Marta del Castillo disappeared in Seville on Jan 24, 2009. She left home, stayed with her ex-boyfriend, and was never heard from again. Miguel Carcaño is in jail for her disappearance and murder, who had traces of blood from the 17-year-old minor on his clothes.
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He was sentenced to 21 years and 3 months in prison and will not be released until he has served three-quarters of the sentence. Carcaño’s brother, Francisco Javier Delgado Moreno, was also arrested. And the latter’s girlfriend, María García Mendaro, who is on probation.
A friend of the two defendants, named Javier García Marín, alias “El Cuco”, was also detained, a minor when everything happened.
Thanks to the Netflix and Quartz documentary series, “Where is Marta?”, it has been learned that the Police and forensics did not take into account a detail that can now be key thanks to current technology: the geolocation of mobile phones, which although in 2009 could have been useful, is now much more precise.
A detail that could reopen
What was discovered by the documentary after year and a half of research, has allowed the court of instruction number 4 of Seville to deliver a series of evidence to a judicial expert to analyze, including Miguel Carcaño’s mobile phone.
The judge has required all telephone companies to provide information on the telephone numbers of those involved, which could be used to reconstruct with the maximum detail the movements of those involved, something that had not been done before.
“All the new evidence has been provided by the courts so that they can be evaluated by those who correspond. We want to be very careful with this, the series goes this far, but you say,what would have happened if this had been analyzed back in the day?”, the executive producer Marga Luis asks Nius Diario.