Red shorts, gray t-shirt and dark sneakers. He stands 1.70 meters tall. Normal skin. His name is Alejandro Muñoz, and he has vanished without a trace for two months. This remains a missing person case.
He spoke with his family for the last time on July 13. “He never said goodbye,” his brother Juan said. “He met with my brother-in-law the next day to discuss brake pads on the van.” In the neighborhood of El Barranco in Atarfe, Granada, no one saw him again.
His phone, keys and documents, which he always carried, appeared in his minibus parked near the house. “The windows were closed,” Juan recalled. “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.” That was their last exchange. The brother explains that this was their final conversation. “My brother-in-law was the last person to see him. He stood with him at the doorway because he had pills for the truck.” After that, Alejandro walked down the street to refill a few water cans before returning inside. “That was it, we never saw him again.”
“Even though my brother lives alone, he is like a child who spends most of his time at our parents’ house.” The dinner bell rang. “My father worried when he didn’t come home that night. He called his phone, no answer, he called again…” Juan explains. Their instincts told them something was off, and they were right. They went to Alejandro’s door and he was not there.
“We saw the van on arrival.” He wasn’t inside. “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 told my father: Something strange is happening here. This is not normal.”
They stood at the doorway, unsure. “If my brother wasn’t in the minibus, he was on his bike, he never left his side.” Yet the bike was at home. They searched the house but found nothing unusual. They tried to stay calm, but Alejandro didn’t return. “A normal, ordinary person… You don’t leave a van window down, your card, your health card… everything on the couch.” An alarm sounded, and doubt grew stronger.
No trace, no news. The family contacted the Civil Guard, without witnesses and with little information. After the initial interrogation, agents canvassed the area. The family also joined in a group search. “We were on the street until they told us to stop looking.”
The first posters went up. They asked everyone around for information, but nobody seemed to know anything. A week later the search expanded to the Cubillas reservoir. Diving experts from GEAS searched, but there was no success. “It feels like they looked for an ending, not a person.”
Alejandro’s photo spread across social networks. “Lost, please share widely.” “He is only 25 years old, his family is shattered; we need your cooperation.” The message spread. A report from Córdoba arrived via a TikTok account. It claimed Alejandro was alive but unwilling to engage with his surroundings. The family passed the message to the Civil Guard, but investigators noted that the message was not true and a new statement was taken.
“The days before he was a little strange. He said he felt watched. He was scared, overwhelmed.”
Everything returned to the starting point. Alejandro was not there, and time moved on without him. Agents reviewed his daily life, noting that he was a gentle, simple person who loved the neighborhood and its rhythms but did not intend to leave it. A drawing of Alejandro on his bike still existed in the family’s mind, a memory of someone solitary yet familiar.
“My brother was a van or a bike kid,” Juan reflects. “No one took them. I believe he was abducted from the vehicle.” He adds that gunpoint violence isn’t ruled out and voices suspicion about the days leading up to the disappearance. Investigators entertain several hypotheses while respecting the family’s concern and questions. They pursue lines of inquiry tied to possible conflicts in the area and the possibility of revenge or a vendetta, while ensuring the family’s safety and dignity in reporting what they know.
Juan and his relatives urge anyone with information to come forward. They remember Alejandro with long, wavy hair in some photos, but the last time they saw him it was shorter and unkempt. They hope for a sign, a lead, anything that might explain what happened. The family remains convinced that something wrong occurred and seeks answers to learn the truth. They want to understand how a life can vanish without a trace and what steps can be taken to prevent such cases from staying unresolved. They appeal for any observation, even a small detail, to be shared with the authorities so the investigation can move forward and bring closure to those who still search for him. They emphasize that two long months have dragged on without food, without energy, and without meaning, and they request every possible lead to help find Alejandro and bring him home.