Overview

• Hikers discovered a highly carbonized body on Oct. 1 in the La Creu mountain area near where the 29-year-old was last seen in August.
• Homicide and Criminalistics teams cordoned the area, sifted the soil for evidence, and transferred the remains to the Institute of Legal Medicine in Valencia for autopsy and DNA and odontological analysis.
• A second on-site inspection on Thursday yielded personal items identified as Beatriz Guijarro’s mobile phone and a credit card, reinforcing investigators’ working suspicion.
• Authorities are considering both an accidental fall and a criminal act, with reports noting a detained suspect in a separate Sept. 4 wildfire that likely burned the slope but is believed to be unrelated to the disappearance.
• Relatives and neighbors question the possibility of an accident, and investigators note that recent heavy rains may have exposed the remains after earlier searches found nothing.