Little Olivia Gimeno Zimmermann, the six-year-old girl whose body was found at the bottom of the sea on June 10 by the oceanographic ship Angeles Alvarino, died of a “violent death” on the same day of his disappearance, on April 27, according to the final forensic medical report of the autopsy. This examination has revealed, in turn, that the fundamental cause of his death is “compatible with mechanical suffocation due to suffocation”, which caused the consequent acute pulmonary edema. The date of the girl’s death is between 7:54 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on April 27, the same day she disappeared with her sister Anna. The body of this second girl has not been found, like that of the father, Tomás Gimeno, the alleged murderer and currently disappeared.
Suffocation occurs when the entry of air is blocked due to the occlusion of the respiratory openings (nose and mouth) or the airways, the impossibility of carrying out respiratory movements due to compression of the chest or the lack of breathable air.
Gimeno had separated from the mother of his daughters, Beatriz Zimmermann, the previous year, after maintaining a long relationship. According to the judicial order made public on June 12, Gimeno killed his daughters between 7:47 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on that April 27, at his home, in the town of Igueste de Candelaria (east of Tenerife). The disappearance of the girls caused a commotion on the island. The investigations, led by the Civil Guard, focused on the first days on land.
Soon after, the investigations focused on the sea, given that on the night of April 27, Tomás Gimeno had been seen entering and leaving his pleasure boat from a marina in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Joining the search for the oceanographic vessel Angeles Alvarino, allowed the anchor of Gimeno’s boat to be found on June 10 with two sports bags tied: in one was the body of little Olivia; in the other, presumably, Anna’s had been. The latter, however, was open and empty at the time of its discovery.
Report of the facts
The account of the events carried out by Tomás Gimeno on the day of the disappearance, collected in the judicial order, gives an account of a plan conceived in advance. The night before, the disappeared man had gone to the family farm where he worked in Guaza (in the tourist town of Arona, in the south of the island) to leave another of his cars, a black Alfa Romeo Guilia, covered with a cover. Already on April 27, the ex-partner agreed that Gimeno would pick up the girls at five in the afternoon at his home and return them at nine at night. That afternoon, the first thing he did was pick up Anna, one year old, at Beatriz Zimmermann’s house, in the town of Radazul (municipality of El Rosario), which is located a few kilometers from the farm where Gimeno finished off the girls life.
With Anna sitting in the Maxi Cosi located in the front seat of her Audi A3, Gimeno went to the Die Villa educational center, in the municipality of El Rosario, where Olivia attended on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The director of this center is the current partner of the girls’ father. At that moment, Gimeno took the opportunity to give him a pencil case with packing tape, and asked him to call him at 11:00 p.m. that day. “Despite this,” the order relates, “she opened the case at 5:20 p.m., finding inside a wad of money amounting to 6,200 euros and a letter saying goodbye to her.”
Tomás, Anna and Olivia headed towards the house of the girls’ grandparents. The youngest stayed there, while her father took Olivia to tennis classes until 6:30 p.m. Meanwhile, Tomás Gimeno took advantage of his loneliness to go for the first time that day to the marina where his pleasure boat was moored, esquilon, six meters long. There he put the engine in the water “and started it as a test.”
Gimeno and his two daughters arrived at the farm in Igueste de Candelaria at 7:47 p.m. Three minutes later, Olivia sends her mother a voice message in which she tells her that her father asks her to go to his house at 9:00 p.m. to get some paintings and to put the car inside.
The girls’ father leaves the farm at 9:05 p.m. in his Audi A3 with the bodies of his daughters. Drive back to the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, just under 20 kilometers away. He stops at 9:13 p.m. at his parents’ house. In it, he secretly leaves his dog Otto, two credit cards with their keys and two sets of Alfa Romeo keys.
Arrival of Zimmermann
Meanwhile, Beatriz Zimmermann had arrived at Tomás Gimeno’s farm after 9:00 p.m. He walked in, took the paintings and called his ex-partner on the phone. In this conversation, he lies to her and tells her that “they were going to eat something and that he would leave Anna at her home in Radazul”.
At 9:27 p.m. Gimeno returned to the Marina de Santa Cruz. He parked in front of Dock A, where his boat’s parking space is. He made three trips from the Audi to the boat with different objects, including the sports bags inside which, “allegedly”, were the bodies of his daughters. At 9:40 p.m. he set sail.
Beatriz Zimmermann, already nervous, called him again at 9:51 p.m. In this conversation, her ex-partner tells her that “he was already off the island with the girls.” In the next call, at 9:59 p.m., he reiterated that “he was not going to see the girls or him anymore.” At 10:30 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. Zimmermann called him again, already from the Civil Guard Post where he filed the complaint. In one of these calls, Tomás Gimeno even got to speak with an agent of the armed body.
While talking on the phone, the girls’ father culminated his tragic plan. Around 10:30 p.m., “over an area he knew”, Gimeno threw his daughters into the sea in two sports bags tied to an anchor by means of a chain and a rope. This was the anchor that the Angeles Alvarino I would meet on June 10. About 14 minutes after this macabre operation, the missing person’s cell phone runs out of battery and he decides to return to port.
Gimeno runs into the Civil Guard on his return, who proposes a sanction for skipping the prevailing curfew at that time: when the agents have set sail, and after telling them that he would sleep on his boat, Tomás Gimeno asks the dock watchman if he You can lend a mobile charger. His is not compatible with his terminal, so he is forced to buy another one at a nearby gas station, along with a box of cigarettes and a bottle of water. At 11:58 p.m. he returned to the Marina, parked in the same place and went to the security guard’s cabin to charge his mobile. He waited on board his boat until 00:13. At that time he picked up his device, checked his car and at 00:27 he sailed for the last time.
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