judicial Sandra Culi is 44 years old and hasn’t been here for almost two years.. disappeared 26 December 2019, Vilassar de Mar (Barcelona). After a family dinner at her mother-in-law’s house, she decided to go for a walk – in Catalonia they celebrated Sant Esteve (Little Christmas). He did this alone and without a phone. He wanted to clear his head, saying, “Put the nougat down.” He left at five in the afternoon. At eight o’clock the alarms went off. I wasn’t coming back. At nine they got even stronger. He didn’t come back. They haven’t closed yet.
Her husband, who is her mother-in-law, went to the police station the night she disappeared. “Some mistakes were made,” they point out to their surroundings. “His phone was checked two weeks later, bank transactions too…”. Two days later he fought. A few days after it started, the search stopped. Mossos d’Esquadra cited suicide as the reason for his disappearance. His friends disagree with the “core” as they always describe themselves: “Sandra didn’t want to disappear”. Mireia and Carles form the group together with another friend of the same name, Sandra. set indissoluble, chosen family. The first two go back to those days, that quest, with CASO ABIERTO. The fateful moment when Sandra stopped being around.
last speech
“I remember,” says Carles, “I called him on the 25th and he didn’t answer. I sent him a message: ‘We’re packing our bags, we’re going to Vilassar. We talked…he replied. I still have messages saved.” Nothing felt like goodbye. He wrote “talk” the day before he disappeared.
Mireia also steps back, “the days when we were all with the family, celebrating Christmas, Sant Esteve …”. Busting and overeating, another year. “We always cooked for friends, that can’t be done with covid. But we were in constant contact. I arranged to meet him on December 27 to go for a walk and put down the nougat before dinner”. Again, post-loss plans. They did not walk, Sandra was no longer there..
The alert went off for both of them on the 27th: “Sandra isn’t there, we can’t find her, her partner Jordi told me she was crying,” Carles recalls. He called Mireia. They also activated the other friend Sandra. “When I found out,” Mireia still hurts, “everything hit me like cold water.” Nobody could believe it.
After lunch with Sandra, her mother-in-law and Jordi (husband) in Vilassar de Mar, He went for a walk, as he had done many days before. Hours passed and he did not return. The agents asked them to calm down, a little bit of 24 hours to pass.
“There was no family dispute or any incidents,” the representative said.
In the morning it became official: woman, slim build (height 1.68, weight about 50 kilograms), long, straight, blond hair. He left the house at five in the afternoon,” one agent wrote while activating the complaint. He was wearing pants, anorak, scarf and black sneakers when he disappeared. He was carrying a fluorescent green backpack.”
The car was still parked in the same place, the keys did not take them. They confirmed that he was not in his home (Barcelona) or in three other homes he owned (Terrasa and Manresa). “There was no family dispute or any incident,” the representative stated. Sandra went out that day only because Jordi was ill and could not walk. Mireia remembers that she didn’t have her phone with her, “it’s not surprising that she didn’t take her phone with her, unaware of it…” They started shaking. The investigation has begun.
Cameras: Sandra walking towards the sea
Hundreds of volunteers responded to the call for help within hours. “An emergency committee was formed,” they recall. Social media was asked for help. A real battalion of hundreds of men -Many of them didn’t even know Sandra- she started looking. “Carles was beating on the pitch. I couldn’t because I was afraid to find him in a certain situation. It would hurt, so I thought it would be more helpful to be behind the phone and coordinate people with Sandra, our fellow friend and Dani, who is the person who selflessly coordinates everything. “.
map in hand They scattered the town of Vilassar on the grids. They followed every inch of the town (especially along the seaside where he used to walk) and the periphery of the municipality. They called and called your name. Nothing came from Sandra.
Mossos d’Esquadra checked the cameras. They managed to see it only in those who first caught it, leaving the house. “If you go the way he always does, you’ll have to go through an underground passage. Those cameras didn’t work by chance,” his friends complain. “And then the cameras of the Yacht Club, which will be down there, no longer catch him.We only know that he left his mother-in-law’s house at 5 pm. there is no moreThe cameras of the Vilassar station were viewed negatively. Sandra had not taken any trains.
a scream on the mountain
For days the town fought the sea. The investigation was not progressing. Sandra’s family, perhaps her husband, who was overwhelmed by the situation, set an end date for the raids. New Year’s Eve can’t get any longer. “Then we should look at the mountain. It was undefeated,” Mireia recalls. The search took a turn against the clock. “One district was beaten, La Pedrera. We thought: If someone took him, I did something to him there… It’s easier to get rid of him there, or to leave him there badly injured, than to leave him on the street, isn’t it?”
A scream was heard at that hit. a group of volunteers I confirm that the heartbreaking voice of a woman was heard in the quarry. When they said Sandra’s name, they said it sounded like an answer. “I was there,” Carles recalls. “I don’t know if it was a scream or an animal right now… I don’t know. Maybe there was a great desire to find it and the noise was also associated with it. I don’t know…”. SAndra had disappeared four days ago.
12 firefighters came to the area frequented by walkers, which is about 9 kilometers long, which is about a 2-hour walk from the building where the woman left. “It was the only raid supported by agents and expert personnel, the rest were volunteers.” Trained dogs have also joined the search for humans. They heard no more noise. They just gave up.
“Search Elsewhere”
Christmas is over. On January 8 or 9, Carles received another fatal phone call: “We don’t need to keep looking for Sandra. She committed suicide.” Her husband was Jordi. That was the police hypothesis. Two weeks after his disappearance, Mossos had access to his cell phone. “Any hand-to-hand phone used to call Sandra could have been picked up by anyone. The phone was delivered two weeks later.” On the cell phone, as Jordi points out, The woman was looking for how to end her life.
“Impossible,” Mireia says. “We couldn’t believe it.” He clings to a thousand reasons to strengthen his argument. His strength, his energy. plans. “I had a business trip planned,” she recalls. She bought a car a few months ago. “They don’t have the behavior of wanting to leave everything behind all at once.”
It also holds up to weather conditions. to physical problems. “On the 26th, volunteers took pictures of the promenade, of the tourists who were there. The sea was calm. There was a storm on the day of the search. However, the theory is that he will commit suicide if he is thrown into the sea.” we threw the sea away, the sea would throw it back.” Carlees next to him approves. “So much so that there are no cliffs in that area. They are all beaches. One must enter the water on foot and not come out…”
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He studied veterinary medicine, loved animals, but it was a turning point in his life. He holds a master’s degree in Clinical Research and worked at Laboratorios Alcon. Fun, smiling. She overcame dark moments, lost her mother and brother, needed help but she got over it. When he was young, his strength failed him once, and he wanted to end it all. “Maybe that’s why it’s easy to believe that he committed suicide,” his friend complains.
Urban, cosmopolitan, lover of Tous and gourmet food, Sandra Culi enjoyed the rhythm of the music. She loved dancing, Zumba and Sevillanas. His chosen family: Carles, Mireia and Sandra, remember him strong and happy. “Sandra is activity, she is vitality,” adds she. “Doing things, going to museums. Anything not at home.”
They were defeated, but Sandra is not there. “We believe that his corpse will be revealed …”. It was San Esteban, they remember, “people are at home with their families. At five o’clock in the afternoon there weren’t many people. Maybe they stopped him. A hunter passed by, so to speak, and the prey was his”. They need answers. They need Sandra. They never left. The “core” will not stop looking.