Mossos d'Esquadra link a crime in Vilanova de la Barca with two others committed in fields in Tudela and Ribaforada, in Navarra. Ramon Rossell, 84, was found dead on his farm, where he had gone to prune the fruit trees.
The Mossos found shortly afterwards, about ten kilometers away, in the city of Lleida, an Opel Astra that was reported stolen. Police are investigating whether a third crime, that of Pedro Oyón, 68, a month earlier, in an olive grove, could have been the work of the same person.