but people sometimes enjoy tragedies too,” says journalist Patricia Murray in The Alcàsser Murders Netflix’s new five-part documentary series about the 1992 abduction and slaying of three teenage girls in Picassent sometimes people exploit tragedies for personal gain—including the parents of the dead Two months later, their buried bodies were discovered by a pair of beekeepers in a remote mountainous region known as La Romana, after one of them apparently spied the Mickey Mouse wristwatch of Toñi, still attached to her handless forearm. given that their horrifying end became immediate fodder for a voraciously sensationalistic TV machine As soon as his daughter Miriam went missing The attention he courted quickly spiraled out of control leading to a ratings battle between two rival shows—Quién Sabe Dónde and De Tú A Tú—that reported nightly on the case culminating with a De Tú A Tú episode the day after the girls were found during which the grieving families sat on stage as footage of them first hearing the news was replayed and poems of the dead were re-read by their siblings—all in between breaks for cheery car commercials Milking suffering for bigger audience shares these TV “news” segments were their own form of abuse not to mention mind-bogglingly inappropriate and repugnant was transformed into a virtual production set who took a liking to the spotlight and fashioned himself a noble crusader in the fight to uncover what had happened to Miriam and her friends Insights were soon forthcoming from the area surrounding the burial site where fragments of paper containing the name Enrique Anglés gave detectives their first lead That clue led to Enrique’s brother Antonio and his friend Miguel “the Blond” Ricart When the former fled authorities (he’s never been seen again) Ricart—who owned a white car—was left to answer for Miriam confessing to participating in the kidnapping rape and murder of the girls at a nearby hut at the behest of Antonio who by all accounts was a terrifying tyrant Though there was almost no forensic evidence to bolster his account (DNA samples and fibers weren’t a match) Ricart knew certain details that were only corroborated by the girls’ subsequent autopsies eventually claiming he’d been tortured and pressured by cops to confess Fernando embarked on a media-blitz campaign—accompanied by his shady partner-in-sleuthing Juan Ignacio Blanco—to argue that Ricart was innocent and that the girls were the casualties of a larger plot involving some of the country’s elite Were the real culprits members of a Satanic cult A deviant sex maniac group that violated and dismembered girls for their own sick pleasure And were “big-toothed animals” and cannibalism somehow involved These crazed conspiracy theories were incessantly trotted out by Fernando and Juan on TV (often opposite other trial experts) in the process turning the entire affair into a three-ring circus emerge from The Alcàsser Murders: of a hellish TV landscape that treated tragedy as titillating entertainment; of a law enforcement department that failed to properly handle a high-profile case; of hucksters eager to fabricate and slander to maintain their prominence (see: Juan getting caught lying by an ex-police officer); and of a father driven mad by loss and sorrow while promoting one outlandish hypothesis after another stole the police case file so he could publicize autopsy photos and other graphic images on TV following Ricart’s carnivalesque trial and conviction he set up a foundation to help those in similar situations—only to offer no real services and keep monetary donations for himself Television celebrity is a corrupting force in this true-life tale compelling people to lose sight of their morality Juan still teases the series’ director and producer with a mystery tape that reportedly shows powerful bigwigs attending the girls’ autopsy—verification pathetic instance of someone peddling lies in order to use Miriam Toñi and Desirée’s deaths for their own gain The Alcàsser Murders exposes these figures (and their TV enablers) as the most heartless sorts of profiteers it makes a heartfelt plea for justice for male-victimized women everywhere—and Got a tip? 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justice and societal fascination with both The Alcásser Murders will be the latest international account to premiere to an American audience Spanish town of Alcásser and the three girls whose lives ended there The series comes just months after Netflix released a similar account on the kidnapping of Madeleine McCann Netflix's version of the Alcásser girls will make the case current and shed light on recent interviews and evidence in the ongoing cases It will also show how a series of events as such can make a giant impact on not only small communities The series will be available to stream on Friday The Alcásser Murders True Story: The Girls So who were the young women who lost their lives in Alcásser María Deseada Hernández Folch and Miriam Garcia Iborra were supposed to attend a nightclub called Cooler which was the destination of a classmate-thrown party in a town called Picassent If they had ever planned on really attending the nightclub is still a question many have the three girls hitchhiked and an old couple dropped them off at a gas station near the club though they had no details about the driver The bodies of all three young women were found in "La Romana," an area that was deserted and undeveloped it appeared from the condition of their bodies No killer has ever been caught in the case A piece of paper with his brother's name found near the bodies led cops to Antonio Angles Martins who jumped out of a fourth floor window and ran when police visited his home He's been spotted in various parts of Spain since don't expect Martins resides in Spain anymore as theories explain he left for Brazil and never returned told police the girls had been kidnapped by himself He explained the rapes and tortures of all three girls extended over a time period of two days The Alcásser Murders True Story: The Global Impact The Alcásser murders became global news for a variety of reasons natural reason was the lack of concrete evidence in the case The slip of paper was one of the only links to Martins and some said his accomplices' testimony doesn't hold much weight All three women had their pubic hair tested for DNA and some DNA evidence showed another party who was not any of the women or men said to be involved who led the charge for a larger investigation after seeing a lack of connection in the evidence This conversation Garciam started brought national attention to the case and its since become a globally-known set of murderers Another large talking point surrounding the case is the amount of wild Along with armchair investigators theories have come a varied list of possibilities Some theories reach from satanic involvement to the girls being kidnapped to film pornography Other conversations tackle the widely-believed idea that police investigating the murders hastily pushed their research aside in order to help Spain forget the cruel and unusual murders Questions circle of if the right decisions were made to bring real justice to the three women The case has also received global backlash for the crime scene photos The photos were shown during the trial of Ricart A quick google search will show the women's terrible aftermath which many have expressed is cruel and disrespectful Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all A Spanish judge has turned down a bid by the family of an alleged Spanish serial killer last seen on a ship that docked in Ireland to have him officially declared dead Antonio Angles’ current whereabouts remains steeped in mystery amid claims he could have drowned before the British-captained City of Plymouth reached Dublin and unconfirmed sightings of him in countries as far afield as Brazil and Uruguay over the past three decades Last February retired Garda Detective Sergeant Alan Bailey said Angles torture and murders of three teenage girls near the Spanish city of Valencia would always be a suspect in American Annie McCarrick’s March 1993 Dublin disappearance until he could be traced and ruled out speaking on the same Spanish TV documentary where Mr Bailey made his claims insisted he had seen stowaway Angles leave City of Plymouth as police boarded it to arrest him and walk off unchallenged into the darkness A judge in Catarroja near Valencia had agreed earlier this year to consider Angles’ family’s request to have the missing fugitive declared dead for issues relating to an inheritance But overnight it emerged the request had been refused and the wanted Spaniard was still considered to be alive as far as the country’s courts are concerned The decision was attributed to the fact Angles is still being investigated in Spain over the torture and murders of Miriam Garcia the subject of a 2019 Netflix documentary called The Alcasser Murders Their bodies were found 75 days after they vanished from their home village of Alcasser served 21 years in jail for the hideous crimes but alleged accomplice Angles fled Spain and was last seen on container ship City of Plymouth in March 1993 after stowing away on board before it left Lisbon for Dublin Retired UK-based Kenneth Farquharson Stevens has insisted Spain’s most wanted man had been locked in a secure cabin after being discovered on board and making a failed escape bid before police boarded the ship in Dublin and found it empty He told Spanish TV investigative journalists in 2018 police in the UK had later told him they believed one of his crew had helped Angles escape Investigators have not ruled out the possibility Angles drowned after escaping the ship Over the years there have been reports of unconfirmed sightings of him in countries as far afield as Brazil and Uruguay Angles’ criminal responsibility for the Alcasser murders will extinguish in 2029 meaning he cannot be tried even if he is found alive after that date As well as turning down the family request to have him declared dead because he is still being probed by a court in Alzira near Valencia the Catarroja-based judge also said he was taking the decision because the motives for it had not been “properly justified.” A motion to declare someone legally dead can normally be made in Spain after ten years although in some cases requests can be submitted before then centrally involved in the investigation into Annie McCarrick’s disappearance which has now been upgraded to a murder investigation told a Spanish TV documentary last February: “I would say Antonio Angles will remain a person of interest until he can be definitively ruled out and we know what happened with Annie McCarrick investigated and ruled out of the inquiry if he wasn’t involved “The fact he has never been located means he will be a suspect always.” during a day trip to Enniskerry in County Wicklow The man the City of Plymouth’s captain and several crew members have identified from photos as Angles is said to have reached Dublin less than 48 hours earlier Please check your inbox 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Available on Apple and Android devices | Posted on February 21 It’s been super difficult to keep up with Netflix lately They literally have new shows coming out every day now a true-crime mini-series in the same breath as Serial or Making A Murderer the entertainment icon has announced a new mini-series in the true-crime world — The Alcàsser Murders — which will begin production this week The Alcàsser Murders is Netflix’ first original Spanish documentary series but looks to have global appeal one that focuses on a triple-murder in 1992 With the way we gobble up true-crime these days I imagine Americans will be binging right along with subtitles (or dubbing) Per the official release from Netflix the series will release globally in 2019 with Ramón Campos serving as executive producer The Unresolved Podcast did a series about the murders in 2017. You can listen here CATEGORY: True Crime Support Slackie Brown by shopping with our partners: Slackie Brown is a Virginia-based and independently-owned sports and pop culture brand For advertising, business, or writing inquiries, send a note here This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page An officer on the ship has identified the stowaway as the man behind the brutal rape torture and murder of three Spanish girls in the 90s Angles is understood to have boarded the City of Plymouth in Lisbon which Angles is believed to have boarded before escaping in Dublin Jamie McDowell Tue 7 Sep 2021 at 19:07New information has emerged of one of the most notorious serial killers in Spanish criminal history Antonio Anglés is thought to have stowed away on a boat in Portugal before either sliding down a rope onto Dublin Dock or jumping from the ship just off the coast of Ireland and swimming to shore He was behind the brutal triple murder of the ‘Alcàsser girls’ Antonia ‘Toñi’ Gómez Rodríguez and Desirée Hernández Folch who were kidnapped tortured and raped before being murdered while on their way to a nightclub in the town of Picassent Miguel Ricart was sentenced 170 years in prison for the horrific murders but at the time the maximum anyone could serve in prison could serve was 30 years Ricart said that while he carried out the murders Antonio Anglés was with him When police examined the scene where the girls were murdered they found one of Ricart’s gloves and a payslip with the name Enrique Anglés Martins on it when the Civil Guard went to the home of Anglés and hid in a town in the region of Valencia He was then spotted in two more Spanish towns and one stage successfully made his way through a police cordon before making his way to Lisbon From there he is believed to have got onto a ship called ‘City of Plymouth’ as a stowaway Another theory was that he boarded a ship bound for Brazil as he had dual citizenship with Spain and Brazil and could have had a Brazilian passport new information has arisen coming from an officer on board the City of Plymouth who says he recognised Anglés as a stowaway on board the ship from photos shown to him at a Spanish court of what happened in the waters off Dublin Port is that a British sailor called Jo Hannegan found a stowaway trying to steal food in the kitchen of the City of Plymouth which was sailing from Lisbon to Liverpool which is when Anglés was reportedly in the city and brought him to a cabin which he locked from the outside When the boatswain of the ship then returned at 7.30am the same day he found the detainee had escaped through the window The ship then circled looking for the stowaway who was later found drifting on a raft off the coast of Ireland after he was seen by a French reconnaissance plane He was again taken aboard and held until the ship docked in Dublin at later in the day this time using rope to reach the dock from the cabin window There is another theory that the stowaway was not Anglés but that he had also been on the ship and had simply jumped into the water near the coast and either swam ashore or drowned a ship found a lifejacket in the water off Ireland with City of Plymouth written on it known as ‘El Calígula’ and ‘El Raulillo’ said Anglés “swam like a fish” The killing of the ‘Alcàsser Girls’ shocked Spain to the core not just because of the murders themselves but due to the brutal way in which the girls had been raped and tortured The disappearance of Anglés has gripped amateur sleuths and police forces across the world still dumbfounded by the elusive killer’s last movements Angles is thought to have fled to Ireland from Spain after the brutal murder of three girls in 1992 A digitally enhanced photo showing what a suspected Spanish serial killer would look like now bears a creepy resemblance to another computer generated photo released by gardai trying to identify human remains discovered off the coast of Lambay Island Although 'Lambay Man' is believed to have only been in the water for a few years when his remains were found in 2006 Antonio Angles has been missing for 28 years and both cases are being pushed to the fore by documentaries and fresh investigations in two different countries Fugitive Angles was last known to have stowed away on a ship to Ireland following the shocking kidnap rape and torture of three girls in his native Spain But when gardai were called to the boat when it docked in Dublin at 2.45am on March 23 This week a new digitally enhanced photo of him was released by Spanish authorities and it was revealed on a recent episode of Crime World that a new documentary is being made in an effort to close the files on his disappearance Former FBI detective Kenneth Strange told the podcast that he believed Angles had jumped from the ship as it prepared to dock in Dublin Now a garda photo released last week of the unidentified remains that were washed up in nets off the Irish coast in 2006 bears an uncanny resemblance to that of the missing killer Angles remains wanted for the brutal triple murder of the 'Alcasser girls' Miriam Antonia and Desiree who were on their way to a nightclub in the town of Picassent Valencia in November 1992 when they were abducted who works as a private investigator on missing persons cases and who has been helping on the Annie McCarrick case pointed out that Angles would have been due to dock in Dublin at the time of the American student's disappearance but gave a number of reasons why he didn't believe he could have snatched her The photo of Angles was created by experts in Spain who carried out a facial reconstruction of what the killer would look like now and which is likely to be used by police as part of a new worldwide appeal to find if he is 'dead or alive.' The murders of the teenage girls were revisited in 2019 in a Netflix documentary called The Alcasser Murders Their bodies were found 75 days after they vanished from their home village Miguel Ricart served 21 years in jail for the hideous crimes but alleged accomplice Angles fled Spain and was last seen on container ship City of Plymouth in March 1993 after stowing away on board before it left Lisbon for Dublin Retired UK-based sea captain Kenneth Farquharson Stevens told a Spanish TV crew just over three years ago Angles must have had help to escape It emerged earlier this month Spanish police were preparing a new international appeal for information on Angles who was 26 when he vanished and would now be 55 In one picture he is shown the way he would look at 40 and in the second how he would likely look at 60 They were created by London based forensic training institute experts using 'collage' techniques and photo retouching was released last week after officers at Balbriggan issued a new appeal for help in identifying the human remains discovered in fishing nets off Lambay in 2006 The digital image was built from the human skull which remains unidentified A thorough investigation was conducted which included the creation of a clay model head of what the person would have looked like when alive and a DNA profile was generated but so far nobody who has come forward and volunteered their DNA has been a match Posted by | Jun 14 The Alcàsser Murders is a new Netflix true crime documentary The Spanish documentary series consists of just five 5 episodes so it’s relatively quick to watch if you’re not familiar with the crime and case depicted in The Alcàsser Murders then it can be pretty difficult to keep up mutilation and murders of three girls in Spain (org The subject of this case (and especially the use of media and the public) is fascinating and scary But there is a pretty big problem with this Netflix documentary being very messy Especially if you don’t speak Spanish Read why in our review of The Alcàsser Murders below when you’re about 10 minutes into watching episode 1 of The Alcàsser Murders you’ll probably be asking yourself this question It is a very difficult documentary to get into it is a lot more tricky when you don’t speak Spanish Even though I’m not actually convinced it’s much better for those who do speak Spanish The main problem is the fact that there is constantly a lot of pop-up facts on the screen; You will get dates and information about how long it’s been since the three girls disappeared But you will also be getting written information about who the people being interviewed are and what their relation to the girls or the case is That means you have to read two facts popping up on the screen while also reading the subtitles of what the person being interviewed is actually saying the subtitles will switch between being at the top of the screen and at the bottom As well as switching between translating what the person being interviewed is saying and also translating the pop-up fact boxes I imagine that even if I did speak Spanish perfectly I’d still miss seeing the face of the person being interviewed half the time since I’d be busy reading the facts on the screen facts are given on dark backscreens or on top of a relevant still picture and this happens with The Alcàsser Murders as well there is a lot of information coming at you non-stop Especially if you’re not familiar with this true crime already And most of The Alcàsser Murders is all about hearing people state how they view the crimes and the case Because even though this true crime documentary is about the murders of three teenage girls we get to hear almost exclusively from men who end up profiting from the case or those involved in the legal aspects The very best part of The Alcàsser Murders is the last ten minutes of episode 5 we experience the tie in with this case with the way the world is for women now I honestly can’t tell if this is extremely intelligent and on purpose or if it’s simply an afterthought we hear women talking about how the 1992 case (and many similar since then) have been used to keep girls at home The conclusion of three teenage girls being murdered was; Look what happens when you go out at night it wasn’t about teaching boys and men to stop hurting women but rather that women should be afraid and relinquish their freedom But all this happens in just the last 10 minutes of the final The Alcàsser Murders episode I can’t really recommend watching this Netflix documentary for the brilliant production I do recommend watching The Alcàsser Murders for the story It just requires that you are very focused and aware you’ll probably find it difficult to figure out what’s going on is what finally makes the Netflix documentary come together It ties the crime from 1992 in with events and crimes that have been happening since it makes it clear why laws are being changed Along with the fact that things are still not much better The Alcàsser Murders is out on Netflix worldwide from June 14 An analytical examination of the investigation into the 1992 murders of three teens from Alcàsser a case that profoundly affected the nation I write reviews and recaps on Heaven of Horror it does happen that I find myself screaming I have a huge soft spot for a good horror-comedy and I absolutely HATE when animals are harmed in movies so I will immediately think less of any movie where animals are harmed for entertainment (even if the animals are just really good actors) horror doesn't use this nearly as much as comedy And people assume horror lovers are the messed up ones