The body of the victim was concealed behind the wall of an Albacete home
A man in his early fifties has been arrested in Albacete in connection with the suspected murder of a popular ONCE lottery ticket vendor who was reported missing last Thursday August 19.
44-year-old María Isabel de la Rosa Cozar was a well-known and popular figure in Albacete, and after her disappearance members of the public were requested to supply any information regarding her whereabouts by the SOS Desparaceidos association. She was described as “vulnerable” due to a permanent limp favouring her right leg, and five days after her disappearance the police discovered her body at a flat in Calle Estrella, in the south of the city.
The man arrested is the owner of the property and is reported to be the manager of a local bar who has served time in the past for drug-related offences, but few further details have been released due to the continuation of the investigation in an effort to establish more exact details. It has also emerged that in order to retrieve the body a special police unit was required to use drilling equipment and protective clothing against noxious gases, while Radio Albacete reports that the body was sandwiched between two walls.
Some had speculated that the motive for the killing could have been the theft of the lottery vendor’s daily takings, but the head of the ONCE organization in Castilla-La Mancha reports that she had already banked the morning’s proceeds at 14.00 on the day of her disappearance.
Image: SOS Desparecidos
Source: Murcia Today
