Norm Beatrixa tarot card reader that distributes cards to tourists Rambla passed in the life of Barcelona Ana Maria Martins in 2003. Like most of the wounded who cling to fortune-tellers, Ana was not in a good time. And like them, Beatriz took every penny from him. But unlike the fate that awaits the countless victims who rely on the potion dealers, Ana finds herself a concrete drumburied on a farm Lloret de Mar. Moreover, a crime that Norma escaped.
“In the last six months of her life, Ana nurse 32 years Sant Feliu de LlobregatShe sold the house, the car, applied for a bank loan and borrowed money from her ex-husband, who she just broke up with,” she explains. Joseph Hyacinthchief commissioner National PoliceThe investigator of this murder, reviewing the notes he found to join EL PERIÓDICO from the Prensa Ibérica group.
Missing
At the beginning of 2004, Ana disappeared. It took several days for his family to report the truth.. The woman had shown interest in leaving in search of a better future. A false trail that convinced the agents of Sant Feliu de Llobregat that it was a voluntary departure. The deployment of Mossos d’Esquadra, that is, the withdrawal of the National Police with cases such as the pending decision of Ana, did not help anyone take the task of searching for her seriously in the next nine years. until 2013.
between SOSassociation Relatives of people who disappeared for no apparent reason In one incident where Ana’s family sought solace, she received an anonymous phone call from an Argentinian person reassuring her that the nurse had not voluntarily disappeared. someone took robbed, bankrupt and murderedaforementioned.
Following this search, the National Police searched Ana’s background and confirmed that she did not renew her DNI between 2004 and 2013 and has not been identified at any border control. He was also out of money that year, while also observing his recent banking movements, which stopped in 2004. And they learned that the roommate of the last house recorded where she lived was still upset that Ana had moved out with furniture that didn’t belong to her.
“We tracked down the shipping company that made this transfer and found Norma Beatriz’s address where Ana went to,” the commissioner explains. A clue that allows them to discover his last ‘friendship’ with the tarot reader. Norma had returned to her native Argentina years ago, in 2013. But pulling this thread allowed the fortuneteller to explore his surroundings, which led to the old man finding his way. Jose MariaLike Norma did to Ana plucked and it is still in Catalonia. He was a retired builder.
Shortly after the National Police put the magnifying glass on José María, the phone on Inter-SOS rang a second time. The same voice with an Argentine accent was clearer on that occasion: Ana killed and buried on a farm in Lloret de Mar. José María, as a builder, owned machinery for digging and owned a farm in that town, plus a piece of land that he had divided to give to Norma. The police fence over José María was tightened.
“Yeah you’re late”
Jose Maria confessed. One of the things the commissioner remembers almost ten years later is that the contractor reported that it took so long for them to come looking for him, that he was sure they would come beforehand to ask about Norma. According to her own version of events, in early 2004, Norma, bleeding financially and making her believe it would prevent their illness, asked her one night to pick her up and Ana from a train station. José María obeyed and Norma arrived at the appointed time. sleepy motherMaybe he’s under the influence of a narcotic substance. The plan was to go to a hotel, but given Ana’s situation, they went to José María’s mansion in Lloret de Mar: an old house whose land is located in the suburbs.
José María entered the garage and left the two women in the car to get something. When he returned, he found Ana lifeless. lie in a pool of blood. Norma left, according to the builder, and promised to return to dispose of the body. Allowing a few days to pass, José María decided to put Ana’s body in a drum. land of the same farm. This was the José María version.
find out
The National Police received a court order giving them 24 hours to find the drum. They brought a backhoe and it’s the same GPR used to search for the children of murderer José Bretón. Minutes to midnight, the commissioner explains, the metal arm hit the drum. Nine years later, the truth about what happened to Ana came to light.
Norma was arrested in Argentina and extradited in 2015. She was sentenced to prison in Spain, but before the trial against her and José María could be held, the woman was released on bail and fled to Argentina. last September died a natural death.
“If justice had been swift, it would have been prosecuted,” he complains. Montserrat Torruella“The least expected of a society is to ensure that such a crime does not go unpunished,” explains the head of Inter-SOS, denouncing the abandonment of Ana’s family. “They’ve had such bad times for a long time that the pain even affected their health.”