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Ana Julia Quezada, the only one accused of the death of Gabriel Cruz, "looks like a person who liked money" and, in addition to the murder of the child, "we do not know if he was looking to collect money. It is macabre but it seems that out there the thing was going, " Commander Montero of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard said Thursday.

"It was a very hard investigation because we were looking for a living child, it was not considered as a homicide. If it had been so, so many resources would not have been used as in this investigation," added the commander, who at the time was in charge of the UCO Homicide, Kidnapping and Extortion Section .

After stating that "few investigations" such as the search for Gabriel Cruz have had so many resources, the commander pointed out during the fourth session of the trial that they were "very intense" days and with "almost 24 hours" shifts. The UCO usually acts as support in cases with a "special difficulty", and they moved to the scene because it was "patent" that Gabriel could not have disappeared, but could be a kidnapping.

"With great speed" "very complex analyzes" of the telephone communications were carried out to identify the people who passed through the area and the mother's stalker ( Patricia Ramírez ) was discarded almost immediately.

On the economic mobile, he pointed out that it was a possibility because "there was nothing to tell us that Gabriel was dead" but that "every day that passed, we dropped a slab of reality" on top of it and "a request for money never arrived".

Once the research on Ana Julia Quezada was focused, they observed that "it was she who was encouraging the family to offer more (reward) money." "It was quite strange. When verifying his life in Burgos, etc., he seems like a person who liked money. We do not know if in addition to the fact, he was looking to collect money. It is macabre but it seems that there was the thing," he said. added.

He has also related the version of what happened Ana Julia narrated during the reconstruction of the events, the same that he has maintained during the trial, and stressed that the farm in which he killed Gabriel is "very isolated" so it is not It is possible to observe what happens inside "unless you use some type of camera or similar".

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