ISSUE 628 • 16th - 22nd March 2018
THE alleged killer of Gabriel Cruz Ramirez, Ana Julia Quezada, has been remanded in custody. Aftr being remanded in Almeria’s El Acebuche prison, lead investigators allegedly called her “egocentric, manipulative and possessive.” Quezada was arrested in the early hours of Sunday after police discovered the body of missing eightyear-old Gabriel Cruz Ramirez in the boot of the car she was driving Police had reportedly been following the woman since she allegedly discovered a t-shirt at the bottom of the Las Aguilas ravine, which was later confirmed to have traces of Gabriel’s DNA. She had been followed to a well on the Cañada de la Soledad farm in Rodalquilar and was seen removing something before being stopped by Guardia Civil officers who made the shocking discovery. And according to Spanish media, after two hours of interrogation, the 43-year-old woman confessed to killing Gabriel with the blunt part of an axe during an argument with the child before suffocating him. She also repor tedly confirmed to police that she had acted alone dur-
HELD
Ana Julia Quezada remanded in custody
CREDIT: AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALMERIA
By Benjamin Park
EST 2005
MOVING: Gabriel’s funeral was held on Tuesday. ing the crime. In a story that gripped the nation and most of Europe, Gabriel Cruz Ramirez went missing in the small town of Las Hortichuelas on February 27. He had left his grandmother’s house aiming for a friend’s house just 100
metres away but never made it and was found 12 days later.
Continues Page 2>>