Superior Court of
Justice of Castile and León, whichreduced the sentence to thirteen years in prison.
In October of two thousand seventeen,when Davinia had been in prison for
more than two months, he wrotea long letter to Roberto that ended with
hearts and drawings of kisses drawn,with a teenage spelling and four phrases.

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You have me in love with alot of kisses. I' ll give
you that. I' m sadbecause I can' t give them to
you in person. I cry becauseI can' t be with you right
now. At the April trial oftwo thousand nineteen, the private prosecution acting
on behalf of Marinel, Sarah's father, did not even charge Davinia.
She assured psychiatrists that she was visitedin her lock- up that Marinel

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was the only support she had sinceshe went into prison. In his statement
before the Jury Court, he saidthat he only began to suspect Roberto when
he heard the autopsy report. Theforensics' statement. At the trial,
it was the only time Davinia overshadowedGabriel Tranquil' s stepmother. The kid

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' s gonna look alive. AnaJulia quezada assassin of Gabriel Cruz, the
father of the child, is justleaving the farm on the other side of
the mobile phone, the leader ofthe elite unit of the Civil Guard in
charge of investigating the disappearance of thechild Gabriel Cruz in a small village in
the interior of Almería called Las Hortichuelas, in the natural park of Cabo de

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Gata. He knows that Sunday willbe the decisive moment to find out where
the little one is alive or dead. Several officers are in a room that
they call a command post and thereare screens where you can see what happens
in real time. Some other civilguards are stationed near the family estate of
the missing child. Very soon thewoman arrives at the Rodalquilar land, a

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place where the miners used to goto work in search of gold, located
only five minutes by car from whereGabriel had disappeared. The guards keep an
eye on her and take pictures fromafar as if she were soaking wet and
of the crime. They tell theirbosses. He' s walking around the
estate, messing around at the commandpost. The tension is chewed in Madrid.

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Colonel- in- chief of theUCO, Manuel Sánchez Corbí is getting
the news. The guards stationed infront of the zinc continue to take pictures
of the woman. Now he's removing some planks, he' s
coming and going. Get something outof a hole near the pool and cover
it with a blanket. She's headed with her. To the car,
agents send a photograph to the chiefof investigation' s cell phone.

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We need another image. You don' t just see what' s on
the blanket. Instants later another photographarrives at the command post and the screens.
A little hand pops out of acorner of the blanket. He'
s fallen to the ground like he' s lifeless. It doesn' t
seem to move, but those whosee it want to keep a thread of
hope. They want to believe Gabriel' s still alive unconscious, maybe wounded,

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but with a breath of life.The head of the investigation gives the
orders. Let' s not loseher, let her open the estate and,
as soon as possible, we stopher. Eight camouflaged Civil Guard cars
are arranged between the farm from whichAna Julia goes quezada with the child in
the trunk of her car and thefamily home. In addition, the woman
' s partner' s car ofthe child' s father has been shot

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and is wearing microphones, so thatresearchers hear in real time what they are
doing. The one you know forsure is the one responsible for Gabriel'
s disappearance. They have followed hersince she left home that morning around 10

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30 that Sunday, March 11. He' s taken them to the
estate. They' ve seen hermake a call with her cell phone,
throw in indifferent air, some stonesat her dog and finally enter the cortijo,
remove some wooden planks that she hadplaced near the pool and open the
trunk of the vehicle. Take outa colored towel. It' s 11
a m and 9 a m,when the civil guards photograph the woman with

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the child' s almost naked bodywrapped in a towel. After laying sand
on the hole, he wants toreturn to the car ana. Julia leaves
the estate and drives her isan pixoin a somewhat erratic way, while cursing
the child. The civil guards andthe enormous social mobilization that has been generated
to locate him. The child iscalled the fish, so the drawing of
a fish is everywhere. The civilguard has called the case an operation.

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I feel the memory of Gabriel andthe famous fish in the film, with
his body in the trunk, hisstepmother masculla. They don' t want
a fish. I' m gonnamake you a fish. My balls are
minutes of tension. The woman leadsby the Mediterranean authority, takes a way
out to Almería and continues along thecoast. When he approaches the car to
a cliff and parks a couple ofplainclothes, he stands next to him and

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begins to become selfis like two carefreetourists. They' re actually two civil
guards. As soon as they can, they' ll stop her. They
' re not gonna let me throwGabriel' s body into the sea,
nor let her throw herself. Butafter looking at the area for a few
seconds, ana a Julia starts thecar again and leaves the tourist guards warn
by their transmitters and other companions resumethe follow- up. He sells it

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for embalming on several secondary roads,reaches fresh water, passes through the stand
and then through the gangosa. Iteven gets into a greenhouse area. He
' s also getting close to garbagecans. It' s been about 30
minutes of tension. The head ofthe field operation comments on this one.
He doesn' t know what todo with the child. The microphone in

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the killer' s car confirms it. You can hear him say where I
can take him to a greenhouse.I can' t. I can'
t. Finally, Ana Julia Quezadamakes her way to Boulevard Avenue in Vícar,
where the house where she lives withAngel, the father of the child
carrying the trunk. He' svery close to putting the car in his
garage. When the civil guards closehis way. While some officers hold her

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and form her into detention, othersopen the trunk and lose all hope.
Already Abriel Cruz is wrapped a sortof sheet, impregnated with dead earth.
His body is only dressed in abrief with children' s drawings and an
orange sock on his right foot,next to the car door already surrounded by
the handcuffs. The woman screams thather bitch is in the car and that

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she' s not the one whokilled the kid. The news reaches the
guards who have participated in the searchfor Gabriel Cruz sixteen twenty hours a day.
One of them collapses and sits onthe ground, others weeps. Those
closest to the detainee discover inside thecar two black gloves and a box of
tranquilizers make it a milligram bread.One of the guards next to her warns
that Ana Julia has her hands andclothes stained with dirt. Another still remembers

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the cold look of the woman,colder than those of the dozens of jars
she stopped in her previous life inthe North. Not even then, Ana
Julia Quezada, a survivor, losesher calm. Look at the civil guard
who has closer and tells him Icame from playing with my dog on the
beach just finished the search for GabrielCruz, the fishy. The investigators of

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the Civil Guard lived in twelve daysbetween the end of February and the beginning
of March of two thousand eighteen,as happened in Galicia with the disappearance of
Anaquel' s young woman for fivehundred days. The two crimes were events
that shocked Spain and brought dozens ofjournalists media crimes. Some of Laucou'
s agents who investigated and solved themwere the same. The civil guards of

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Almería had thoroughly reviewed the area wherethe boy Gabriel Cruz had disappeared a dirt
road, even in the house ofthe grandmother Paterna of Gabriel Carmen, with
that of her cousins. There wasno God passing by. The one who
had taken the kid was someone fromthe area. It was about finding out
what he had done it for andwhere he could have it. At fifteen
forty- five hours on the 27thof February he left his grandmother Paterna'

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s home, a boy in thestreet without number of the slum of the
orstis low pimps, Níjar, theminor, Gabriel Cruz Ramírez, taking a
rural road that takes a few fiftymeters to the home of one of his
uncles, where he was going toplay with his cousins. God did not
pass an almost desert area, onlyseventy- three neighbors in the low hortichuelas,
a village of white houses that evenserved to roll one of those spaghetti

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and westerns. In the sixties ofthe last century. Everything had happened.
Besides, at nap time. Gabrielpassed that bridge of the day andalusia at
his grandmother Paterna' s house,when he went on the rural road to
go where his cousins lived. Therethey did not open him and returned the
way very close to Grandma Carmen's door. Two people were in the
house, her grandmother and her father' s partner, a Dominican woman named

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Ana Julia Quezada Ruiz. Investigators assumesomeone' s taken him. They don
' t rule out the possibility ofa sex offender. There is a nearby
campsite in Las Negras where alternative anditinerant people live. A sexual predator might
have had a casual encounter with Gabrieland hunt him down just like the chic

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had done with Diana back in Galicia. Gabriel' s grandmother remembers seeing him
out the window as he was goingto the Cousins' house. His stepmother
left the house about ten minutes laterto go paint the farm that the father
had on the roll to rent oldwoman stayed in the house and around five
in the afternoon he claims that hesaw a white van pass through the desert
road and without the rear windows.It' s nobody from the village that

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' s not going through that road. Only the family uses it and no
one who doesn' t know itgoes through there. The woman insists,
a cousin of Grandma' s.She also claims to have seen a white
van in the area where she thinkstwo men from the Maghreb were going.
Investigators are going to review all thewhite vans rented in the area those days
while following that trail, the civilguards are also looking for potential enemies of

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the family. People who would wantto hurt them. The mother of the
missing child, Patricia Ramirez, tellsthem that there is a guy who takes
time, causing her a long time, more than two years. She has
already denounced it several times, althoughit has not served much. The guy
has a restraining order from her,an order that has been skipped at least
seven times since the end of November. The investigators present themselves on the night

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of February 28th at the house wherethis man lives with his mother, in
the village of antas sixty- onekilometers north of the Ortichuelas by seven o
' clock, a three- quarter- hour tour, the stalker claims that
he was with his mother at thetime the child was kidnapped. Gabriel has
an ally, the electronic bracelet hewears on his ankle and he must jump
when he approaches Patricia. It's a device that tracks his movements through

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a GPS system. The problem isthat the records indicate that the bracelet failed

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30 and 5
afternoon of Gabriel Cruz' s kidnapping. From that time on, the device
resurrects and re- screams by placingit on a street of antas. His
people have hardly had time to goto the hortichuelas, kidnap Gabriel and return
home. Investigators search the stalker's house is a peculiar guy or obsessed

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with Gabriel' s mother. Sinceshe met her in the year two thousand
and fifteen, she was a spiquerin some popular races that organized the council
of Almería, and he participated inalmost all of them. She was obfuscated
with her sickly. I was staringat her first. Then he sent letters
and poetry to work. Sometimes Ifollowed her. When the civil guards ask
him, the man doesn' tremember where he' s parked his car.

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Then they will discover that it takestwo weeks, just like their mobile
phone inside a workshop in Cordoba.During the search, the civil guards also
find a drop of blood in thekitchen when asked. That' s why
the guy answers coldly. It doesn' t seem like his mind is there
with them. It' s froma chicken that killed my mother to eat.
When opening the bedroom closet, thecivil guards discover a large canvas made

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of lafito. It' s abeautiful portrait of Gabriel' s mother,
the woman he has a restraining orderfrom. No doubt it is she the
guy looks very good and has titledthe picture simply an angel. In the
bin of the room. Another civilguard retrieves a photograph of the same woman.
The man broke it to pieces andthrew them there very shortly before the

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agents arrived. Patricia' s stalker' s family related how long ago,
a promising young man had lost contactwith reality. Everything seemed to be going
well. He had finished his businesscareer, had a girlfriend a job,
but for unknown reasons, he fellinto depression, lost his partner and left
the job with a simple note writtensaying goodbye to his boss. Since then

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everything had been worse, and hewas relieved only by painting and running more
and more. So he met Gabriel' s mother and became obsessed. The
wristband data would show that the manhad again broken the restraining order of Gabriel
' s mother, so that heended up being arrested and taken to prison
to serve a three- month prisonsentence that he had pending for getting too
close and too many times to PatriciaRamírez. But in a gesture of great

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lucidity, the mother herself, despitethe enormous suffering she had caused her,
ruled out before the civil guard thather stalker could have done anything to her
son. Meanwhile, the researchers hadnoticed the behavior of Ana Julia Quezada,
the couple of Gabriel' s father, Ella had been the last person to
see the child before he was kidnapped. The woman born in the Dominican Republic,

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had met Gabriel' s father ina bar called Black that she ran
in black, a small tourist villageof Cape Gata near the hortichuelas. Angel
Cruz came from time to time asa client and both connected the New Year
' s Eve of two thousand sixteen. They started their sentimental relationship. In
September of two thousand seventeen, theywere already living together. The boy Gabriel,

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who did not like Dad' sgirlfriend too much, lived at his
mother' s house and spent someweekends with the father and his new partner.
One of the first photographs the civilguards saw was made by the father
and showed them both, Gabriel andAna Julia, sitting together inside the car,
the woman threw a kiss at themobile phone camera. Next to her,
the Ariel Smiles. The investigators foundthat Ana Julia Quezada took a leading

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role in the search for the child, as well as in the meetings,
to know how the inquiries were goingand who the possible suspects were, and
also warned that it had a greatinfluence on the decisions of Angel, Gabriel
' s father. From a veryearly age, the woman was of the
opinion that it was a kidnapping,that someone had taken the child and encouraged
to offer a millionaire reward to gethim back soon alive. Saturday, March

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3. It' s been fourdays since the fish boy disappeared. Hundreds
of people participate in the raids intheir search. Millions more citizens follow him
on television. That morning, Gabriel' s parents met with psychologist Francisco Murcia,
who is helping them survive with thatimmense pain. After weighing it well,
they decide to raise the reward tothose who provide some clue about the

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whereabouts of their son from ten zeroto thirty zero euros. Ana Julia is
not present at the meeting, butshe knows her partner' s plans well.
Angel tells him everything and supports theidea of the millionaire reward. But
something twists. When the woman arrivesat the meeting place, Angel and she
go into the bathroom to talk inprivate. After a few minutes, Ana
Julia gets out of there nervous asshe just found out that the civil guards

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have rejected the parents' idea.No one' s called calling for a
ransom. We have to wait forana. Julia' s bewildered. Investigators
don' t raise the reward andthink he' s heard it and told
the father and others if Gabrielillo hadsuffered the attack of a sex offender,
a paedophile. It' s strangeit didn' t look like something.

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Most of their guys, once theyget what they want, run away and
leave clues to the child' sbody or some of his clothes and hide
until they attack another little boy somewhereelse. So those people who have come
from Madrid to discover the culprit donot agree to offer more money and do
not believe that he was a paedophile. There' s not much more chance.
If it isn' t either ofthose two things kidnapping or attacking the

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s guas s viles will have tolook elsewhere, look among other people the
closest ones to the family. Infact, the next day, on March
4, the guards let her knowthat the area of Roda Alquilar, where
the family estate is, will betracked. Instants later, the woman tells
her partner, Gabriel' s father, Calm down, that the child will
look alive that evening. After eatingana, Julia decides to move. Convince

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Angel to go out looking for Gabrielon his own, the two of them
alone. Without warning the civil guard, he suggests tracking a specific area.
She tells him that the day beforeshe lost her cell phone around when she
was looking for the kid. Itis an area where she used to walk
with her former partner, Sergio,an aspiring rocker with whom she had moved
to Cape Gata from Burgos. Yourfirst stop in Spain. Guided by Ana

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Julia, Angel arrives with her aboutfour kilometers from the road where Gabriel had
been kidnapped. The woman tells thefather to separate to search for more places
in less time. The man isheading for an area of ruins, while
his partner goes into a few reeds. They spend just three minutes running back
screaming with a piece of white clothbetween their hands Angel Gabriel' s shirt.

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Gabriel' s shirt. The stunnedfather tries to assimilate what his girlfriend
is telling him. She won't let him think and yells at her
that she' s found it nearbyin the cane and that it' s
her son' s shirt she's safe. She herself had helped Gabriel
get dressed the day the father disappeared. Doubt, you don' t know
what to answer. Everything seems verystrange to him. He didn' t

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just recognize that white shirt. AnaJulia touches Lechilla, tells her something else
that she' s going to finishconvincing Gabriel' s T- shirts.
It still smells like Gabriel. Thefather immediately calls the Civil Guard. Several
agents show up a few minutes later, while Ana Julia has already gone to
the command post, from where thesearch for child is coordinated. The fire

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chief who' s seen her getso upset, it doesn' t add
up to the story. She knowsthat twenty volunteers and local police had searched
that area that same morning, butshe shuts up her doubts because the woman
has come screaming limping and said thatshe had fallen and that she had hurt
her hip and ankle because of thenerves she felt when she saw the shirt,
when she went for it, withoutthinking about anything else, without looking

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where she would step shortly after,happy of the finding, already at home,
Ana Julia will tell her partner thatshe was so upset that those of
the command post, of Gabriel's search had to give her a tranquilizer.
Actually, Ana Julia arrived at thecommand post screaming for a painkiller.
A doctor then approached him to takehis attention, but when he heard his
heartbeat, he found that he hadit as a perfect clock, like a

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sleeping child. He didn' tneed to take anything for the nerves and
nothing was given to him. Shedid sell her right ankle because Ana Julia
insisted that it hurt a lot andshe couldn' t walk. He limped,
limped for a while. However,a young volunteer who, moved by
the case of Gabriel, had comefrom Madrid to Almería to help in the
search for the child, would latertell that she was surprised because Ana Julia

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limped and stopped limping very noticeably accordingto the time of the day. That
afternoon it was the fire chief whodrove the woman home. On that journey,
Ana Julia was apparently weak, almostweeping before a man. She was
a victim. They didn' tunderstand. I needed protection. I'
m sure the Civil Guard is investigatingme for the kid. The man tried

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to reassure her. It' snormal. They' ll be investigating us
all. Ana. Julia managed toprevent the next morning tracking the area of
the estate where the body was,but the appearance of the T- shirt
DNA tests finally revealed that it wasGabriel' s, ended up pointing to
her as a suspect. The clothes, moreover, were dry, although during
the previous days it had rained heavilyin the area something very unusual, that

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is, someone had placed it therejust before finding it, possibly the anajury
itself. The investigators then knew thatthe woman was somehow involved in the disappearance
of the child. But I didn' t know if it was an economic
matter and there was any accomplice whohad kidnapped him. Those who defended this
possibility believed that Ana Julia' saccomplices did not ask for a ransom because

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there was too much pressure from theCivil Guard and the media, who would
wait until the attention on the casedecreased, decided to work with the idea
that Gabriel could be alive and soughtpossible accomplices from his stepmother. They were
sure she' d make a newmistake soon enough. If the child was
dead, there was no cure orhurry. If he was alive, Ana
Julia would lead them to him.The place where the shirt appeared wasn'

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t casual either. Very close tothat area lived Sergio, the man with
whom Ana Julia Quezada had arrived inthe province of Almería. Three years ago.
They started going on vacation and endedup moving. They set up a
bar. Sergio played the guitar andthey got married, but things ended very
badly. Two civilian guards went tosee the man to check on his story.

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What he told them was that theyno longer spoke like Ana Julia.
When they were a couple, shehad decided to put the bar only in
her name. Less paperwork, notrouble, but when they split up in
October of two thousand sixteen, shedidn' t give him a hard one.
Nor when she passed the var inSeptember of the following year, do
the civil guards think that the womanhas placed Gabriel' s shirt there to

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point out her ex- husband asa suspect. In fact, Ana Julia
goes on to say that Sergio livesnear there, that he is not a
good person and that he hates children. Two days after Ana Juria found Gabriel
' s shirt, her twenty-four- year- old daughter Judith arrives
from Burgos, where she lives withher father. The young lady doesn'
t just understand what' s goingon. Since February 28th, her mother,

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who had spent almost five years withouttalking to her, calls her at
midnight to tell her Gabrielillo has disappeared. He went to play with some cousins
and hasn' t come back.We don' t know anything about him.
Judith continued to communicate with her motherin the following days for the first
time since she broke up with herfather and left them in Burgos. For
her, Ana Julia quezada almost astranger until one of those nights her mother

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claimed her presence. I need youto come down here with me. I
need you, I want you tobe by my side. The young lady
didn' t think it was hermother who found Gabriel' s shirt.
It seemed to her a lot ofchance to ask on the phone, first
Angel her partner and then she herself, Ana, Julia, did not miss
the opportunity to point to Sergio,whom she knew from Burgos and with whom

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she had no good relationship where youfound her. His daughter asked him.
In a sewage treatment area where Iwas going to walk with Sergio, I
was on top of some bushes.The day before his daughter crossed Spain to
meet him. Ana Julia Quezada hadphoned her. In the conversation. The
wife wants her to point at herex- husband. I' ll pass
you to the psychologist who' shelping us tell him what you think of

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Sergio. Civil Guard investigators would beconvinced that Ana Julia had participated in the
kidnapping of the boy Gabriel and knewwhere the child was or where his body
had been left. They decided tocontinue using the channel of an Angel'
s family member to tell him thingsthat he, after the father of the
child and this to his partner,the same woman who hugged him and gave
him tranquilizers to overcome the trauma thatslept with him. It was about making

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one more mistake and Ana Julia quezadataking the agents to the accomplices she might
have had or the place where thelittle one was. The woman calls a
friend to the Dominican Republic and comments, perhaps aware that someone may be listening
to the conversation. The police areonly looking for him dead now. They
' re checking the antennas on thephones in case some pederast had come through

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here and taken him ana. Juliadoesn' t miss the opportunity to point
out Gabriel' s mother is ason of a bitch. He' s
a bad person and he owes alot of people money, a lot of
people hate him, and that's also being investigated. Soon after,
the civil guards, if they winJulia, think she' s going to
take a wrong step. The womandrives the angel car. The researchers see
that it spins and makes no sensepasses through the beautiful field area. She

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finally changes her mind and goes toher sister- in- law' s
house. Quite possibly on that triphe got rid of Gabriel' s clothes
in some container. He didn't want to take the risk that his
daughter, who was coming, coulddiscover it. On the afternoon of Monday,
March 5, Judit arrived Almeria witha friend, a relative of Gabriel
' s father led them to thevillage and family house. There was her
mother, who did not even goout to greet her and other friends who

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supported the family. Judith saw Gabriel' s father torn apart and tried to
comfort him. Why don' tyou have a drink, Angel, a
beer. I can' t takemedication. Her mother told her that she
did want that Yudit beer she wentto her mother' s boyfriend, Animo.
Angel. I' m sure Gabrielshows up. We come strong tomorrow
we' ll look for ourselves.After dinner Judith, her friend Ana,

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Julia and Angel went to sleep atGabriel' s grandmother' s. When
Ana arrived, Julia could not helpbut complain about the number of people there.
Dozens of volunteers who had come fromall over Spain and wanted to help
in the search for the child,also journalists and curious n s p s.
These cars are fucking here. Youcan' t even park yours.

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We' ll have to tell themto leave. Gabriel' s father tried
to calm her down. Some arepeople who are supporting my mother. The
next morning, Ana Julia woke herdaughter Judith early. He told her that
they had to go to a rentalestate, a farm of Gabriel' s
father, that they had rented acouple and now it was empty. It
' s the only place where Ihave peace, where I' m calm.

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Come on. Judith didn' tunderstand why her mother wouldn' t
take the bitch to that farm.There he could run and if they weren
' t going to leave the animalalone. Actually, Zana Julia never took
her until the day she dug upGabriel' s body. Possibly the woman
didn' t want to risk thebitch smelling the body she had left there.
The visit to the estate was turbulent. They arrived in Judith' s

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car, her mother opened the windowsand showed them the house. Then he
went out into the pool and stayedsmoking very close to where only she knew
he was buried. Gabriel, yourdaughter didn' t know what they were
doing there. But after so manyyears, without knowing about his mother,
without feeling her affection, Judith justwanted to help and proposed to trace the
area of the estate. You've been looking for Gabriel around here The

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mother didn' t get immutated.I looked like Abel yesterday, but we
were halfway there. If you wantto follow, Judit and his friend left
the estate. Near the door,they found a pair of pants. Her
mother seemed upset when she saw herreturn with her clothes in her hand.
That' s crap Throw it awayLet' s go There' s nothing
here. It hadn' t beena half hour since they arrived. Ana.

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Julia ordered me to leave the placeas far as I came, she
said, seeking peace. The threeof them came walking to the pool.
At that moment the woman starts tearingup some wooden planks as she cries and
screams. Below is the child's body, but Judith doesn' t
know. She doesn' t evenknow that her mother is a killer Stay
still You' re gonna hurt yourselfWe' re gonna shut the windows and

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the doors and we' re gonnago back to the hortichuelas. Judith could
not understand her mother, her motherwho had left her in Burgos, with
her father, who had been withouttalking to her for years, who had
left a trail of pain and victimsin the first city of Spain, where
she arrived at just eighteen years old, a mulatto woman, tall, exuberant,
full of life, who landed ina Spanish road club to sell her

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body, perhaps also her soul,and send money to her family. I
' ve done it before. Someof her sisters were in the 1990s and
in Spain, a country always championin prostitution and trafficking in women. The
fresh meat that was most quoted inthe clubs. It was the Dominican.
The country of Ana Julia quezada andin a Dominican village had left her first
daughter, a newborn named Ridelca.It had to be a shock for a

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young Dominican woman to land in onethousand nine hundred and ninety- one a
Burgos road to have paid sex withalmost all men quite older than her.
Ana Julia had to swallow the disgustand rent her body in a place called
the car outside Rubena, a villageof barely 150 inhabitants, a dark place
of red light and stools near thehighway and the national road, thirteen kilometers
from Burgos, until the police wouldarrive in a thousand nine hundred ninety-

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nine to rescue five Venezuelan women forcedto prostitute themselves in that place. Inside
they found, in addition to twomillion pesetas, twelve zero euros in notes
to five Colombian women, one Brazilianand two Dominican women, possibly among the
cheap sheets of the car. Helearned from Julia what weapons worked to survive
with men. They fucked her,they fucked her. She had to learn

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to use them and wanted to surviveand get out of there. But she
wasn' t a victim. Itwas different. By the time the police
arrived in the car, Julia Quezadahad already left her own foot from that
place. Rather he has gone outof the hands of a man, a
client whom he met there and whofell in love with her. His name
was Michelangelo and he was one ofthe truck drivers who passed by the club

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on an autumn night of one thousandnine hundred and ninety- two, the
young carrier of Burgos twenty- fivecame to the car and paid for having
sex with the daughter- in-law. In December of that year,
the two of them will live together. She becomes pregnant and in March of
one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three get married. Then Judith will be
born. Everything seems to be goingwell in marriage. Miguel' s still

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working. Ana makes some money indomestic service and as a waitress, her
daughter, Judith, is growing upsmoothly. In a thousand nine hundred and
ninety- five, Michelangelo proposes thatAna Julia bring to Spain her first daughter,
Ridelka, that baby she left inher country is already three years old.
They live in a shack with Grandmawho can' t take care of
her like she should. They're a family. Your place is here

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with them. But four months afterarriving in Spain, on March 3,
nine hundred and ninety- six,the Ridelca girl appears dead in the courtyard
of lights of the house of Burgos. He fell out the window. His
mother says he screams and weeps.When she gets to the municipal police,
they can' t even question herabout what happened. She' s a
broken woman. It has been adisgrace Nobody then repairs that to suffer that

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accident, the girl has had totake a small table, stick it to
the wall, climb on it,open the double window of the seventh floor
that protected her from the cold ofBurgos and jump or fall. No one
gives importance either to the fact thather body appears on the ground away from
the wall, as if someone hadpushed her only a woman at that time.
Anne Julia' s friend then realizedthat she was talking about her daughter

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' s death, like the onewho says an old plate will be broken.
Ana Julia' s husband discovered thebody. He' s gone to
sleep exhausted after work. When atseven in the morning he entered the room
to kiss the two babies, hesaw that Ridelga' s bed was empty.
After the police left and the judgeruled that it had all been an
accident, Ana Julia told him astory. Two nights ago I saw the

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girl in the windows. The mancouldn' t believe it. Why didn
' t you tell me? Wewould have done something to avoid this,
but the mother of the dead babydidn' t care. I scolded her.
I didn' t think I'd repeat an accident again. He
' ll raise her sleepwalking or naughty, depending on who told her. Ana
Julia changed the version of what hadhappened in the death of her first daughter.

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Subject settled, life went on.They spent seven more years together,
raising Judith. Now her only daughter, Ana Julia, worked in a butcher
shop. Everything seems to be goingwell, even very well. In two
thousand three, the marriage is rightto the Abonoloto and earns ninety- three
thousand four hundred euros go on acruise and also travel to the Dominican Republic.

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The money lasts four or five years. Then, Ana Julia' s
husband begins to suffer some strange episodesof health on two occasions with strong fevers
that cause him to be taken tothe emergency room. The doctors never found
out the reason for those calentures.By that time, Michelangelo had subscribed to
life insurance, the beneficiary of fiftypercent of the money if he died was

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his wife. Finally he survived atthe beginning of two thousand and nine a
surprised man. Michelangelo listens to whatAna Julia tells him one night when Don
returns home after work, I nolonger love you. I want a divorce.
Miguel, I' m out oflove. It was a complicated separation.
The man tried to recover Ana Juliauntil the summer of two thousand nine,
when they separated definitively. In principle, the two agreed on the conditions.

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Miguel would pay him seven hundred eurosa month. Ana Julia would keep
the house and the girl for twoyears. The truck pays the pension.
Hardly, though. In two thousandeleven he tries to talk to Ana Julia
to explain that her income has gonedown and that she can' t give
her that money. The conversation endswith the woman denouncing him for harassment and
the man arrested. He was sentencedto twenty- one days of social work

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and was forbidden to approach or talkto his ex- wife. The most
serious thing is that Michelangelo lost hisdaughter, Judith stopped seeing her for four
long years. At that time,Ana Julia had met the owner of a
bar in Burgos, a widower namedJavier. He was a fragile man,
sixteen years older than her, withserious problems with alcohol and health away from
his children, The widower became encaporizedof the Dominican woman and denied him nothing.

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Ana Julia stopped working at the barand settled in her house. Some
days, the daily collection of threehundred or four hundred euros disappeared without anyone
asking for explanations. Javier' ssons tried to take him away from her,
who came to give him shots ofwhisky and tobacco against all medical advice.
For two and a half years,Ana Julia lived with Javier and squeezed
his money and his health. Theytraveled twice to the Dominican Republic and the

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man paid him a home in veganconception. It cost him 45 euros.
When Javier died, his family discoveredthat there was a life insurance policy in
Ana' s name. The womanwould charge thirty- five euros zero During
Javier' s agony for cancer atBurgos University Hospital. Ana Julia proposed to
get married so she could get awidow' s pension. The children prevented

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it. Yes, he got theman, before he died in December of
two thousand and twelve, to signauthorization to ask for a six- zero
credit. She used that money topay for a breast augmentation operation in Armoestetic
Corporation. Two days later, Javierdied in the hospital. The woman was
even left with the gold chain,the medal, a seal and the slave
she wore when she entered the hospitalon December 4, 2000, 12.

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Javier' s sons attend amazement atAna Julia' s show in the thanatorio
she cries out. She is twistedby an unknown man who has something striking
in his neck. The fingerprint ofa tracheotomy, an aggressive operation in the
throat. She' s Ana Juria' s new partner. When they leave
the wake, they both go tothe movies and then have dinner. The

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new man of Anajulia is called Juanma. He is also older than her and
is also seriously ill. He suffersfrom throat cancer that will kill him.
In two thousand and fifteen, Juama' s relatives came to denounce Nahuria,
who took at least seventeen zero eurosfrom the man of whom one thousand and
three hundred went to make another retouchingof plastic surgery. They always say like

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a laugh in the mouth. Beforethe death of juanma Ana Julia had already
met a younger rocker. He workedin the newspaper of Burgos and liked music.
They start going out together and decideto start from scratch in almond groves.
Judith, your daughter is an obstacle. Ana Julia gets rid of her
very loosely. He knows that atthe age of eighteen, he had called

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his father. The young woman saidshe missed him, that she wanted to
see him help her get rid ofdriving meat. So Ana Julia took her
cell phone and called her ex-husband' s lawyer as a beneficial proposition.
He said for everyone. We cansell the house or my part of
the house tell Miguel to stay withthe girl too. I' m gonna
start a new life. I haveto take off the charges I' m
carrying. This separated a quezada Juliafrom her daughter Yudith, who years later

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had arrived in the province of Almeriato support her. Although in those days
of March the daughter, a twenty- four- year- old woman,
no longer understood some things her mother, Gabrielillo' s mother, said and
did not want it, she onlyuses it to take money from Angel.
Judith saw that Ana Julia was veryaffectionate to Angel, the father of the
missing child. I could see himkissing and hugging him. In such dramatic

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circumstances, the woman announced her plansfor the future. Angel is very good.
He pays for everything. He won' t let me pay for anything,
no house, no food, nothing. We' re about to get
married. We' ve got thepapers ready. Ana Julia asked her daughter
to stay with her for a fewmore days. I was convinced. He
told her the kid was dead.Gabriel' s not going back to the

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kid. They took him and killedhim. I' m not gonna be
able to work anymore. I'll have to leave him to take care
of Angel because he' s goingto need me the last few days before
his yudic mother was arrested He felthe didn' t know that woman in
search of the child. Ana JuliaQuezada approached her twenty- four- year
- old daughter and said smiling asshe moved sensually to what I have a

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good body. I still go tothe gym two or three times a week
See how I' m staying.The most uncomfortable moment occurred on March 7.
Judith got up early and got inthe shower naked. She heard her
mother go in after her and shecomes up laughing I come to take the
hot water from you. That sameseductive attitude had appeared several times in Ana
Juria' s behavior with some ofthe people who participated in Gabriel' s

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search. It was his weapon,it was always the behavior he had learned.
Comment on one of them. Thedays pass without novelty. Ana Julia
seems to resist. The researchers whoalready know the past in Burgos de la
Mujer are convinced that they have thekey to reach Gabriel. The kid was
an obstacle. He took some ofthe love of the father, his partner,

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and as he grew, it wasgetting worse. But during those days
no one has called for ransom knowinghim well that anajury is handled with men
how he uses them. Civil guardsdon' t rule out that the woman
has some accomplice, that she's hiding the kid even if she has
some debt to some PROXENETA who hasnow decided to charge her. The chiefs
of the investigation decide to wait.They think Ana Julia Quezada has killed Gabriel

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in ninety percent, but there's a chance he' ll be held
somewhere, as ETA criminals often did. At some point he' ll be
wrong and take them to the placewhere Gabriel is alive or dead. On
Friday, March 9, a majordemonstration takes place in Almería calling for the
release and return of Gabriel before itbegins. Investigators call Angel the father to

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take his statement. Ana Julia alsoattends does not separate from him at the
exit. The woman announces Angelito.Not today because there' s a lot
of people on the streets, buttomorrow the kid' s gonna show up.
On Saturday, Gabriel doesn' tshow up, the civil guards decide
they shouldn' t wait any longer. They' re going to send another

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message to Nahuria, the last oneto press her. If she hasn'
t moved on Tuesday, they'll stop her and try to get her
to confess before taking her into ajudge. That won' t be necessary.
On Sunday, March 11, thework of the UCO and the Civil
Guard of Almería was awarded. AnaJulia, I can' t take it
anymore and went to the estate toremove the body. Already arrested and defeated,
the civil guards lead her to thesearch of her home. An official

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who already knows where he' sgoing to sleep that night approaches him.
You better take a shower and changeGet some comfortable clothes He' s going
to jail. Now comes a civilguard to be with you. The answer
of a quezada Julia. It wasthe same that worked for him in the
car in Burgos, with that truckdriver, with the widower, in the
bar of Burgos, with the rocker, in Tierras de Almería, with Gabriel
' s father, in Cape Gata. He shows his best smile and says

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quietly to the official ok. Thankyou, but then the thong helps me
choose it. You want to.When the young Civil Guard officer entered the
room and ordered anajury to go tothe shower, she saw the face of
that astonished man as he went outinto the street. Death of a councilman

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you' re my only weak spot. Pedro Nieva accused of organizing the murder
of Javier Ardines to his wife.Dad' s lying on Alba Road.
Javier Ardin' s daughter is afisherman, a countryman, as the men
who have made themselves are called Asturias. He thought that his father had suffered
a heart attack and that the ambulancenurses parked on the path of the organization

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in which his family lived struggled tosave his life. His father' s
chance life, born in the 1960sof an emigrant family in Belgium, had
returned a long time later Asturias andhad gone into politics. As a councilman
in Llanes it would end that morning. Her father had been restless for six
months sleeping badly, but she wasnoticing it. Javier Ardines didn' t

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have a heart attack. That 16thof August, two thousand and eighteen.
Someone had waited for him early onthe way out of his house and hit
him in the head with a veryblunt object. Then they' d know
it was a baseball bat that costeight euros in Chinese stores. A trail
of blood ran from his head intothe roadside, where he suffered the attack.
An area surrounded by forests and mountains. Only twenty houses made up the

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urbanization. The corpse ofÉdil Deians, an Asturian council of paradise between beaches
and mountains. He had been foundby a neighbor on the way to Belmonte
de Pria when he was going towalk the dog that morning. Another man
would later tell that the dogs barkedhard. That morning, eighty meters of
Ardines' body was his citron inberlin O grey, with the driver'
s door open and the engine runningahead, closing the passage a worn yellow

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metal fence from which are used inthe works thrown on the ground two other
similar fences had been an ambush.The one who had gone for the councilman
waited for him at dawn at theexit of the urbanization where he lived,
closed his way and when that lowercar ended his life. Ardines' wife
would later recall a comment from herhusband, about ten days before her death,

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that someone had left an equal fenceon the road cutting off the passage
that led her down the vehicle toremove her was a trial of the murder.
Every morning, Ardines used to goout early to fish. The son
of Ardines, a kid living inMadrid, who worked as a lifeguard on
the beach and anisca of sea caves. During that summer, the Civil Guard

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expressed its conviction that this was apolitical crime. His father was part of
the new Llanes government team, formedby a left alliance united with Asturias forum
and neighborhood groups. After decades ofdomination of the PESOE, decades of enormous
real estate development in the council towhich some had renamed as the Marbella del
Norte, the new local government,of which Ardines was a part, had

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decided to stop the tourist disasters andend some situations of plugging. After many
years oppositions were to be called andthere would be people who would lose the
job. Gardens in charge of tourismand beaches had received some insults on social
networks, including the aunt of amunicipal policeman who could lose his post.
I didn' t think so.The councilman' s son also pointed out
that his father had had problems withthe owner of a bar on the nearby

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beach of Guadamía for forbidding to parknear the bufons de s a spectacle of
nature that, like other natural luxuriesof gardens, wanted to protect him from
mass tourism, which had generated somedisputes with owners of local Parkins hotels.
A cousin of the murdered councilman explainedthat the owner of the bar in Guadamía
had publicly said that Ardines was ason of a bitch who wanted to ruin

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me after he prohibited parking cars nearhis establishment. Even once you heard him
say I' m going to killthat son of a bitch. One day
after the murder, the man wasvery affected in a supermarket in Llanes.
He beat himself in the chest andswore that he was not able to do
him any evil that he had spokentoo much. Several people in Llanas and

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their council had done the same,and the Civil Guard of Llanes and Gijón
and the agents of the Central OperationalUnit arrived from Madrid should find out if
anyone had been able to pass fromthe thick words on social networks and the
painted ones on some walls near beachesof aniscas, to the bloody events,
among others, had to check ifit was true that rumor that spoke of

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Sica arrived from Mexico to avenge thedemolition of a hotel in the Beach of
mud However, both the children andthe wife of Dardines told the Civil Guard
very soon. Another episode just asdisturbing, but much more private, of
his father' s life. Nuria, his widow, explained to the officers
what had happened during the constitutional bridgeof the previous year. While she was

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in Lebanon, her husband stayed inLlanes. The cousin of Nuria, Katia
and her husband, Pedro Nieva,who lived in the Basque Country since they
were very young, traveled to theAsturian city. The two couples formed an
almost inseparable group when they met inAsturias to spend holidays, bridges or days
off together. Nuria recounted that onthe 6th of December of two thousand seventeen,

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her husband, her cousin, Katiaand her husband, Pedro Nieva,
went to eat at the Muros chairAt one point Peter rose from the table
to go to the Bath, leftthere his mobile phone that he was recording
without his wife and Ardines knowing itand what he recorded as no more that
Katia and Ardines had a sentimental relationshipwith a strong sexual component. Nieva kept

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the recording for almost eight months andin early August, ten days before the
murder of Ardines, she no longerresisted and sent the audio of the conversation
to the councilman' s wife alsoto her daughter Alba by whatsapp. The
recording had fallen like a bomb inthe family. Katia. The lover was
also Nuria' s cousin sister andclose friend, since they were girls.

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The investigators listened to her. PedroNieva begins by speaking with his wife Katia,
and Ardines, the murdered councilman,is also at the table. You
want a little bit or not.I don' t want to. Then
Pedro Nieva goes to the bathroom andleaves the mobile recording the voice of Katia,
his wife, who changes the toneto talk to Mardines. They'

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re both eager to be alone.Katia' s husband stands in the way
of them. You were working,you were coming on Tuesday, but I
didn' t think you' dlet yourself be hello anymore. It was
too much. It' s justthat I was gonna come, how you
' re gonna go and what Ihave to go in the van. Then
on Wednesday you' ll be waitingfor you and all what you' re
going to do there. You couldhave told him, so, well,

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I warm up the house. Itold him, so go warming up the
house by the time you arrive lessbad than he doesn' t know how
I heat it, but hold onto the bends come shut up, no,
don' t leave yourself. We' ve been fighting for years.
Yes, my mother, you haveto be careful. No, it'
s much easier now. Yeah,well, well, when you trust yourself,

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it' s the worst, uh, you gotta be careful. No,
it' s not trusting, butit' s easier if you'
re a man. They see usout there together if you go to my
house, because nothing happens that weare already an age, they don'
t think these things anymore. It' s the same now You' re
not 20 anymore. There' sthe flower to the dente. Where those
carcamals go already clear prudence. Allthat, of course. Yeah, yeah,

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let go, let go, myGod, well, don' t
worry about January coming right away.In January I will escape so you come
in January yes, because I wantto varnish the doors and everything will come,
that I have to be one daywith the carpenter and everything will come
alone. At that moment, Katia' s husband returns to the cider shop
table and the conversation changes. Gardensis still talking about food. I haven

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' t eaten a flan that wasas good as this one in a while,
and Nieva' s wife finishes uphere. Ah yes, they usually
make cheesecake very rich here too.I found it odd that you ordered that
shortly before he was killed. Thewoman Dardines asked for explanations for that talk.
The councilman told him that Kati wasnot involved and announced that he would

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talk to Pedro Nieva to fix it. In those days of August, Pedro
Nieva continued to write for Whatsapp withArdines' daughter. I' m sorry.
I thought I could get over itand I didn' t want to
make anyone suffer, but I can' t do it anymore. He says
they were fooling around, but theysay it themselves. The worst thing is
that Cardines and Katia have been revealedfor many years They' ve been cheating
on their partners for so long.Revolt the two families so inseparable in the

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summers of Llanes, who have neighboringhouses in the urbanization. Kat and her
husband have two children, Julen andLander Ardines. If he doesn' t,
two more iván and dawn. Inthose days, Pedro Nieva explains the
daughter of the councilman who has keptthe audio for months, who has heard
it a thousand times, who listenedto it with helmets in silence, who
was not able to hear it untilthe end and who broke me every time

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I hear it. After the murderof Dardin Es, the Civil Guard asks
Katia about the recording and its relationshipwith the victim. Katia is 47 years
old and meets the councillor since shewas a child when she was going to
summer new from Llanes. Then hesays when Ardine married his cousin Nuria,
that friendship grew. Kath explains thatthe conversation recorded on that table was just

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a little bit of itchy between adults, little more than a fool. He
admits that people made comments about hisrelationship with the councilman and that on August
7, Ardines' daughter told himabout the recording. Then she denied it
in a message. I don't know what to tell you. I
' m out of touch with whatPedro' s done in a conversation.
He' s made a world,I' ve been having jealousy problems with
him for a long time. Ardines' daughter makes him see that what'

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s been on the record doesn't like it. Katia writes to him
again on August 9 to go downto the Bardines cave beach together. He
' s not answering. Then Katiatelephones her lover who reproaches her for not
warning him earlier in December to settlethe matter before everyone saw each other in
the summer. I know you spoketo Peter on the phone and Peter told
his daughter that we were going tosplit up. Kati explained to the Civil

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Guard. Investigators have already registered Ardines' fishing boat to the Bramadoria. Rumors
in the village are on fire thatin attacked Ardines he must have been in
the isolated area before and know hiscustoms. Knowing the councilman would have resisted.
Civilian guards have checked all the peoplewho came to the nearby health centres
that 16 August in case Ardines,in defending himself, would have injured his

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attackers in the early hours of thecrime. The following morning, sixty-
three citizens went through emergency consultations inthe area, but none were related to
the case. Neighbors are scrutinized.It' s a small world. Everybody
knows each other. The doctor whoraised Ardines' body is the husband of
a woman who was going to sailwith him that morning. She' s

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a photographer. Gardens invited her outto sea. The woman explains that the
councilman liked to fool, but nothingelse. Another neighbor draws the researchers'
attention. His name is Jorge andhe lives just ten meters away from where
Dardines' body was found. Whenquestioned, they discover another story of sex
and grudges in the skirts of Europe' s peaks. I was married and

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my wife came on the left togetherwith Gardines. They started a friendship relationship
and I thought they might have somethingelse. He was getting too close to
her, talking to her in theear, or laughing. Then my wife
got calls that he asked her ifI was home. The man admitted that
he was jealous and had bought somemicrophones that he had left activated in his
house. When she went to work, she also recorded her wife talking to

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a friend who warned her that herhusband was smart and would realize what was
going on. When she reproached thewoman, she denied that it was true
and he needed psychological help after oneafternoon from another bridge of the Constitution,
this time, in two thousand fourteen, Jardines took her part in a bar
and fooled under her nose. Hecouldn' t take it anymore and confronted
him. Gardens. I don't get in your house, you don

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' t get in mine. Idon' t suck my finger, the
councilman always pushed forward, didn't take it easy. We' re
talking politics Look, because I'm in politics and if I didn'
t kick your ass. In theend, that man nurse by profession had
separated and ended up living near adrinesand his family by chance. He actually
got along with the councilman' sfather. He had had nothing to do

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with his death, although he insistedto the investigators that the victim was very
salamerous to women and that could havegenerated a lot of hatred against him.
The crime scene inspection and autopsy aregoing to give some promising results. The
attackers Jardines broke his skull and lefthim lying on the road, both on
the councilman' s legs and armsand on the metal fence they placed to

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prevent him from passing. An orangeleaginous substance is found. The other two
fences used for the ambush also havesplashes of that strange substance. The first
expert report on these remains points outthat it may be a food condiment,
a pharmaceutical product or a self-defence product. Finally, they' ll

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find out it' s pepper spray. Gardens had been attacked with a SPRY
in the councilman' s van.In addition, DNA remains have been recovered
from the steering wheel and gear lever. The lab results are going to reveal
another private matter of Ardines. Theremains belong to a twenty- nine-
year- old woman who lives ina very nearby locality. There' s

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also that woman' s DNA underthe fingernail of the murdered councilman' s
ring finger. In fact, thereare traces of it everywhere, also mixed
with DNA from rhinestones on one ofthe crossbows used for ambushing in the back
seat of the van on the victim' s shirt and sandals. Investigators locate
and interrogate the woman. He waspart of a hiking group and knew Ardines.

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In fact, he has an explanationthat places her next to him the
afternoon before he was killed. Twoyears ago, we started having intimate relationships.
Last year we got to stay fivedays in a week. I was
picking up with his van when Iwas working late, and then we were
going somewhere far away and dark tohave sex. The week before his death
we met several times at Poe's treatment plant and also near my work,

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we went on a road near thecemetery in Llanes and had sex in
his van. From that meeting shedid not remember seeing Javier again until the
day before his death, the youngMontañera had had sex with herrings. The
afternoon before he was killed, theywere close to the man' s house.
In the middle of nature. Civilguards believe that all the woman'
s adn they' ve found atthe crime scene on the councilman' s

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body can be a transfer arising fromthe sexual act. They note that erotic
episode of the councilman as a factthat confirms his reputation as a womanizer and
that could have provoked the anger ofsome in the council. The young Montañera,
in fact, also had a partner. Civil Guard investigators do not abandon
the line of work or crime policy. They interrogate the more or less plugged

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- in interim workers in the townhall, whose jobs were threatened by the
measures announced by Concejalardines. They areat least sixteen people who could lose their
position when the consistory, after yearsof waiting, summons the oppositions to meet
in the street, the researchers write. At a point of despair, it
could have been the trigger of alack of reason enough to plan to attack

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the life of Francisco Javier Ardines.On that list of sixteen officials, the
Civil Guard included cleaning employees, thejanitor of the sports centre, the town
council press officer, the head ofthe Culture House, the coordinator of the
Posada de Llanes civic centre and theHilanes sports coordinator. The majority had followed
a legal strategy in their battle againstArdines and the new local government resorted to

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all decisions and calls to list possibleoppositions and stay in their work. I
had reason to keep re Encorardines,but nothing made any of them think they
might be behind the murder. Meanwhile, the civil guards have not lost sight
of Katia, Ardines' mistress andhis wife' s cousin. Her husband,
Pedro Nieva, discovered the relationship inDecember and had spread it in August,

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ten days before the crime. Hewas a candidate to hate Ardines too
to kill him. The problem isthat the night and morning of the murder,
Nieva had been at her house inAmorevieta, Vizcaya, more than 200
kilometers from there. This was demonstratedby the tracking of his mobile phone However,
the civil guards have one of theirofficers ke nine Marley, an extraordinary

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water dog specializing in the search forbiological remains snooping in Nieva' s car.
They also place a beacon in thevehicle and press the phones. They
tracked the communications and movements of Nievaand his wife since the man found out
that December of two thousand seventeen thatshe was cheating on him. They discover
that on December 10, a dayafter the recording at the restaurant where his

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wife boasted about how he warmed upthe summer house in Llanes with the councillorardines,
Nieva sends messages of guasap to hiswife. I can feel how you
forget me I feel sorry inside Inthe next few days she encourages you to
start again together, but her husbandanswers you. I' ve loved more
than my life. Remember, it' s not always me you' re

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in love with and a photograph ofJavier Ardines. You' re even confessing
to him You' re my onlyweak spot. By those dates, at
the beginning of two thousand eighteen,only Nieva and Katia know what happened.
He doesn' t tell anyone.She, for her part, decides to
hide Lordines and her cousin marriages makelife separate during the winter. They live

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in Amorivieta and do not travel toLlanes, where he so the councilman and
his family. Katia tries to convinceher husband that everything has been a nonsense.
But Peter lives in torment listening tothe recording once and a thousand times
he begins to visit web pages ofspy stores where he buys microphones and other
surveillance devices, possibly to go outspying on his wife also to place microphones

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in his car, hacking his mobilephone. During that winter it enters pages
offering guaranteed paternity. Pedro doesn't know how many years his wife has
been cheating on Javierardines. He's obsessed that his little son doesn'
t look physically like him Maybe he' s the son of the Nieva Llan
Councilman He doesn' t get itout of his head. Actually, Kati

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and Ardines had more than thirty yearsof history, a forbidden passionate story that
began when she was sixteen. AndArdines was already her cousin Nuria' s
boyfriend. That summer they hooked upone night. Nuria found out soon afterwards
and became angry, but it hadonly been a few kisses and she forgave
her cousin and her boyfriend childish things. The following summer, Kati and Javier

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met again and had sex for thefirst time. She was seventeen. Since
then they had not stopped having sex. Neither did Dardines marry his cousin,
nor when Katia married Peter, norwhen they had two children in each couple.
The two marriages were inseparable. Onthose cider and summer nights and when
they could, Kati and Javirardines lookedfor the time and place, a house,

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a beach, a forest to makeup for time. They had continued
for three decades, each time withthe husband’ s most well- founded
suspicions. Before the Civil Guard.Katia was able to remember the details of
the last night of sex with Ardinesin the summer of two thousand seventeen.
The last one before it exploded hadbeen taking advantage of the Feasts of Christ

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in New Llanes. On that occasion, she had left her husband working in
the Basque Country and could meet athome. Winter and spring passed very slowly
for Pedro Nieva. The Civil Guardwould retrieve the information contained on his mobile
phone, where there was a traceof his obsession with his wife' s
relationship with the Councillordines. Katia,his wife, his life continues to deny

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him that what he has heard istrue. After listening to that recording thousands
of times. Nieva enters a stateof jealousy of seasoning and rage. According
to the Civil Guard' s report, this state becomes worse when it approaches
the summer and Katia tells her thatshe will spend the month of August in
her home in Asturias, as always. Why not. If there' s
nothing to hide, Nieva opposes andthreatens it. If you go ayanes you

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will hand the recording to the womanof rins to her cousin. His friend,
Jesús Muguruza, would tell after henoticed it sad those days. Muguruza
is a hard- core Basque guy, married to a Moroccan, with two
children and a rap sheet for drugsa long time ago. In recent years
he had only had a touch withthe law for an infringement related to fishing.
One of his hobbies met Pedro Nievawhen he made a work of electricity

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for a brother- in- law. He had a bad time, he
hardly had a time to feed hisfamily. Both connected well and since then,
Nieva called him several times to dosome maintenance work. Uguruza went so
far as to say that Nieva hadsaved his life with those commissions. At
the beginning of that summer, Peteragain laid hands on him to unload debris
from a work in Arrigorriaga. Muguruzanoticed his friend in a very low mood

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and asked him what was wrong withhim. Nieva vented. My wife'
s cheating on me. She sleptwith a cousin of hers years ago.
There in Asturias, where we havethe holiday home, he has a boat,
he' s a fucking fisherman.Thus, among the rubble of a
play Nieva masculles his impotence before Muguruza. The days pass and he approaches the

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moment when Katia, his wife,is going back to Llanes. There you
wait. Javilardines Nieva vents with hisfriend and employee Muguruza and ends up making
him a proposal. This time youwon' t have to get rid of
trash or manage a play. Ifyou beat him up and I' d
pay you good money, Muguruza refusessnow. He then asks if he knows

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anyone who can do it, andthe worker remembers his Algerian compadre, a
Gilalli, with whom he sometimes coincidesby fishing in Gilali' s waveroves are
wanted, he has stolen in housesand in some car he has no known
job. He likes to take drugs. He may be the right man.
Sometimes he' s asked me ifI know anyone to give a stick or
give a shit about something in Pedro. I think he would because he told

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me he needs money and he doesn' t care what he has to do
to get it. A couple ofdays later, Nieva calls Muguruza and asks
him to set up an appointment withthe angeline, ready to give some shit
to that guy who sleeps with hiswife. All three of them are in
a puddlehouse near Gilali' s house. A short- haired, short-
haired, short- haired guy whowalks through the presentations, Pedro comes to

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the point. I want you tobeat up a guy In Asturias, the
Angelino, as they expected, accepts, although he proposes to do it with
an old buddy is a very strongman you. We' ll both do
it. No problem. On FridayJuly 27th shortly before everything goes Nieva comes
without his wife, Llanes is hislast chance to do it. Only one

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of his children will spend Sunday's 29th vacation and Katia has already told
him that she will already move tothe family house on August 5. The
following week with Nieva go his friendMuguruza and the Angelino, whose real name
is Gilal and Benatia travel the laudito six of Pedro, who suffers a
breakdown near palm trees in Cantabria andleaves them. Tired have to call a
taxi driver and the tow truck.They end up at the airport where they

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rent a car and follow the tripto Tailanes. When they arrive, Muguruza
announces that she does not want tobe near where everything will happen and Nieva
leaves it on a nearby beach.My wedding snow then goes to her house
and to the dardins and teaches theAlgerian the entrances and exits from the organization
towards the highway with the Basque Country. Muguruza says that on the one-
way trip they talk about the moneythat will be paid for the job about

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eight hundred euros and that snow onlyorders a beating and asks that they not
burn him up, alluding to possiblelethal blows to the head. That afternoon,
the Algerian returned happy to his housein Bilbao, a floor of about
fifty square meters, where he livedwith his partner, his two children and
a daughter of a previous relationship ofthe woman. Giral and Benatia is a

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forty- year- old man whohas been searching for life in the Basque
Country since nineteen hundred and ninety-nine. That' s where he met
his buddy sucker Kelly. Lately hespends his days in the area of the
Gran Vía de San Francisco in Bilbao, one of the prostitution and drug trapper
centers of the city. You've been offered a good deal. He
' s been told the boss hasa lot of money and they' ll
pay him very well. First theytold him he had to beat a man

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up, then he had to killhim. He had refused. They'
d beat him up. They wouldn' t kill him. They were gonna
do it next to the guy's house. The place was not bad,
it was dark and people did notpass. They would expect him early
and attack him when he went fishingbecause he was a fisherman like him.
However, on the trip to VueltasAsturias he has had to haggle a little

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with such a pedro. First heasked him twenty zero euros to do the
job. Then he went down tofifteen zero, then twelve zero for less
he warned him he wouldn' t. In the end, the man had
agreed to pay them eleven zero euros. Hell if I had a six-
day move money. On the sametrip back. I had taken a fanny
pack and got five zero euros.He gave them to her and told her

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when you did the job, I' ll give you the rest. That
' s when Pedro Nieva gave himthe picture of the man. The fisherman,
a normal Spaniard, didn' tlook too big. He leaves home
every day at six or six anda half in the morning he goes in
a van. Citro in grey berlingand goes only with the five zero euros
in the pocket. Benatia went tovisit her old mom buddy. This one

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took the job. Both had stolenflats years ago in Cantabria and the Basque
Country. A few days later,on July 30, the two Algerians traveled
to Dardines' house in Belmonte dePria. When they reached the urbanization between
forests and mountains, they saw oldabandoned fences. They took one and left
it at the exit of Ardines'house. They waited to see that he

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was alone in the car and followedhim to Llanes, where they saw him
catch his fishing boat and go outto sea. What they had been told
was true. That man left hishouse alone and very early and the stage
was a very quiet and lonely area. That was the best time to do
the job. The Algerians returned thefollowing day in the morning, placed the
fence on the road and waited forCardine to leave around six in the morning.

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However, the councilman dodged the fenceand continued with his vehicle the wheels
stepping on the grass next to theroad. The two men returned angry to
Bilbao. It wasn' t goingto be that simple. Kelly asked for
an advance and her friend refused.Benatia called Muguruza several times that night.
The job wasn' t gonna bethat easy. Muguruza promised them a thousand

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more euros. Penatia went to seehis friend and gave him a thousand two
hundred euros as he anticipated. Hesaid that yes, that the work had
to be postponed. We can't go now. We have to wait,
at least until after the 10th ofAugust. The guy said there are
parties in the surrounding villages and thata lot of people circulate at night.
In those days of August, whilethe plan was under way, Pedro Nieva

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tried to prevent his wife from goingto Llanes, where he would meet his
lover Javier Ardines again. On themorning of the 5th, she has her
bags packed, the two argue andKatia leaves for Asturias in her BMW.
An hour later, her husband followsher in her audition. He' s
got the cell phone footage he madeto the lovers eight months ago and he

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hadn' t taught anyone but hiswife. It is more than two hundred
kilometers of highway that Nieva walks onthe throttle until he arrives at his house,
next to that of Ardines. Findhis wife unpacking, argue again.
Rompen Pedro tells him that he separatesthat he no longer endures at one o
' clock in the afternoon, slamsthe door, gets in the car and
returns to the Basque Country. Hiswife stays on tires. He then decided

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to send the recording to Javier Ardines' family shortly after three and twenty in
the afternoon. He sends her tothe councilman' s wife and her daughter.
Blow the bomb. She' sin Ardines' family, who announces
to her lover that she' sgoing to fix it. The next day,
the councilman calls Nieva and they talktwice. For just over three minutes.

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On August 12, Jardines deleted fromhis phone three messages from Wasepp,
which he had exchanged with Pedro Nieva. When you leave the beach of sea
caves you cross by car with Katia, greet them with your hand without talking.
That afternoon after eight o' clock, the councilman blocks Katia, who
has been his lover for years,and then her husband, Pedro Nieva,
on his phone. Everything indicates thatthe bridges are broken. On August 13,

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Pedro Nieva drove again from Amorebieta toLlanes. She arrives at night without
warning her wife, perhaps thinking ofsurprising her with her lover, but Katia
is alone in the house. Accordingto the woman, they both talk,
recognize ilian and spend the night togetherin the morning. The husband has to
return to the Basque Country to takehis mother to a nursing home. On

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the afternoon of August 15, thedeceived spouse hangs an entry on his Facebook
page, a photo of two loverson which is read after a betrayal.
You think you can be happy.He is in Portugalete his wife in Llanes,
but she reads the message and answershim angry with a real whatsapp message
to the balls. I' mhis wife. He calls her mouths and

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denies having fucked anyone. Her husbandsays she' s been laughing at him
for years. Katia asks him toremove that from her facebook, which is
on the public side and can beseen by everyone. He says he doesn
' t know how to do it. That same afternoon, Benatia calls to
mahamar and remains in which she willpick him up at night at his house
in the recalde neighborhood and it willbe the last trip of Llanes. Before

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getting in the car, the Algerianenters a Chinese bazaar and buys a baseball
bat for eight euros. He alsocarries two bottles of pepper RSS at 2

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00 a m they leave for Ardines' house with the hit men,
already on their way to the crimescene. Peter is still torturing himself at
two o' clock. Fourth ofthe morning he had written to his wife
you can' t sleep either.Katia has remained fried on the sofa of
her Asturian house, watching television doesnot answer and the man then sends her
a kind of manual taken from YouTubewith the steps to rebuild your relationship.

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After a betrayal and finally, beforehis wife' s silence, a James
Lund song called good By My Loverwith Spanish subtitles. There' s no

answer at 4 (06:58:36):
30 in the morning. The two hit men are once
again stationed behind the wall of afarm. Next to the departure from the
home of the councilman of Llanes,Benatia wears a tracksuit from Bilbao' s
static and slippers. Nike Mamar goeswith another chandal. They both wear hoods
and gloves so they don' tleave prints. They have to wait until
six and twenty in the morning whenthey hear the alderman' s motor approaching.

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This time they had set up twofences plus the guy would have to
stop. That' s how Ardinesopened the van door and left the engine
running. He came down to setaside the fences. Mamar carried his Bnati
baseball bat to the handle of abeak he had in his house. Each
one a bottle of gaspimienta in theother hand. They went out behind the

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wall and attacked him. Gardens wasalready removing the second fence. When he
saw his killers, he used thebarrier as a shield to defend himself.
Benati admitted that he tried to sprayhis face with the pepper spray, but
almost everything fell on the fence andon the ground. The councilman started screaming
relief Gardens threw the fence and ranoff the road. The fastest hitman hit

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him from behind. He hit himwith the beak handle on his legs and
tripped him. His sidekick came looseand hit him with the baseball bat.
On the back of the skull.The councilman fell flat on his face and
lay on the road. Benatia confessedthat she hit him one more time and
then ran to the car. Let' s go, suck now, there
' s Let' s go.They both got in the car and left

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the councilman lying with a trail ofblood flowing out of his head. You
' ve given him more. Iheard a hit. Benati asked his buddy
I hit him in the knee hesaw the bone let' s go On
the journey back. They both thoughtthey could have killed that man with their
nerves. One of the pepper spraycanisters went off as they traveled and had
to go down the car windows inorder to see and breathe. Thus with

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the glass of the pilot down,they were recorded by the toll camera of
the highway towards the Basque Country.Around 8 a m they arrived in Bilbao.
By day, Benatia went up tohis house and gave his friend another
thousand three hundred euros. Half ofthe advance that they had been given had
already been distributed. Then he calledJesus Muguruza to tell him that the work
was done. He didn' tanswer. He started surfing the Internet and

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read the news of Ardines' death. He wasn' t just a fisherman,
he was a politician. He calledhis buddy and told him in Arabic
the gentleman is no longer there.Tomorrow a neighbor had found Javier Ardines'
body on a road. Katia's house is very close. The woman
soon learns the news and does nothesitate to write to her husband, who
is still in the Basque Country.He' s got a blow to the

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head. He' s dead.Javier knows something else. Looks like something
' s been done to him.Pedro, what have you done? I
didn' t do anything. Iswear, you have to come. He
' s gonna call you the CivilGuard. I' ve been home unable
to sleep all night, as everynight I' ll go I haven'
t done anything. The worst thingis, you don' t believe me.
The worst thing is they' relooking at me. On 17 August,

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Mugruza and Veatia are located in aparking lot in the Charcoaga neighbourhood of
Bilbao. What happened and Ali Idon' t know. Mamar beat him
up Look, Jesus. You haveto tell your friend he has to give
us more money. Twenty- fiveeuros. The guy was a politician and
he' s dead. Let metalk to Pedro. On August 18,
after the news of the murder ofa councilman in Llanes goes to all media

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in Spain, Benatia takes Mamar Kellyto Barcelona in his car. The hit
man is nervous about the repercussion ofthe crime. He did not know who
he had killed and decides to catcha plane and hide in Algeria for a
while. Two days later, Muguruzadelivers another 20 euros to Benatia. The
money' s mine. Hey,Peter' s not here now, I
' ll give you the other fivegrand when I get back. If you

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say something you end up like Cardines, the hit man called his partner'
s wife who was hiding in Algeriaand gave her half the money. Ten
zero euros. They had already chargedtwelve thousand five hundred euros each for killing
the councilman. He insists it wasonly for a beating, but it'
s a price off the market.Beating up doesn' t cost that much
money. There are those who doit for three or four euros. According
to the street rates known to theaupo investigators. After the killing of Ardines,

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Katia returns to her home with PedroNieva and her two sons continue to
live a morebieta and are under themagnifying glass of the Civil Guard. The
environment is tense the husband' sguilt of betraying him. The woman suspects
that he may have had something todo with the murder of her lover in
a meal with friends, with someextra glass. A man cannot help but
make comments that hurt his wife amarriage. Friend says that an employee of

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the leader whom you know cheats onher husband Nieva can' t resist and
waits for his wife. There arewhores who charge money and other whores who
do it for free. There arewhores and whores. Katia doesn' t
shut up. That' s forme, of course, because of you,
you know that. Go fuck yourself, leave me alone. The woman

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tells her sister what happened after herhusband peed on a new shirt of hers
and dumped her in the house.Kat appears determined to separate, though she
admits that I will not sink intomisery. It depends financially on him and
he knows it. The Civil Guarddefines its relationship as its economic mission.
The woman takes a luxurious train oflife without work, enjoys two houses,

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good cars, good homes. Yourhusband has given work even to his two
hermas hands. Researchers discover that itsnows makes almost all its cash payments,
which has revenues far higher than thoseof an electrician. Then you will find
more than eighteen zero euros in ticketsat home. They are linked to electrical
installations by the work they do,but believe that their extra income may come
from helping to carry out other typesof electrical installations, the essential ones to

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mount plantations without marijuana dor inside shipsor premises. The researchers who listen to
the conversations of the marriage are surprisedwhen they discover that the husband, offended
and tormented, contacts a woman whoannounces herself as brunette, horny, vicious
young woman to have paid sex.They do it more than one occasion more
than two. That month of October, she launched an investigation into the murder

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of her husband, Nuria. JavierArdines' widow calls Pedro Nieva. He
doesn' t answer, but hereturns the call the next day. They
talk for almost half an hour andexplain to you the infidelity of her husband
and Katia and also announce their intentionto separate. I told him that if
I went back to Asturias, Iwould break up the marriage and give you
the recording. They' re talkingabout the investigation to find Dardines' killer.

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Peter tells him the widow. Thepolice didn' t call me.
I think they have an adn Nuriawho suspects Nieva knows more than she says.
Try to get some information. Heassures her that she prefers to know
what happened to her husband. I' d rather be told the truth and
be able to forgive. No onehas the right to kill anyone. Nieva
gives him the reason or answers witha topic, for he does not.

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Life is the most sacred thing onehas. No one has the right to
take his life. No one isreviewed by investigators once. Pedro Nieva has
given the weight to retail or toldher he feels the death of her husband.
On the night of November 12,Civil Guard officers enter the family home
of the marriage in Llanes. Theyput microphones in the two bedrooms and another

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in the living room to listen toconversations between Pedro Nieva and his wife.
They' re going to summon thewoman to testify on November 15th, and
thanks to the two microphones they hearher reaction and that of her mother,
whom she calls nervously. After talkingto the guards. I' ve been
called to testify I' m goingwith Peter. I' d be good
at the mother who gave birth tohim. I' m very strong.

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What the hell they call you forif you haven' t seen or heard
anything if you' ve already declared. When his daughter agrees, the woman
cannot avoid a comment and Peter isnot called. No. No. He
hasn' t been called. Thenext day, Pedro takes his wife by
car to Llanes, the civil guardsare going to take a statement. The
husband stays in the area waiting fortime. It becomes eternal. At eight

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o' clock in the afternoon,call his wife and the civil guards let
me talk to her. You're a long way from an hour.
Ten o' clock, call herback. When Katia leaves the barracks and
enters the audience six of her husband, she is exhausted broken crying. The
civil guard has placed a microphone insidethe vehicle and will listen to what happens.
They think it was you, Peter. They' re gonna come after

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you, so they' re gonnastop me. You can get yourself a
good lawyer now. The investigators havepressed Katia to tell her about her husband
' s secret trips ayanes, hisphones, some of them encrypted and some
dangerous friendships that he handles too muchmoney for an electrician. Nieva doesn'
t seem nervous when she answers Idon' t know if she' s

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coming for me She doesn' thave a proof if she wanted to kill
him. I have two shotguns anda rifle at home. That November,
Auco' s civilian guards have alreadyrecovered Nieva' s phone book. They
found Muguruza' s number and name, they think they traveled together to Llanes.
The fence' s narrowing. WhenPedro Nieva appears in an operation against
drug trafficking in Medina de pomar Burgos, they suspect that he has carried out

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an electrical installation there for planting almosta thousand marijuana plants. The newspaper El
Comercio publishes that the clues of thecouncilman' s crime point to the Basque
Country and a sentimental motive. Kelly, who had returned from Algeria, reads
the news and escapes back to hercountry. This time by boat from Valencia,
he will end up hiding in Switzerland, where they will stop him.

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Accused of several robberies, Cati andher husband are still together. It even
seems that their stormy relationship improves attimes. In December, Nieva removed the
GPS device he had put in hiswife' s car to spy on her
and find out where she was going. In February, the Civil Guard will
stop him, as will Muguruza andSicario Benatia. The fourth man. Kelly

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had tried to erase her prints bytraveling to Llanes with a mobile phone in
the name of a person who didnot exist. In fact, the cell
phone located at the scene and timeof Ardines' crime was in the name
of a certain Ibrahim. The investigatorsof the UCO Civil Guard would then recall
a case in Venezuela. They hadhunted down a kidnapper because the phone he
used on his extortions was the sameone he had left at his children'

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s school in case there was anemergency. The officers, recalling that story,
traced the possible places where not evena hit man would lie by giving
his phone kea the English cut,a gymnasium, the school of his bingo
children. The motive of one ofthe Dardines killers was the same as that
of one of Mamarkely' s sonsas family contact in case of need.

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To this day, the four defendantsare in prison awaiting trial for the murder
of Ardines. Katia continues to livea Morevieta and continues to be married to
her husband, whom she visits inprison before the investigators. He referred to
some episodes in which Pedro was violent, such as the time he struck a
boy who approached his wife drunk andshowed him his penis. Katia confessed that
at first she thought her husband hadkilled her lover, but that she had

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then ruled out that possibility. Themorning before Javier Ardines was killed, Peter
Nieva, Katia' s husband senthim a message for Whatsapp. The councilman
didn' t get to see him, because, after the storm and the
recordings, he had blocked his oldfriend. I thought that would do it.
What came to your phone was awordless message, just a sign,
a final point. The trial forthe crime of Councilman Javirardines had not been

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held. At the time of completionof this book, the prosecution requests twenty
- five years in prison for eachof the four patrons Pedro Nieva, Jesús
Muguruza, Guila Li Benatia and Mahamarkelly, two of whom neither Evikley have always
maintained their innocence. The account ofthis chapter has been based on the investigation
of the Civil Guard and the confessionsof the other two defendants, Muguruza and

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Benatia. Both later retracted and blamedtheir confessions on pressure from the Civil Guard.
I like matures see you will seethat panties more exis I have put
Candy and Ye Linda Rieta, accusedof the murder of José Antonio Delgado,

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felt the cold of the knife inthe neck and the heat of the electric
shocks all over his body. Ifyou lie to us, you' re
dead, there was almost no light. While I heard the voices of two
men giving him orders and perceived awoman' s shadow searching among her things,
no one was going to save him. Trembling, Florín thought that his
journey ended there, the one thateleven years have been behind. He had

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taken it from Romania to Spain.That night in July he thought he was
going to die near Gallur, atown in Zaragoza. Florín made a living
driving trucks. He was 37 yearsold and was lonely in Spain. That
is why Badu had signed up forthe social network that summer, a huge
shop window where mature men look formore or less rapid relationships with women.

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In that virtual place she met DanielaMendoza, a twenty- four- year
- old Dominican girl, on theafternoon of July of two thousand nineteen.
Daniela was close just now and ahalf a car distance and she was pretty.
Sexy was the word Florín used themost. At six o' clock
in the afternoon, the Romanian truckdriver sent him a love arrow the sign
of Megustas in Badu. She respondedquickly. They stopped by Whatsapp. Hello,

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handsome Hello what? Maybe I'd like to meet you. We
' re gonna have a drink ifyou see a car. She wanted to
see you when she could approach hervillage? She wanted it to be that
same night, Florín improvised. Hedidn' t believe the luck he had
in his first incursion into Badu.I' m at work now till 9

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00. If you want, then she answered forn had no doubts and
if she had them. The fourphotographs Daniel had posted on his profile dissipated
them. She was a beautiful young- skinned brunette woman, one seventy-
five sexy skinny. In one ofthe images he appeared in a summer dress
like dancing. In another, shewore a short, tight pink dress with

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flowers. He looked at the profileof the other two photographs, Florín Yane
did not remember. When he finishedhis shift, he went buzzing home in
Zaragoza, showered in haste and tookhis car. A red renolt clio would
have to drive back to Galur,but that trip was worth it. It
was going to be a pleasure tripdown the sixty- eight ten twenty forty

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kilometers. Florín didn' t seethe time to meet that woman. She
said in her profile that she wassingle, that she was looking for a
serious relationship. The journey could bein vain, but Watsepp' s last
message he had sent him while hewas on his way promised a memorable night.
You' ll see what panties I' ve put on, you'
ll love them. The truck driverstepped into the throttle and arrived in Ayura

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earlier than expected. She was leadinghim on the phone, following his instructions,
crossed the village, crossed an ironbridge and saw him waiting on the
left side of the road, goingout to tauste in front of a house
Florín braked and opened the car door. Daniela smiled radiantly and kissed her as
she sat as a copilot hello loveyou have brought beers before answering the truck

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driver. He took a moment tolook her up and down. It was
night and it had cooled, butthe woman was wearing a very short strap
shirt. As soon as he coveredhis breasts, he noticed them were big.
He looked at her from the bottomup and wore very short pink pants.
His buttocks were guessed by two words. Very sexy. His mellow voice

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with the Caribbean leave interrupted his fantasies. Honey, I' m cold.
I left my jacket at my grandfather' s. You' re taking me
right here. He could not sayno and, following his instructions, he
put the reindeer on a dirt road. Just four minutes later they arrived in
front of an isolated house. Outside, they turn off the car lights.
Love.“ I don’ twant my grandfather to see you,”

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she told him before leaving, Florínobeyed. He didn' t know why,
but then he felt some fear.While he was waiting, he opened
the car door. Maybe it'd be better to stretch your legs.
He didn' t have time orsee them coming. Two hooded guys beat
him out of the vehicle, draggedhim down and tied him by his feet
and hands. Florin screamed, hismouth was covered with American tape. There

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he felt for the first time thecold of the knife on his neck.
The unbearable heat of the electric shockstwelve zero turns scorching his legs and that
phrase if you lie to us,he will be dead. She could barely
see her looking in her car lookingthrough her stuff. Daniela didn' t
talk between blows and threats. Theytook his cell phone, his money,
his credit card with his ping,everything he had on him to the sneakers.

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They finally put him back around.Five minutes later they left him lying
between a few reeds, saw aroad and arrived wounded and bleeding to the
house of a woman who called theCivil Guard. A few days later,
Florín searched for the profile of DanielAmbadu called her mobile, but Daniela was
no longer on the network. Hisnumber included the name of a Romanian citizen.

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On September 3, Julián, amature businessman from Tudela in Navarre received
a Megusta in his profile of Badúwho sent him to her was a girl
named Bella. She was very young, very beautiful, was Brazilian and lived
near him in Pamplona an hour awayby road. Julian was fifty- eight.

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He was a separate man and hadalready met some women in Badú Ra
ra ra randa his first time wasnot hidden from his children, who knew
some walks of his father, amature but well preserved guy, who took
care and used to do physical exerciseuntil Bella chose him. Julian had been
wise in that world of festive eroticmeetings over the Internet. She liked to
know what the woman she had contactedbefore going to see her in person was

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like. He spent three weeks toa month chatting with them before taking the
step of the actual physical encounter.He even once asked his children for their
opinion. That' s why Julianwas surprised that Bella was so direct,
so to the point. He lookedlike a guy. From the first message,
from the first photographs I sent him, everything was exposed. The young

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Brazilian girl appeared in little clothes andsaid she wanted to meet him that he
liked him could be that same night. That' s right. She was
no longer in Pamplona, but inTauste, a town in Zaragoza, only
forty- five kilometers from where helived. If he wanted they could see
each other in just an hour,Julian had not just trusted each other.
He thought everything was too much orra, fast, too pretty. It was

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when the man told him about theage difference between the two over thirty years,
but Bella reassured him with a confessionthat explained everything. I like matures.
Julian had no car, so hecould not go that night to meet
the young and ardent Brazilian woman.Throughout the next day, Bella continued to
send her images and messages of sexualcontent. He then proposed to take the

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train that was stopping at Luceni,a town in Zaragoza near Tauste. There
were four stops from Tudela an hour' s drive, about, she would
wait for him at the station andthen go to a hotel. Julian was
surprised by the heat and the rushof that young Latina kept coming to him
with more pictures of him, moremessages. The last one left no room
for doubt about what was going tohappen. If the businessman decided to get

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on that train. I' vehad my pussy piled up so you can
fuck me well. After that message, the woman made a video call when
they hung up, Julian took abag of clothes and money and went out
to the station on s o.The train arrived in Lucenia around ten o
' clock at night. When hecame down. Julian didn' t see
anyone on the platform, but secondslater he saw the phone love. I

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' m behind the tracks. Icame with a friend because I don'
t know the town and we're confused. She' s got a
car and she' s taking usto the hotel. Julian crossed the other
side of the train station. Shesaw Bella approach in the light of lanterns,
thought she was prettier than the photographsshe had sent her. His face.
His smile, his hips, hisbreasts were getting closer to him.

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I could almost touch her. Whenhe felt a blow to the head,
something hard, a wrench perhaps stunned, he staggered, saw a shadow and
began to run. He smelled then, as Bella screamed, he kills that
son of a bitch who runs away. Soon after, the shadow reached him
and knocked him down. They rolledtogether through an embankment with no time to

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think. Julian was fighting for hislife on the ground with another man.
When she saw Bella, very closein front of her face, she was
already putting a gun on her head. Stay still or I' ll kill
you. About six hundred and fiftyeuros were taken from him, the suitcase
with his clothes, the BBUB card, the sanitary card, his glasses,
the watch and the mobile phone tiedhim by foot and hands. They covered

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his mouth and put a hood onhis head. They put him in the
trunk of a car Fifteen twenty minutespassed. Then he was ordered down and
forced into a ship. While hewas being beaten. They put very loud
music, almost unbearable, reggaeton toall rags. Give us the pin number
of your cards and your family's cell phone. We' re gonna

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ask for a ransom for you.If they don' t pay, we
' ll cut off a finger andsend it to him to see what they
' re doing. Julian was brave, he was smart, too. I
can only give you a thousand eurostake my credit cards. I don'
t have any more money. Dowhat you want with me. They put
him back in the car. Soonafter, Bella approached him. We'

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re gonna throw you in a river. You stay there still, don'
t take off your hood until weleave. When he raised his head,
he saw the car leaving. Hewalked as he could, almost crawling to
a nearby road. His leg hurta lot. Then I' d know
he' d been broken The fibulacouldn' t move. He saw two

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men on the tractors and approached them. He screamed help. I' ve
been kidnapped for help. Her nameisn' t Bella or Daniela Mendoza.
He was not born in Brazil orthe Dominican Republic. She' s actually
a Venezuelan woman and her second name. Landazabal means wide field or in Euskera.
He has already erased the two profilesof Badu, with which he captured

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and seduced two mature men to lurethem into his terrain and jump them.
Before coming to Spain, she appearedon Facebook with her true identity, her
marital status, her faith and hercountry, Candy Angelín Arrieta al Landazábal,
Solterita Jesus Christ is my fortress Venezuela, Zulia, Maracaibo, mother, young

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and single. Candy Rieta had nohesitation in asking for help from the almighty
Hugo Chávez, the President of hiscountry, who then responded as a cacique
to all kinds of petitions from needycitizens. If Chávez or his people liked
you, you could get home andfood, it depended on his holy will.
Many others had succeeded, so Candydid not doubt it and wrote directly
to the Venezuelan President' s Twitteraccount in two thousand fifteen. Hello,

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my President, please, I needa home. I have four children.
Answer me, I' m ahearted chavista. Actually, I only had
one son. The lie did notserve he never got what he wanted and
four years later he arrived by planeto Spain. Shortly after stepping on the
ground in Barajas, he asked forthe political. She said that in her

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country, like so many others,she was persecuted for her ideas. Candy
' s stay in Spain is amystery. She fleetingly passed through Madrid and
her next trail safely placed her inAlicante, where she worked as a waitress.
In Nuno. Researchers tried to findout if hundreds of Venezuelan women have
arrived in our country. In recentyears it was part of a trafficking network
of Caribbean fresh meat women for Spanishwhores with money and desire for sex.

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They didn' t find any evidence. The bar in Alicante, where he
also worked fleetingly, was a normalestablishment. Looks like Kandy was a free
spirit. He moved in Spain onhis own his request for political asylum.
In addition, it guaranteed him atime to seek his life. Very soon
after passing through Alicante, in Juneof two thousand nineteen, the young Venezuelan

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appears in Zaragoza. Then I'd say I' d gone there with
a friend and they had a littlecar accident. They hit a car driving
an attractive guy, a bad guy. The guy was Mojamed Sacraft, a
violent Moroccan who had recently returned toPetrola, the small town of Zaragoza,
where his mother lived, and alsotwo women, two former brides, whom

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he had abused the electronic bracelet hewore on his ankle and did not lie.
He recorded every move he made sohe wouldn' t get close to
them. Craf and Candy started datingin June. Very soon after that meeting.
On July 6, 2000, shewrote on her Facebook wall our first
month together Macabelli Angelin Macabelli was thename the Moroccan used. The message is

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surrounded by seven heart- shaped balloons. Only twenty days after they formed a
couple began the attacks on mature Badumen. At least two of them have
gone unpunished, but they haven't gotten much money. A little over
seven hundred euros and an old carare looking for a third victim. Candy
makes another profile in the network ofcontacts. This time he' ll be

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called Sweet Angel and he' llchoose the cousin better. It has to
be someone with money, no matterwhat is further away from Aragon. She
' ll know how to lure himthere. At ten forty hours on September
10, José Antonio Delgado' sfather denounces in the police station of the
rejection in Gaecho VI VI CR thathis son has disappeared. He explains that
José Antonio is fifty- four yearsold and is separated and says that the

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previous Friday he had told them thathe was going to spend the weekend away.
He didn' t tell them whohe was leaving with. Yeah,
he seemed happy when he said goodbye to them. If I don
' t have a good time,I' ll be back soon, but
if I have fun, I'll be right back to work on Monday.
José Antonio Delgado didn' t comeback on the weekend or Monday.
He didn' t show up forwork. Nor did he call his sister,

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who was in her birthday. Thatday, Friday he had gone with
Clothes and his two mobile phones inhis Mercedes two hundred and twenty red.
His friend Fernando was going to bethe first to give a clue about his
possible whereabouts. The day he disappeared, the two had seen each other at
the Sands Health Center. They talkedabout some medical tests of an experimental treatment
and the weekend ahead of them.José Antonio was excited. I' m

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meeting an aunt is South American.She just came back and told me to
spend the weekend with her. Inthe afternoon, I' ll go get
her and we' ll go allthe same. We used to pass as
an achievement. I don' tknow Look, I' ve got it
here It' s good. JoséAntonio showed his friend the photograph of the
Badúd profile of that sweet woman Angel. That same Friday night, at 11

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30, Fernando sent a mobile wasapal message from his friend to find out
how he was doing with the mysteriousSouth American woman. There was no answer.
Fernando insisted on Saturday and also onMonday. His friend was mute,
lost, no sign of life,he had never done anything like it.
The Basque police investigators began by requestinginformation from the disappeared person' s phones

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and getting data very soon. Thetrace of the telephone he used for work
matters had stopped signaling on September 9at 14: 30, near a town
called Garrapinillos, in the province ofZaragoza. The Basque businessman' s personal
motive also places him in a townin the same province called Alagon. About
two o' clock in the morningthe day he disappeared, since then,

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both phones were dead. The chanchaalso follows the thread of his credit cards
and his car, the Mercedes.Two hundred and twenty study the social networks
in which he moved, including Badút' s dating page, where he was
very active, Find out that everyFriday in addition, he must take injections
for a disease that suffers the bones. He' s following an experimental treatment
in Basque healing. Investigators contact thenational police and the civil guard in case

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he could have suffered an accident andthere was a negative hospital. Nor has
he been staying with that name inany hotel or hostel in the province of
Zaragoza. It is a high-risk disappearance and mobilizes all Spanish security forces,
including Interpol. They have also discoveredthat a man who is not José
Antonio, has obtained a total of1, 500 euros in six ATMs from

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Utebo, Figueruelas and Zaragoza, usingtheir credit cards and ping. The mention
or a South American woman I hadmet in Badú makes the Civil Guard of
Zaragoza jump to the soul. Therethey know of two hores that have been
attacked in recent months, the lastone last week. It' s two
unsolved assaults on the hooks. Theyhad been a Dominican woman named Daniela,

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and another Brazilian named Bella. Butafter the violent attacks, the two had
erased their profiles of Badu. TheM O was the same. They had
attracted a name Maduro Aragón. Thetrace of the victims' credit cards had
reached images recorded by a bank's security cameras. A guy hiding under
a cap had cashed out with thecard of the first victim, the Romanian

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truck driver. Investigators expanded the imagesand saw that the man had tattoos on
the twins on his legs. Thecivil guards of Zaragoza will collaborate with the
investigators of the Central Operational Unit,an elite unit based in Madrid, which
deals with the most complicated cases,which are also sometimes the most media.
A quick decision is made at theUCO. An agent, a veteran corporal

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is going to open a profile inBadu. He' s a mature man
who gives the victim profile for thoseSouth American women on the sexual encounters website.
The guard pretends to be an entrepreneurin search of a couple relationship.
Something serious. In addition, hehas put on his profile that lives in
Zaragoza, near where the assaults areoccurring. He expects Daniela Bella or Dulce
Angel to get in touch with himand send him a love crush to set

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a date where they try to attackhim, but for now nobody tells him
I like you. On September 13, a week after the disappearance of José
Antonio Delgado, a Roma man,calls the phone of the luxurious family home.
On bed, he asks about themissing and also about his car in
Mercedes two hundred twenty. The surprisedparents ask him to come up scared,

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they call relatives and the Basque policecome everyone has come a kinky mosquito.
So, fuck. The gypsy runsout, but is boarded on the same
street by the archaine. Fernando,who' s his name, explains that
he was there to do his cousina favor. Antonio said that day nine
he saw in his profile of Whatsappthat his cousin had a new car very

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painted and decided to call him tohave a laugh, but his cousin was
not for jokes. He told herthat he had seen Mercedes on the 1,
000 com ads page that he hadliked and that he had talked to
a guy who had sold it tohim in a tebo zaragoza. Antonio had
given him eleven zero euros in handand had to pay him another ten zero,
but that individual did not give himthe driving permit nor did he tell

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him that the car had outstanding feesto pay with Mercedes Benz' s financier.
I had actually told him a milonga. He told her that the car
belonged to her father, that shewas older and since she was no longer
driving, she wanted to sell it. The man had given him a bad
thorn from the beginning, but Antonioignored his hunch. The possibility of getting
a Mercedes Benz for that money wasa bargain. Now he repented like his

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cousin, Fernando lived in Baracaldo.He had offered to settle accounts from the
owner' s house. There hemet all that brown and now they were
questioning him. Archancha alerted the civilguard investigators who soon located cousin Antonio,
who still had Mercedes of the disappeared. The agents retrieved the photographs where the
car was advertised on the Internet.When they studied them, they discovered that

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the images had been taken on MoncayoStreet, very close to Luceni train station,
the site of the ambush of thesecond victim, Julián, the businessman
of Tudela, were nearby. Antoniotold the civil guards that on September 7,
barely a day after José Antonio Delgadohad disappeared, he had met a
man at Utebo' s market.The two haggled over the price of Mercedes

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Benz 1, 000 euros up ordown and stayed to close the deal two
days later to the second date.He wasn' t that short- haired
man anymore. This time a womanshowed up who showed her the car and
took her papers. That man calledme and told me he couldn' t
come. He told me he'd bring me the papers. The woman
who cared for her father, whodidn' t worry that she was trustworthy.

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She taught me even the dene andthe owner of the car. The
deney was that of José Antonio Delgado, the missing man. The civil guards
recovered the graves of the security camerasof the Utebo market and placed them with
the buyer of Mercedes. He recognizedwithout hesitation some images, those of a
man of about seventy- five shortbrown hair and with a tattoo on his

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left hand. The agents already hadthe face of a nameless man who was
selling a missing man' s car. As for the saleswoman, there was
no image of her. Two researcherstranscribed cousin Antonio' s statement, in
which he claimed that she was Morena, with a bulky butt and breasts as
well, although he described it inmore explicit words. So clear was her

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memory of that young Latina' sbody that, if I saw her again,
I would recognize her without a doubton September 16, the agents have
already recovered José Antonio Delgado' scar. While awaiting fingerprint tests, they
decide to try an old- schoolmethod. They' re going to show
the image of the seller of thestolen car to a veteran civilian guard in

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the area. In case the guywas booked, a man who was involved
in two such violent assaults and adisappearance couldn' t be a rookie had
to have other previous browns and thearea' s Civil Guard sergeant confirmed it
to him. The one with theimages was an old acquaintance named Mohamed Sacraft.
His mother lived in Pedrola and hadbeen reported twice for mistreating so many

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other couples. That' s whyhe still wore a telematic tracking bracelet to
keep him from approaching less than ahundred and fifty meters from the last of
them. The Civil Guard is amine and points out that Craft has returned
to the village about six months agoand has installed a car workshop on a
ship in the hermitage polygon. Hehas recently been living with a woman who
has no more data. The researchersgo to the comet center responsible for tracking

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the cards placed on some abusers,they will collaborate with them quickly and effectively.
Their bracelets can' t even beremoved with hammers. They emit a
GPS signal that lets you know wherethey are at every moment and if the
wearer fails to comply with their limits. In this case, approach the woman
you have mistreated. The signal popsand warns, so reading the GPS.

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The bracelet is an inexhaustible source ofdata about what the Moroccan has done over
the past few weeks. They placeit instead of the second round, that
of the businessman Navarro when the attackoccurred and even more interesting, it locates
it on the afternoon of September 6, very close to the train station of
Luceni, where Dulce Angel had summonedthe Basque businessman disappeared. The abuser'
s bracelet reproduces almost to the secondall his steps on the day of the

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disappearance of José Antonio Delgado. Hisdata and geographical coordinates indicate that Craft went
to the station that March 6.There they kidnap the Basque businessman and then
take him to Pedrola' s shipat twenty- fifty- three. His
bracelet gets there with him. Forthirty- eight minutes he remains in the
area where everything indicates that the Basquebusinessman was tortured. Then Craft returns to

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the station area. That morning hewent to Utebo, where he took money
from a cashier with the businessman's card. On the evening of the
8th of March, the Craft braceletplaces him again at the railway stop and
from there goes a nearby campground wherehe passes, according to the telematics signal,
about forty minutes. Civil guards believethat the Basque businessman' s body

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may be in that deserted area.The first visit of the decamped Moroccan would
have been to recognize the place andverify that it was empty. The second
of the forty minutes would have beento finish the hole where to deposit the
body of the man who was stillbreathing when he was buried. As will
be known later, when the civilianguards arrive at the coordinates that mark the
abuser' s bracelet, there isno one there. Not even a shepherd

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who carries his sheep up and downis coming. They have to drag that
road on foot. They do,and they won' t be long.
At eight forty- five hours onSeptember 27th they reported that they had found
a person’ s body an animalhad dug it up. Partially, the
tests will reveal that his lungs hadsoil, that is, his killers had
buried him alive. Meanwhile, otherofficers were watching the ship where Monjammed Sacraft

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lived, spending time inside almost notime going out with him. They photographed
a South American woman who was alsolittle absent from the workshop in Madrid and
Zaragoza. Other civil guards have continuedto track social networks until they find several
profiles in the name of Angelín Rieta. They found that the woman posed in
a crazi embrace under the motto JesusChrist is my life, Axel is my

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baby to Craft is my love.They also find out that another man had
entered the Facebook chat and had respondedon social media to the love messages he
wrote. Candy, the guy's name is José Antonio Meléndez, he
studies in his Facebook profile and discoversthat I even in Zaragoza with the couple.
One image shows them to all three. Candy is in the smiley foreground
behind Craft and in the background Meléndezwith her cap drawn. The civil guards

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will find out later that he hastattoos on the twins. Meléndez is the
person who took money from the cashierwith the first victim' s card in
the early morning of July 27.He is the second hooded man who attacked
Florín why not to participate in thefollowing attacks. The officers will find out
that this man, with a recordfor theft and ill- treatment, committed
another crime. He was arrested andon 6 August he had been admitted to

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Castellón prison, Uno, where hehad been in those weeks in which he
had not received any exit permits.In addition to this third individual, the
civil guards who surf social media discoverother images in which Candy appears smiling and
provocatively happy playing a game of billiardsposing with her ass pomp. The second

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victim and the man he sold tothe Mercedes Benz recognize her without hesitation.
The agents who discreetly monitor the shipknow that Mojame Zacraft' s girlfriend is
inside and that she is Dominican DanielaMendoza, Brazilian Bella and Venezuelan Dulce Candy.
Civil guards are aware that it isurgent to search the ship where the
couple lives. They are convinced thatChinese spends a lot of time. You

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can find evidence of the murder ofJosé Antonio Delgado, perhaps also of the
other two previous assaults. Five daysafter the discovery of the Cadaver, he
gets the court order to enter thebuilding. During all that time they watch
and check that Crafi Kandy is lockedin there. They' re being watched
day and night. His phones areflattened. In one of the conversations,

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the Moroccan asks a friend to gethim a gun with silencer pacifier. On
October 2nd at 1550, the civilguards storm and arrest the Mohame Sacraft and
his partner Kandy attrieta al Andazábal.The record is going to be a success.
In the ship there are several piecesof the renor clío and Florín'
s mobile phone. The Romanian hisfirst victim. Also, a twelve-

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zero- gout taser pistol with whichhe was possibly hit with electric shocks.
That night in July, the officersalso found a chimera- marked pistol,
possibly the same one the woman pointedat the head of Julián, the second
victim. Before the eyes of Mohamedand Candy, the researchers recovered the graduated
glasses of the last victim, JoséAntonio Delgado, including a golf club and

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the bag of Emporio Armani sticks,which were carrying the trunk of his mercedes
when he went to meet his friendfrom Badú. The record is prolonged and
the evidence against the couple accumulates.In spite of everything, Candy has a
defiant attitude towards researchers. She raisestheir voices, complains that she has nothing
to do with the attacks. Suddenlyhe' s headed for one of the

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guards. I have to go tothe bathroom. A civilian guard checks the
toilet first to see that there isno object Candy can attempt to escape or
assault them with. He' sclean. Candy comes in and closes the
latch. The officers are on guardand keep an eye on the door.
Soon afterwards they hear the woman pullsthe chain and comes out. Go back
to the living room and lie downon a sofa a hunch tells one of

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the civil guards to search the bathroom. When entering, look at the bottom
of the toilet cup for a chainand a ring of gold. They don
' t hesitate to reach in andget them back. The two jewels were
by José Antonio Delgado, the manthey had murdered. Candy and Mohamed have
not yet been tried for the murderof José Antonio Delgado and the eye attacks
on Florín and Julián. Everything pointsto her holding that the man had her

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locked on the ship and forcing herto offer herself as a hook to bring
in mature men and jump them.Investigators don' t believe it. They
define her as a lying woman whowas increasing her violence and increasing her thefts.
They do not forget that on theday that his criminal career ended in
Spain defeated while they sought and foundevidence against him, on that ship Candy,

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the Dulce Angel of Badú fell asleepthe murderer who did not confine himself
to how many destitute have murdered inrecent years. In Barcelona, Juan Carlos
Granja, mayor of the Mossus ofEscudra. On the 13th of March,
two thousand and twenty, the Spaniardsknew that that day was the last day

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on which they would enjoy their freedomwithout limitations. In the middle of the
afternoon, that Friday XIII, thePresident of the Government announced the imminent entry
into force of the State of alarmin order to try to stop the unstoppable
expansion of the 19th Covid, thefear of the virus and the uncertainty regarding
measures that would change the lives ofall the millions of people. It was

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not the case of Tiago, athirty- five- year- old Brazilian
who had been living in the provinceof Barcelona for a year. He had
lived in occupied houses and since Januaryhis home was a broken- down caravan
in which he accumulated old clothes,blankets and useless items. The hobo'
s troupe paradigm. Juste Maria Tarreshad acquired the Roulot four years ago in

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Roses, Girona, for eight hundredeuros. In two thousand twenty he was
for the scrapping, so it alsodid not suppose him any headache to find
out that Tiago had occupied his caravanchapurreando español. The Brazilian promised that he
would pay in instalments two hundred andfifty euros in exchange for letting her live
there. On March 13, atthe gates of the Tarres confinement, he

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told his peculiar tenant to move thecaravan he did not want it. On
his turf. It didn' tinspire too much confidence. The man had
led some incident with the neighbors thatrequired the presence of the squadron mossus.
On February 14, he had foughtwith a couple who accused him of stealing
from them, while he replied thata mobile phone had been stolen from him.
The brawl ended with no complaints.Eleven days later, several neighbors complained

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that Thiago had entered a store withan axe to plan for them. It
was a rare kind of weird looking, few words and lost look. On
his journeys to Pies he turned aroundcontinually and looked everywhere as if he felt
persecuted. The res preferred that hebe away from him and his family,

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although he did not want to losesight of him definitively until he had just
paid what he owed, since atthe moment he had paid him only one
hundred and sixty euros, a moneythat he obtained by selling a mechanical saw
in a cas shop with Werther andhelping a neighbor move sandbags for a work.
On March 13, Thiago took thecaravan to the Molí street of the

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urbanization plans them. There it hadunbeatable views over the park of Colserola on
the border between the municipalities of Barcelonaand San Cugat. It was not a
bad place to be confined, butThiago had no intention of locking himself up.
The first week of confinement in Barcelonabecame a ghost city. The place
that Juan Marcé, Eduardo Mendoza andManuel Vázquez Montalbán had elevated to the category

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of literary character was an unrecognizable placeby the orderly streets of Champla. There
were only police officers, riders whocarried meals from one place to another on
bicycles, equipped with boxes and theinvisible inhabitants of the cities, the vagrants
who slept in porches and bank tellers, taking refuge from the humid cold that
that month of March still resisted leavingBarcelona. The mosus routine, which had

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been almost exclusive for four days toenforce the state of alarm, broke off
on March 18 at times twenty-three, zero- zero hours. The
petina laughter warned the one, oneor two that a man who slept in
the Cerdeña street at the confluence withAragon and Avenida Diagonal, in the heat
of the air ducts of a supermarket, bled abundantly. The emergency services were

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only able to certify the death ofLaurean Almeida da mora born sixty years ago
in Orense. His killer had surprisedhim during his sleep and had wounded him
in the throat with a knife woundthat caused him to bleed out. In
a few minutes. The criminal threwthe gun an old kitchen knife about six
inches of blade and wooden handle.Next to the murder site of the gun.

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No prints could be obtained without anycamera recording the attack in the heart
of the xampla. The Urban Guarddetained a person, a Uruguayan vagrant,
minutes after being warned, after gatheringseveral testimonies that placed him at the scene
of the crime. But the weakstrength of the witnesses and the lack of
evidence forced the Mozus to release thesuspect. Laurean was one of those people,

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permanently separated by society, someone whohad long lost any roots. Her
sister even breathed a sigh of reliefwhen she received the call that Laurean had
been murdered in Barcelona. Within thisframework, any investigation is complicated. There
are no people close to the victimand in this case there was no prior
discussion or difference in occupying a corneror a wine carton. The first efforts

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of the Mosus to throw him overthe crime were completely sterile to how many
indigent people have been murdered in recentyears in Barcelona. Four weeks after the
death of Laureano, squadron Mosus mayorJuan Carlos Granja, responsible for the Dick
Criminal Investigation Division in Barcelona, putthe question to the police officers who had

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just returned from the scene of anew crime committed. On the 16th of
April of two thousand and twenty,Granja had taken over the dic of the
Catalan capital. A few months ago, backed by his successes in the demarcation
of Metrosur, where he had successfullyresolved, among others, the murder of
Pedro Rodríguez, the Urban Guard,victim of an evil triangle of love and

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death formed by him and his twofellow detainees, Rosa Peral and Alberto López.
How many homeless people have been killedsleeping like that, surprising them with
no choice to defend themselves. Farmrepeated the question to his people. His
nose told him that he was facingthe worst possible scenario for an investigator,

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a serious killer in front of himhad the crowded four weeks earlier, on
March 18, corresponding to the murderof Laureano Almeida. The new crime that
had once again broken the routine ofthe police force, devoted almost inexclusive to
proposing for the sanction to those whoskipped the confinement had occurred in Lepanto street
four streets south of the place ofLaureano' s murder. Next to the

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auditor. Fifteen minutes on foot stopped. The two scenes were the only two
homicides recorded in the city since theState of Alarm was established. The crime
scene was very similar to that ofSardinia Street. The victim, a 22
- year- old Moroccan born inBenit Chicker, named Imad Aluce, a
fucker well known to theater watchmen andsocial catering workers. He was sleeping at

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00 p m when his killer smashed his skull. Two beggars of
French origin, Jessi Gael Fortier andJean Pierre and Willon, told the LICEU
security agents that Imat was bleeding heavilyfrom his head very close to his body.
The mozus found the murder weapon a70- centimeter steel formwork bar curved

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at one of its ends. Themayor Granja was sure that the two beggars
had been killed by the same person, an opinion that was not shared by
his team, which saw too manydifferences between the two crimes. In the
first case, the victim was sixtyyears old and the attack on the vins
produced at night and using a knifeand mate was twenty years old and he

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was beaten to death at noon.Both victims slept when they were attacked.
Both lived on the street and inboth cases the criminal threw the gun in
the vicinity. The similarities weighed morethan the differences and the research team worked
with the hypothesis defended by Juan CarlosGranja. They were facing a serial killer
and would continue to kill until hewas arrested. It was necessary to work

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very quickly in such an exceptional frameworkas the one that the country was living
in the face of the pandemic.A few hours after the assassination of IMATE,
the images of the Moroccan crime arrivedat the police station of the headquarters
of the DIQUE in Barcelona. TheChamber of a bar in front of the
LICEU captured the killer. It wasa distant shot in which the features of
the criminal were not clearly appreciated,but his way of acting. It looked

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like he was hitting a lump onthe ground. The victim three times disappeared
from the scene and a few secondslater reappeared to continue beating the tramp to
the height of his head anger Rabieshate. The images suggested, as one
researcher said, that the killer wasangry with the world. The comment named

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the angry angri operation in English.The Dec deployed a device based on the
premise that on the street there wasa serial killer, an effective predator who
acted quickly and cautiously, while lookingaround before acting on his attack was as
energetic as it was lethal. Hehad nothing to do with his victims,

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and he wasn' t interested instealing anything. I just wanted to unload
his murderous fury in a few seconds. He was extremely dangerous. The scientific
police officers were eager to find tracesor biological remains in the crime scene without
any success, while the investigators wereengaged in the search for security camera images
that allowed the killer to trace hiscrimes and the witnesses who had seen him

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in the moments before and after hisactions. In addition, a team of
analysts, including a couple of criminalprofilers, collected information from patrols working in
the street and studied carefully the listof prisoners who had left free of permission
at the time of the killings.It was not long before the researchers could

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clearly see the face of their target. The cameras of the Barcelona Metro recorded
his image, collapsing in the stationof Glorias, minutes after the death of
Imat, the same man who filledwith Ira, discharged half a dozen blows
on the skull of the homeless.He turned to sneak into the lathes,
unwittingly looking at the camera, touchedby a boat cap with the visor behind,

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sunglasses mittens on his hands, ashort pants on top of a long
one, a backpack on his backand a plastic bottle hanging from the bag.
It was unmistakable, a unique aspectand a way of erratic action.
According to his ride on the subway. At the next station to Gloria Schlotzs,
the killer got off and changed direction, rising to the surface in Urquinaona.

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Four seasons later. He had beenmistaken, he felt persecuted as soon
as he had begun to analyze thecriminal' s recordings and to extract impressions
from the sharpest image of his countenance. When the killer returned to action,
his cooling period only lasted 36 hours, at 4 a m on 18 April.

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On Caspe Street, next to TivoliRamón Barberán Giner, a sixty-
seven- year- old orense turowho slept covered by cardboard, died beaten.
The cameras captured the criminal, arrivingat the portal where his victim slept,
armed with a stick and looking aroundin the moments before, to attack
again a quick, fulminating and atthe same time cautious action. The images

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left no doubt that it was thesame killer and his signature was identical In
the vicinity of the scene the murderweapon appeared again. A round wooden stick
of one metre in length that coulddo the times of mango, of a
hoe or of a shovel, abeggar sleeping on the sidewalk in front of
the same street caspe told the Mossusthat days ago he woke up because someone

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was beating him in the legs andfeet, which confirmed the hypothesis that the
criminal beat lumps, masses of blankets, sacks and target cartons devoid of human
forms. Three fulminating murders with threevictims chosen from the most vulnerable layers of
society. In a confined Barcelona,the press paid little attention to the crimes

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involved in the information of the pandemic, so the Mosus were able to work
away from the hotbeds that make policework so uncomfortable. Almost all of the
members of the Barcelona dicta were assignedto the angri operation The homicide agents counted
on the collaboration of the comrades whowere usually involved in the thefts or the
multi- recident criminals. In addition, following the murder of Ramón Barberano,

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Mayor Granja asked for help from themonitoring and follow- up group at Mossus
headquarters. Since 19 April, halfa hundred Paisano agents patrolled the streets of
a deserted Barcelona every night in searchof the monster that had already claimed three
lives. The researchers of the Deccame to the conclusion, after carefully studying
the geography of their crimes, thatthe killer would again act in the Champla

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and that the nerve point that healways went through was Urquinaona Square. It
was their security zone and it wasalso where they could most easily find their
victims, people who slept on thestreet. The analysts of the MOSSUS conducted
a census of the homeless and livedon the ground thanks to the information provided
by the patrolmen. Only in thearea that they expected could it be the

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scene of a new crime of theserial killer, eighty people lived in the
open. The work of the analystscombined with the classic police work the image
of the sens but sneaking into thesubway, showed two hundred agents of MOSSUS
and Guardia Urbana who usually served inthe city center. In case anyone recognized
him. His appearance was peculiar enoughnot to have gone unnoticed and his character

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suggested that he could have starred insome previous incident. No one recognized him.
He was someone invisible to those whospend their days dealing in the street
with individuals of all sorts. Norwas his face familiar in the social comodores
or in the shelters of the city, where the Mossus became visible to reduce
the fear and insecurity that spread amongthe homeless with the same speed as the

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virus. If all the administrations inthose days called for isolation and social distance
to fight the disease, the autonomouspolice launched the opposite message. Among those
in charge of caring for the homeless, they had to stay together, avoid
sleeping alone, because it made themeasy targets for the monster who was loose

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every morning. The first floor ofthe SCORTS Police Station was the scene of
a meeting at which research progress wasanalyzed. Mayor Granja saw himself daily with
the man responsible for homicides, areachiefs, scientific police mosus and analysts.
These meetings shared the information provided bythe officers who monitored the streets, checked

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the lists of prisoners who had beenreleased and even learned of the number of
drums such as the one carried bythe killer sold by the chain of catron
sports shops. The photo of abottle like the one carrying the criminal became
the icon of the whatsapp group calledcash Angre made up of the twelve responsible
for the operation. The scientific policeofficers found no useful vestiges in the crime

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scenes, but they did analyze indetail the images of the subway cameras in
which the killer was seen. Thanksto them they determined that his height could
range between one hundred seventy- fiveand one hundred seventy- seven centimetres and
that his arms were muscular and vascularized. Despite what television and film fictions tell
us, there is no computer systemin which the image of an anonymous face

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can be inserted and an identity canbe obtained in a few minutes, so
the Anguri operation took place on thestreet where in half a hundred policemen sought
their target every night among the shadowsof Barcelona confined. Those responsible for the
device handed the photo of the suspectobtained from the underground rail videos to the

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agents involved in the search. Beforethey wrote on the cheek of the image
the number of professional meat of thepeople to whom they gave the photo who
had to return it at the endof their shift. The obsession was to
shield the information, to avoid atall costs leaks that the killer' s
face appeared in the press and thatcaused his escape. The policemen who went

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out hunting every night on the streetsof Lessampla knew that they could not rush.
They had very precise instructions from themayor farm. If anyone recognized the
suspect. You didn' t haveto stop him, you had to follow
him to find his lair where youcould find evidence of his crimes. For
nine nights, between 18 and 27April, in the streets of Barcelona,

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a unique hunt took place in thesemi- desert city. The potential victims
of the predator were sleeping on thestreet as an appetizing bait for the monster
and around them fifty policemen were bettingon making themselves invisible to capture him.
The rain that fell almost uninterruptedly onthose nights contributed to the Barcelona of Operation

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Angrie resembling the angels that Rick Décarpatrolled in search of the Nexus six replicators
on Platerunner. Minutes after 23 hourson 27 April, the mayor' s
phone rang. Farm. He wasin his house, in the company of
his wife and two children, sevenand ten years old, whom he hardly
saw since he took the lead inthe persecution of the murderer seriously. There

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' s another victim, another deadbeggar to Palos on Roselló Street. The
homicide agent telegraphed the news. I' m on my way. Farm got
into his vehicle and blushed the sapla. The scene was in the same district
as the previous crimes, in thesame area plagued by Paisano police for ten
nights. The news of the newmurder came to the Mossus thanks to a

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Russian- born couple, Viacheslav andOlga, who had come across a guy
who instilled suspicions in them, witha lost look and a bar in their
hand. Witnesses quickly walked into hisdoorway and from the balcony saw the same
man approach a homeless man who slepton the street and beat him. As
they tried to take care of thewounded, they stopped a patrol car and

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reported what they had seen. Minutesafter the first so- called farm,
one of the operatives in the streetmarked the number of the mayor who was
already in his car on the wayto the crime scene. J n o
boss or his fellow multir repeat offenderswho were in Urquinaona have seen a guy
who looks like the suspect in therain have not been able to see him
well, but he looks a lotlike the one in the photo they have.

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Centered at a bus stop. Farmactivated the surveillance group specializing in following
anyone' s trail becoming invisible.A dozen agents in several cars headed for
the stop. There they found histarget, who had the same quirky look
that they knew shorts on top oflong caps, backpacks, gloves and bottle.

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He looked everywhere, changed the directionof the march until he finally got
on the Passeig de Gracia on anight bus was already his. Twenty minutes
had passed since the discovery of thebody with the suspect on the bus,
the mayor Granja ordered that all uniformedpatrols on the street, suspend the search
and shut off the light and sounddevices of the cars. The dam could

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not be frightened to follow its confidentpath, thinking that once again it could
return to its lair with impunity forthirty endless minutes, surveillance officers followed the
night bus on which the suspect wastravelling. The mayor Farm and several musus
de la dic followed him at adistance until he got off at San Cugat.

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They too got out of the carsand chased him. He walked,
changed direction, made short sprints.Once again, his behavior was erratic,
so much so that the officers wereordered to stop him without waiting for him
to reach his destination. They couldn' t risk him running away. Minutes
after the suspect was handcuffed. Themayor Granja arrived at the police station.

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He had in his hand the impressionof the image captured by the cameras of
the Glorias station. He looked himin the face. There was no doubt
about it. It was the sameguy as your name. The mayor began
questioning at the same place of detention. Mellamo Thiago Lages Fernández, the arrested

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one. I spoke Spanish with difficulty, mixing words in Portuguese where you come
from, Tiago, what you havedone tonight to walk, I come,
to walk, where you live there. About twenty minutes on foot in a
caravan, the man pointed out inthe direction of plans. Thiago was transferred
to the Corts Police Station. Whileat the site of his last crime,

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homicide agents checked the identity of thenew victim. It was jampiare hc Billon,
born thirty- two years ago inthe French town of Fourmies. He
was the homeless person who had warnedthe LICEU vigilantes of Imat' s murder
days before and suspected that he wouldbe the victim of the same man.
Weeks later, next to the crimescene, the officers found a formwork bar

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identical to the one used to killthe Moroccan. Once in the premises of
the Corts de s the mayor Farmmet for ten minutes with the monster who
had just lost his sinister game withthe Mosus. Tiago, do you know
why you' re here why westopped you? I don' t know
anything. I was just walking thedetainee. He spoke very quickly, mixing

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Spanish and Portuguese. They killed aman on the street tonight. He'
s been hit several times in thehead. You have something to do with
it. No. No. Ijust came from walking. You killed someone.
No. No. I didn't kill anyone. You something.
He was shut down in a gang, there was no way to get any

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information out of him about the crimes, and his appearance and manner of speaking
and acting indicated that something was notworking well in his head. You go
to the doctor. There' soften something wrong with you. Yeah,
I' m going to the doctor' s stomach right now, but I
meant the psychiatrist. He' sever been to a doctor to see if
you' re okay with your head. Tiago' s responses became incoherent.

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His tone was kind and helpful,but from his words nothing useful for the
investigation would come. We just wantto help you, so stay calm here,
we' ll give you a sandwichand then rest. The Intendant Granja
thus terminated his informal interrogation, convincedthat he was facing the crimes of a
madman, crimes that have no history, as the professor of legal medicine Pedro

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Mata wrote in the nineteenth century.At 4 a m on 28 April,
the Chief Public Prosecutor of Barcelona receivedan e- mail in which the Mosus
told him of the arrest of thesuspect of killing four destitute persons during the
State of Alarm. Those responsible forthe investigation slept very few hours after the
arrest of the killer, from whichdata began to arrive with a dropper within

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hours of the arrest. It wasreported that a musus analyst travelling by train
had run into Tiago at the Valvidrierastation at ten o' clock at night,
barely an hour before committing his lastcrime. People got suspicious. The
man who spoke only made strange movementsand had a bar of iron hidden under
his sleeve, which he would useshortly afterwards to kill Jan Pierre. The

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girl followed Tiago to Gracia station.He even recorded it on his cell phone
and called one one two to transferhis suspicions. This meeting served for the
investigators to map out the killer's route. He arrived in the centre
of Barcelona from San Jugate by trainand took advantage of these trips to catch
in the work areas of the stationsthe objects he used as weapons. After

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his crimes, he took a busin the urquinaona square that returned him to
his place of residence. Just anhour before his last murder. Thiago was
very close to a police officer andminutes after ending his life left in Pierre
ran into a Mossus patrol of thePolice Station of Saint Martin, which sanctioned
him on the same street. Rosellócrime scene for skipping confinement without just cause.

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After Thiago' s arrest, theMozus searched the face of Havana that
had served as their home since thebeginning of the year two thousand and twenty.
There, in the midst of amultitude of unusable clothes and objects,
the officers found the clothing with whichthe killer had been recorded in the images
captured after his crimes, glasses similarto those he wore on 16 April.

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A reflective orange, black and whitejacket, black rubber straps, a red
football club Barcelona cap and black fingerlessgloves, also wearing the lethal attack of
April 18. A grey, white, red and black plaid Palestinian scarf,
a grey hunter marks a disident redcap with blue visor from the Barcelona Football
Club and some black mittens. Withthe killer in prison, the investigators tried

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to track him around the world toprove his identity. They only had a
document of their carnal driving, whichsaid his name was Thiago Lages Fernández,
born in the Brazilian town of BeloHorizonte. On January 25, 1980,
the Mossus notified the national police andthe civil guard to verify whether in their
demarcations they gave unresolved crimes, correspondingto the modus operandi and to the type

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of victims of Tiago. They didthe same with the police from nearby countries,
especially France and Portugal. A criminalwith the murderous fury who had proven
the purpose of Operation Angrie could havekilled earlier. To date, however,
it is not known that Tiago hasacted elsewhere. It is known that he

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entered Portugal through Lisbon airport, wherehis sister Tatiana resides. On December 5,
two thousand eighteen, from Brazil,their country of origin. In March
of two thousand nineteen was detected ina house occupied with plans. On November
27, two thousand nineteen was identifiedfor the first time in San Jugat by
the Mosus, who accused her ofoccupying a land. On January 16,

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2000, the civil guard arrested himin Zaragoza for stealing inside a vehicle and
three days later, the police yearnedfor them in the same city for violating
the laws of foreigners. At theend of that month, on January 29,
Tiago was back in Shankugat because therehe was identified by the Mossus after
a neighbor alerted that he was paintinga sculpture of the municipality. International police

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cooperation through Interpol allowed the Mossus totrace Tiago' s criminal route in Brazil.
He only said, after being arrested, that he had been a butcher
and that he had a son inhis country of origin, something that was
certified by the Brazilian police. Tiagohad lived together for seven years with a
woman named Diane Zantúnes, who intwo thousand seventeen denounced him for threats and

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five years earlier had accused him ofnot paying his due alimony. Tiago had
long lost contact and probably his anchorwith the real world. In two thousand
sixteen he was admitted six months ina psychiatric facility and before he had had
several encounters with the police who arrestedhim for various reasons, possession of drugs

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harassing a woman, assaulting officers beatup a tra beast who refused to pay
when reading this audio book. Theinvestigation of tiago' s crimes follows its
judicial course. It is not evenknown whether his state of mind will allow
him to sit on a bench,but what seems certain is that he will
become part of the list of psychiatricpatients confined in Spanish prisons, where they

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only have to wait for the endto reach them without any arrangement or treatment.
Prisoners with mental problems have long beenthe big black hole in our penal
system. Thanks to four humans.These words would not exist without the help

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of a few people who deserve myrecognition. From the Office of Press and
Information Relations of the Police, EnriqueSacristán acted as a great facilitator, as
did Ricardo Gutiérrez, from the SuperiorPolice Headquarters of Madrid. In the Judicial
Police Brigade of more Madrid. Mydear and dear pringue found the help of
a few great researchers. Quique jesReales, Juan José Bernal came out of

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homicides, but homicides didn' tcome out of you, Fernando Vadillo and
Manue Hernández. The Central audeb.Commissioner Enrique Juárez gave me until his last
active day the same affection as inthe last three decades and a couple of
his own. Jesús Gil Torrado andCarlos Segarra told me about their tireless struggle
to restore peace to a family inValencia, Ester Maldonado and his group.

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That' s how it' llalways be. They helped me rebuild a
complex and successful investigation in which theyovercame the tragic loss of Blas Gámez,
to which so many owe so much. In Valencia. I also received the
ever generous help of one of themost prominent members of the aristocracy of event
journalism, Javier Martínez. The squadmosus let me through doors that usually remain

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closed and made me feel in Barcelonalike in my house. Thank you for
this to Patricia Playa, Eva Bellán, Tony Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Granja and
Ramón Sacón, lawyer Victor Salas andhis colleagues Isabel Palomino, Isabel Martín and
Juan Molpeceres were indispensable to elaborate somechapters of this audio book and two people

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who suffer an unbearable and endless pain. I know they gave their consent and
approval to a part of this audiobook. Thanks very special to Alba Ferrer
and Marinel Feraru Manuel Marlasca. Thisaudio book would not have been possible without
the unselfish collaboration of the agents ofthe Central Operational Unit of the Civil Guard.

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Lieutenant Colonel Javier Rojero, Commander JuanJesús Reina and LieutenantÁngel García gave
me their time and told me partof their tiring work to find the killers
of the boy Gabriel Cruz, thebusinessman José Antonio Delgado and the fisherman and
Councilman Javier Artínez. Young and brilliantAsturian journalist Olaya Suárez helped me understand the
councilman' s murder. If thefuture doesn' t betray me, he

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hopes to retire and read his blackchronicles from somewhere, from the Rinconin,
in Gijón, by Toranda' schiringuito. In the latter case, Colonel
Manuel Sánchez Corby was in charge ofthe Civil Guard' s AUCO. There
is no room here to explain allhis sacrifices, also familiar, like those
of many other civil guards, tomake this country a safer place, first
in the Basque Country, then inall of Spain. Go from here my

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most sincere thanks to so many yearsof service. Thanks to Inspector Patricia Sanchez.
I understood what happened near Astorga,with the crime of a pilgrim.
Three people from the homicide and missingsection of the Central Audez have done better
this audio book, just as theyimprove the streets and lives of citizens.
Inspector Felipe Nieto and his companionsÓscarAlonso and fran Márquez helped me to get

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into the minds and backs of themurderers, the children Ruz and José la
Peregrina de nistiem and the young girlsMarina, Ocarinsca and Laura del Hoyo.
These police officers address crimes and,above all, the achievement of support and
justice for victims. Almost as apersonal matter, they work more than healthy
and take less than life. Hopefully, readers of this audio book will never

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need their services, but if itever happens to you, they will be
in good hands. Luis Randuleles,we hope you enjoyed black territory. Real
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