The body was on a small low-tide beach, at the foot of the cliffs, in the Gozón council. The police remember that there are several people who have disappeared at this point for a long time.
A fisherman has found this Friday morning a corpse floating in the sea in the vicinity of Cape Peñas (Asturias), in the council of Gozón, the same area in which Sandra Bermejo, a Madrid psychologist from Madrid, disappeared on November 8. 32 years old living in Gijón. The human remains were found on a small beach that forms at low tide at the foot of the cliffs and was in an advanced state of decomposition, so a comparison of DNA tests will be necessary to identify who it belongs to. Police sources quoted by the Efe agency have recalled that in the same area there are other people who have been missing for a long time.
The remains have been located by the fisherman Antonio Santamaría, a resident of Candás who usually goes fishing in the Cape Peñas area. As he has recounted, it was when he descended by land to the area where a beach is formed at low tide when he saw some remains, which were very decomposed. The man notified 112-Asturias, which put the Civil Guard on alert. This, after verifying the finding, alerted the Specialized and Violent Crime Unit (UDEV) of the National Police, responsible for the investigation since the disappearance of the young woman, who had been living and working in Gijón for two years.
The researchers who have been combing the vicinity of Cape Peñas for weeks have had to deal with the adverse weather conditions of recent weeks in this steep and difficult and dangerous place to access. The waves and the successive storms that have passed through the north of the peninsula have complicated the work of the boats of the National Police and the Civil Guard, which have navigated in those waters in search of traces or clues about the whereabouts of Sandra Bermejo.
The main theory that was maintained revolved around “voluntary disappearance”, although the SOS desaparecidos association spread the possibility of third-party intervention.
The Bermejo track was lost on the afternoon of November 8 in the area of Cape Peñas, whose cliffs over 100 meters high offer a spectacular landscape. The woman’s car, who is fond of hiking and familiar with this area, was found there, in a place designated for parking, closed and with no signs of having been broken into. Her backpack was inside the vehicle with the things inside it, including the bag with the documentation and bank cards.
Apparently, the missing woman only had her mobile phone on top of her. But, according to police sources, she stopped issuing a signal around 5:00 p.m. on the 8th from that area, according to the geolocation data analyzed by the Police. The day she disappeared, Bermejo did not meet with her theater group, as she had planned, nor did he answer the calls of her friends.
The police and the Civil Guard have searched the cliffs and the nearby waters with helicopters, drones and dogs, but always with the hypothesis that the young woman could have suffered an accident in that place. During this search period, only one female white T-shirt has been found, although Bermejo’s relatives could not confirm if it belonged to her. The Sunday after Bermejo’s disappearance, the body of a man over 80 years of age who had accidentally fallen into the void the day before was found.
The body now found will be subjected to DNA tests to conclude if it corresponds to the missing person. The Gijón court that is investigating the case has ordered the secrecy of the proceedings before the process, which began when some friends of the psychologist notified her relatives that they could not hear from her.
The family met a few days ago with police officials to learn first-hand about the development of the investigations when they were dissatisfied with the hypothesis of voluntary disappearance, or with that of the accident, since Bermejo knew the area to go for a walk.