The Judicial authority confirmed in the early hours of this Saturday afternoon that the identity of the lifeless body found at 10:30 a.m. by a “walker” in an area near the polygon Tuduero corresponds to Esther Lopez de la Rosa, the 35-year-old woman from Traspinedo (Valladolid) missing since January 12.
After four massive beats throughout the town and surroundings, the discovery – by a passerby – has taken place in the area where the pine forest begins, just at the entrance to the town.
without hiding
The body found was in surface, near the access road to the town, about 3.5 kilometers from its entrance, a section that the Civil Guard has cut to prevent access and let the specialists in ocular inspection, the judicial and the Institute of Forensic Medicine, which has arrived at around four in the afternoon, work.
A little earlier, at half past three, the town seemed practically deserted and the few residents who were in the street have resorted to silence when they have been asked about the discovery of a body, which shortly after, at 5:30 p.m., the judicial authority has confirmed that it was that of Esther López.
“Something weird”
It was a beaten zone, “there is something strange”, explains a resident of the municipality who knew Esther, and who has trusted that the culprit is no one from the town and that they find him as soon as possible.
“Nothing can be ruled out,” the neighbor friend of the family has argued about whether someone from the town may be behind what happened.
The man, whose daughters went to school with Esther, moved by the appearance of the body, has recognized that things did not look good but has ruled out hypotheses and has asked that the Civil Guard be allowed to do its job.
He has not wanted to talk to the family because he is “a little sentimental”, added this neighbor who has trusted that if they catch the culprit he will not leave for two days.
Surprise
Some of the passers-by passing through the municipality to eat or make a stop, the news has caught them by surprise, and they wondered if something was already known about the confirmation that has finally arrived that the body corresponded to the missing young woman .
And from a restaurant on the N-122, near the municipality, those who were inside at the time have silently followed the news of the discovery of the body from the establishment’s television with great silence. They didn’t want to say anything else.
Nine days after being seen for the last time, when her trail was lost at a road junction next to a restaurant and her mobile phone stopped having a signal, the Civil Guard stopped RG, a resident of the town in his 40s, for his alleged relationship with the events. After 18 days of investigation, the suspect, nicknamed ‘the handyman’, was set free, although with the obligation to appear in court and the prohibition to leave Valladolid. The agents have focused their investigation on Esther’s inner circle. Specifically, in the two friends with whom he was that last night. One of them has an alibi while the other has offered several versions of the facts in the different interrogations.
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“No Cure”
under the motto of ‘Esther, your smile is our hope’, hundreds of residents of Traspinedo -25 kilometers from Valladolid- and other surrounding municipalities packed the Plaza Mayor at the end of January to accompany Esther’s family, represented by her father, Miguel López, who recognized moments “of very serious anguish, very bad”. “It is an illness that has no cure, no medicine. It is the worst disease you can have,” said Esther’s father, who thanked the State security forces and bodies for their work, especially the Civil Guard for do “the impossible” to find his daughter.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com