A POLICE officer who 'infiltrated' the family of a young man who murdered his ex-girlfriend in January 2009 has revealed what happened to her body, six-and-a-half years of fruitless searches later.
Marta del Castillo Casanueva was 17 when she arranged to meet Miguel Carcaño, then 20, to 'discuss rumours' her ex-boyfriend had been allegedly spreading about her.
According to Carcaño, the former couple had a row and he threw an ashtray at her in temper, knocking her unconscious but, fearing her dead, panicked and threw her in the river Guadalquivir near his home in Sevilla.
Later versions which came out when Carcaño and his accomplices were interrogated revealed Marta was probably gang-raped and strangled, with at least three young men taking it in turns to pin her down whilst others assaulted her.
Carcaño has long claimed he does not know where her body is, and has given seven different versions leading to unsuccessful searches in rubbish tips, ditches and farm fields.
But a forensic who 'befriended' the family of one of Carcaño's alleged accomplices, known as 'El Cuco', who was 15 at the time of the murder, spent two-and-a-half years gathering information and making secret recordings, leading him to believe Marta's body had been chopped into several pieces and disposed of in various rubbish bags.
A neighbour had apparently seen the body being transported in a wheelchair from a house which was not the one where Carcaño and his elder stepbrother Francisco Javier lived, and the forensic said he had 'been given information' hinting that a 'non-Spanish friend' of Carcaño's had helped out in the crime.
The officer says he has recorded over 600 hours of conversations whilst infiltrating El Cuco's family.
He considers that if Carcaño really knew where Marta's body was, he 'would have played that card already'.
When the officer asked El Cuco what he felt when he saw 'so many people searching the river and the rubbish tip', the young accomplice had said it 'made him laugh' and assured he had 'never felt any remorse, empathy or grief'.
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