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Hello everyone. I'm the one who have been traslating much of The Alcàsser Girls, so now I would like to talk a bit about other murder cases and unsolved disappearances whcih took place in Spain.
Here we go: with the first one:
The Macastre murders. Current state: Unsolved.
On 15th January 1989, a boy and two girls, Francisco Valeriano (14 years old), his girlfriend Rosario Gayete (15 years old) and Pilar Ruiz (15 years old), all of them inhabitants from the city of Valencia, decided to go camping to a hilly area located next to Catadau, located 35 kilometres away to the southwest of the city. In fact, a bus ticket was found inside Francisco Valeriano's pocket who proved that, indeed they've travelled that day from Valencia to Catadau. Although it was believed that their goal was to camping in nearby wild, it was know by their friends that they used to visit an empty house inside the town of Catadau where squatters, glue sniffers and heroin drug addicts used to gather. However, the corpses of Rosario Gayete and Francisco Valeriano were found in Macastre (somewhat 30 kilometres away northwest from Catadau), and no one knows why and how they've gone so far there.
That day, on 15th January 1989 at early evening, the three blokes were seen alive for the last time, just when they decided to go Bar El Parador in Catadau to buy some sandwiches and drinks.
On 19th January 1989, a farmer man found Rosario's corpse inside his little farmer house located nearby Macastre. The victim had not no signs of violence nor sexual assault. The button of her trousers was undid and the zipper was half opened. The farmer thought she was asleep for the first time, but he later realised that she was dead instead.
On 27th January 1989 a woman who lived in Alcasser street at the city of Valencia was waiting he daughter to bring her grandchildren, so she was seeing the street, a white car arrived and a man left something by the door of a haulage company. She didn't care, but when her daughter left home, she passed by the door of the company's door and she found that it was a foot. Once the police arrived at the scene, they found some newspaper sheets with blood stains inside a rubbish bin located three metres away from the haulage company's door. Such foot belonged to a young woman, although it could not be determined by whom until 24th May 1989, when four children whilst playing around discovered a female corpse in Turís (8 kilometres east to Macastre), just inside a long water pipe adjacent to an irrigation waterway ,and was revealed that the foot had been removed from the corpse.
The autopsy confirmed that it was Pilar Ruiz, who had been mutilated with a chain saw shortly after she died. Not only that her foot was missing, but one of her hands was missing too. About 20 days before the random ghoulish finding in Turís, it was known that the a support phone line for drug users received an anonymous call warning about the place where the corpse of Macastre crimes was located for, and that such anonymous man blamed a drug dealer nicknamed 'Wichita' as a culprit for this crime. Apparently, the police wasn't able to find the corpse, so they thought it was fake, but unfortunately, 20 days later, those children unexpectely found the body as they were playing inside the long water pipe. The police believed that 'Wichita' got saddled with the crime by the anonymous call for some kind of revenge or something.
Shortly before, on 6th April 1989, a man who was picking asparagus found a body in an advanced decay among the bushes. It was the one of Francisco Valeriano, who was wrapped himself in thick plastic and there was a candle over the ground (which matched with other candle located inside the house where Rosario gayete died). In fact, Francisco Valeriano's corpse was just about 400 metres away from the farmhouse where Rosario gayete's corpse was found, and that it seemed that he died there, which indicates that the police didn't checked properly the surroundings of the farmer house.
The police investigations could only determine the cause of Pilar Ruiz's violent death, whereas for Francisco Valeriano and Rosario Gayete it can't be stated the cause of death, speculating that perhaps they had been forced to take a cocktail of drugs and that they've suffered a cardiac arrest to death. However, no traces of drugs could be found on their bodies, so it was theorised that they could something unusual that cant'be traced by common drug tests, such as mushrooms or poisonous, deadly plants.
Thus, there were some footprints located outside the farmhouse which indicated that the three young men were accompanied by at least another person, likely an adult man, but to not avail.
Authorities found two possible suspects of the triple murder: The first one was a 60-years-old man nicknamed as 'El Miguelo', inhabitant of Macastre, whom several eyewitnesses saw being accompanied by those three guys inside Bar El Parador at the evening of the day they vanished for. However, no evidence was found to link him to the crime. The second main suspect was 'Wichita', another inhabitant of Macastre: No conclusive evidence was found against him either, so the investigation became cold case.
Four years later, the murders of The Alcàsser Girls, which happened only 34 kilometres away from Macastre, made the Macastre case disappear into obscurity. Years later, some coincidences with the Alcàsser case were founds. The most obvious is that there were also three victims, but the most amazing one has to do with the Bar El Parador in Catadau: It's the last place where the three victims of Macastre were seen alive, and it's also the same place where Antonio Anglés and Miguel Ricart the night they kidnapped The Alcàsser Girls for buy some take away.
Source: A book named '¿Qué pasó en Macastre?' written by two criminologist from Valencia, Spain, just Amós Vanacloig and Felix Ríos.
Amazon product ASIN B086HR84TH
Here we go: with the first one:
The Macastre murders. Current state: Unsolved.
On 15th January 1989, a boy and two girls, Francisco Valeriano (14 years old), his girlfriend Rosario Gayete (15 years old) and Pilar Ruiz (15 years old), all of them inhabitants from the city of Valencia, decided to go camping to a hilly area located next to Catadau, located 35 kilometres away to the southwest of the city. In fact, a bus ticket was found inside Francisco Valeriano's pocket who proved that, indeed they've travelled that day from Valencia to Catadau. Although it was believed that their goal was to camping in nearby wild, it was know by their friends that they used to visit an empty house inside the town of Catadau where squatters, glue sniffers and heroin drug addicts used to gather. However, the corpses of Rosario Gayete and Francisco Valeriano were found in Macastre (somewhat 30 kilometres away northwest from Catadau), and no one knows why and how they've gone so far there.
That day, on 15th January 1989 at early evening, the three blokes were seen alive for the last time, just when they decided to go Bar El Parador in Catadau to buy some sandwiches and drinks.
On 19th January 1989, a farmer man found Rosario's corpse inside his little farmer house located nearby Macastre. The victim had not no signs of violence nor sexual assault. The button of her trousers was undid and the zipper was half opened. The farmer thought she was asleep for the first time, but he later realised that she was dead instead.
On 27th January 1989 a woman who lived in Alcasser street at the city of Valencia was waiting he daughter to bring her grandchildren, so she was seeing the street, a white car arrived and a man left something by the door of a haulage company. She didn't care, but when her daughter left home, she passed by the door of the company's door and she found that it was a foot. Once the police arrived at the scene, they found some newspaper sheets with blood stains inside a rubbish bin located three metres away from the haulage company's door. Such foot belonged to a young woman, although it could not be determined by whom until 24th May 1989, when four children whilst playing around discovered a female corpse in Turís (8 kilometres east to Macastre), just inside a long water pipe adjacent to an irrigation waterway ,and was revealed that the foot had been removed from the corpse.
The autopsy confirmed that it was Pilar Ruiz, who had been mutilated with a chain saw shortly after she died. Not only that her foot was missing, but one of her hands was missing too. About 20 days before the random ghoulish finding in Turís, it was known that the a support phone line for drug users received an anonymous call warning about the place where the corpse of Macastre crimes was located for, and that such anonymous man blamed a drug dealer nicknamed 'Wichita' as a culprit for this crime. Apparently, the police wasn't able to find the corpse, so they thought it was fake, but unfortunately, 20 days later, those children unexpectely found the body as they were playing inside the long water pipe. The police believed that 'Wichita' got saddled with the crime by the anonymous call for some kind of revenge or something.
Shortly before, on 6th April 1989, a man who was picking asparagus found a body in an advanced decay among the bushes. It was the one of Francisco Valeriano, who was wrapped himself in thick plastic and there was a candle over the ground (which matched with other candle located inside the house where Rosario gayete died). In fact, Francisco Valeriano's corpse was just about 400 metres away from the farmhouse where Rosario gayete's corpse was found, and that it seemed that he died there, which indicates that the police didn't checked properly the surroundings of the farmer house.
The police investigations could only determine the cause of Pilar Ruiz's violent death, whereas for Francisco Valeriano and Rosario Gayete it can't be stated the cause of death, speculating that perhaps they had been forced to take a cocktail of drugs and that they've suffered a cardiac arrest to death. However, no traces of drugs could be found on their bodies, so it was theorised that they could something unusual that cant'be traced by common drug tests, such as mushrooms or poisonous, deadly plants.
Thus, there were some footprints located outside the farmhouse which indicated that the three young men were accompanied by at least another person, likely an adult man, but to not avail.
Authorities found two possible suspects of the triple murder: The first one was a 60-years-old man nicknamed as 'El Miguelo', inhabitant of Macastre, whom several eyewitnesses saw being accompanied by those three guys inside Bar El Parador at the evening of the day they vanished for. However, no evidence was found to link him to the crime. The second main suspect was 'Wichita', another inhabitant of Macastre: No conclusive evidence was found against him either, so the investigation became cold case.
Four years later, the murders of The Alcàsser Girls, which happened only 34 kilometres away from Macastre, made the Macastre case disappear into obscurity. Years later, some coincidences with the Alcàsser case were founds. The most obvious is that there were also three victims, but the most amazing one has to do with the Bar El Parador in Catadau: It's the last place where the three victims of Macastre were seen alive, and it's also the same place where Antonio Anglés and Miguel Ricart the night they kidnapped The Alcàsser Girls for buy some take away.
Source: A book named '¿Qué pasó en Macastre?' written by two criminologist from Valencia, Spain, just Amós Vanacloig and Felix Ríos.
Amazon product ASIN B086HR84TH