Jose F. Sanchez |
Madrid (EFE) end of the corridor on the third floor, on the same landing as the victim.
The building, with more than thirty homes, is located on Calle de la Oca in the Vistalegre area, a humble place with a significant flow of people that has not stopped despite the impact of the tragic news, known this Thursday for the neighbors.
Pilar, at 68, lived alone and had been holding the position of president of a community of neighbors for about five months since last November, which had lost its central heating supply due to non-payments to the supplier company, according to Ana, a neighbor on the first floor, has told EFE in statements.
The new president had proposed to “clean up” all the accounts of the community, for which she had convened several extraordinary meetings in which, among other matters, she commented that Marta, her alleged murderer, was giving her “long” by claiming the non-payment of eight months of water bills.
Some neighbors do not put a face to Marta, a 34-year-old Spaniard, since, as confirmed by Ángela, the building’s concierge, “she did not speak to anyone” despite having been rented for almost a year by relatives in the 3rd H, an apartment that is now sealed by the National Police on suspicion that the crime had occurred inside.
A very heavy suitcase
Pilar lived alone but texted daily with her relatives, who were concerned last Monday when they didn’t hear from her and, even more so, when they discovered that she had left the light on and the cell phone inside her apartment.
“Twitter please do your magic. My aunt Pilar has disappeared this morning. She is lucid, but in her house the light is on, the mobile phone, the wallet, the clothes that she was going to put on the bed and the door has closed as it does not usually do, ”one of her nephews published on social networks in the past Monday.
The relatives also reported the disappearance to the Police, who knowing these data determined that it was a case of risk.
The investigators took statements from numerous people around Pilar, including Ángela, the community concierge, who told them that she had seen Marta, the alleged murderer, with a very heavy suitcase shortly after the president’s disappearance.
Neighbors describe the victim as a “very short and thin” woman, while the alleged culprit of the crime is “strong complexion.”
burned in a dump
The tragic outcome of the case occurred 48 hours later, last Wednesday, when Pilar’s body was found, in the absence of official confirmation, in a dump in the Toledo town of Las Ventas with Peña Aguilera.
As sources close to the investigation have indicated to EFE, the corpse was not dismembered, although it was not found in its entirety and was burned.
During the same Wednesday, the agents of the Madrid Homicide Group V took charge of the case and arrested Marta as the alleged perpetrator of the crime.
According to the first inquiries, the arrested woman would have murdered Pilar in her apartment and would have moved the body hidden in a suitcase to Toledo, where she bought several cans of gasoline to try to burn the body in the dump where she left it.