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■ SUZANNE O’CONNELL
suzanne@costablancapeople.com
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he Policia Judicial of the Guardia Civil are currently investigating the death of the woman, Johana Bertina Palma González whose body was found on 17th August sealed in a meter room of a building in the town. The deceased woman was 32 years old and her partner, John Charlie aged 37, was arrested as the main suspect. He has since confessed to the crime. The woman was of Chilean descent and her family and friends had alerted the authorities to her disappearance two months ago. Her partner confessed to pushing Johana after a heated discussion on the terrace of their home and claims that she then hit her head on the wall and this killed her.
Tues 23rd August - Mon 29th August 2016
Body of woman found in Torrevieja
John Charlie admits to keeping the body for two hours in the house after her death whilst deciding what to do with it. At this point he took the body down to the meter room and hid it there. Two days later he decided to bury it in cement, a process that took a month to carry out. The Guardia Civil asked for the help of neighbours to locate the woman in Calle Ramón y Cajal. The body was found when the police carried out a further inspection of the property in which the woman, her partner and two children used to live. An accumulation of flies alerted people to the location of Johana who was eventually found buried in a cupboard, or meter room, which had previously housed a water boiler. The body had been covered in a cement-like material and was in an advanced state of decomposition. The removal of the body was a complicated process that required the Continued on page 3
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