Experts take a look at cell phones from 20 years in the past to extract info from Déborah Fernández’s cellphone


The terminal of the younger lady from Vigo was present in 2022 in a police station after lacking years Getting a Nokia just like the one Déborah had when she was murdered has not been straightforward in any respect They work with replicas to attempt to get hold of info from the unique with out damaging it

The investigation into the Déborah Fernández case continues on the twenty first anniversary of her homicide. Lazarus Technologies consultants have been working for months with replicas of the cellphone of the younger lady from Vigo who was discovered useless in a ditch in O Rosal (Pontevedra) in 2002.

This was defined by Manuel Huerta and Javier Vicente, in statements to the media, who’ve indicated that the process for extracting info is being “very advanced” given the age of the woman’s cellphone and its info storage know-how (in an digital chip and never an working system).

The problem of the work lies in the truth that different SIM playing cards or ‘wildcards’ can’t be inserted into that cellphone, since doing so would put in danger the knowledge that will proceed on the gadget.

Déborah Fernández Cervera’s cellphone was handed over to the scientific police in 2006 by her household and was misplaced in Madrid police stations till its informal discovery, in September 2022, as a result of some works within the Canillas advanced. However, the terminal appeared with out the SIM card.

The Lazarus consultants went to the Scientific Police headquarters in Madrid on the finish of final summer time to be current on the dump of the knowledge from Déborah’s cell, however the brokers had been unable to acquire something, though the cellphone did activate.

International search to seek out replicas

The technicians have needed to discover telephones precisely the identical as Déborah’s, a Nokia 3310, with the identical engineering model, and for this they’ve turned to suppliers world wide.

Thus, they’ve managed to assemble three replicas because of telephones obtained in locations as various as Singapore or Azerbaijan.

With these replicas they’re testing other ways to acquire info with no SIM card and with out dropping something, placing information into the terminals after which extracting it, till they discover a technique that permits them to do it with out danger.

The consultants have transferred their conviction that “one thing will probably be eliminated”, the issue will probably be if this info will probably be helpful and of curiosity for the investigation, since such a gadget loses the knowledge saved once in a while (about three months) and the info New ones are written over the previous ones.

In this fashion they attempt to get hold of info akin to incoming and outgoing calls, messages or geolocation information. However, they’ve warned that this info will probably be extra helpful the much less time has elapsed between the disappearance of the woman and the second the terminal was turned off.

The case of Déborah Fernández is dealt with by a Tui Court which, in December 2022, determined to increase the investigation for an additional six months. In April of final 12 months, after 20 years had handed, the details prescribed, apart from these actions that must do with the one one investigated, the woman’s ex-boyfriend.