Soledad Donoso it was “brutally killed“ After he disappeared on the afternoon of September 28, 1992, when he left his home in the San Pedro district of Córdoba to go to work. thought to be on the way you got into a car that belonged to someone you know -He was always looking for a red Golf GTI- and that’s when he lost track of it. days later, his corpse Located on the Guadalquivir riverhalf-submerged and rotten, by a young man hunting birds in the area.
The National Police later did not allow anyone in the family to identify the young woman’s body, whose remains did not even pass through the church. questioned a few suspectsAmong them is the person the family still thinks is the murderer – a young man she’s having an affair with – and another boy whose phone pops up in Sole’s room, denying knowing him and having no excuse for the day. This second suspect spent a week in Seville and was released for lack of evidence.
Lawyers and criminologists approaching the subject over time this investigation coincided with pointing out that it was insufficient, apart from the fact that the criminalist techniques of the 90s were logically not what they are now. Both and no less trivial, the perspective we have now gender violence. “It would be completely different now,” says the victim’s sister, María del Mar Donoso, who has not stopped fighting to ensure the case is not forgotten.
Those who saw Sole last alive and the suspects were questioned again with the reopening of the case. The intervention of Félix Ríos, a Canarian criminologist, took a 180-degree turn. Investigations and opening a Facebook page and a proposed phone call new references (someone placed a red Golf where Sole’s body was found) and clues.
“For 20 years, from the time he was killed to 2012, we tried to reopen the case, no one called us, nobody cared about himonly the television shows I manage to describe what happened, or the letters I publish every year”, recalls María del Mar. “impotence” and “injustice” while referring to the history that determined his and his family’s fate.
Soledad Donoso’s case is so erratic that it took 20 years for his family to definitively learn he was “brutally murdered” after an autopsy was performed, and by 2018 his body was reburied. “My mourning began when we burned it. I thought: what do I do if there is nothing to fight now?
this the case was dismissed and reopened several times. The family eagerly awaited the results of DNA tests performed in 2018 on a lighter and a Soledad sweater that had not been researched at the time. Unfortunately, tests at a lab in Santiago de Compostela did not provide definitive data. Currently, the case is pending resolution of the family’s appeal to sort, review and properly package the evidence. All this time, they’ve failed to claim a lock of hair that “no one knows where” and was allegedly collected at the crime scene.
Duel
During these years, each member of the Donoso family detailed the duel as they knew it or could do it. María del Mar almost tied her fate to that of her sister Sole, whom he promised not to give up in his grave until he found his killer. Sometimes, she admits, she thinks her strength has failed her and has let her down. the best thing would be that it all ends. “The reason I lived for years was to keep fighting for my sister’s cause,” she explains. “I always told my mom that the case would be closed by the judge, that we wouldn’t throw us in the towel. But so much has happened… Sometimes I want to convince myself and I think. if there is no human justice, at least there will be heavenly justice.”
this September 28, 1992 Soledad left his home, never to return. Today, 30 years later, the owner of the crime is still not prosecuted.