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Dismembered body discovered in Torrevieja bin
A homeless man made a macabre find in torrevieja when searching through rubbish bins for items to sell. the man discovered two legs and an arm in a bin on the town’s Avenida Cortes Valencianas, behind a busy local
supermarket. the suspect, a 70 year old Finnish man, was identified via CCtV and arrested after more body parts were found at his nearby home. the victim is believed to be the man’s 68 year old partner, also a Finnish national.
reports suggest that the investigation began late on thursday evening when a homeless man alerted police to the discovery of dismembered body parts. Guardia Civil rushed to the scene while investigators examined
CCtV footage of the area, identifying the suspect who was loitering nearby on a bicycle. Sources suggest that the suspect deposited the victim’s head and several other body parts in the bin several hours before the discovery was made – the bins were since emptied and officers continue to look for the victim’s head and one of her arms with searches underway at the Xixona landfill where torrevieja sends its waste. After the first remains were found in the bin, officers searched the man’s home and found further evidence and on Saturday, more body parts (a limb, say reports) were found in wasteground near Calle Manuel romera, near the water tanks. Crime scene investigators carried out an exhaustive search of the wasteground on Saturday afternoon
before removing the remains for examination. the discovery on Saturday took place just metres away from the house that the couple shared and very near to the spot where the first remains were found. the couple’s neighbours in the Vistabella residential complex were shocked to find they had been walking their dogs through the same wasteground where more remains were found at the weekend. A Guardia Civil spokesperson said, “We have held the alleged author of a homicide in torrevieja after the remains of the dismembered body of a woman were found inside a rubbish container. “Officers confirmed they were three limbs that could be those of a woman shortly after. detectives identified
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