The violent demise of 35-year-old Esther López, who was final seen alive a 12 months in the past, within the early morning of January 13, 2022, and was discovered useless twenty-three days later in a ditch in Traspinedo (Valladolid), continues with obscure factors nonetheless not clarified, whereas the investigation continues to be open.
In the case, three males stay beneath investigation, Óscar, Ramón and Carolo, in proceedings that the Examining Court Number 5 of Valladolid prolonged for six months final December, when it was going to be a 12 months for the reason that starting of the investigation, to ready for stories that may present information on the case.
The post-mortem report carried out on the sufferer revealed that the girl’s demise was unintentional or homicidal and will have been brought on by a hit-and-run at medium-low pace, along with revealing that the quick reason for demise was because of multifactorial shock.
Thus, it stays to be clarified if Esther López misplaced her life unintentionally or if her demise could possibly be because of a homicidal origin, among the many factors nonetheless to be ascertained within the case.
Traspinedo reminds Esther López: “We aren’t going to cease till justice is finished”
It can be not clear if the sufferer remained for the reason that demise occurred within the place the place she was discovered, in Traspinedo, a city the place she lived, positioned about twenty-five kilometers from the capital of Valladolid and which was coated with a number of raids to attempt to discover her. discover the girl earlier than she was positioned.
In this sense, the forensic stories thought of that it can’t be dominated out that the place of the alleged hit-and-run would have been completely different from the place the place the physique was discovered.
The inquiries are additionally directed to search out out if Esther López stayed within the city that morning or went to a different place. One of these investigated, Óscar, has all the time maintained that he left the girl at a Traspinedo crossing round 3:00 a.m. It can be not recognized for positive if this investigated was the final particular person to see the girl alive.
The Civil Guard confirms the invention of a physique in Traspinedo
The sufferer’s accidents occurred whereas he was alive.
The contributions of the forensic report additionally included that the accidents suffered by the sufferer occurred whereas he was alive and there was survival from the second they occurred till demise, which raises one other query: whether or not he might have acquired assist and thus prevented demise.
For a number of months, for the reason that physique appeared, residents of Traspinedo, a city of a couple of thousand inhabitants, have gathered across the dates of the girl’s disappearance, on the thirteenth, to demand justice.
Brief chronological abstract January 17, 2022. The household denounces that Esther López had disappeared at daybreak on the thirteenth, after which a number of raids undergo Traspinedo on completely different dates to attempt to find the girl. January 22. Arrested a type of investigated – the one one of many three who has remained arrested -, Ramón, who swears to his lawyer that he has not had something to do with the case and that he begins a starvation strike. Six days later he was launched with precautionary measures that the decide subsequently lifted. February 5. A passerby finds the lifeless physique of Esther López in Traspinedo. February 9. Hundreds of attendees say their final goodbye to Esther López in Traspinedo, the place her funeral was officiated on February 22. The post-mortem reveals that the girl suffered a damaged hip and bruises throughout her physique on April 21. More information from the post-mortem: it can’t be dominated out that the place of the potential hit-and-run was completely different from the one the place her physique was discovered. A demise of unintentional or homicidal etiology. April 25. The investigated Óscar insists earlier than the decide that he left Esther at 3:00 am on January 13 at a crossing in Traspinedo. April 27. The decide decides that Óscar stays free as a result of there is no such thing as a account of how the occasions occurred and what there are are indications or suspicions that drive additional investigation. August 29. Óscar’s protection requests explanations from the Court for a dent within the automobile of his consultant, which didn’t exist when he delivered the automobile for his inspection on December 23. The decide prolonged the proceedings of the case for six months.