• Newspaper library. Four arrested for the disappearance of a young man 9 months ago whose body has already been located

The National Police have arrested a young woman in Jaén accused of the crimes of omission of the duty to help and covering up the murder of a man who had been reported missing in October 2018 and who was found dead in 2019.

The ex-wife of the victim denounced the disappearance in 2018, something that the mother who lives in Colombia also did and had not known anything about her son for more than a month, with whom she usually spoke on the phone, as reported by the Police.

The agents focused the investigation on five people who supposedly formed Miguel Ángel's closest circle of friends , two of whom shared a flat with him and had not reported his disappearance.

These were in charge of spreading different hypotheses of his disappearance in order to hinder the investigation, such as that Miguel Angel was engaged in drug trafficking.

A fight at dawn

According to the first reconstruction of the events, on October 13, 2018, Miguel Ángel stayed with a group of friends to go to the fair in Jaén, where they spent the whole night and at six in the morning on the 14th they went to the apartment they shared.

At one point, allegedly there was a strong discussion between the victim and one of his friends, which started the attack, to which the other four were added.

Miguel Ángel tried to defend himself and resist until he was reduced, they put a sock in his mouth, they tied his hands and feet with a cable in a bed where they left him to continue partying.

Bleach washed and buried

Shortly after they verified that he had died, they washed the body with bleach and kept it at home for two days, then took it to a place where they buried it.

The remains were found in a steep ravine between olive trees, one and a half meters deep, naked, with plastic bags that covered the head and feet, and surrounded by an electric cable.

The agents detained the alleged perpetrators, three in Jaén , one in Madrid and the fifth in Córdoba , although the judge ordered their freedom.

After a few months, one of those involved reported in his closest circles that the version they gave to investigators and the judicial authority that Miguel Ángel died naturally due to excess alcohol and drugs was not true.

Investigators knew that on the day of the events, in addition to the five investigated, there was a woman, who has now been identified and detained. Apparently, that afternoon, when everyone was partying, a strong argument broke out between the young woman and the victim.

This allegedly provoked a violent reaction in her boyfriend, who confronted Miguel Ángel with a severe beating, and later, with the help of the other four and in order to mitigate the screams of pain, they inserted socks into his mouth. They wrapped him in a blanket, tied him with a cable and laid him on the bed until he died.

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