MARTA DEL CASTILLO CASANUEVA - Aged 17 years - Seville (Spain)

Marta is 17 years old. She vanished on Saturday night, 24th January 2009.

Details are few at the moment:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19829.shtml

YouTube

Todos Somos Marta- Desparecida Marta Del Castillo Casanueva- Sevilla

(All for Marta- Marta del Castillo Casanueva- Seville)

Transcript translated by pam supportfromireland


* Please play, look at the photos and read translation alongside it.

A Girl has disappeared. Help us find her.

The girl in the photo disappeared from the Tartesso suburb ( San Jose part) of Seville.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE.

She is called Marta del Castillo Casanueva, aged 17 years, 1'65 height. The last time she was seen was at 9.30pm on Saturday 24 th January.

She was wearing blue jeans,a white jumper with pink flower motif,a black coloured velvet waistcoat and a pink scarf.

Anyone with information is asked to phone 091 0r 112 in Spain




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1MAuvPTiE

Lots of Photos of Marta set up on YouTube footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PulIvSvaDbU&feature=related

ABC de Sevilla

29 January 2009

The search for Marta del Castillo is strengthened with the use of Madrid Police- Seville


Government Representative statement at a media conference about the search for Marta: " There is intense Police activity searching for Marta, hoping she is safe and sound". The Guardia Civil of Andalucia & the National Police are working together.They ask if there is any information relating to the teenager known to you, to please offer this to them"

Also they expressly asked for co-operation of all citizens of Seville and wish to publicly thank those who are currently helping. If there is any detail you know, however small, it may be of extreme importance to the investigation, although may appear trivial to you, please pass it on to the investigation.

At this time, the Police have proceeded in examining the house of Miguel, the friend who accompanied Marta to the corner of her house and are also interviewing him.

Marta's computer is being examined by the Police IT team. With respect to this, the National Police have obtained some information that they constitute " a help" from it.

The Police are also working on the witness account ( a neighbour) of the last possible movements of Marta. This neighbour claims there was a scream between 9.30pm & 10pm on Saturday night coming from the porch area of the family home. At this stage, the Police wish to express the fact they are not sure if Marta left voluntarily or by force.They will not eliminate any hypothesis.

All Police forces & Guardia Civil are collaborating with the family at this time.It is noted that the family are getting counselling as "are in a very bad way".

Spokesperson of Marta's family said" Marta is no trouble, she is the type of girl who would ask when we would want her home. We must stay positive. We don't want to think of any other scenario. Your parents, your sisters, your family live in hope"

" We have gone through all possibilities, some very low ones but we hope "that it is something childish,that something happened, that she was asked to go somewhere, perhaps with a boy.We can say though that we know Marta well & we don't believe this is what happened and that is our fear"

Thanks so much Twiggy.

surinenglish

29.01.09 - 12:56

Still no sign of missing Seville girl

Another name, another photo. Missing. Marta del Castillo, 17, was last seen near her home in the Tharsis area of the city of Seville at around half past nine on Saturday night. A friend, Miguel, had walked her almost to her front door and she ran the remaining 35 metres home. A neighbour remembers saying hello to her as she approached her door. But she never went in. She was wearing jeans, a white polo shirt and a brown jacket.

The authorities are working with two possibilities: that she has been taken against her will or that she ran away voluntarily. However her family think she has been abducted; she was carrying no more than ten euros and had no credit cards or spare clothes with her. Another neighbour claims she heard a woman shouting at around about the same time.

While the search continues Marta’s friends have put a video showing photos of the missing teenager with friends on YouTube



http://www.surinenglish.com/20090129/news/andalucia/still-sign-missing-seville-200901291255.html

Think Spain.com

30 January 2009

Gathering in Madrid appeals for missing Marta to return

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/16206/gathering-in-madrid-appeals-for-missing-marta-to-return

Typically Spanish

By h.b. - Feb 2, 2009 - 12:02 AM

Search continues for missing Sevilla 17 year old

The family of missing Sevilla 17 year old, Marta del Castillo, say that they are sure she did not leave home voluntarily.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19859.shtml

Typically Spanish

By h.b. - Feb 2, 2009 - 10:23 PM

Still no clues for missing Marta

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19882.shtml

Typically Spanish

5 February 2009

Father of Missing Sevilla girl expresses his frustration

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19920.shtml

The Euro Weekly News

5 February 2009

Internet search for missing 17-year-old girl

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/13979.html

Marta's Missing kids poster.

http://uk.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=viewPoster&caseNum=EEG5_12678&orgPrefix=ESNI&searchLang=en_GB

Olive Press Spain

9 February 2009

Police search rivers for Missing Teen


DETECTIVES have taken DNA samples and a computer from the family of a missing teen in Sevilla.
Police also spent Monday and Tuesday combing the River Guadalquivir close to the home of 17-year-old Marta del Castillo Casanueva, who went missing two weeks ago.
Marta has not been seen since Saturday January 24 when she went out to visit friends.
Marta left home about 5pm and, according to a friend, had been dropped off back at her front door at 9.30pm.
Marta’s family say that they are sure she did not leave home voluntarily.
There have been some reports of Marta being seen at the door of the home, as if she was waiting for someone.
But her father Antonio said that if she had planned to go somewhere she would have taken her DNI identity card and keys.
At the weekend more than 2000 people gathered in the centre of Sevilla for a march for Marta. The only clue the police have is a report from a neighbour who says she heard a scream around the time of Marta’s disappearance.
Police are also investigating calls saying that Marta has been seen in Cádiz and Jerez.

Anyone with any information can call 655 81 96 47. (Spanish no.)

http://www.theolivepress.es/2009/02/09/police-search-rivers-for-missing-teen/

Typically Spanish

8 February 2009

Sevilla continues to search for Missing Marta


Marta was last seen outside her home near the Santa Justa Station in the city two weeks ago on Saturday night

There was yet another large demonstration in Sevilla on Saturday as the city continues to show its concern for the missing 17 year old, Marta del Castillo.

She has now been gone for more than two weeks and still there is no sign or clue as to her whereabouts, and the police admit they have no clues in the case.

Friends and family have organized searches in all areas of the city and surroundings, although the banks of the Guadalquivir have seen most of the attention. Her Grandfather admitted it was desperate to think of the possibilities.

Even psychics have been offering their services and it seems many of them coincide in showing an isolated villa in the Mairena area.

(includes video-footage with her Grandfather being interviewed. He states that the Police believe she may be in the Rio Guadalquivir and the Grandfather states, he hopes that she is. Tragic for the family, they now just want her found)

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_19972.shtml

El Almeria, Seville

12 February 2009

The Police inspect all train tracks in Seville in the search for Marta del Castillo

http://www.elalmeria.es/article/andalucia/347947/la/policia/inspecciona/entorno/las/vias/tren/para/buscar/marta/castillo.html

(snippet)

The National Body of Police have inspected, this past Wednesday, distinct parts of the train lines in the Spanish Urban areas, from the Santa Justa Zone to The Virgin Of Rocio, in the search for 17 yr old Marta del Castillo Casanueva,now missing 18 days.

In consultation with Police officials, it is confirmed, that such inspections are normal procedure in an investigation looking for a missing youth.

(translated by pam supportfromireland)

Telecinco.es

12 February 2009

Hundreds of motorbikes gathered in Seville to ask for "more communication" in the "Marta Case"


The search for Marta del Castillo is not ending. On this occasion, half a thousand motorbikes kindly demonstrated their solidarity congregating in the centre of Seville. The 17yr old teen disappeared on 24 January 2009. This group asked for more co-operation to help in the search for her.

Under the slogan, " We are all with you Marta, all of us", the motorbikes drove down several streets in Seville sounding their bike horns, calling attention to the case. One motorcyclist, Javier Medina said " We will never stop looking, this should never happen to anyone"

Marta's Grandmother expressed thanks for the gathering.

( translated by pam supportfromireland)

Sadly news came in last night that Marta's boyfriend has confessed to murdering her.

May she rest in peace

Admin please move

Typically spanish.com

February 14th 2009

Marta's ex boyfriend confesses to her killing

The 17 year old girl had been missing from her home in Sevilla for 21 days, but now a 20 year old man has confessed to her killing

The ex boyfriend of Marta del Castillo, the 17 year old girl who has been missing for 21 days from her home in Sevilla, on Saturday confessed to her killing.

20 year old Miguel C.D. told police that he had thrown her body into the Guadalquivir River. He had got into an argument with her and hit her with an ashtray until she was dead. He then called a friend of his, named with initials S.B.P. who has now also been arrested, who helped him to throw her body from a quiet pedestrian bridge.

He had been missing since her disappearance but was arrested by police on Friday.

National Police and Guardia Civil are to restart their search for her body on Sunday in an area between Camas and the Isla de la Cartuja.

Marta’s shattered family have made a call for justice, and promised to fight for it. Her cousin Sandra told the press that the man who has been arrested was Marta’s boyfriend a long time ago, and they went out together for about a month, but had been friends before that. Her uncle in a brief statement to the press called on the media not to refer to her killer as her ex boyfriend, as a relationship of a month is not enough to describe it as such.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_20061.shtml

Smokie, thank you for finding this update. I can't stop crying though.

RIP Marta & I am so very sorry for your family.

Typically Spanish

16 June 2009

Witness says the flat where Marta del Castillo is believed to have died seemed to have recently been cleaned

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_21878.shtml

Think Spain

25 June 2009

Marta’s mum appeals to killers to ‘give back her body’

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/16748/martas-mum-appeals-to-killers-to-give-back-her-body

El Pais (Google Translation)

19/07/2009

Marta del Castillo meet today, 18
All masses of Seville recall the missing girl

"In a society like ours, where everyone goes about their business, men and women who have lost their sensitivity, is valued a lot to have people who cares for others ...". Thus speaketh the pastor Victor Garcia at St. Joseph the Worker of Seville, in a memorial for the missing girl's birthday Marta del Castillo, who made his first communion in that church and have turned 18 today.

In the parish have been around the girl's mother, Eva Casanueva, and father, Antonio del Castillo, who have shown pricked throughout the trade. Cardinal Archbishop Carlos Amigo Vallejo asked to pray for Marta Castillo today at all Masses held in Seville, as requested by the platform built around the disappearance of the girl.

The couple had planned to spend her birthday with friends at the beach, as they did last year, which was attended by the confessed murderer, Michael Carcano, and Samuel Benitez who has also been jailed. She wanted her father gave her her driving license at 18 years of age. "Today we can not sing Happy Birthday to Martha. But we ask the Lord Jesus that makes it very happy," was the way chosen by the priest to finish his homily.

One day "sad"

"Today we have a family at home, but to remember," said a grieving mother, who appreciated the support and affection shown by the citizens. "Today we remember to remember Martha as always, but today is a sad day because it's his birthday," added the mother, who has met the media flocked to the church door. For his part, Antonio del Castillo is grateful affection of the Spanish society, which "always shout and thanks at all times

After almost five months since the disappearance of Marta del Castillo, her body has not been found and the judicial investigation continues, hampered by changes in the statement allegedly involved in the crime. Miguel Carcano, who from the beginning has been the prime suspect in the death of the girl, initially came to admit responsibility for the crime and explained that he dumped the body with the help of his friends in the river Guadalquivir.

The authorities mounted a huge operation to search for the body in the river from Sevilla to its mouth in Sanlucar de Barrameda (Cadiz), which lasted about a month without finding any clues to the whereabouts of the body of Martha. The search in the river stopped after Carcaño changed his statement and claimed that he had thrown the body of the girl into a container next to his house where the crime occurred. Authorities determined then start looking at the site of Alcala de Guadaira (Sevilla), where again they found nothing.

While the judicial investigation continues and nears its end, the body of the girl is still missing and police traced back not rule the Guadalquivir river in search of Martha.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Marta/Castillo/cumpliria/hoy/elpepiespand/20090719elpepusoc_1/Tes

El Pais (Google Translation)

5th August 2009

The psychiatric report of the confessed murderer of Martha Castle dismisses the mental disorder

The "ability to know and love" by Miguel Carcano was "intact and unaffected" when he allegedly raped and murdered the young girl

The confessed murderer of Martha del Castillo, Miguel Carcano, not suffering any mental disorder and his "ability to understand and love" was "intact and unaffected" when he allegedly raped and murdered the girl from Seville on 24 January, according to psychiatric study now have handed to the court that forensic experts investigating the death of the girl. The report was requested by the defense of Carcano, 19, to plead mitigating any future trial in the death of Martha Castillo.

Sources have reported that if the findings occupy six pages plus an appendix of ten pages with psychological tests he was subjected to the young to "confirm and refine the features of his personality."

Two experts in psychiatry and a psychologist studied the confessed murderer of three interviews conducted over the past 2, 10 and 20 July, for which he was transferred to the courts of the Prado de San Sebastian from the prison of Moron de la Frontera, where he is serving prison interim since his arrest on Feb. 14.

The survey includes a "psycho-biography" with the most important features of the childhood of Michael Carcano, adolescence and social relations, the sources added. In this "psycho-biography", the figure of his father, who left the family home and left Michael in charge of his mother and his older brother, 40, who took over when his mother died young and which is charged as an alleged accomplice in the crime, according to research it undertook to "clean up debris and footprints" on the floor where it occurred.

Besides Carcano, a minor who was 15 when the events occurred is charged in Juvenile Court as an alleged co-perpetrator of the rape and strangulation of Martha, while a mutual friend, Samuel BP is jailed for allegedly helping them to dispose of the body, which appeared after two months of intensive search, first in the Guadalquivir River and then into a landfill. They are also charged as accomplices older brother Michael and his girlfriend, present in the apartment on Calle Leon XIII in Seville where the crime occurred on the morning of Jan. 25.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/informe/psiquiatrico/asesino/confeso/Marta/Castillo/descarta/trastorno/mental/elpepusoc/20090805elpepusoc_6/Tes?print=1

ABC News - Espana (Google Translation)

30-09-09 at 17:08

By MERCEDES BENITEZ - SEVILLA

The trench where they seek Marta del Castillo was open when she disappeared

The National Police has begun this morning the search for Marta del Castillo in the ditch where Miguel CD Beds would have buried the body of the child, as he said the former girlfriend of the murderer confessed in a police statement.

Camas Mayor Rafael Recio, has confirmed that the ditch was open at the time of the disappearance of the girl, and was subsequently blocked.

The area is located at the end of the street, Camino del Monte in the back of the house where the ex-girlfriend lives and where the resident Miguel when he disappeared Marta on 24 January.

To place six policemen have moved national riding, three patrol boats, five riders in the National Police and a bulldozer. To access the ditch, police had to evict the dozen vehicles of the media cover the story posted to a site occupied by having to access the members of the Scientific Police.

Moreover, the grandfather of Marta del Castillo has manifesatdo to paeriodistas that the red blotches on the sheet they found yesterday in the new area search located in Camas not blood 'And it was a false alarm. José Antonio Casanueva which today has become the place where he was tracking the search above, has also targeted the possibility that is currently not open the trench are buried in the debris and rubble from a stream that runs through the village. Police are checking the date on which the ditch was closed to proceed with the excavation.

New version, new search. And go three (known). Yesterday, the judge investigating the investigation into the disappearance of Martha del Castillo ordered the police to find the body of the young in an area of beds, about fifty yards from the house of the former girlfriend of Michael Carcano, Rocio.

The new search, which according to the Government Office will begin today in the Arroyo Ronco Camas, has been ordered by the judge in a car that is based on a new declaration of Rocio. The girl told police that the night of the disappearance of Martha, Michael had confessed that after killing her and threw in an area of trees near the home of beds where the family lived with his girlfriend. This new statement adds a new twist to the case. "I've had it," said the young man to confess again.

So the judge ordered on Monday the new search after receiving a report of the Child in a few days ago that police made him record the new testimony. Apparently, the police searched the area for some time in the grove near the home of beds. It was successful. But I looked into a trench that exists in that area. Now the judge ordered the police to open the ditch and "that would lead the search tasks" after receiving a report of all areas that have been excavated.

"The search and location is an act of criminal investigation that clearly rests with the Judicial Police," argues the judge after law enforcement authorities inform him they could not look in that area because the trench was closed. In fact, this version of the trench was also closed to court by another route.

In any case, news of the new search took yesterday Martha's grandfatherJosé Antonio Casanueva, search the place where he toured the site rastreando.También several police officers and even a representative of the City of Camas to monitor the site be excavated. A neighbor, Juan Antonio Perez, whose farm adjoins the Arroyo Ronco, reported yesterday that Hydrographic Confederation built an irrigation ditch water, which caused the channel to be modified. Therefore renewal work were undertaken to return the creek to its source and between late 2008 and early 2009, the trench covered with soil but there are doubts about the accuracy of the date as Marta disappeared in January.

Yesterday also many citizens came to the area to search voluntarily. They took several items, including a stained sheet, And ventured that blood, and pieces of American tape Grandfather gave to the police for analysis. The discovery forced the troops to return Homicide Group to where to begin searching today and yesterday machinery was already taken by onlookers and numerous TV crews.

However, both the Police and court officials to question again the umpteenth version of the whereabouts of the body. And that dew that went around several televisions counting and verse about the case and for which the prosecution requested a compensation of 150,000 eurosHas also changed his testimony as told in March that Michael said he threw into the river Marta. But even if they questioned his version, has ordered the new search because "we must burn all cartridges.

The area was examined by the police months earlier with special zeal in wells and drains in the vicinity, to no avail. In fact we investigated all the tracks, While the only certainty is that the body is still missing.

http://www.abc.es/20090930/nacional-sucesos/policia-investiga-fecha-cerro-200909301140.html

Think Spain

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

No luck with latest search for Marta's body

http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17132/no-luck-with-latest-search-for-martas-body