INVESTIGATION IS STILL OPEN AND ALL CLUES POINT TO THE REMAINS BEING THOSE OF DENISE So did he have access to a car after all and how could that be? The man named 'Miguel' was driving a car. (I don't post everything that I find or read, obviously.) Some sources even mention that he has three bikes, one of them a transport bike with a box if I remember well. After the meeting, the minister will meet with the media to report on the situation and the details of the discovery of the remains of the woman.Įarlier it was said that the man now arrested does not have a driver's licence and therefore rides a bike. The Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, will travel Saturday to the town of Astorga in Leon to meet with police officials and monitor the investigation of the incident that killed the American pilgrim. On Friday afternoon he was arrested by officers in a bar in Grandas de Salime (Asturias), 162 kilometers from the village of Castrillo de los Polvazares, Astorga (León), where he lived in a remote prefabricated house village and from which he fled without a trace last week.
"īlas Muñoz was suspect number 1 on the list of the police and had been investigated at the start of the case. They fought him off as hard they could, with the poles they use for walking.
Sources of the Guardia Civíl explained at the time: "The man was driving, got out to talk to them and came to tell them his alleged name, then grabbed one and tried to get her into the car. In fact, the investigators try to clarify whether the man now arrested is, as suspected, "the so-called Miguel" who attacked two pilgrims, one Dutch and one American.
For example, the issue of several female pilgrims who, precisely between May and June of this year, reported they had been harassed. The investigators, however, are seeking clues to solve other unclear issues that have been occurring in that stretch of the Camino, in this region of red earth. And finally, the very flight of Blas Muñoz, who when arrested offered no resistance and even showed resignation after he was captured. Some police sources suggest that the man now in custody had a lot of money hidden on the farm. There is also evidence that the arrested man changed $ 1,200 euros four days after the disappearance of Denise Pikka Thiem. On the farm a saw was found on which, according to the primary hypothesis, biological remains are present. But other evidence suggests that it is her. The condition of the body was in an advanced state of decomposition - buried since April and with soaring temperatures - which did not allow an identification with the naked eye or even determine the gender. Especially alleged attacks on female pilgrims of various nationalities.įriday police found buried in the grounds of the main suspect in the disappearance the body of - as it is believed to almost a certainty - the American pilgrim Denise Pikka Thiem. Police have declared solved the case of the murder on the Camino de Santiago: The American pilgrim Denise Pikka Thiem, 41, died at the hands of Miguel Angel Muñoz Blas, 39, on whose piece of land remains of the woman missing since April were found in an advanced state of decomposition (The confirmation on basis of DNA will be known this weekend.) But now investigators are still focusing on the property located between the towns of Santa Catalina Leon Somoza and San Martin de Agostedo (at a stone's throw from Castrillo de los Polvazares) for clues that may help clarify "other disturbing cases" of pilgrims precisely on that stretch of road. POLICE INVESTIGATES OTHER DISTURBING CASES OF FEMALE PILGRIMS ON THE CAMINO TO SANTIAGO