And despite wanting to avoid the lawsuit, the state had used Antonio Angles as a scapegoat in the trial of Miguel Ricart, so they were forced to pay up. The trial lasted almost three months. Miguel signed at the bottom, and that was that. And the president of Spain at the time, Felipe Gonzalez, even met with the family to express his concerns. It was later announced that certain officials believed that Antonio Angles had managed to avoid capture yet again.
Despite Antonio being in-and-out of prison in the early 1990s, Miguel Ricart was allowed to stay at Antonio's family home, located in Catarroja. But on a fateful day at the end of January, two-and-a-half months later, the bodies of the three girls were found. It's the website Murderpedia, where the records of killers and murderers are archived and stored for public use. Thankfully, the court granted this request.
He found the reflective item that had originally caught Gabriel's eye: it was a watch. He was allowed to go home for about a week, and decided to just never return. From there, police reportedly received calls placing Antonio at various spots throughout the area. At this point, things get VERY murky. At this point, the police were not aware of where the three Alcasser girls had been killed. The rumors came from a Portuguese drug addict, by the name of Joaquim Carvalho. Miguel would face a variety of issues over his life. Antonia Gomez Rodriguez was born in Valencia, Spain on May 25th, 1977. I know what you're thinking at this point. A three o'clock in the evening, on January 28th, these doctors moved on to the body of the third victim, Miriam Garcia Iborra. Inside the T-shirt, which was a white shirt with a red logo on the front that was rolled up, officials discovered two stones... which they left behind at the scene.Also inside and around the pit were: A torn corduroy jacket. That Christmas Eve also marked another relevant episode of "Who Knows Where?" Ricart would find an unlikely ally in one of the victim's parents, Fernando Garcia. One, natural reason was the lack of concrete evidence in the case. Police continued to hold him, and finally worked a confession out of him roughly 24 hours later, at midnight of January 28th.
All of their dreams and ambitions died with them, their names being spoken in hushed voices as cautionary tales for the next generation of teenage girls. Miguel's father, an alcoholic, would remain an abusive and domineering figure in Miguel's life over the next fifteen years. This is where they detained Miguel, obtained a confession, etc. The day was January 27th, 1993. His confession had taken many twists and turns in each incarnation, sometimes his later confessions completely contradicting what he had testified to previously.
Well, one important detail I've failed to mention is that the forensics squad behind that autopsy missed a vital clue... that being a bullet found in the hand of one of the victims. These two younger brothers went to same school as Desiree. As I've mentioned, there were fifteen hairs found with the three bodies. He went on to continue his professional career, establishing a successful mattress shop in Alcasser, and raised his two sons. The trial, in which they threw every possible shred of evidence at his guilt, proved that to him. In June of 1994, the year after the bodies of the three girls were found, Desiree's father, Vicente Hernandez, passed away. Eventually, all of the friends met up at Esther's home. Because she had stolen a bag of heroin that he was planning to sell. As punishment, Antonio took this young woman captive, so to speak. More interestingly, the girls had neither money to spend at the club, nor pre-purchased tickets to enter. The Civil Guard had toyed with the idea of the Angles' brother's Catarroja hideout being the murder location, but at this point, a survey of the place provided no evidence of any crimes taking place there.
On November 13th, 1992, Miguel had been spotted at a bar getting dinner with another man. The town itself is relatively small. However, this friendship ended when Antonio stole Joaquim's passport, and was planning to make good on his intention to find a ship that was sailing to his nation of birth, Brazil.A few days later, on March 27th - two months to the day after the bodies of the three Alcasser Girls had been found - Portuguese officials announced that they were calling off the search, which had provided no new evidence whatsoever.
After all, the baseline in Spain - at the time, at least - was that a lawyer must have at least five years experience in criminal cases when defending a client who faced over six years in prison. Gabriel Aquino Gonzalez is a retired farmer, who is approaching seventy years old. He says that the two men had been friends for over a decade, but that he didn't know where the other man was, and hadn't seen in him quite some time. It was a big patch of greenish carpeted material that had been permanently browned because of its inclusion to the dirt. One eyewitness reported to police that she had seen three girls matching their description get into a white sedan with a handful of older-looking men. He wanted to make sure that the police had exhausted every avenue before proceeding with a criminal trial. However, the place where the girls were found was named La Romana, but it wasn't located nearby the town of the same name and was only 30 or so minutes away from Picassent. From here, he was rumored to start traveling as a stowaway inside the cargo containers of semi-trucks.
This time, in more detail. The reason for this violent outburst? Police still had no idea where, so Miguel's confession remarkably lacks that information.
Dr. Ros was one of the forensic experts present throughout the case, taking on the role of acting forensic doctor in the absence of his superior, Dr. Fernando Verdu. Two months after this, the three Alcasser girls went missing, and the rest is history.
To police, this felt like the investigative jackpot.
We were now roughly three months removed from the night that the girls had gone missing, so I can't quite blame the owner for refusing to make such a definitive statement. Well, it comes as no surprise to learn that Dr. Francisco Ros Plaza didn't agree with those assertions, and had refused to work with Dr. Luis Frontela during his second autopsy and the subsequent reporting process. That's it. Like the other victims, Toni had been bound with her arms behind her back.