They made me serve 28 and a half years, one day at a time.
A great, enormous injustice was committed against me.
I shouldn't even have gone to jail.
I want to tell you my story. I want you to know me.
It was a just another day, and I was in the newsroom.
And I got a call on the office landline.
It was this guy who had just been released from prison.
And his name was José Jurado Montilla.
When I heard that name,
I recognized it immediately, and I knew who they were talking about.
JOURNALIST FOR DIARIO SUR
Málaga's first modern day serial killer.
My life was basically prison, prison, prison, and…
in the end, I ended up spending 38 years of my life in prison.
He was wearing a kind of fleece jacket and a cap.
His face was very haggard, very gaunt, and he was missing some teeth.
He said to me, "You wouldn't know who I am."
"I know exactly who you are."
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013
Thanks to that interview, Pepa, after she Googled him,
discovered that this guy had spent 30 years in prison
for killing four people.
This is the house of Francisco González.
Dinamita Montilla's first victim.
Dinamita said that he went out
to hunt some foxes that were eating his mother's chickens,
and that he got caught in a very heavy downpour.
So he was forced to take shelter.
And he said, in the morning,
the owner of the farmhouse opened the door and pointed a shotgun at him.
And then, Dinamita claimed that he grabbed his own shotgun
and opened fire so accurately that he ended the man's life.
APRIL 4, 1985
I admit today, here before you, that I killed a person.
But it was in self-defense. I should never even have set foot in jail.
But the family says that Francisco González was unarmed.
Dinamita makes up stories about himself.
He hasn't done anything, and the world is against him…
They made it all up.
It was a death that couldn't be avoided.
I'm sorry, I truly am. I mean it from the bottom of my heart.
This place is known as the Cortijo Los Randos, in Campanillas.
And the white house in the background was the home of Antonio Paniagua Peral,
Juanito Valderrama's chauffeur.
ACCUSED OF KILLING JUANITO VALDERRAMA'S CHAUFFEUR
Antonio Paniagua's murder stands out
because of the cruelty with which it was committed.
He was surprised by José Jurado, who attacked him, shot him with a shotgun,
and then finished Paniagua off by setting him on fire.
MARCH 15, 1987
Everything that happened in that part of the country was blamed on me,
even though I had absolutely nothing to do with it.
In 1987, the bodies of two tourists, two students, were found.
They'd come to visit the area, a very picturesque spot in Málaga.
The third key location in the Dinamita Montilla case.
Those murders were extremely cruel.
A CRIMINAL MASTERPIECE
He surprised them while they were sleeping.
And he shot and killed one of them point-blank.
The second one ran a few meters but was gunned down.
KILLED AT A CAMPSITE
MARCH 1987
And then there were the two foreigners in El Chorro.
I didn't commit those murders.
At this station, Las Mellizas station, in Álora,
is where José Jurado Montilla, Dinamita Montilla, was arrested,
after two years,
during which, according to the justice system, he killed four people.
MAY 3, 1987 DINAMITA MONTILLA ARRESTED
What you're seeing here brings back bad memories for me.
In 1987, the police came and arrested me
after a two-year-long manhunt.
And this is where my arrest took place, in this waiting room.
The three crimes for which he was convicted
form a kind of homicidal triangle.
Remote areas, rural areas, areas he was highly familiar with.
For these three crimes, four deaths in total,
Dinamita Montilla spent 28 years in prison,
out of the 123 to which he was sentenced.
I had killed one person. It was an accident,
but they pinned three murders on me that I didn't commit.
I didn't commit them.
THE TIKTOK KILLER
When we found out who José Jurado Montilla was,
we went to the police.
When we got there, Antonio said…
ESTHER'S MOTHER
…"Look at this."
"They're looking for him."
They showed me his police record and it only showed one arrest for theft.
ESTHER'S FATHER
So I said to them, "Look, this guy, blah, blah, blah."
And they said, "No, no, this man wouldn't kill a fly."
That's why I got so angry. We came with this evidence…
ESTHER'S SISTER
"Look what's going on and you're gonna tell me
that this man hasn't killed so much as a fly?"
And that there's nothing in the system? Just theft?
Only a few robberies showed up on his record.
The major crimes he had committed didn't show up.
When a person with that kind of criminal record…
ESTHER'S FAMILY LAWYER
…like the one Montilla has,
it was hard to believe he wasn't investigated,
or that they weren't aware who he was.
Finding that news article, and them being completely clueless…
I don't know.
A criminal like that, such an evil criminal, I mean…
Today I really start my new life. I'm going on an adventure.
After so many years of my life that I wasted in the slammer,
for what little time I have left to live, I want to live it to the fullest,
with great intensity.
And that's what I intend to do, to have a good time and enjoy life.
I only take trails. Just trails.
The police stopped me and they identified me.
And, well, that's not a problem. I have no problem with the law.
And I have no problem with anyone.
It's been a very long time since I left.
Since I renounced, as they say, a life of crime.
And now I'm… I'm an explorer.
-YOU'RE A GREAT PERSON -YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT
And this is the beach, huh?
With a little bar.
I never had anything and I still don't.
But, I really regret having lost so, so many years of my life in jail.
That really destroyed my life.
I could only enjoy life as a child, and now a little bit, as an old man.
STAY STRONG, BUDDY
YOU'RE A WISE MAN
SAFE TRAVELS AND TAKE CARE
I discovered that I have some qualities that…
well, not everyone has.
Which is that I can see spirits.
I can see what are known as ghosts.
Don't be afraid of me.
I won't do you any harm.
I only want to help you.
Talk to me.
Come out and show yourself.
Spirit.
All partridges must be free…
like this partridge.
And not locked up in a cage.
Let's live in peace and let's live in freedom.
And I invite you to do the same.
To enjoy life while you can and have the energy to do so.
You only live once.
And you have to enjoy it to the fullest, as best you can.
I kept talking to José Jurado Montilla.
I never asked him anything directly, but I wanted to see if I could catch him.
I insisted she hadn't sent those messages.
Pepa, good morning. It's me, José Jurado.
Did you call me? I don't know if it was on purpose or by accident, a while ago.
He asked me how the investigation was going.
And of course, I told him,
"The investigation? They don't tell us anything."
And he said, "Well, anyway, I'm still looking for her by myself."
"She might be in the north."
She talked a lot about a place she'd been previously,
some kind of commune in Jaca, or around there.
He even talked to my daughters on TikTok.
He told them not to worry, he was going to find their aunt.
He had been showing photos of her.
Some folks didn't remember her, others did.
"I think that I remember this girl."
I was asking around,
"There's this woman from Seville," and so on. And no one…
Antonio also spoke to him once or twice.
It was hard talking to him, of course.
The thing is, more than anything, we did it to get information.
We gave it all to the police.
The family gave the information to the police.
And the police conceivably told them not to make it public.
To avoid having it get into the hands of the media.
The police tell me, "Well, keep talking to him."
But I'm talking to a murderer. I mean, I'm talking to a murderer!
We can't rule out that your daughter…
is in the hands of some son of a bitch."
"Some trafficker or something."
That was really hard. I said, "Mom," I said, "I couldn't do that."
"Either tell me where my daughter is or…"
I don't know, I just…
A desperate mother will try to find her daughter…
ESTHER'S FRIEND
…by any means possible.
Pepa realizes who Jurado Montilla is in January.
And the communication between Pepa and Jurado Montilla
continues until May.
That's got to be tough.
I miss her so much. I wish I had gotten to know her better.
And I won't forget her, ma'am. I won't forget her.
I couldn't stop thinking about it.
And I was having a… just an awful time. Awful.
I had three or four really bad days.
And I was feeling terrible.
This is the journey I'm making in honor of my friend.
My friend Esther. Esther Estepa.
I was just in contact with her mother, about ten minutes ago.
And I sent her the video that…
well, that you've all seen, of the castle where I… I talk about her.
When the police in Seville called me,
they told me to pass on anything I knew.
And that's when I started watching a lot more of his TikTok videos.
You know something, I'd like to be A strawberry and lemon candy
To slip into your pretty little mouth And melt into your tender heart
Women went crazy over me.
In all the prisons I've stayed at, I've left my mark.
I wrote to as many as 270 women.
I had to be selective. Just one for each day of the week,
because it was impossible for me to write to them all.
I'd like it, if any of those women remember me,
for them to, well, get in touch.
I like to remember the good old days.
And in a pub, I met this 27-year-old girl.
And I said to her, "I bet you taste better than this beer."
And she said, "You'll have to try me."
And, well, we started to go at it…
And in the end, well, I showed her the picture of my friend Esther.
And she said,
"I can't guarantee it…
but I've seen her somewhere."
I said, "What do you mean you've seen her?"
And she said, "Yeah, I've seen her."
"About five months ago, I saw her."
He's a compulsive liar.
I think he even believes himself.
But this girl…
Well, she's 27, a real beauty, she doesn't want me to film her.
She's on the other side of the tree.
She doesn't want me to film her. She's still here with me.
And…
Do you want to or not?
No. She says, "No." She doesn't want me to… to film her.
There's no one there.
If there actually was someone there, you'd notice.
For a 62-year-old man like me to
hook up with a 27-year-old girl…
Well, to be honest, that's a real triumph.
He's a dirty old man.
He's disgusting, man.
This girl swears that, uh…
Wait.
Do you want to be in it or not?
Huh? No?
She doesn't want to be in it.
This girl was walking around the port area.
And she says, "Yeah, it's her."
He's a psychopath.
Come here, damn it, come here. Show your face on camera.
No? You don't want to? Why not?
Everyone who lies, no matter how well they do it,
in the end, they get caught.
Because there will be some point they slip up.
Esther…
I love you like crazy, beautiful.
I love you like crazy and…
and I want to hear from you.
Esther, wherever you are…
Take care, okay? All right, kisses.
Since he records everything, he loves recording everything…
I mean, he's going to slip up.
He's going to incriminate himself.
I wish my eyes were kind of like a continuous video camera,
that I could somehow take out and… and show to you.
I'm a person who… who has nothing to hide.
I'm a person with a tender heart.
I'm a super romantic person.
I'm a fairly cultured person.
I find it very easy to understand things.
I like to help others.
You keep on laughing, keep on sending videos.
Incriminate yourself.
But you're just giving us evidence, to the police and to us,
of what you did to my sister.
I still have faith.
It's all I have, so I cling to it… to the faith I have.
Because if we don't cling to that, how do we go on living?
Distressing.
Very distressing.
It keeps you up at night, you know?
FEBRUARY 24, 2024 SIX MONTHS NOW
MY GIRL, TOMORROW'S YOUR BIRTHDAY, WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU
Maybe she'll turn up tomorrow.
I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
WE LOVE YOU
APRIL 4, 2024 43RD BIRTHDAY
WE ARE DESPERATE
IT'S DAD. STILL NO NEWS FROM YOU
TODAY'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
The investigation…
They said, "Look, the system we have is this…"
"I come in every morning and I look at the computer."
This is what the police told us.
"If there's no movement, then there's no movement."
That's the type of investigation they were conducting.
Antonio was very desperate.
I had to mediate a bit between Antonio and the investigators.
It's understandable that the family felt frustrated.
Moreover, I get it, it's justified.
They already knew who Jurado Montilla was. They already knew what we were up against.
Hey, Pepa, good morning. It's me, José.
He keeps calling me.
He keeps calling me, and I said to myself,
"How am I going to have the nerve to talk to this criminal?"
The police are saying it's very difficult to…
It's just so hard.
Pepa told herself,
"As long as I'm talking to him, I have him captive,
and let's see what he talks about, what he does, what he says…"
When we were in Gandia, her… her leg started to hurt and…
and she said she was going to the hospital.
HEALTH CENTER GANDIA
And I said goodbye to her…
on that bench in the park for pétanque.
And I don't know anything after that point.
That was the last time I saw her.
I insisted that it seemed very strange to me
that he wouldn't have accompanied her if she was in pain.
He told me, "No," that he didn't go with her.
She ended up going down the street that led to the hospital.
And then, well, I never heard from my friend again.
In the end, we went to the hospital.
They gave her an injection, and she felt better.
He contradicts himself a lot.
That's when you realize he's lying.
I said, "Do you want me to come with you?"
She said, "No, the hospital is just right there."
"Also, a little while ago, I was speaking to some friends,
and they'll probably come pick me up from the hospital."
Yeah, yeah, her friends were already waiting for her?
I thought, "My daughter has two friends in Gandia?"
"My daughter has never been to Gandia."
"I've been calling some friends."
I didn't see those friends who were going to pick her up at the hospital.
"I've arranged for some friends to pick me up there."
So her friends were supposed to pick her up.
So he lies, and lies, and lies.
Look, if you're telling the truth…
you never change your story.
And he does change it several times.
The family was very careful with the information they gave us.
And that was undoubtedly due to instructions from the police.
I went to the police headquarters many times.
They told me it was best not to make anything public.
Because if it's public, it will hinder the investigation.
WAITING FOR ANSWERS ENOUGH OF THIS BACK AND FORTH
One day, okay. One month, okay.
But now this has to be shown to the world. So, I post it on Facebook.
Just like that, I let it out.
DAMN BUREAUCRACY, IF IT WERE A HIGH-RANKING OFFICIAL'S FAMILY…
Well, of course, a rich person or the daughter of a police chief…
they don't even wait 24 hours. And we all know that.
But the thing is, she was Esther Estepa.
Strong handshakes for all the men
and nice kisses for all the women from 0 to 100 years old.
And as I say, if there's anyone who's 101,
then double kisses.
They told me I was becoming obsessed.
That it wasn't my fault what happened, or anything like that.
But I kept investigating.
After that, she stopped answering.
I was looking for, well, places he had been.
…starting with this letter, as you can see here…
I'd listen to background noise for clues.
I was looking to see any information about her.
All of us buddies are here now, you know?
Who is that person he's talking to, or that he greeted?
Here's the protagonist.
It's scary, you know? It's scary.
Don't worry. Don't be afraid of the camera.
The camera doesn't bite, or…
I went there just to ask
if that person who appeared in the video was alive or not.
How many times has he had the opportunity to kill?
What do you think a fox is going to do if you put it in a hen house?
Take care of the hens? Protect their eggs?
Was he looking for…
Maybe his next victim?
One of the big questions in this case is,
"What was Dinamita Montilla doing from 2013 to 2024?"
A wandering, nomadic person who moves around the whole of Spain?
Who knows what could have happened?
ONE YEAR BEFORE ESTHER'S DISAPPEARANCE
A 21-year-old man has been found shot dead in a rural area of Málaga.
The police hypothesis is that it could be from a shotgun.
Uh, because the wound, it seems to be, uh, a very large wound.
On August 30th, 2022,
David's father found his son's lifeless body
on land owned by the family.
The perpetrator of the crime fired a first shot in the back.
The second shot finished him off on the ground,
which reveals a significant degree of cruelty.
Before he died,
David provided a clue as to who his killer was.
He talked to his father and his friends and told them who he came across.
A GUY WITH A SHOTGUN
He said he ran into this person, and he gave various details about him.
An old man who looked shady.
And that's what we focused on.
David's case drew media attention
due to the highly unusual circumstances.
A death like that, using a shotgun.
The investigation focused on hunters.
We began taking statements from everyone who hunts in the area.
It wasn't easy.
Why? Because we're in the middle of the mountains in Málaga.
There are no witnesses.
We focused our search on an older man who knows the area inside and out.
It's a place you can't get to if you're not familiar with it.
Another day here with your friend Dinamita Montilla.
And today I'm here next to all these mountains in Málaga.
David told his friends that he had met an old man
who said he'd come out to kill off the foxes that were eating his chickens.
José Jurado Montilla, in the interview I did with him in 2013,
told me that on that day in 1985, he ended up in Almogía, at the farmhouse,
because his mother told him that foxes had killed seven chickens.
The word that defines the investigation
in that first year is "frustration."
It was starting to become a thorn in the side of the Homicide department.
Every single line of inquiry that was pursued by police was a fruitless labor.
They couldn't make progress in any area of the investigation.
There comes a point when only the scientific approach remains.
Meaning DNA.
Up to 60 pieces of evidence were collected at the crime scene
and sent to the lab for analysis.
The perpetrator of the crime opened the backpack,
took out David's wallet and cell phone,
and when he opened the backpack, he left his DNA on the zipper.
When they put that DNA into the database,
analyzed it with more than 60,000 candidates,
they got one match.
It was someone who was related to the perpetrator of the crime.
And they discovered his last name was Jurado.
That's how the investigation into the family tree began,
which ended up leading to José Jurado Montilla.
I am Dinamita Montilla. My real name is José Jurado Montilla.
Jurado Montilla. José Jurado Montilla. Dinamita Montilla.
Once we were aware of him, we followed him on social media.
It's a way for us to track him and locate him.
This is the station
where I will be taking the train to Valencia.
He's a person who travels all over Spain.
I guess you already know where I am, right? I'm in San Sebastián.
He's very popular on social media.
Your friend Dinamita Montilla, coming to you from here, in Montilla!
He was in the north of Spain, or maybe Madrid.
Hello friends, good morning from Retiro Park in Madrid.
It was also a matter of figuring out where he was.
Look at this landscape.
We had to be fast, locate him, run, get a car, wherever he was.
From here, I'm going to show you some initial images of Badajoz.
So, we went to Badajoz too.
NINE MONTHS AFTER ESTHER'S DISAPPEARANCE
I'm here now at the second Niza hostel.
The first Niza hostel is closed. This is number two.
The police sent two detectives from the Homicide Division
to follow his movements in a very discreet way.
At that moment, he's a suspect.
But they need scientific proof
that definitively links him to David's case.
How do they get that? By looking for his DNA.
I arrived about 20 minutes ago.
The thing is, I was there in the bar, having a snack and a beer.
How do you get a hold of a suspect's DNA?
Well, you check for any traces he leaves behind in his daily life.
That's when the race against the clock began,
because Dinamita Montilla was getting closer and closer to Portugal.
He heads towards Valdebótoa,
which is a village in Badajoz that's only five kilometers from Portugal.
Next, it's up to the police at that time
to determine if they can extract DNA from the evidence found in Badajoz.
And see if it matches with the sample of DNA
that the suspect unknowingly happened to leave
on the zipper handle of the backpack that belonged to David.
Dinamita Montilla is here…
…In this… this bar.
-What's the name of the bar, sir? -Bar Benito.
Bar Benito. I'm at Bar Benito.
And now in this bar, I see harmony.
That is not commonly seen just anywhere.
Everyone knows each other, everyone's talking to each other.
Everyone's laughing… …telling jokes.
A beautiful social life.
It's just about nine o'clock in the evening.
I feel right at home.
The lab at Eastern Andalusia Police Headquarters
called the head of Homicide, who was already at the location,
and said, "We have a match. It's him. He's our candidate. He's our suspect."
NATIONAL POLICE
José Jurado has just been arrested for another murder.
A notorious serial killer is being implicated in yet another death.
José Jurado, alias Dinamita Montilla.
The police were looking for him for two years regarding David's murder.
He was popular on TikTok.
He was filming himself and uploading videos to his social media.
Arrested five kilometers from the Portuguese border.
CRIMINAL KILLER
-PRISON IS THE PLACE FOR YOU -THE WALKING KILLER
-WHO DID YOU ATTACK? -TELL US WHERE ESTHER IS
It's been published in Diario Sur
that he may be linked to a woman whose disappearance in Seville
is being investigated by the Homicide division.
I cannot comment on that at this time. That's not something I'm aware of.
Good morning, my darling. Another day, my love.
The day he was arrested, the police called us and told us that…
That they had arrested him, of course.
But they'd arrested him for the case of…
the young man from Málaga, so…
Of course I was angry. How could I not be?
I said, "But he never killed so much as a fly, right?"
"I told you."
"I didn't know him. Now that I know him, I believe it."
That's the answer he gave me.
Lots of kisses, my darling.
If she was with him or, you know, maybe she had…
Because she was very skinny, but she was also very strong.
And she was quite…
And I think that, "Maybe, if he tried to do something,
she would have managed to free herself and get away."
There's always that sliver of hope left.
You know? There was still a chance that she was alive.
If he's a serial killer,
and he's the last person who was with this girl,
then we have to search.
Search the last location where this girl was seen,
and she has to be there.
BAIRÉN CASTLE GANDIA
One day in February…
we thought we'd go for a walk to the castle.
We were at the intersection of canals beneath the road that leads into Gandia.
There's really no other reason to take this shortcut.
TOUR GUIDE
This isn't a typical place. It's not a path, it's the old drain.
Years can go by without anyone using it.
We went down by the bridge, and as soon as we crossed,
down by the canal bed…
Well, we saw something very strange.
Which turned out to be a skull.
Let's move on to our roundup of the weekend's news.
A hiker found a human skull on Saturday while exploring
at the foot of the mountain by Bairén Castle in Gandia.
I saw the news and my heart skipped a beat.
Because I thought it could be my sister.
The news came out that February, and I felt all sorts of things.
But I thought, "That's enough, I'm not going to tell anyone,
because they'll say I'm paranoid."
Forensic scientists and anthropologists said they could be human remains
from the Civil War.
If they found that skull,
couldn't they have searched around…
for more remains?
But they didn't, did they?
And in June, the police called me…
and told me that the skull was my sister's.
The results had come back…
and the skull was Esther's.
The remains of Esther Estepa have been found in a canal bed in Gandia.
The skull was found back in February. The rest of the body, just this week.
They found the remains of other bones.
They said there were about 60 tiny bones.
And they also found belongings of hers.
A lot of pain, of course. A lot of pain and a lot of anger.
You can't take it in, you know?
You can't take it in. It's very hard.
It was a very sad day.
She didn't want me to suffer because of her.
She always said that to me.
She didn't want it.
I was very sad because…
the last time I saw her, I said, "Esther…"
…and I got angry with her.
I sent her a WhatsApp message asking her to forgive me and…
…we forgave each other, but she didn't come back after that.
And I never saw her again.
I feel guilty.
And it weighs heavily on me.
All of this has marked us forever.
This pain has marked us forever.
What we had on José Jurado Montilla wasn't much.
There were some leads, but they weren't particularly strong.
My feeling was that it wasn't going to go anywhere.
That it would be very difficult to build a case against this person,
much less convict them.
If this guy has a good criminal defense attorney
who takes the case seriously and is willing to work on it,
it's going to be difficult.
Because there's nothing that really incriminates him.
My name is Vicente Rodríguez Quirante.
And I'm José Jurado Montilla's attorney.
ALBOLOTE PRISON
I went to the prison…
submitted his name, and met with him in the attorney consultation room.
He told me about the case, and then we jointly decided,
yes, I would take on his defense.
For me, he's just another client.
And I treat him the same as all my clients.
Nobody is better or worse here.
The only thing that incriminates José Jurado
was the fact that, supposedly, he was the last person to see Esther.
But of course, that's not enough.
So what happens? More information starts to emerge.
HEALTH CENTER GANDIA
There is key testimony from the doctor who treated Esther
at the Corea Medical Center in Gandia.
He says that Esther was accompanied by a person
who fully matches the description of José Jurado Montilla.
He says, at one point, an argument broke out
between Esther and an orderly at the facility.
She wanted to stay overnight at the Corea Medical Center.
And they wouldn't let her.
Montilla intervenes with this attitude, trying to get Esther to leave.
The only one who wanted Esther to stay was Esther.
Did they really not notice anything?
"Don't make me leave, damn it."
"There's a madman outside!" That's all it takes.
Esther is forced to leave the center.
At around 12:30 a.m., we know that they moved on foot
to the canal area near the Castillo de Gandia,
with the intention of spending the night there.
And how do we know this?
Because, aside from it being the place where Esther's remains were found,
Esther had arranged via the BlaBlaCar app…
to meet a person who was going to give her a ride to Valencia the next day.
So then this person tries to contact Esther by phone.
But it's too late. She doesn't answer.
There is another very revealing fact,
which is that the messages Pepa received around 5:30 p.m. on August 23,
although sent from Esther's number,
were sent using José Jurado Montilla's hotspot.
I CAN'T KEEP LYING TO YOU
We know Esther couldn't have sent them because by then, she was already dead.
And we also know that, many months after Esther's disappearance,
although her phone has never been found, we know it was turned back on…
using José Jurado Montilla's hotspot.
So the phone was in Dinamita Montilla's possession.
I've called her a bunch of times
and I haven't heard anything from her.
No text messages, no calls. Nothing.
That's a lie. He never tried to contact her.
There are no calls from Montilla's phone to Esther's cell.
It's another lie.
Pepa, I hope you have a wonderful day, and let's not lose hope.
Hope is the last thing we should lose.
How could I…
keep talking with him, following him…
to see if I could get something out of him,
No.
You can't get anything out of him.
Esther's skull was a lucky discovery.
That skull had an impression left in it that matched a crucifix.
Which, you know, is evidence of, well,
it having been in contact with a crucifix for a long time.
José Jurado Montilla, when he was arrested,
was carrying a cell phone and a crucifix.
A SMALL SILVER CROSS
If Esther's death occurred in August,
Montilla had time to retrieve the crucifix eight months later,
when he published it on TikTok that he had returned to Gandia.
This was the first view that she and I took in together,
of the city of Gandia.
We know that José Jurado Montilla has this kind of need
to return to the scene of the crime. It's not the first time he's done it.
He did it in El Chorro.
Again, I find myself in El Chorro.
He did it in Las Campanillas.
Your friend Dinamita Montilla, from Campanillas.
He did it again in Gandia.
Hello friends, it's me, here at Bairén Castle, in Gandia.
He returns to Gandia, to where Esther's murder took place,
perhaps to recreate what happened there.
Well, I assume it gives him some kind of excitement.
To understand it, you have to put yourself
in as perverted and dirty a mindset as his.
I've retraced the whole route I did with her, searching for clues.
I haven't achieved anything positive.
Posting those videos on TikTok…
You have to be very evil, very cruel.
A seriously bad, bad, bad person.
A demon.
Every time I see an image of that guy, I close my eyes.
I feel repulsion, anxiety, disgust.
Just give me some sign of life.
Give me some sign of life because I sincerely, truly, miss you.
Take care of yourself, beautiful. Wherever you are, take care.
And give me some sign of life, please.
I always used to say, "There are no bad people."
"People make mistakes but there are no bad people."
Now I know there are.
There are.
You don't have an open and shut case,
but it's true that all of that is, well, indicative of guilt.
Indicative, maybe.
You can lie and not have committed the criminal offense.
Contradictions, they don't help, but they're not decisive either.
There has to be a piece of evidence that is solid, and even destructive,
to undermine the presumption of innocence.
A person who is being investigated has the right to be considered innocent
until proven otherwise.
José Jurado Montilla had a cell phone on him when he was arrested.
We knew that phone had to hold the key to the investigation.
I have to clean up my cell phone
because I've accumulated a huge amount of photos and…
and videos that I really have to delete.
He's a crime influencer.
A guy who films wherever he goes, who records videos.
We became obsessed with that phone.
It was the holy grail. We had to get that data.
It was the blow that could knock him out.
I've died twice already.
And both times, I saw myself outside my body.
I see myself in a kind of glass tunnel.
There are TV screens lining the whole tunnel.
And at the end, there's a very bright, whitish light.
And when you start walking, you start looking around you.
On those TV screens, you see your whole life.
You see your whole life reflected in those images.
Everything you've experienced, friends. Everything.
I've always considered that to be a kind of final judgment.
One day in October 2024,
I received a notification from the court clerk,
and it was a court order.
I remember I was in the office, in the afternoon,
when I usually open the mail notifications from the clerks.
And the truth is that I was stunned
because at that moment I didn't understand anything at all.
It was very, very difficult to take in.
Very difficult to…
To manage.
And to, above all, to know how to manage it with the family.
How to explain it to them, what I was reading at that moment.
Juan Manuel called me…
and said, "Raquel, I'm going to come to Seville."
"Can we meet for lunch?" I said, "Of course, Juanma."
And when he said that, I thought, "Something's up."
I had some very difficult news to deliver.
But I had to do it.
And after lunch…
I went out to smoke a cigarette, and he came out…
behind me.
I told her,
"Raquel, I have something to tell you. Something very difficult."
"I don't know how to tell you. I don't know how to tell your mother."
I said, "What's wrong?"
I already knew something was wrong, because it felt strange, you know? And…
He said…
"I just came from work, from headquarters,
and on his cell phone,
they found a photo."
I said, "What kind of photo?"
He said, "A photo in which you can see your sister's corpse."
"And he, uh… he raped your sister."
He raped her…
…before he murdered her.
I couldn't believe it.
I started crying. I said, "Juanma, for God's sake, tell me it's not true."
"It can't be true."
Raquel, in… in an act of…
I don't know how to describe it…
Of bravery and… and of poise, managed to compose herself.
We went back into the restaurant and, well, our lunch came to an end.
I went 15 days without eating, without sleeping, thinking,
"How am I going to tell my parents?"
I'm a mother…
And my sister didn't…
I gathered up the courage and said, "Look…"
I got the family together.
Because she didn't want to tell us alone, just the two of us.
And then she, well, then she told us about the images they had found.
It was a feeling of great anger, great helplessness and…
great pain too.
Images… the images the lawyer had seen, what was in the document…
Once that report was in my hands,
I knew that José Jurado Montilla had to be convicted.
He had no way out.
Those photographs serve no purpose at all, other than his personal enjoyment, right?
To have a graphic record of an act as horrendous, as horrible,
as a sexual assault and a murder.
Those images…
Those images… No.
I'm strong, or I can act strong at times, but I don't want to see that.
And… God forbid this comes out on…
on TV. God forbid…
this gets out.
CONFRATERNITY OF SAINT GENEVIEVE SEVILLE
I hope he gets the maximum. The absolute maximum.
He should get the full weight of the law. Give him everything he deserves.
Let justice be done.
Let no one forget my sister.
I just want justice. That's it.
FOR A BETTER WORLD
Pepa is just like Esther.
When she talks, she transmits calm, confidence, that…
That kindness they have. I don't know.
Antonio, I know he can be a bit dry, a bit gruff, but…
he has a very good heart.
I look forward to meeting him.
I talk to Vanesa a lot.
And she always tells me, "Esther was always talking about you."
I'm grateful that when my daughter was with them, that she was okay.
That she was comfortable with her friends from the center, and…
I really just wanted to give them a hug.
I'm looking forward to meeting them too.
Oh, they're here!
Oh, Pepa!
You should know that you and your daughter have the same essence.
You're just like her. I thought this moment would never come.
-Hello, Pepa. -Hello, my love.
-Esther was a ray of sunshine. -Aw.
She had a temper when angry, but she was like a ray of sunshine.
Hello.
I saw her, you know…
Hello, Encarni.
Esther is always on my mind. Always, always.
We were like sisters.
You have the same face as Esther.
We like to remember her here with us, you know? Here with us.
I'll hold onto the fact
that I had a wonderful sister that my parents gave me.
And as long as she's with us in our hearts, she's alive.
We're all here together, and she's here with us.
Come on, Antonio.
-A toast to Esther! -To Esther!
-Salut!
-We love you! -We love you, Esther!
-You're here with us. -Cheers!
Look, your friends!
-Cheers. -Cheers.
The last message I sent her was on the day that…
That we laid her to rest.
"My heart stopped on August 23."
"When your phone stopped receiving messages."
"We miss you so much here that it pains our very souls."
"Now you're the brightest star in the sky."
"We love you so much. You're our sunshine."
"And one day justice will be done."
"And we'll see each other again, I promise."
The National Police declined to take part as the Esther Estepa case remains open.
Dinamita Montilla remains in prison,
awaiting trial for the deaths of Esther and David.
Everyone is presumed innocent until a final verdict is issued.
This documentary contacted José Jurado through his lawyer.
However, it was not possible to obtain a statement from him. .