“I feel bad. Without encouragement, without hope… I no longer have the strength to go on with everything that exists.” His name is Juan Jesús and he has been crying out for justice for four years. He has been looking for his brother Antonio in Granada for the same four years. “They killed him,” he complains. “His killers have names and surnames, they poisoned him, they destroyed him.”
The complaint was made in 2018 when the alarm sounded, but It is not known exactly when He disappeared. Antonio Ruiz, known as ‘El Rosco’ I was 58 years old and life unraveled. He had not worked for a long time with a quiet life and retired early.
“He disappeared in Baza (Granada) and no one reported his absence,” his brother denounced. He had previously started a new relationship. “He met a woman and went with her.” Studies revealed that it took up to 14 visits to the doctor, all for digestive ailments, before the trace disappeared. No whereabouts, no word from him, the only thing showing movement was his bank account: money was withdrawn on time on the same day of each month.
separated from family
Cheerful, funny, “confusing, joking”. Juan Jesús recalls that Antonio was “familiar, close, until I met him.” The fruit of his new love settled in Baza (Granada) and began to live in a house – a cave. He “lost contact with everyone”, distanced himself from his children – he has three – from his parents.
His older brother remembers how they learned of his disappearance: “A cousin came to Baza’s house after the holidays,” says Juan Jesús. It wasn’t Anthony. “How not?” He reported missing on July 16, 2018. “No one knew anything about him or his partner.” Desperate, he posted his brother’s picture on the networks”I’m looking please if anyone sees Civil Guard“.
The replies soon followed: “Someone sent me a message on Facebook and said ‘You condemned me,’ suggesting I speak to my brother’s family, which is his partner; something happened there.” Suspicions were aroused. “He disappeared at night, leaving his house and belongings. Also, a niece of the woman lives in the house now,” they wrote again.
three versions
“We haven’t had much contact since this relationship started,” his brother said when he tipped off the agents. “I don’t know the exact date of the disappearance. Rebuilding its last steps became impossible. They called his partner, he did not speak, “still not doing, gone”.
According to the summary, in which CASO ABIERTO had access to Prensa Ibérica’s event and investigation portal, the woman said something else to the Civil Guard. It offered three different versions.
In the first, he stated that he and Antonio had an argument, hit him, and then went to his mother’s house in Huétor Tajar (Granada). He never saw her again, she assured him.
In the woman’s second statement, both They had argued, but it was he who had left and Antonio remained in the cave.. He added that neighbors intervened during the fight. He did not know anything else because, given the gravity of the facts, the police had issued a restraining order against Antonio.
According to the latest version of events, Antonio met a Romanian girl on social networks. and went home with him without further explanation. “It didn’t make sense,” his brother complains.
The Civil Guard analyzed three options. Since Antonio didn’t go to his mother’s house, they threw the first one away as soon as they started researching. As stated in the documents of the case, they confirmed that the second version presented by the woman was also false, The Civil Guard found no action, no complaints, or any restraining order for an alleged fight between the couple.
They studied the third way Antonio left the country. The children of the disappeared said their father did not have an internet-connected computer or phone and did not know about new technologies. “Impossible,” complains Juan Jesús.
Registration has begun. They found his identity in the cave. “Antonio couldn’t leave Spain,” complains his brother. Agents requested information from Romanian authorities with negative result through SIRENE offices (Request for Supplementary Information at National Entrance), as CASE OPEN learned, Antonio did not enter Romania.
Antonio’s girlfriend assured investigators that the man broke up with a Romanian woman he met online.
With their phones off and no sign of him, they checked Antonio’s bank records. In case the man voluntarily lives elsewhere and decides to disappear. there was monthly, punctual, methodical; always the same process: withdrawal of your retirement money.
The agents corrected the investigations and discovered that he was the one who removed him, not him. “He didn’t report his disappearance but continued to collect the money”he feels sorry for his brother. They asked for an explanation: “He left the money to me, he told us,” said the woman. And he continued to receive a salary. He didn’t stop doing this until Juan Jesús stopped him. in March 2019, when From Social Security, Antonio was required to perform an “experience check” at his headquarters. Antonio, already disappeared, did not appear. Then the payment of his pension was blocked, and Antonio’s partner “stopped stealing”.
abdominal pains
His brother, who confirmed and confirmed that “the disappearance was not voluntary”, turned to the investigation. When, how and why he disappeared is unknown. yes, the last documented proof of life is from July 2016. It is the last record we have from him and it is given in a health center.
The summary of the case includes testimonies of witnesses describing the man’s state of health before he disappeared: “terrible stomachaches”, “spots on the body” (arms, face), worsening, and weeks in bed. All in 2016. The Junta de Andalucía’s Health Department sent agents to Antonio’s medical services by July of that year: alarms sounded even more, he has been to the doctor 14 times since the summer of 2015. Digestive experts at all times. It even required admission to the hospital at one time.
“A Pony Poisoned”
Contradictions, silence and withdrawal. For the family, his partner became the main suspect, “Police, I don’t know anymore.” They analyzed his profile, career and background and found some disturbing episodes.
The woman’s ex-boyfriend said she tried it when they went out together. poison it. He said that he “became very sick” and was transferred to Baza hospital where a “stomach pump” was performed. He did not die, but recovered, but continued treatment years later when the Civil Guard summoned him to testify at Antonio’s trial.
Remembering this, Juan Jesús complains, “They found more.” his brother was fired from a farm where he worked for the woman “poisoning a pony”. He also “poisoned the plants on that farm.” When they were expelled, the woman was when they moved to live in the cave house. Shortly after, he stopped being Antonio.
bones in the house
They also found some bones when they searched the couple’s home. They were “cleanly compartmentalized”, unable to determine if they were of human origin, according to the forensic report. The investigation was settled. “Nothing else. No progress, no movement. Nobody does anything for my brother anymore, everything stopped, he stayed there.”
Juan Jesús transferred the team of criminologists from the Metro Union to Metro. After registration they found, The only car in the suspect’s neighborhood was delivered to a junkyard. “The investigators didn’t look.”
“They worked on the case,” the man continues. New jobs wanted: finding the first job tool. Review bone analysis; Repeat the phrase “possible accomplices” of the woman and her two relatives in the face of multiple contradictions. “Review what has been done and what has not been done,” laments Juan Jesús. There was no answer. not Antonio; her older brother exclaims: “The case has been stopped, do something, I can’t take it anymore”.