1 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:21,119 The psychopath is a person who dances without listening to the music. 2 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,520 He has no sense of fear. 3 00:00:24,599 --> 00:00:27,160 He kills when he needs to, out of sheer contempt. 4 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,080 If anything upsets him, he'll kill you. 5 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:32,400 -HOW MANY PEOPLE HAS THIS GUY KILLED? -HE'S A KILLER 6 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:33,720 A serial killer. 7 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,680 One of the most prolific in the history of Spain. 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,760 Twenty-eight years in prison for four murders. 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,559 Convicted for murdering four people. That's four. 10 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:45,600 He was released in 2013. 11 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:48,199 HE GOT OUT OF PRISON SO EASILY 12 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,480 He gets out of prison and reinvents himself 13 00:00:50,559 --> 00:00:51,879 as some sort of TikToker. 14 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,080 He's a crime influencer. 15 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,640 This is a guy who's very active on social media. 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,480 He has thousands of followers on TikTok. 17 00:00:59,559 --> 00:01:00,959 -HE'S INNOCENT -HE'S A GOOD PERSON 18 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Now, he's in the spotlight. 19 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:04,640 I DON'T KNOW. I BELIEVE THIS MAN 20 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,280 Police have been searching for two years. 21 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,280 It would appear that he has struck again. 22 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,320 Now he's being investigated for the disappearance of Esther Estepa. 23 00:01:13,399 --> 00:01:14,560 She's missing. 24 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,880 He has the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,920 -Who is this serial killer? -How many more has he killed? 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,720 Why isn't he being monitored? Why is he free? 27 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:32,680 THE TIKTOK KILLER 28 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:37,920 AUGUST 23, 2023 THE DAY ESTHER DISAPPEARED 29 00:01:39,479 --> 00:01:41,960 SEVILLE 30 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,360 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23 ESTHER - JUST NOW 31 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:58,960 It was 5:30 in the afternoon when I started receiving those messages. 32 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,759 She said, "I can't keep lying. I'm living on the streets." 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,680 She said she was going to Buenos Aires with a friend. 34 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,480 And I tried to call her. I tried calling her phone, but nothing. 35 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,200 Don't say that. You're not a bad daughter, honey. 36 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,120 These are just the circumstances. 37 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:20,600 I was here at home. 38 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,200 And I said, "Mom, this is not my sister." 39 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,799 I'VE LED A DOUBLE LIFE, I CAN DO AS I PLEASE 40 00:02:27,799 --> 00:02:29,959 Weird messages, right? That's not her. 41 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,920 But who could be sending these messages? 42 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,680 If it's not her, where is she? 43 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,239 Esther, please don't do this. 44 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,400 I won't be able to live in peace, okay? 45 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,040 Tell me where you are. 46 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,760 Something weird was going on. 47 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,120 That day, I kept calling her all afternoon. 48 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,799 But by then, her phone must have been off, of course. 49 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:50,200 ESTHER, I'M CALLING YOU 50 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,040 IT GOES STRAIGHT TO VOICEMAIL ANSWER ME 51 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,799 IT SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE NOT THE ONE WRITING TO ME 52 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,320 SEND ME A VOICE NOTE 53 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:57,880 I'M CALLING THE POLICE 54 00:02:57,959 --> 00:03:02,519 Three days later, we went to the police and filed a missing persons report. 55 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:03,560 ESTHER'S MOTHER 56 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:07,120 Because of her age, 57 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,640 the police said it could be a voluntary disappearance. 58 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,480 I told them that it couldn't be, 59 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,080 because I spoke to my daughter every single day. 60 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,519 Okay, so, she's an adult. Sure, she could be fine. 61 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,440 ESTHER'S SISTER 62 00:03:19,519 --> 00:03:22,600 But I'm telling you that these messages… 63 00:03:22,679 --> 00:03:25,799 It's just… My sister doesn't talk or write like that… 64 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,120 Because there were spelling mistakes… And I went like this, I said… 65 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,320 "This is not my sister writing these messages, Mom." 66 00:03:33,399 --> 00:03:35,920 Day after day passes, and the police, 67 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,920 with all their resources, can't figure out if she's okay or not? 68 00:03:46,799 --> 00:03:48,959 Dear God… give me your strength. 69 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,880 CONFRATERNITY OF SAINT GENEVIEVE SEVILLE 70 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,519 The strength to bear this… and to carry on. 71 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:58,679 Because it's very hard. 72 00:04:04,359 --> 00:04:06,679 She was always very attached to me. 73 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,320 She was a very affectionate girl. 74 00:04:10,399 --> 00:04:12,040 Very cheerful. 75 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,200 Very restless. 76 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,120 I was calmer than she was. 77 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,560 And she was always laughing, a very happy child. 78 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,200 We're a very normal family. 79 00:04:26,280 --> 00:04:28,280 A very close-knit family. 80 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:30,440 A large family. 81 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,160 At Christmas, she liked to get the whole family together. 82 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,360 And that would make her very happy. 83 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,960 When we were all together, she enjoyed that. 84 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:42,160 Everyone would come to the house. 85 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:44,200 They'd be here till four or five in the morning… 86 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,120 ESTHER'S FATHER 87 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,160 …just singing and dancing, you know. 88 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,120 In 2013, around that time, she decided to leave Seville. 89 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,120 To spread her wings. 90 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,120 I don't know. I don't know what came over her. 91 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,039 I don't know. 92 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,880 She'd be here for a while, and she'd leave. 93 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:00,880 I don't know why. 94 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:02,640 She didn't want too many… 95 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,680 obligations or responsibilities of any kind. 96 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,880 She was always going from one place to the next. 97 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,000 And almost always out and about, you know? 98 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,960 She kind of seemed like she was… a bit angry at life. 99 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:18,479 If she stayed a year in one place, she'd get overwhelmed 100 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,000 and she'd have to move. 101 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:23,080 My mother was aware of this. That's why she kept a close eye on her. 102 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,479 If she thought anything was up, she'd just check in with her. 103 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,120 So when she didn't answer, that's when Mom said, "Something's wrong." 104 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:31,760 Because they spoke daily. 105 00:05:34,359 --> 00:05:36,919 A mother knows when her child is in trouble. 106 00:05:53,039 --> 00:05:56,280 HELLO EVERYONE I'M STILL SHARING PHOTOS OF MY MISSING SISTER 107 00:05:56,359 --> 00:05:59,359 THESE ARE FROM JULY, WITH HER CHILDREN, AS SHE CALLS THEM 108 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,680 PLEASE SHARE THANK YOU ALL 109 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,960 I went to the police many times. 110 00:06:04,039 --> 00:06:07,760 I had been working at the station for ten years, cleaning the offices. 111 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,840 And I would ask the police. My parents would too. 112 00:06:10,919 --> 00:06:14,400 We were impatient, as parents, and as a family. 113 00:06:14,479 --> 00:06:17,120 So what did we do? We kept calling and calling. 114 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,799 While I was working there, 115 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,479 my parents were calling me every five minutes. 116 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:22,880 It was only natural. 117 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:25,440 "Is there any news? Have they told you anything?" 118 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,560 I didn't want to be there. The situation was too much for me. 119 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,880 In the end, I had to… to take a leave of absence 120 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,599 because I couldn't continue working there at the police station. 121 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:36,960 WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE FIND YOU, SISTER 122 00:06:37,039 --> 00:06:38,160 POST 123 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,359 I told my father, I said, "Look, this is the only thing I can think of." 124 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,560 SOS Desaparecidos reported it. 125 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,440 DISAPPEARED ON 08/23/2023 IN ALICANTE 126 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:50,160 They had this lawyer who was very good and he worked with them quite frequently. 127 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:51,880 And he appeared on TV too. 128 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,320 Because we weren't doing that well financially… 129 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,760 I mean, h… how were we going to pull it off? 130 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,599 The family got in touch with SOS Desaparecidos. 131 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,359 In Spain, there are currently 7,000 open missing person reports. 132 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,880 Some of them haven't been resolved and they date back many years. 133 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,840 The vast majority of disappearances are voluntary. 134 00:07:17,919 --> 00:07:19,400 We're talking about over 80%. 135 00:07:19,479 --> 00:07:22,719 And most of them are usually resolved quickly and easily. 136 00:07:25,359 --> 00:07:28,560 This is one of those cases where our instincts told us that… 137 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,719 That it wasn't a voluntary disappearance. 138 00:07:30,799 --> 00:07:33,560 Esther didn't have the financial means to travel abroad. 139 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:34,680 LAWYER FOR ESTHER'S FAMILY 140 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,400 She had no contacts in Argentina, and this wasn't like her. 141 00:07:37,479 --> 00:07:40,560 What we know is not all disappearances are treated the same. 142 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,799 And I don't mean treatment by organizations, 143 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,200 but the level of police or media involvement. 144 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:49,000 It depends mainly on the circumstances surrounding the disappearance 145 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,000 and the profile of the missing person. 146 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,359 I hate to admit it, but it's true. 147 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,479 We now bring you the story of a sudden disappearance. 148 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,039 Her name is Esther, she's 42. What we present to you is a mystery. 149 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,679 She went missing on August 23 in Gandia. 150 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,200 Her mother Pepa believes her daughter may have been kidnapped 151 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,760 and has accused the girl's ex-partner of being responsible. 152 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:10,280 He had a relationship with Esther, 153 00:08:10,359 --> 00:08:13,200 and in 2022, he was arrested for domestic violence. 154 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,200 Wake up, my love Wake up 155 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:17,400 Let me feel 156 00:08:17,479 --> 00:08:22,039 Let me get there, let me be In another world where I used to live 157 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,880 The first person I thought of… was him. 158 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,640 So I called the police and I asked them to go over to his house 159 00:08:29,719 --> 00:08:32,520 because he could've been holding my daughter there. 160 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:34,919 They told me they couldn't do that. 161 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,400 But, you know, that was my first thought when she disappeared. 162 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,480 Her last relationship was bad. 163 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,280 So that's why we called the police, 164 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,800 and they told me that, "No," that they couldn't. 165 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,120 They couldn't tell me anything. But I'm her mother! 166 00:08:49,199 --> 00:08:52,880 Esther had reported this person because there had been alleged abuse. 167 00:08:52,959 --> 00:08:55,600 And that was what seemed to bolster Pepa's suspicions 168 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,040 about someone in Esther's immediate circle. 169 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,000 SOUTH DISTRICT GENDER VIOLENCE-FREE ZONE 170 00:09:00,079 --> 00:09:01,320 NOT ONE LESS 171 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,720 I didn't know he was abusing her or anything. 172 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,040 I found out from my mother. 173 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:10,240 No, she… she didn't tell her sister what had… what had happened to her. 174 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,320 She told me instead. 175 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,560 It affected her deeply, and as a result, she wasn't doing well. 176 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,800 I think she was very vulnerable and people took advantage of that. 177 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:22,839 And the majority of the time, she was hanging out with people who… 178 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,000 Who weren't good for her. 179 00:09:26,199 --> 00:09:29,480 That summer, she came back here. He'd been abusing her. 180 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:32,800 She told us about it and she told us she wasn't going back. 181 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,320 "Well, that sounds great to me. You can stay here." 182 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,720 And the next day, my mother told me that she was gone. 183 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,320 She asked, "Is she over at my house?" And I said, "No, she's not here." 184 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:43,959 "Well, then your sister left." 185 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:47,199 She sent me a message saying that he had threatened her. 186 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,800 If she didn't come back, he was heading straight there. 187 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,440 He was on his way to Almeria and he was going to hurt all of us. 188 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,280 After she went back to him, 189 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,720 they had an altercation on the street. 190 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:06,440 And the very next day, they ended up taking her to a women's shelter. 191 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,480 At the shelter, every time a new woman arrived… 192 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:15,400 ESTHER'S FRIENDS 193 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,720 …we were all eager to… to meet her, to hear her story. 194 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,360 And I really liked Esther. 195 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:22,480 The three of us were like sisters. 196 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:25,720 She was always with us. We were together all day, every day. 197 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,959 At first, she was withdrawn, she didn't feel like doing anything. 198 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:32,320 Then, little by little, the more we hung out together, 199 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:33,280 she started laughing. 200 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:36,440 She really opened up, she was happier. 201 00:10:36,959 --> 00:10:40,360 Even though she was having a hard time, she was always laughing. 202 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,440 She was always joking. 203 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,400 Esther was with a guy. He kept her shut indoors. 204 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,240 He kept the blinds down. 205 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,320 He had her locked up, with a key and everything. 206 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,640 He wouldn't let her out. 207 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:52,800 He'd grab her and… 208 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:54,680 -He grabbed her like this… -Yes, he hurt her. 209 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,280 …and threw her against the couch. 210 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,400 She told me something about a cigarette he put out on her. 211 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:03,560 She had a really, really bad experience and she was very afraid of that person. 212 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,079 She was scared he would find her and do something to her. 213 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:14,079 In a shelter, there's a lot of support, psychologists, workshops… 214 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:16,280 -But it's not like they make it seem. -No. 215 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,480 For me, honestly, a shelter is worse than a prison. 216 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:24,199 We're locked up, uh, with strict sleep schedules, 217 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,719 with tons and tons of rules, when ultimately we've done nothing wrong. 218 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,520 And the person who committed the assault and caused the harm… 219 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,440 is just out and about, having fun, enjoying life, 220 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,320 and doing whatever they want. 221 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,920 Esther wasn't comfortable there either. That's why she left. 222 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,079 There was a medieval fair. 223 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,719 And she made friends with this guy who… 224 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:50,520 He was kind of a hippie. 225 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:53,600 And she… considered him a very good friend. 226 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:57,000 A close friend, but she ended up getting a little let down. 227 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:09,880 I work at medieval markets. 228 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:12,560 I met Esther at one of these markets… 229 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:13,480 ESTHER'S EX-PARTNER 230 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:14,719 …in the town of Mutxamel. 231 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,680 We had a romantic relationship together. 232 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:21,320 At that time, I was kind of like… on a different plane, you know? 233 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,480 I was going through sort of a rough spot in my life, personally. 234 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:27,760 And she was the one who pulled me out of that situation 235 00:12:27,839 --> 00:12:29,640 and out of that cloud I was in. 236 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:35,599 Esther was a… a fairly cheerful and affectionate person. 237 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:38,240 She did seem to be a bit guarded as well. 238 00:12:38,839 --> 00:12:43,320 The last message she sent me was after we saw each other here in El Postiguet. 239 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,440 She had already told me that there was this person who had a… 240 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,320 A TikTok channel. 241 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,280 This person traveled around the country making videos, 242 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,520 and she thought he seemed very nice, and she was interested in going with him 243 00:12:55,599 --> 00:12:57,880 on these trips he was taking around the peninsula. 244 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,599 I'M GOING WITH HIM UNTIL WE FIND A TOWN OR A VILLAGE 245 00:13:08,599 --> 00:13:12,400 Hey, buddy. What's up? Welcome back to your friendly channel, TikTok. 246 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,520 The social network that makes friendships. 247 00:13:15,599 --> 00:13:18,760 This is your pal, Dinamita Montilla, speaking. 248 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:25,920 I'm an explorer. 249 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,280 And what I'm looking to do is to enrich my intellectual capacity, 250 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:34,240 my historical database, by traveling along the entire Spanish coast 251 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,000 until I've been all the way around the Iberian Peninsula. 252 00:13:37,079 --> 00:13:39,280 I WISH YOU STRENGTH AND COURAGE IN LIFE, FRIEND 253 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,680 I AM YOUR NUMBER ONE FAN. I LOVE YOUR ADVENTURES 254 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,040 I like to explore mountains, cattle trails, ravines. 255 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,120 Really, everywhere I can. 256 00:13:46,199 --> 00:13:49,640 It's nice to contemplate at these places and pay them respect. 257 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:55,040 I've come in here to see if I can find some shelter for the night. 258 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,079 Here, this is where I'll spend the night. 259 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,480 And along the way, well, I get talking to people I meet. 260 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:04,760 And I was just greeted by that pilgrim there. 261 00:14:04,839 --> 00:14:05,959 WHAT A SWEET MAN 262 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,440 I LOVE THE WAY YOU SPEAK… TAKE GOOD CARE 263 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,640 From the middle of nowhere, have a lovely afternoon or evening. 264 00:14:11,719 --> 00:14:12,640 Bye-bye! 265 00:14:17,959 --> 00:14:21,120 SEPTEMBER 8 TWO WEEKS AFTER HER DISAPPEARANCE 266 00:14:21,199 --> 00:14:22,719 On September 8th, 267 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,160 after my daughter had already been missing, 268 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:26,920 I received a call. 269 00:14:27,439 --> 00:14:29,319 "Are you Esther's mother?" 270 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,520 I said, "Yes, I'm Esther's mother." 271 00:14:31,599 --> 00:14:33,959 And then he introduced himself. 272 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,839 Pepa, good morning. It's me, José Jurado. 273 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,199 "I'm José Jurado Montilla." 274 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:44,760 "And I met your daughter Esther at the shelter in Alicante." 275 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:47,839 "And… we became friends." 276 00:14:49,079 --> 00:14:53,360 "And we went… on such and such a day, we walked to Gandia." 277 00:14:53,439 --> 00:14:56,199 The police called me on September 5th and… 278 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,160 and asked me if your daughter actually was traveling with me. 279 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,280 And I told them, "No, I said goodbye to her in Gandia, 280 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:04,360 and I haven't heard from her since." 281 00:15:04,959 --> 00:15:07,000 And he told me everything. 282 00:15:07,079 --> 00:15:08,959 "Oh, yeah, she's my friend." 283 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,599 "I've never met anyone like her in my life." 284 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,640 "She really listened to me. We had these conversations." 285 00:15:16,719 --> 00:15:18,079 I think about her a lot. 286 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,360 I think about her a lot because the truth is… 287 00:15:20,439 --> 00:15:23,400 the days I spent with her were truly unforgettable. 288 00:15:23,479 --> 00:15:25,160 They were truly lovely days. 289 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:27,959 Three or four days later, he called me again… 290 00:15:28,479 --> 00:15:31,160 Asking how the investigation was going. 291 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,199 I said, "Well, they're looking for her but they still don't know anything." 292 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,560 "And the police said they were handing the case over 293 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,560 to Alicante's homicide department." 294 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,560 I'm in Málaga, and I don't have financial resources or anything, 295 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:47,360 but honestly, I'd really like to investigate on my own, 296 00:15:47,439 --> 00:15:52,000 to go to Alicante and retrace all the steps I took with your daughter. 297 00:15:52,079 --> 00:15:56,880 I could ask around, see if I might be able to locate your daughter… or something. 298 00:15:56,959 --> 00:15:59,719 I said to him, "Something's happened to her." 299 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,800 "No, no, for heaven's sakes. Nothing's happened to her." 300 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,959 Once we lose hope, there's nothing left to cling to. 301 00:16:06,479 --> 00:16:08,359 Well, ma'am, I'm going to let you go. 302 00:16:08,439 --> 00:16:11,439 I'm making videos to… to post on TikTok. 303 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,040 Man is both the actor and director of his own movie, right? 304 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,760 And you have to write the script. 305 00:16:17,839 --> 00:16:19,719 And put it into practice. 306 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,839 And the movie could just be living life, day to day. 307 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,000 I LIKE YOUR STORIES, SAFE TRAVELS, DINAMITA 308 00:16:24,079 --> 00:16:28,040 "If you tell me you love me I'll tell you I adore you 309 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,880 If you tell me you adore me I'll tell you I love you" 310 00:16:31,959 --> 00:16:33,359 -BEAUTIFUL, THANKS -LOVELY POEM 311 00:16:33,439 --> 00:16:36,240 I won an award for that piece. Two awards, actually. 312 00:16:36,319 --> 00:16:38,400 Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. 313 00:16:38,479 --> 00:16:40,959 I'm here so that anybody who can't leave their house, 314 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,479 or what have you, can get to know these wonderful places. 315 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,400 "And my sad heart loves you Loves you with pure love 316 00:16:49,479 --> 00:16:51,800 And not the kind that happens lying down 317 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,120 I admire you so greatly 318 00:16:54,839 --> 00:16:57,920 And you've left You've left a real mark on me 319 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,079 One I'll never be able to forget" 320 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,319 To the friend who shared 21 days of adventures with me. 321 00:17:06,399 --> 00:17:08,680 She was a woman who left a deep mark on me, 322 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,119 and until I know she's okay, I'll feel a little sad. 323 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,560 If the justice system can't find any leads… 324 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:21,240 or make any progress that enables the investigation to keep going, well… 325 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:25,839 I'll go to those neighborhoods myself and try to investigate and… 326 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:27,680 And I promised her mother 327 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,720 I would go to Alicante with exactly that aim. 328 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,159 To take the same route I did with her 329 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,520 and see if I can get any kind of information. 330 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,320 CAN YOU FIND YOUR FRIEND? 331 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,680 I CAN'T FIND ANY CLUES. THE FAMILY IS VERY SAD AND DISCOURAGED 332 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,240 MISSING 333 00:17:47,159 --> 00:17:49,720 When the police did begin their investigation, 334 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,480 they used some information that Pepa provided, 335 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,480 in the form of Esther's contact list. 336 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,680 José Jurado Montilla sent it to us… by phone. 337 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,000 He sent us a photo of that contact list. 338 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,320 Of some numbers that he said he had written down. 339 00:18:05,399 --> 00:18:09,760 He said, "Since your daughter put her SIM card into my cell phone, 340 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,720 the numbers ended up saved in my contact list." 341 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,360 She was using this phone that I have, 342 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:20,720 and later on, when I looked, I found 80-odd new friends in there. 343 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,399 Certain names were considered. 344 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:24,360 There were two who were friends with Esther, 345 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:25,800 who lived in Tarragona. 346 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,240 Miguel Ángel and Vanesa. 347 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,640 When I got the numbers, I called Miguel. 348 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,840 Since she was there in July… 349 00:18:33,919 --> 00:18:37,040 And I told him, I said, "Look, this is what's happening." 350 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,480 He said, "Yeah, the police have already called us." 351 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,720 She called me to see if I knew anything about her daughter. 352 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,159 I said, "Well, I don't know anything right now, Pepa." 353 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:51,080 "If you want, I'll try to call her." 354 00:18:51,159 --> 00:18:53,480 I kept trying to get in touch with her but it was impossible. 355 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:54,560 ESTHER'S FRIEND 356 00:18:56,919 --> 00:19:00,880 Esther's mother, Pepa, called us to ask where she was. 357 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,640 If we knew anything, where she might be… 358 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,600 ESTHER'S FRIEND 359 00:19:04,679 --> 00:19:05,960 …where we thought she might be. 360 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,040 Where she went from here. 361 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,840 That's when I wrote, "Are you there?" 362 00:19:10,919 --> 00:19:14,040 Mostly just to see if the message would go through. 363 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,120 Esther was looking for work. She was sending out résumés… 364 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,120 And she'd had a lot of trouble with her ex. 365 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,159 She seemed vulnerable… like she didn't know which way to turn, 366 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:26,640 or what she was going to do. 367 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,880 She was thinking about going to Seville, to find what she was looking for. 368 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,919 And I told her. I said, "Look, think about it." 369 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,320 "If you like, around here, during the summer season, 370 00:19:35,399 --> 00:19:36,840 there's a lot of work." 371 00:19:36,919 --> 00:19:38,240 "And I can help you out." 372 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,080 "You can stay at my house for a few days and look for something." 373 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:42,960 Hi, Miguel. 374 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,000 I'm gonna try to do my best to stay at your place 375 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,120 for as little time as possible and leave soon, okay? 376 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,960 As soon as she opened the door and I saw her, 377 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:56,800 she said, "Oh, Vanesa, I've been looking forward to meeting you." 378 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,600 "Miguel spoke so highly of you." 379 00:19:58,679 --> 00:20:01,440 Miguel had told me that she had been through some tough times. 380 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:02,640 I remember feeling like… 381 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,200 like I could relate to the difficult situations she'd lived through. 382 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,560 Vanesa also has her own baggage. 383 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,080 And I think that's what brought them together. 384 00:20:11,159 --> 00:20:14,760 We talked to each other about the difficult times we'd been through. 385 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,080 Okay, babe. Well, I'm at the house now. 386 00:20:18,159 --> 00:20:21,480 I saw your meatballs. They look delicious. 387 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,640 Anyway, kisses, babe. See you later. Love you. 388 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,200 Esther was already very down when she got here. 389 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,840 I found her two… three jobs. 390 00:20:30,919 --> 00:20:34,159 And she showed up to one for two days, then didn't show up on day three. 391 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:37,040 And another one she showed up for… for one day. 392 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,080 And so I ended up getting mad. 393 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,080 With Miguel, I told him, 394 00:20:42,159 --> 00:20:44,240 "I can't take this anymore. This can't keep happening." 395 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:45,480 "What's gonna happen to us?" 396 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:50,040 So Miguel was the one who talked to her and told her she had to leave. 397 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,960 I sat her down to talk, and I said, 398 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,360 "Hey, Esther, I told you 15, 20 days to… to see how it goes." 399 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:00,240 "And this hasn't been great. What are we gonna do here?" 400 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,720 And Esther told me, 401 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:06,399 "Hey, Miguel, don't worry. I'll head back to Alicante, and… 402 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,320 I'll talk to my mother to see if I can go to Seville." 403 00:21:09,399 --> 00:21:10,480 And there was no issue. 404 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,800 By the next day, she'd found a BlaBlaCar and… 405 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,240 she left. 406 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:24,480 Hey, babe. 407 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,560 Um… just wanna let you and Miguel know that I'm safe now, okay? 408 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,679 I'll tell you all about it tomorrow, honey. Kisses to you both. 409 00:21:37,159 --> 00:21:40,600 Esther arrives in Alicante in the summer of 2023. 410 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:45,000 She went there in a way because she was running away from her past. 411 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,360 So when she gets to Alicante, she gets a room in a shelter. 412 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,840 We called the shelter. 413 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:56,760 The shelter told us they couldn't give us any information. 414 00:21:58,919 --> 00:22:02,439 Esther meets Jurado Montilla at the shelter in Alicante. 415 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:04,439 And, well, they become friends. 416 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:10,200 EIGHT MONTHS LATER 417 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,040 I'm here for her and I'm going to retrace our whole journey. 418 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,480 And this, you can see here is the shelter. 419 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,760 This is where me and my friend Esther used to come in the month of August… 420 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,200 just to watch the incredible sunsets. 421 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,000 IS HE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED? 422 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:30,159 ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING? 423 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,640 SURELY SOMEONE KNOWS ABOUT HER 424 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,520 YOU'RE DOING A GOOD DEED FOR YOUR FRIEND. HI FROM EXTREMADURA 425 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:38,240 To be honest, the police have pretty much closed the case. 426 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,399 And they tell me that since she's a bit of a hippie, 427 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,399 she might be in the Huesca area. 428 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,679 Lost in some commune or something. 429 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:46,600 I'm gonna investigate. 430 00:22:46,679 --> 00:22:49,919 I'm gonna go to all the places she used to go. 431 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,840 To see if I can dig up any kind of information. 432 00:22:52,919 --> 00:22:56,360 I'm gonna make the whole journey we took while we were together. 433 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,159 From here in Alicante, to Gandia, in Valencia. 434 00:23:02,679 --> 00:23:04,320 And I'll tell you something… 435 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,480 He who moves his legs, moves his heart. 436 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,679 I walk the road. 437 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,679 You know, what's silly is some people think that I travel 438 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,880 on a bicycle, or in a car. 439 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,240 Oh, no, no… Walking. 440 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,200 Hey, hey, hey, hey… Hey… 441 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,159 Hey, where you going? Come here. Whe… Where you going, huh? 442 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,560 As you can see, this is a ladder snake. 443 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,080 I've already shown these in several videos. 444 00:23:30,159 --> 00:23:32,480 Huh? Oh, this is the first one I've caught this year! 445 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:34,320 It's real pretty, huh? 446 00:23:34,919 --> 00:23:36,280 Hey. 447 00:23:38,159 --> 00:23:39,880 I start walking at six in the morning. 448 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:41,960 I've walked for 24 hours nonstop. 449 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,880 It's raining, it's raining hard. 450 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,399 As you can see, my shoes are wet. 451 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,320 There we have Benidorm. 452 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,560 My friend Esther recorded a video from this angle I'm showing you right now. 453 00:23:59,159 --> 00:24:01,280 Look. Look, that's me in a video she filmed. 454 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,880 RECORDED BY MY MISSING FRIEND. SOMEONE GIVE ME NEWS ABOUT MY FRIEND 455 00:24:08,159 --> 00:24:11,600 Okay, here we are. I have finally arrived in Denia. 456 00:24:11,679 --> 00:24:13,760 Just over 13 hours of walking. 457 00:24:15,439 --> 00:24:20,800 I've walked it all, meter by meter… the entire route that I did with her. 458 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,399 Remembering every moment I spent with her. 459 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,560 The places… everywhere I lived with her during that time. 460 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,640 There's no information as to her whereabouts. 461 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,040 Many people say they recognize her from the photos, 462 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:35,640 but the majority of them say the same thing… 463 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,120 They haven't seen her in a long time. 464 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:51,399 The role of the media is fundamental in missing person cases. 465 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,120 You can plaster a city with posters but it won't make a difference. 466 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,080 Television, above all, is an indispensable tool. 467 00:24:57,679 --> 00:24:59,679 When I got involved with the case, 468 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,880 I believe I got them on a program called Vamos a Ver. 469 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,800 To ensure the case wouldn't be forgotten. 470 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,600 -Joining us is Juan Manuel Medina… -Right. 471 00:25:07,679 --> 00:25:10,960 …who regularly collaborates with the SOS Desaparecidos association. 472 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:12,760 At first, we said no. 473 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,520 But then we were told, "Look, it's a good idea 474 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:20,040 because it will give visibility to… your daughter's case." 475 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,800 María Josefa, Esther's mother, good morning. 476 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,080 Hello, Pepa. Good morning. 477 00:25:23,159 --> 00:25:24,480 Pepa is Esther's mother. 478 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,360 Let's talk to Esther's mother. 479 00:25:26,439 --> 00:25:30,399 It gives the case a reach that is a thousand times greater. 480 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:31,600 So then what happens? 481 00:25:31,679 --> 00:25:34,600 Well, they are media outlets that depend on an audience. 482 00:25:34,679 --> 00:25:36,480 So it's a double-edged sword. 483 00:25:37,199 --> 00:25:39,199 They need us and we need them. 484 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,960 That's all fine and good, but it got sensationalized. 485 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,280 Please, we're devastated. I can't take it anymore. 486 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,000 And people kept calling, and calling, and calling. 487 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,560 They don't realize that often what they're doing is harassing the families, 488 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,720 causing them more stress than they already have in these situations. 489 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,760 Under normal circumstances, you'd call your mother every day. 490 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:00,919 Very alarming. 491 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,720 Her father never went on. It's always been me. 492 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,040 Because he didn't want to. 493 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,199 They sensationalize it, you know? 494 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,560 I knew that I was going to lose my patience. 495 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,800 I was a little rude, you know? 496 00:26:15,399 --> 00:26:16,800 He didn't like it. 497 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,159 But we had to do it, so… 498 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,840 GOOD MORNING, SWEETHEART 499 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:25,960 WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON 500 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:27,919 THIS IS A NIGHTMARE. WE LOVE YOU 501 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,840 Since I used to be in such regular contact with her over the phone 502 00:26:31,919 --> 00:26:33,679 when she was off somewhere, 503 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,640 I continued sending her messages. 504 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,399 SOONER OR LATER THEY'LL FIND YOU 505 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,560 I'd tell her, "My love, don't worry, they're looking for you." 506 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,520 "They're going to find you. You'll be here with us soon." 507 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,560 WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU 508 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,439 But can anyone hear me? 509 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:52,919 WE LOVE YOU 510 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,600 Here we are, another day to see you. 511 00:26:56,120 --> 00:27:00,280 And I won't stop… until I leave this world. 512 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:14,760 What's up, friends? 513 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,960 Me, I like to explore everything. That's how I learn in life. 514 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,240 Like I'm doing now, by walking. 515 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,480 And all that gives me a very important kind of… knowledge. 516 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,280 Hey, what are you looking at? Huh? 517 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:35,080 What are you looking at? Dinamita. My ugly mug, right? 518 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,640 Well, it's the one I was born with, buddy. 519 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,800 Being alone is not the same for a man as it is for a woman. 520 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,480 A woman on her own may be in danger. 521 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,120 I see a lot of things on the streets. 522 00:27:49,199 --> 00:27:53,120 So I try to avoid any kinds of altercations or things like that. 523 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:57,840 And as you can see, I'm… here under this bridge… 524 00:27:57,919 --> 00:28:02,520 where I've collected some grass and I made this bed. 525 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,919 It's four something in the morning and I can't sleep. 526 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,280 I'm really worried about you, Esther. 527 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,399 And all I have left to ask you, please, is that… 528 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,600 …you give me some sign of li-- 529 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,800 Give me some sign of life, because I sincerely, truly miss you. 530 00:28:27,919 --> 00:28:31,280 Take care of yourself, beautiful. Wherever you are, take care. 531 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,000 And give me some sign of life, please. 532 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,360 For me, or for your family, but… 533 00:28:39,439 --> 00:28:41,880 We want to hear from you. 534 00:28:42,399 --> 00:28:45,240 We love you like crazy, Esther. 535 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,280 We love you like… crazy. 536 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,919 YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH HER. YOU CAN HEAR IT IN THE WAY YOU SPEAK 537 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,159 YES, I AM IN LOVE WITH MY FRIEND ESTHER. THOSE 21 DAYS WERE THE BEST OF MY LIFE 538 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,919 One day, I told Vanesa that I had received a call 539 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,679 from José Jurado Montilla. 540 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,840 And that he had told me he had met her there, in the shelter. 541 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,320 One day, when we were talking, she told me that someone had called her. 542 00:29:15,399 --> 00:29:17,959 And that was the last person Esther was with. 543 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,800 During one of the calls I made to Vanesa, I said, 544 00:29:22,879 --> 00:29:26,360 "Well, I've seen that on TikTok, he posts videos very often." 545 00:29:26,439 --> 00:29:28,800 I couldn't stop thinking about it and… 546 00:29:28,879 --> 00:29:30,760 I grabbed my phone and started searching. 547 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:34,560 Well, friends. Well, friends. Hi, friends. Good afternoon. 548 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,879 I started to investigate. 549 00:29:36,959 --> 00:29:39,120 To look through all the videos this man made… 550 00:29:39,199 --> 00:29:42,360 Hey, there. Enjoy life! Bye-bye. 551 00:29:42,439 --> 00:29:44,159 …to try to find a lead. 552 00:29:44,679 --> 00:29:46,120 Well, friends, what's up? 553 00:29:46,199 --> 00:29:47,919 -My first impression… -Here I am. 554 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,520 Damn, it was like… 555 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,320 Wow, he takes you to a place and tells you its whole history? 556 00:29:52,399 --> 00:29:54,240 I don't know, he was interesting. 557 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,679 There's a lot of broadleaf plantains and wild onion. 558 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,000 There's also wild asparagus and thyme. 559 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,800 Just look at this thyme… Huh? 560 00:30:02,879 --> 00:30:04,639 He just seemed like an older person, 561 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,800 like your grandfather or someone. 562 00:30:06,879 --> 00:30:11,000 Someone… you could completely trust in that moment, yeah. 563 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,720 I WISH THERE WERE MORE OLD FOLKS WITH HIS HEART 564 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,760 HOW CHARMING SEEMS LIKE A GOOD PERSON 565 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,399 SIR, YOU ARE THE WISDOM OF LIFE 566 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:26,879 This here was the very first view that, uh, Esther and I got of Gandia. 567 00:30:26,959 --> 00:30:29,560 And this is the entrance, and I'm gonna take… 568 00:30:29,639 --> 00:30:32,760 I'm taking the same route we did, meter by meter. 569 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,639 On that bench you see there… 570 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:36,679 this is where my friend Esther and I sat. 571 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,560 And we stayed here for almost a half an hour. 572 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,320 YOU SURE ARE STRONG, FRIEND. WISHING YOU LOTS OF LUCK 573 00:30:43,399 --> 00:30:45,919 That's the square where they have the farmers' market. 574 00:30:46,959 --> 00:30:49,679 Everything you see over there, that bridge in the background, 575 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,520 that's Pasaje de los Alemanes. 576 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,280 Now I have to go up to Bairén Castle, here in Gandia. 577 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:01,879 Having made… 578 00:31:01,959 --> 00:31:03,760 …this whole trip… 579 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,639 looking for information, 580 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,040 trying to find out something about her and… 581 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,080 showing photos and videos of her… 582 00:31:12,159 --> 00:31:13,560 To tons of people. 583 00:31:13,639 --> 00:31:15,840 And then having no one. No one… 584 00:31:15,919 --> 00:31:19,159 bring you any kind of positive news. 585 00:31:19,679 --> 00:31:21,840 Well, it's… it's hard. 586 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,000 HELLO, JOSÉ DID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO YOUR FRIEND? 587 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,480 SHE'S MISSING, NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING. THANK YOU, BEST REGARDS 588 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:28,919 This park… 589 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,480 The park where you play pétanque. 590 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,159 This is where I… 591 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:35,879 I said goodbye to her. 592 00:31:35,959 --> 00:31:38,720 Because her legs were really hurting. 593 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,320 And… she wanted to go to the hospital. 594 00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:45,240 IT'S STRANGE. YOU WERE THE LAST ONE WHO SAW HER, RIGHT? 595 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,159 SHE WAS AT THE GANDIA HEALTH CENTER IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 596 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,320 I WAS IN CATALONIA 597 00:31:49,399 --> 00:31:51,520 Apparently, her legs were really hurting. 598 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,120 So we called that hospital too. 599 00:31:53,199 --> 00:31:55,520 Her father looked it up, but they had no info either. 600 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,399 I said to her, "Do you want me to come with you?" 601 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,159 She said, "No, the hospital's right here." 602 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,520 He told me he didn't go with her… 603 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,600 MEDICAL CENTER 604 00:32:04,679 --> 00:32:06,760 …because she said, "No, no. I'll go on my own." 605 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,000 "I'll go to the hospital by myself." 606 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,879 "I'll go alone, hopefully they'll see me. You stay here, I'll go alone." 607 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,040 She had been calling some friends. 608 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,719 She told me that those friends would pick her up when she was done, 609 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,439 that I shouldn't worry and that she'd be in touch. 610 00:32:25,679 --> 00:32:27,240 You'll have to forgive me. 611 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,199 I started recording earlier, but… 612 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,320 had to stop because… I started crying and… 613 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:35,919 I spent, like, ten minutes crying… 614 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,240 in memory of my friend. 615 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,679 Because this is where… 616 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,159 I saw her for the last time. 617 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,840 The way someone talks, their gestures, the looks they give… 618 00:33:02,919 --> 00:33:05,760 Things like that allow you to figure out what a person is like. 619 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:06,719 Goddamn it. 620 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,280 You see who they are. 621 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,199 In his gaze, there's something very dark. 622 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,840 And if he was the last person? 623 00:33:15,919 --> 00:33:18,560 And he was with my sister and was the last one… 624 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,600 the last one to see her. 625 00:33:20,679 --> 00:33:22,719 That made me really anxious. 626 00:33:23,959 --> 00:33:26,919 My friend Esther and I used to come to this park a lot. 627 00:33:27,719 --> 00:33:32,280 And this is where we had, uh, our first, let's say… intimate encounter. 628 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:33,800 He's a dirty old man. 629 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:35,439 He's disgusting, dude. 630 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:37,000 Really disgusting. 631 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,760 Well, this is where I spent, let's say… 632 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,360 my last two romantic nights with my friend. 633 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:44,879 It's unthinkable, please. 634 00:33:44,959 --> 00:33:47,399 My daughter would never… never… in a million years. 635 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,399 No way there was a romantic relationship. 636 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,120 When a person gets angry, 637 00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:55,439 that's when they show you who they really are. 638 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,719 I smashed this guy's face in. 639 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,639 The way he talks, there's rage, hatred. 640 00:34:00,719 --> 00:34:03,439 I punched him three times, kicked him, I told him to fuck off. 641 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,280 And that penetrating stare, as if you were right in front of him. 642 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:07,240 It's terrifying. 643 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,839 If you think you have the balls to knock my teeth out, go ahead. 644 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,040 In one of the videos, he gets angry with someone 645 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,400 who wants to knock his teeth out. 646 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,480 Watch out. It might backfire on you, motherfucker. 647 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,520 That's where you see who he really is. It's really, really crazy. 648 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,440 Three or four months after she went missing, 649 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,679 I was talking to my sister. 650 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:35,239 I told her that this José Jurado Montilla had called me. 651 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,000 Since I had him on WhatsApp, you could see his photo. 652 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,360 When she saw his face, 653 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,159 my sister said, "He looks really sketchy, doesn't he? Definitely." 654 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,120 "I don't know. There's something off about this guy, I don't know." 655 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,760 "No, I don't have a good feeling about him." 656 00:34:52,839 --> 00:34:55,960 And my sister said, "Let's Google this guy, then." 657 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,640 "See what comes up." 658 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:01,480 And when she looked him up, we saw the whole story. 659 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,000 One of the results was an article from Málaga, 660 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,480 where Juan Cano interviewed him. 661 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,480 Antonio was sitting there and I said to him, 662 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,520 "Look what my sister sent me." 663 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,200 "What's she saying?" I said, "Look what she sent me!" 664 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:15,799 "He's a criminal!" 665 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,280 SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 120 YEARS 666 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,160 "He's a serial killer! He's killed four people." 667 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,760 When we went to the police, they showed me his official record, 668 00:35:26,839 --> 00:35:28,760 and it only listed one arrest for theft. 669 00:35:28,839 --> 00:35:31,720 And they said, "No, no, this man hasn't even killed a fly." 670 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,160 The most bloodthirsty serial killer of the 80s. 671 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,920 One of the most well-known serial killers in the country. 672 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,080 This guy is a serial killer. 673 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:43,200 Dinamita Montilla. 674 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,240 One of the most ruthless serial killers. 675 00:35:45,319 --> 00:35:47,760 -Very active on the social network TikTok. -Here I am today. 676 00:35:47,839 --> 00:35:51,280 I've spent my whole life fighting to prove my innocence, in vain. 677 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,400 We all know that justice doesn't exist in Spain. It's all a big joke. 678 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,600 How is he not being monitored? Why is he free? 679 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:59,600 -We don't know how many victims. -How many has he killed? 680 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,920 I'm convinced many more victims of Montilla will come to light one day. 681 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,280 -There must've been more killings… -Yes. 682 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,000 How long has he been out? 683 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,280 How many has he had the opportunity to kill? 684 00:36:12,799 --> 00:36:15,280 The thing is, I'm not a dog. I'm no son of a bitch. 685 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,480 And I never hurt a woman, nor do I intend to do so. 686 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,680 In all of Dinamita Montilla's crimes, 687 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,720 there was not a single female victim. 688 00:36:27,799 --> 00:36:30,319 You keep on laughing, keep on sending videos, 689 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,839 but you're just giving us evidence. 690 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,480 To the police and to us, of what you did to my sister. o light one day.