Red shorts, gray t-shirt and dark sneakers. He is 1’70 tall. Normal skin. His name is Alejandro Muñoz and no trace of him has been found for two months. This missing.
He spoke to his family for the last time on July 13. “He never said goodbye,” his brother Juan told OPEN CASE. “He met with my brother-in-law the next day to see something about the brake pads on the van.” In the neighborhood of ‘El Barranco’ (Atarfe, Granada); No one in his neighborhood saw him again.
His phone, keys and documents, which he always had with him, appeared in his minibus parked near his house. “The windows were closed,” Juan stepped back. “There’s something strange.”
“Something happened”
Thursday, July 13. The clock shows 20.30. “Come by tomorrow and we’ll look at the brake pads,” he suggested to his brother-in-law, Alejandro. He nodded and replied, “See you tomorrow.” His brother explains that this was their last conversation. “My brother-in-law was the last to see him. He was with him at the door of his house because he had some pills for the truck.” After that, Alejandro went down the street to fill a few water cans before entering the house. “That was it, we never saw him again.”
“Even though my brother lives alone, he is a child who does everything at my parents’ house.” The alarm went off at dinner time. “My father was worried because he didn’t come home that night. He called his phone, no one answered, he called him and called him…” explains Juan. Their instincts told them something was up and they were right.: They went to Alexander’s door. I wasn’t there.
“We saw the van when we arrived.” He wasn’t there. “But there was a mobile phone on the seat, his cards, documents and the window were open… I didn’t like it. That’s when I said to my father: There is something strange here. This is not normal.”
They thought for a few minutes at the door. “If my brother wasn’t in the minibus, he was on his bike, he never left his side.” But the bike was also at home. They entered the house and did not see anything remarkable in the house. They tried to calm down, gave them some time, but Alejandro did not come. “A normal, ordinary person… You can’t leave the window of the van down, your cell phone, your health card… everything on the couch.” Alarms went off and they weren’t going out anymore.
No trace, no news. The family went to the Civil Guard without any witnesses, without any information. After the initial interrogation, agents canvassed the area. The family also went out as a group to search. “We were on the street until they told us to stop looking.”
The first posters were prepared. They asked here and there that “nobody knows anything.” A week later the search was expanded to include the Cubillas reservoir. Diving experts GEAS attended. There was no success. “I think they looked at him for termination.”
Alejandro’s photo flooded social networks. “Lost, maximum spread please.” “He is only 25 years old, his family is destroyed, we need your cooperation.” The call went into effect. “We received a message from a girl from Córdoba,” Juan recalls. “It was through a TikTok account. She told us that Alejandro was fine but didn’t want to know anything about our surroundings.“. The message shocked the family, but they decided to pass the information on to the Civil Guard. “They were investigating, they went to take the statement and the woman said it was a lie.” He denied this.
“The days before he was a little strange. He said he felt like he was being watched. He was scared, overwhelmed.”
Everything returned to the starting point. Alejandro wasn’t there, he wasn’t there anymore. Agents rebuilt their daily lives. “In his normal life he was a child… how to put it, a little strange. I usually wouldn’t leave here. He loved the neighborhood and the environment he lived in and had no intention of leaving here again.“They all agree that I always draw Alejandro on his bike – quite lonely in terms of daily life, but quite familiar.
“My brother was a van or a bike kid,” Juan tries to reconstruct. “None of them took them. I honestly feel like they took him out of the car.“He laments. “They could have held him at gunpoint…” he told investigators. “It was a little weird the days before. “I feel like I’m being watched,” he told me. I was scared. My brother felt overwhelmed.” Agents drew attention to the family’s suspicion with various hypotheses and are investigating in this direction.
Conflict and revenge
“I wish it was okay, but I know my brother has everything here and it couldn’t have gone that way.” Juan pauses, “Time doesn’t work and it gives rise to untrue rumors. If it works, drugs… Alejandro only had one disagreement, and it was with a boy“. There is a conflict at the table between two families – Alejandro’s and Juan’s – and another clan from the neighborhood. “This one is also from that family. “They’ve been holding a grudge for three years.”
“Alejandro walked in fear and said they were watching him. “I was locked up and I didn’t want to come out,” Juan repeats, repeatedly recounting the last conversations he had with his brother before he disappeared: “And I know what it’s like… Once, because of this conflict, they oppressed me, They shot me…” Years ago, a They saw each other at the hearing.
“The truth is that My brother confronted that boy… and that boy had to collect it. It’s a vendetta, it’s revenge, that’s it“.
Juan and his family ask for cooperation. “In some photos Alejandro appears with shorter hair, last time we saw him his hair was longer and wavy, but if so… I don’t know how it will turn out“. Intuition tells them that something bad has happened: “How will it go like this?” But uncertainty sometimes allows them to dream.
Alejandro, the bike boy who spends his days in the neighborhood, is not there. I had no plan other than survival. “Honestly, without a job, I lived with what was to come.” His family is trying to find out what happened and why he disappeared. “Two long, long months. We neither eat nor have the will to live…”. They are asking for help, “If anyone sees him or sees anything, please tell us, we have to find him no matter what,” Juan begs.