this last episode Deborah casea find box with supplies The cause of the case, forgotten for years in the central offices of the Madrid National Police, casts more shadow than light around the police investigation into the disappearance and death of this young woman from Vigo. There, in that misplaced file, you appearedno cell phone The Nokia brand is suspected to belong to the victim in 2002, when it all happened. What the family has blamed for years is a terminal that is missing and, according to current reports in the summary, a terminal with a star. Completely incomprehensible police wandering because it is a key element in an investigation of a nature similar to that pursued in this prosecution.
As the case was reopened by the police and the judiciary in 2019, one of the questions Déborah’s family asked was directly related to her cell phone. Where was that piece of conviction? Because the girl’s mother remembered and He “clearly” remembers what she gave him in 2006, four years after the events, to two agents who went to meet him at his home as part of the investigation. According to a report in the summary, what the National Police mentioned in the same 2019 was that there were no documents proving that the mobile phone in question was seized for analysis. In fact, in the early years of the investigation, two officials with the Crimes Against Persons Brigade in Madrid stated that none of Déborah’s relatives gave the phone. Continuing the police officer’s letter, all that appeared in the agents’ work diary was some data on incoming calls and an entry in the phone’s agenda. some agents did visual inspection of mobile phone or a family member of the victim provides such information to investigators at the beginning of investigations
After reopening, the investigator in charge of the case left the police
When the police investigation into the Déborah case was reopened in 2019, Sub-inspector Carlos Segarra was in charge of the Madrid team responsible for the investigations.. But this agent recently left the National Police to start a new phase as a lawyer. Now, she’s collaborating on the television channel Cuatro, where she talks about the procedure this week. He confirmed that the initial investigators in the case “had” Déborah’s phone, had “analyzed it” and, as he had assured it, could not be found. no exact data.
Thus, until last week the discovery of this file came to light as a result of some work done in Madrid offices, the National Police denied that Déborah had a cell phone. Something also justified by the fact that in 2002 phones were not like the smartphones of today, because the information they contained was almost exclusively limited to smartphones. daily, incoming and outgoing calls and SMS messagesThey stated that they could be consulted with a simple review without the need for a more comprehensive analysis.
a new version
But what the National Police just conveyed to the judge in the official letter requesting access to the phone found in that forgotten box is very different from what the 2019 report contained. Representatives now believe that this Nokia mobile phone may actually be it. As noted in this new report, they obtained documents relating to a visit to Vigo in January 2006 by the police officers who were then responsible for the investigation. And among these commentaries is that on the 11th of that month, the young woman went to her parents’ house and, together with her personal agenda, really they took your cell phone.
But has Déborah’s terminal ever been thoroughly inspected? Well, this is not specified. In the case, there are no expert reports proving this. Now, investigators have asked the judge to allow them to send the old Nokia phone found in their office in Madrid to the Science Police’s expert group. The purpose is twofold: verify that indeed the young woman has a cell phone and try to extract the information containing the same thing. What doesn’t show up in that file is the SIM card, which will likely put a limit on the data that can be obtained.
A section that casts a shadow on the chain of custody of the evidence of this crime
It is not unimportant what happened to the box of evidence from the misplaced Déborah case with the Murder and Disappearance Division of the Madrid National Police. Inside, next to your cell phone supposedly belonged to the young woman from Vigo, six VHS videotapes -it is not yet known whether it was the seized evidence or the agents’ own records-and also Police official documents and photos. The fact that this file has disappeared directly attacks the chain of custody Required for any evidence or indication to be used in a forensic investigation. And it inevitably casts doubt on the control exercised over this and other pieces of evidence that are part of this procedure. Full, the partition on the phone looks like the partition on the hard drive on the victim’s computerIt was manipulated and subjected to data erasure, according to Lazarus Technology, after it was handed over to the National Police in 2006. Following this expertise, Déborah’s family requested that the entire chain of custody the device has had from that year to date be analyzed, but the judge recently refused to do so., a decision that lawyers appealed. and yesterday José Miñones, the government’s delegate to Galiciashowed his support for the faHe confirmed that Déborah had milia and the same purpose, “which clarifying the facts and logically eliminating the consequences”.