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The woman poisoned her elderly father with opiates and painkillers before fleeing to Spain
The National Police have arrested a woman in Palma de Mallorca who fled Germany after murdering her father. The fugitive had been caring for the elderly man when she poisoned him with opiates and painkillers which originally masked his cause of death. Due to their father’s ill health, none of the woman’s three brothers suspected foul play, and the murder only came to light after an autopsy was carried out.
During the course of the investigation, it was also revealed that the suspect had carried out a number of bank transfers in the days leading up to the man’s death to her own and her daughter’s accounts. At this point, she was named as the main suspect in the murder and a search and arrest warrant was issued.
It transpired that the Spanish address the woman had provided was false, so the German Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) enlisted the help of the National Police, who located the fugitive in Palma de Mallorca at the beginning of April. She had been living off the grid, working in exchange for rent and only venturing out at night, without any legal source of income.
The woman has been arrested and is awaiting extradition back to Germany, while police are investigating another one of her siblings for their part in the murder.
Elsewhere in Spain, the National Police have arrested another fugitive in Madrid who escaped from prison while serving a 16-year sentence for murder. He was originally charged with stabbing an 82-year-old drug dealer to death during an altercation in 2005.
Investigators traced the fugitive to the Spanish capital, where he had assumed the identity of a relative whom he strongly resembled; officers finally caught up with the escaped prisoner when he went to the dentist with a tooth infection.
In a separate operation, Spanish police arrested a third fugitive in Bilbao wanted in the United States for drug trafficking crimes, for which he now faces a life sentence.
Between 2020 and March 2021, the suspect was reportedly an active member of the National Liberation Army of Columbia and participated in the manufacture and trafficking of cocaine from South America to the US.
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