Forensic experts conclude that he did not drug them before killing them and that he ended their lives the same afternoon they disappeared, just before transferring them to the boat.
The autopsy has confirmed that Tomás Gimeno, the man from Tenerife who killed his two daughters last spring to destroy the life of his ex-wife, suffocated the little ones just a few hours before throwing the two girls, aged 6 years and 14 months, into the Atlantic. His intention was that their bodies would never be found. It was practically the only unknown that remained to completely clarify the terrible vicarious crime that last year shocked the entire country for more than two months.
The final report that the forensic experts have delivered to the examining magistrate, the head of the Violence Against Women Court number 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, indicates that the death of Olivia, the eldest of the sisters, the only one from whom it was possible to rescue the corpse, suffered a death compatible with “mechanical suffocation due to suffocation”, which caused an acute pulmonary edema that took his life.
The expert test has confirmed the suspicions that the Civil Guard investigators had from almost the same day that Olivia’s body was located, on June 10, 44 days after her disappearance. The research vessel Ángeles Alvariño found it thanks to its side-scan sonar and its underwater robot at a depth of about 1,000 meters, sheathed in a sports bag and held to the bottom of the ocean by the anchor of the Gimeno launch, the boat with the that on April 27 both corpses were moved some three miles out to sea to hide them.
The only thing that the toxicological analyzes carried out on the blood and the contents of the little girl’s stomach have ruled out is that the parricide, who everything indicates that hours later he committed suicide at a nearby point, sedated or drugged his daughters before killing them, because the scientific verifications did not detect substances of this type or poisons.
Death in Candlemas
Forensic studies confirm the chronology of the deaths that the Civil Guard advanced in its day. Gimeno would have killed the girls, Olivia and Anna, at his home in Candelaria, between 7:54 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., just after returning from his parents’ home, where he spent the afternoon with them, and half an hour before of parking his Audi A3 next to the Puerto Marina jetty, the time at which the cameras on the pier recorded him while he transferred six heavy packages from the vehicle to the boat in three trips.
Gimeno threw into the ocean the mats weighed down with the anchor and oxygen cylinders in which his daughters were traveling about three miles from Puerto Marina and one from Puertito de Güímar, between ten and eleven at night. Approximately the same place to which, according to the geolocation of the mobile, he returned about two hours later after returning to the port to charge his mobile and buy tobacco. That’s where investigators believe he committed suicide, perhaps putting on the diving weights that were no longer on the boat when the Civil Guard found him the next morning. The suicide could have occurred after 1:30 a.m., when the telephone signal was lost, after reiterating to Beatriz, his ex-wife and the girls’ mother, that she would never see him or his daughters again.
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