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Bodies of missing German couple found on the Costa Blanca
The decomposed corpses were discovered in Jijona, Alicante where a severed arm was recovered last month
On Friday May 24, a Guardia Civil search team uncovered the bodies of a 61-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman in the Alicante town of Jijona. At the moment, investigators are working on the assumption that one of the corpses corresponds to a dismembered human arm that was uncovered by a dog on a nearby farm at the end of April.
At around 9.40am, officers who had been dispatched from Torrevieja stumbled across two lifeless bodies in the Partida el Espartal area of the town. Both were in an advanced stage of decomposition.
According to the Guardia Civil, “all the evidence seems to confirm” that the deceased are a German couple who lived in Mallorca. The pair rented a car on the island in January before disappearing without a trace.
Last month, the vehicle was found abandoned in the Ciudad del Turrón industrial estate (Espartal II) in Jijona and workers in the area informed the Guardia Civil that the vehicle had been parked there for a few months without anyone moving it.
In the area where the bodies were found a shotgun was also recovered, with “obvious signs” that the man had died by suicide, according to investigating officers. At the moment, the woman’s cause of death remains “unclear.”
Both remains were located approximately half a kilometre from the place where the rental car was found. The bodies were found in a valley with difficult access and a steep profile, far from roads and paths.
While the investigation is still in its early stages, police are assuming that the German couple parked up the car and walked together to the area where their bodies were eventually discovered, most likely sometime in late January. However, the Guardia Civil has stressed that confirmation of their identities and causes of death will not be conclusively known until after the post-mortems have taken place.
Image: Guardia Civil
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