Post by hi224 on Jun 21, 2019 22:53:59 GMT
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On November 13th 1992, Friday night, three girls from Alcàsser, Spain, aged 14, 14 and 15 disappeared on their way to disco club Coolor. The path is 2 km (1,25 miles) long and almost always void of activity except for some passing cars.
Relatives expected them to come back between Saturday and Monday depending on how long they spent partying, maybe staying at one of them's house. No cellphones at the time so they couldn't know for sure something had happened until Monday, November 16th.
Hundreds of people claimed to have seen the girls that night and afterwards, even claiming to have taken them to a gas station near the disco club, but the weeks went by and the girls were still gone with no physical clue of their whereabouts. Spanish police seeked out the Interpol's help and they investigated dozens of possibilities, including kidnappings to take them as slaves to Morocco; "missing girls" papers were spread across several countries in various languages and some relatives traveled abroad to ask foreign police corps for their help.
On January 23rd 1993, three brutally mutilated bodies were found half-buried in a field in La Romana, miles away from the girls' supposed path, two of the bodies decapitated with the heads buried with the rest. Objects were found nearby, including an unshot bullet, a videogame and a hospital bill from 6 months earlier belonging to a man named Enrique Anglés.
Police officers were supposed to take pictures of the scene before touching anything, but didn't. Later they grabbed all the objects and placed them together for the photo, instead of the usual procedure of several pictures depicting the scene as it is. The bodies were washed by police forces before any form of analysis, something none of the authorities responded for. Two of the girls were missing a hand each, but both stumps were sawed off and disappeared, preventing anyone from knowing which tools were used in the crime; authorities didn't respond for this either. They claimed the hands had been eaten by wild animals, but no bite marks were found on the bodies, there were no carnivores in the area large enough to rip apart human forearm bones and the rest of the bodies had no bites when wild animals usually go for the soft tissue before the bones.
On January 27th, an acquaintance of Enrique Anglés, named Miguel Ricart, confessed his participation in the crime to the police: allegedly he and Anglés kidnapped the girls on their way to the disco club, raped them, tortured and mutilated them, then murdered them and buried the bodies. Ricart's confession soon changed and he claimed to have nothing to do with the crime and that officers had tortured him to force him to deliver a false confession.
Enrique Anglés was mentally ill and was deemed unrelated to the crime, but his brother Antonio, Ricart's close friend, was never located by police forces. He disappeared and was suspected to have fled to Brazil, where he was born; a portuguese undercover police officer claimed to have cohabited with Antonio for two weeks before he stole his passport and fled to Brazil. The crew of a merchant ship claimed to have found a stowaway that jumped (or was thrown by them) into the sea with a lifesaver. The lifesaver was later found, but Antonio has been missing since then.
The witnesses testimonies were contradictory and many of them proven to be false; a pub owner who served Ricart and Anglés a few nights before the disappearances claimed the police had tried to force him to sign a testimony saying the suspects had visited his pub the night of the crime, when it was several days earlier.
Several autopsies were performed. Hairs were found, and DNA tests proved they belonged to between 5 and 8 different people. The bodies were swollen and purple, which experts claimed had to be the result of either hard beat-downs before or after the deaths, or having kept the bodies underwater for a notable period of time. Insect larvae were allegedly found in the bodies, but the experts only had access to pictures of them and none actually found them in the bodies. The insects' growth and size did not correspond with the amount of time the girls had been dead, which meant the bodies had been buried in one place and then removed and buried in another, or the bodies had been manipulated. A pocket knife was supposedly found and determined to be the weapon of the murders but it unexplainably disappeared, and the wounds corresponded to numerous weapons that were never found.
Experts delivered mutually-opposed conclusions, accusing each other of making wild mistakes. All the unexplained questions remained that way.
The father of one of the girls and a prominent journalist accused several politicians and businessmen of having framed Ricart and Anglés, claiming the girls were murdered by professional "snuff film" makers (videos of sexual violence and brutal torture, mutilation and death that are sold on the black market). They claimed Ricart was tortured into signing a false confession and Anglés was murdered and his body was dispatched, he never fled anywhere. The journalist kept blaming particular politicians of faking the investigations and framing the two suspects. The families were divided: some believed the official story and asked the others to stop pointing fingers, but the other side insisted they were being lied to.
The case was found to be filled with contradictions and incorrections, like the early files indicating the girls' hands were tied together and then later saying two of them were missing a hand and there where no ropes nor cables.
The truth is yet to be uncovered, and the perpetrators might still be free.
On November 13th 1992, Friday night, three girls from Alcàsser, Spain, aged 14, 14 and 15 disappeared on their way to disco club Coolor. The path is 2 km (1,25 miles) long and almost always void of activity except for some passing cars.
Relatives expected them to come back between Saturday and Monday depending on how long they spent partying, maybe staying at one of them's house. No cellphones at the time so they couldn't know for sure something had happened until Monday, November 16th.
Hundreds of people claimed to have seen the girls that night and afterwards, even claiming to have taken them to a gas station near the disco club, but the weeks went by and the girls were still gone with no physical clue of their whereabouts. Spanish police seeked out the Interpol's help and they investigated dozens of possibilities, including kidnappings to take them as slaves to Morocco; "missing girls" papers were spread across several countries in various languages and some relatives traveled abroad to ask foreign police corps for their help.
On January 23rd 1993, three brutally mutilated bodies were found half-buried in a field in La Romana, miles away from the girls' supposed path, two of the bodies decapitated with the heads buried with the rest. Objects were found nearby, including an unshot bullet, a videogame and a hospital bill from 6 months earlier belonging to a man named Enrique Anglés.
Police officers were supposed to take pictures of the scene before touching anything, but didn't. Later they grabbed all the objects and placed them together for the photo, instead of the usual procedure of several pictures depicting the scene as it is. The bodies were washed by police forces before any form of analysis, something none of the authorities responded for. Two of the girls were missing a hand each, but both stumps were sawed off and disappeared, preventing anyone from knowing which tools were used in the crime; authorities didn't respond for this either. They claimed the hands had been eaten by wild animals, but no bite marks were found on the bodies, there were no carnivores in the area large enough to rip apart human forearm bones and the rest of the bodies had no bites when wild animals usually go for the soft tissue before the bones.
On January 27th, an acquaintance of Enrique Anglés, named Miguel Ricart, confessed his participation in the crime to the police: allegedly he and Anglés kidnapped the girls on their way to the disco club, raped them, tortured and mutilated them, then murdered them and buried the bodies. Ricart's confession soon changed and he claimed to have nothing to do with the crime and that officers had tortured him to force him to deliver a false confession.
Enrique Anglés was mentally ill and was deemed unrelated to the crime, but his brother Antonio, Ricart's close friend, was never located by police forces. He disappeared and was suspected to have fled to Brazil, where he was born; a portuguese undercover police officer claimed to have cohabited with Antonio for two weeks before he stole his passport and fled to Brazil. The crew of a merchant ship claimed to have found a stowaway that jumped (or was thrown by them) into the sea with a lifesaver. The lifesaver was later found, but Antonio has been missing since then.
The witnesses testimonies were contradictory and many of them proven to be false; a pub owner who served Ricart and Anglés a few nights before the disappearances claimed the police had tried to force him to sign a testimony saying the suspects had visited his pub the night of the crime, when it was several days earlier.
Several autopsies were performed. Hairs were found, and DNA tests proved they belonged to between 5 and 8 different people. The bodies were swollen and purple, which experts claimed had to be the result of either hard beat-downs before or after the deaths, or having kept the bodies underwater for a notable period of time. Insect larvae were allegedly found in the bodies, but the experts only had access to pictures of them and none actually found them in the bodies. The insects' growth and size did not correspond with the amount of time the girls had been dead, which meant the bodies had been buried in one place and then removed and buried in another, or the bodies had been manipulated. A pocket knife was supposedly found and determined to be the weapon of the murders but it unexplainably disappeared, and the wounds corresponded to numerous weapons that were never found.
Experts delivered mutually-opposed conclusions, accusing each other of making wild mistakes. All the unexplained questions remained that way.
The father of one of the girls and a prominent journalist accused several politicians and businessmen of having framed Ricart and Anglés, claiming the girls were murdered by professional "snuff film" makers (videos of sexual violence and brutal torture, mutilation and death that are sold on the black market). They claimed Ricart was tortured into signing a false confession and Anglés was murdered and his body was dispatched, he never fled anywhere. The journalist kept blaming particular politicians of faking the investigations and framing the two suspects. The families were divided: some believed the official story and asked the others to stop pointing fingers, but the other side insisted they were being lied to.
The case was found to be filled with contradictions and incorrections, like the early files indicating the girls' hands were tied together and then later saying two of them were missing a hand and there where no ropes nor cables.
The truth is yet to be uncovered, and the perpetrators might still be free.
