The remains of Juana Canal, a woman who disappeared in 2003, was found three years ago near a farm in Navalacruz, Ávila (central Spain).
After her disappearance almost 20 years ago, her ex-husband, and main suspect during the investigation, called Jesús PH, confessed this Thursday that he was the one who killed her.
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At first, the man only recognized that he found the dead woman in his house, so he dismembered it and buried it in two different places near the place where his parents lived.
Jesús, who was arrested last Wednesday, returned to the area at the direction of the police to help reconstruct the events and look for more remains of the woman.
After visiting the area where the events occurred, and 24 hours after his arrest, The man confessed to the murder, clarifying a crime that had been unsolved since 2013.
Jesús was left under judicial disposition, waiting for the case to be further clarified with the identification of Juana’s last moments and if there were more people involved.
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After almost 20 years of silence and the crime is about to reach a possible prescription, the murderer of Juana Canal confesses. She disappeared in 2003, when protocols were not the same as now. Behind each number of murdered women there is a story not lived by machismo. pic.twitter.com/K4LeXC79lq
– Francisco San Roman (@Fsanro) October 28, 2022
Your mother has taken a bunch of pills and gone
For their part, the police and the Civil Guard handle the hypothesis that there was an accomplice in the homicide. This is because the body was transferred from Madrid to Ávila, and for this someone would have helped the man.
However, the police have not been able to identify any accomplices and the defendant has denied any collaboration by third parties.
So was the murder
Jesús confessed that he killed Juana with a blow in the middle of an argument in his apartment in Madrid. Later, he dismembered her body in the bathtub, put it in two suitcases and went to a farm owned by his parents in Navalacruz, Ávila, where he buried her remains in two different places.
Before leaving Madrid, he left a note for Juana’s son saying that they had argued and she had left.
“Sergio, we have argued again, your mother has taken a lot of pills and has left (…) she has threatened to drink, I’m going to look for her,” the note assured.
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19 years after the disappearance of Juana Canal, a 38-year-old from Madrid, all the details of what happened on February 22, 2003 are beginning to be known.
Jesús P., who was her partner, confessed that he killed her with a blow after a strong argument. pic.twitter.com/ifR4FweQN9
— Know More (@Sepa_mass) October 28, 2022
Sergio, Juana’s son, was the one who saw her for the last time before her murderer, Jesús, assured that his mother was fine and that he had no reason to suspect.
Juana’s family did not find out until July of this year about the appearance of Juana’s remains. This due to failures in the communication of the forensic entity.
Juana’s sister, the first in the family to find out about her death, learned about it through a television program.
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With information from EFE
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