The mysterious death in Vilanova de la Barca (Lleida) of Ramon Rossell, 84, has uncovered the case of a possible serial killer.
His wife found Rosell dead on January 5, on his farm, where he had gone to prune the fruit trees.
The Mossos d'Esquadra found shortly afterwards, about ten kilometers away, in the city of Lleida, an Opel Astra that was reported stolen.
When the agents checked the data, they discovered that it was the car of another man, José Luis Aguado, 80, who died under strange circumstances in Ribaforada (Navarra), two weeks earlier, on December 21, also while he was working on his land. .
The police are investigating whether a third crime, that of Pedro Oyón, 68, a month earlier, on November 22, in an olive grove in Tudela, could have been the work of the same person.
Ramon Rosell went out on January 5 with his wife to prune the fruit trees on a farm he owned near Lleida.
She returned earlier and left him at the place, but then, seeing that the man did not return home and did not respond to the calls, she returned to the field.
There she found him dead, with various blows.
“They had used a lot of violence,” say sources in the case.
Apparently, Rosell had no problems with anyone, and it didn't seem like anything had been stolen from him either.
The only thing missing was his car, also an Opel Astra, with which the alleged murderer fled and which has not yet been recovered.
The first investigations made it possible to discover that the murderer from Vilanova de la Barca fled in a northerly direction.
On his way, in Ponts, about 50 kilometers from the town where he had started, he missed a police checkpoint.
The Mossos discovered, after reviewing security images of various roads, that the car had entered Andorra.
A strange escape route, police sources indicate, for someone who is escaping a crime and wants to go unnoticed, far from police radars.
But he did not stop there, the vehicle continued, and ended up crossing the French border, where the track was lost.
In the image captures taken of the car, which are not clear, the Mossos confirmed that there was only one person at the wheel, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
He was a dark-skinned and stocky man.
At the same time, a patrol in Lleida unknowingly illuminated a new clue.
The agents found a vehicle that was listed as stolen: a red Opel Astra.
Its owner was José Luis Aguado, 80 years old, who had died under strange circumstances in Ribaforada.
The investigation, in the hands of the Civil Guard, did not rule out that the old man could have suffered an accident while using the motor hoe, according to the digital
Noticias de Navarra
.
But it did not add up to the fact that his car had disappeared, and that it finally appeared more than 230 kilometers away, in the province of Lleida, very close to another almost identical case of an elderly man killed in an agricultural field away from a helmet. urban.
The discovery of the Astra could have gone unnoticed, like another vehicle theft, but the
Mossos joined the two cases.
Since then, the Mossos, the Civil Guard and the National Police have been working on a joint device that points to a third more case, with very similar characteristics: the death of Pedro Oyón, on November 22, when he went out to work in a field. olive trees in a remote area of Tudela, also in Navarra.
Police sources assure that the link between the last two homicides is supported by the appearance of the Opel Astra, and they remain somewhat more cautious with the link with the first of the crimes, that of Pedro Oyón.
The police have not yet identified the person who may be behind the deaths.
The hypothesis with which the agents work is that it is someone who is fleeing, for some reason, and that when he is discovered he decides to attack people.
Initially, after the Vilanova de la Barca crime, the Mossos speculated on the possibility that the murderer was Yousef Mohamed Lehrech,
El Pastilla
, who fled from the Alcalá-Meco prison in Madrid, and who was finally arrested at a police station. Leipzig on January 25.
But after the first checks, the agents ruled out that he was behind the three crimes, because
El Pastilla
fled on December 23, and the first two homicides date back to November 22 and December 21.
The three police forces continue with the open investigation to clarify who was responsible for the three deaths and whether they are finally related, a working hypothesis of the police forces.
And, above all, locate the author, whom they lost track of in France.
The Mossos have requested the collaboration of the French police to find Rossell's vehicle, with which the murderer escaped, in a senseless race, crossing one border after another, putting himself at risk, and even skipping a police checkpoint in his vehicle. flight.
The fear is that they won't hear from him until a new homicide is committed.
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