GRUESOME DISCOVERY

EXCLUSIVE

By Alberto Lejarraga

longs to a young man who went missing in Barcelona earlier that year,” Juan Carlos Lopez, a Guardia Civil spokesman told the Olive Press.

“He was a Spanish national who was 21 at the time he disappeared.

“His body was found further down a nearby cliff in January 2022 and next to it, there was a credit card that allowed us to know his identity.”

Despite the victim's head being separated from the body, Lopez says the autopsy did not reveal any signs of vio-

Protect lence.

“We closed the investigation because the autopsy revealed he died of natural causes, with a hypothesis being an accident.”

The claims fly in the face of the Romanian expat whose dog Dragon found the head on November 18, 2021. She revealed she had been taking a walk around the alternative community of Beneficio, near Orgiva, when the animal dug up the skull by the main car park. She first linked the discovery to the Spanish Civil War, but soon dismissed the idea as the smell was very strong.