“He’s dead”. After more than 72 hours of questioning, Isabel Marcos spontaneously – and in a seemingly insignificant speech – told the civil guard where to look. “Buried in my parents’ house.” She was talking about her 22-year-old friend, Vanessa Lorente. disappeared She has been with her four-month-old baby Daniel since August 16, 2002. It was September 20 of the same year, Isabel had just been arrested: “I dug the hole.”
The Civil Guard went exactly to this point: a property in Queixeiro, the neighborhood of Ponte de Pedra (Monfero, La Coruña). It was true. Vanessa was there. on the farm They found his lifeless body buried 1 meter deep. In Monfero, then a town of 2,500 people, everyone faced the murderer: Isabel, the daughter of mason José Carlos. She not only killed her friend, she also kidnapped her baby and created a false identity.
Isabel Marcos entered Teixeiro prison. She didn’t stand out at all. His behavior was correct, Prensa Ibérica learned from CASO ABIERTO, the events and investigation portalwithout quarrel and is already taking advantage of exit permissions. He only starred in one related episode: In the same prison, his obsession really culminated. He had an affair with another prisoner and gave birth to a baby.
The love soon ended, and Isabel began another relationship with another prisoner. Convicted of petty crimes, he did not return to Texeiro after his prison leave. she doesn’t expect it He spends his last years in prison in a hurry – already enjoying his releases. Because he can learn OPEN CASE, he stays in the third year at the Center for Social Cohesion (CIS) and is released on weekends. He has completed 21 of the 28 years he served his sentence. They saw him once in his town. His neighbors are still in shock. Everyone remembers the horror that Monfero awoke at the end of September 2002.
21 years ago
“Weird”, alone, none, “not very sociable”, they would describe him after the crime. Few, perhaps no one, knew Isabel Marcos in depth. With her propensity for isolation, depression, and schizoid thinking—the coroner would decide after her arrest—no one could have imagined she could mean anything. a very twisted plan: she faked pregnant, sedated, beaten and join to your friend; hid her body and stole her baby.
He was driven by jealousy, obsession, and anger.. Why does he do it and I do not. He buried his body and pretended to be the child himself. For a month he walked happily, pushing the car. While searching for his friend, he changed the name of his younger son: he was no longer Daniel, his name was José Andrés.
“I’m expecting a baby too”
isabel He carried out his gruesome plan on August 13, 2002, but he started it months ago. Luck, fate or interest brought him together with Vanessa at the end of 2001. mason’s daughter had begun a new life. She broke up with her husband Ángel, whom she had been married to for nearly two years; He left his town of Monfero and settled in Fene (La Coruña), with whom he established a relationship with Lino. It came and went. With Angel, with Lino. None of them made him happy.
She accused her husband of not having children, although she could not have children with her new lover. This was the person who introduced him to ‘Rogue’ and his partner. Vanessa, 22, from Cartagena, was dating him. Vanessa was pregnant and was reluctant to do so. As soon as Isabel heard the news, she replied: “I’m expecting a baby too.” You just started your plan.
For months, he formed an ambiguous friendship based on one interest: the baby to be born. He created the surreal but perfect scene in front of his friend: wrong request; enlarged intestine simulated with pillows; loose clothes and—after killing him—there would be an imaginary birth that was not even a supposed father.
Later, according to several witnesses, Isabel pretended to be pregnant: she put on pillows, wore loose-fitting clothes, and pretended to feel bored.
It all coincided with a sad, isolated, lonely Vanessa.twice condemning the mistreatment and leaving. Without family support, without funds, her pregnancy ended in April. With the newborn baby, he took refuge in his true friends and Isabel. She understood him, after all, she was going to have a child too. Isabel’s would be named José Andrés.
lost mother and baby
The alarm went off on August 16, when a friend of Vanessa’s reported her missing. There was no trace of him. All her belongings, including the baby, were in her house. The Civil Guard began its investigation. Local media echoed: “A missing young woman is wanted with her four-month-old baby.” The mother’s last steps were rebuilt: they found themselves in a cafeteria with a friend, Isabel. He went to the barracks several times to “cooperate” in the search. He wasn’t suspicious, at first there were two hypotheses: the voluntary march, or the sexist crime – as yet unnamed – due to the disappearance woman’s complaints of ill-treatment against her partner months ago.
His murderer, his friend, avoided the gaze of the police for a month. “I’m about to give birth,” she said in front of Vanessa’s very small circle. Little Daniel was already at his parents’ house. Everything was in the mood. Elizabeth smiled. Neighbors saw him happy.
He spent two weeks in Monfero and then moved. In his new home, Miño (La Coruña), his plan went awry. An anonymous search for the boy tied him to the ropes: “I think there’s a couple who have kids of their own and they don’t.” “I am her mother, she is mine,” she denied, even in front of the Civil Guard. Agents gave him a DNA test, and he finally confessed: “He’s Vanessa’s son, he told me to take care of him before he disappeared. In Madrid with a man named Antonio.”
Coffee
He was arrested, and hours later he admitted, “I killed him,” without changing his face. How she did it was found out later: Isabel met Vanessa for coffee on August 13. After meeting and chatting a little at the ‘Pan Neda’ cafeteria in Fene, they went to a hypermarket (Alcampo) to shop for the baby. Later ElizabethAware that it is time to implement the plan that he has planned for months, He convinced Vanessa to accompany him to his family’s house in Monfero to pick up some things. Vanessa said yes. On the way, his friend killed him.
A gas station, juice and a blow dry
As stated in the sentence, Isabel is driving towards Monfero and inside the vehicle is Vanessa and the little one. He stops at a gas station in Pontedeume and grabs a juice.given to the young woman. It wasn’t a kind gesture, it was crucial that he terminate his plan. Previously, she had mixed and diluted several Noctamide tablets (which contained Lormetazepam, a sedative) and – as she later testified, despite her refusal – “previously crushed and wrapped in paper at home” with the help of her mother.
Appeared in the paper cart, It was one of the many pieces of evidence incriminating him.. Isabel kept walking until Vanessa was out of sight. That’s when she, she hit “the back of the head with a blunt object with a blunt surface,” she. The blow was fatal.
He went to his parents’ house with the lifeless body and the baby. He left the child inside and buried his friend in the hut where he was. conditioning in the next days using it as a space to hang the child’s clothes. They poured the cement provided by Isabel’s ex-husband, Ángel, with whom she had reconciled at the time, “so as not to stain your feet while laying the clothes.” Concrete was the tombstone that had finished burying the woman.
they are all prisoners
He created a fictional life without the slightest remorse. “He is my son, his name is José Andrés”, He told everyone he met. to complete the lie He showed me pictures of him with the baby. His parents, who would soon be arrested, also joined the comedy.
They denied knowing who the boy was. They denied knowing that Vanessa was buried on their farm but “always supported” as the sentence states, and in front of everyone ‘José Andrés’ version that he was his daughter, Isabel’s son, grandson. They gave the boy a home for two weeks—until he moved to Miño, where Isabel was arrested— lived on the family farm.
Isabel Marcos wanted to deny everything after her confession. She emerged from her small room, where the boy was with her, the sedative remains, and the body in the family estate. Moreover, They found some of Vanessa’s slippers in her house. they were key: She was wearing them the day she disappeared. Isabel, her family, her husband… they were all convicted. It wasn’t a psychotic outbreak, it wasn’t anything passionate, the judge thought it was all planned.
SENTENCES:
- Isabel Marcos is Vanessa’s killer. La Coruna County Court 30 years in prison for their crimes murder, illegal imprisonment and presumption of birth. The Supreme Court would have reduced his sentence by two years, rejecting the aggravating reason for breach of trust. He is still serving his sentence.
- María Maceiras is Isabel’s mother and the baby’s “grandmother”. In principle, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison: 15 for complicity in murder, eight for unlawful detention, and two for necessary collaborator for the crime of birth suspect. HE Supreme Court, later decided there was no definitive proof just her daughter’s expression, so acquittal from being complicit. His pain in the end ten years in prison. free
- The same ten years in which he was sentenced Jose Carlos Marcos, “grandfather”Who was going to pour the cement on Vanessa’s grave? She claimed she didn’t know anything, she. He stated that his daughter had told him that a moped was buried there. At the behest of the agents, he was exactly the one who cut out to reveal the young woman. First, the body of a dog was found. Below is Vanessa’s. The killer would later explain that the dog would explain it to his neighbors “to justify the foul odor the ground would emit.” have been convicted of illegal detention and as a necessary collaborator for the assumption of birth. He is free.
- Ángel González is Isabel’s -again-husband. He told everyone that the baby was his, that he was with Isabel. He even told his mother, who at first had serious doubts but eventually believed him. It was Angel who provided the cement. On the bill, he wrote a note on the back of that piece of paper saying that he would leave when Isabel was arrested by the Civil Guard. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, for the same crimes as his father-in-law. On freedom.
Isabel Marcos realized the horror and dragged her family to her. Twenty years later, all but him, who was last released, served their sentences. Daniel, The younger one was handed over to his biological father. He is no longer a child, he will turn 21 in April. He grew up without his mother, whom he brutally murdered his “friend” to have a baby.