MARTA DEL CASTILLO: el caso que CONMOCIONÓ a España | 17 años sin poder enterrarla
Voces del Caso
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The Marta del Castillo case, told in full: what happened on January 24, 2009, in Seville, why only one person has been convicted, and why her body has still not been found seventeen years later. Seventy-five minutes, with five voices in addition to the narrator.
Marta del Castillo was seventeen years old and lived with her parents and two sisters in a neighborhood in eastern Seville. On Saturday, January 24, 2009, in the mid-afternoon, she ended a Messenger conversation and went downstairs to talk to her ex-boyfriend, Miguel Carcaño. She never returned home. Her mother called her at nine, ten, and ten-thirty, but the phone was dead.
Twenty days later, Carcaño confessed. And that's where what makes this case different begins: the place he indicated was empty, and so was the next one. Version after version, each one launched a search—the Guadalquivir River, a landfill, some land in Camas, a property in La Rinconada—and none found anything. The search cost €616,319.27.
On January 13, 2012, the Provincial Court of Seville sentenced him to twenty years for murder and acquitted the other three defendants. A year later, the Supreme Court added a year and three months for a crime against the parents' moral integrity: not for killing her, but for not telling them where she was. The video recounts that afternoon hour by hour, the three years it took for the sentence to be handed down, and the fourteen that have passed since then.
WHAT ALMOST ALL COVERAGE GETS WRONG
• There was no jury trial: the case left that procedure on September 2, 2010, and was tried by three professional judges.
• The minor's trial was in March 2011, not 2009: the ruling itself is incorrect in its findings of fact and is corrected in paragraph 27.
• The sentence is not "21 years": it is twenty years from the Provincial Court plus one year and three months added by the Supreme Court in 2013.
• The then-minor and his mother admitted to a judge in 2022 that they lied, but the Provincial Court acquitted them of perjury on June 25, 2024: today they have no convictions for lying.
• Only one person has been convicted for the death of Marta del Castillo. The other three defendants have been definitively acquitted.
WHAT IS NOT MENTIONED
The victim was a minor: her body is not described, there are no forensic details, and nothing is included about the version of events from March 2009 that no court accepted as valid. Of the three acquitted, only the established facts are mentioned, nothing more, without any insinuations. The fourth accused was fifteen years old and is not named. And the video doesn't reveal Marta's whereabouts: nobody knows.
CHAPTERS
00:00 I'll Call You Later and Tell You
02:16 The Usual Square
05:35 Three Calls
08:17 One Hundred and Forty-One Pages
09:50 The Dawn of the Twenty-Fifth
12:06 Seventeen Hours
14:58 A City Putting Up Posters
18:02 The Jacket Lining
21:47 Two Meters of Mud
25:35 The Rollover
29:20 No Disturbance
32:08 Two Courts That Don't Speak to Each Other
36:20 Nineteen Sessions
40:46 The Right Grip
43:13 Four Acquittals and Twenty Years
46:44 One Year and Three Months More
49:39 Notorious and Rude
53:14 What Came from Prison
56:40 Someone Tells the Truth
58:38 What Arrived Late
1:02:27 Eleven Points and one open
1:05:38 July 19
MAIN SOURCES
Judgment 1/2012 of the Provincial Court of Seville, January 13, 2012:
https://estaticos.elmundo.es/document...
Order of the Court of Instruction No. 4 of Seville, May 3, 2013:
https://e01-elmundo.uecdn.es/document...
Note from the General Council of the Judiciary on the appeal, Supreme Court Judgment 62/2013 January 29, 2013:
https://www.poderjudicial.es/cgpj/es/...
The ten contradictions between the two rulings, February 24, 2012:
https://www.libertaddigital.com/socie...
The acquittal for perjury, June 27, 2024:
https://www.eldiario.es/sevilla/audie...
SYNTHETIC CONTENT
The voice, music, ambiance, and sound effects are generated by artificial intelligence. There are seven synthetic voices—five characters, the narrator, and the voice of the announcements—none of which is the voice of the person being portrayed, nor are they taken from a recording of the case. Of the 125 images, 53 are real photographs and documents from the case—26 copyrighted, cited with their source superimposed; 14 in the public domain, the court rulings; 10 licensed under CC BY, the IGN orthophotos; and 3 under CC BY-SA—and 72 are AI-generated ambient recreations, without on-screen captions. None of the reenactments represent a person or any document related to the case.
#MartaDelCastillo #Ma...
20 Comments
Son crímenes que ya los escuché pero me gusta tanto como lo narran que vuelvo a escucharlos 💕
Dios les dé consuelo a los padres de Martha y espero de corazón que sepan toda la verdad de lo que le pasó a su hija 😭
Y lo peor..que no aparece y el sufrimiento de su familia! Que pena de sociedad; que pena de justicia!
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MARTA DEL CASTILLO: el caso que CONMOCIONÓ a España | 17 años sin poder enterrarla
Voces del Caso
21,293 views
The Marta del Castillo case, told in full: what happened on January 24, 2009, in Seville, why only one person has been convicted, and why her body has still not been found seventeen years later. Seventy-five minutes, with five voices in addition to the narrator.
Marta del Castillo was seventeen years old and lived with her parents and two sisters in a neighborhood in eastern Seville. On Saturday, January 24, 2009, in the mid-afternoon, she ended a Messenger conversation and went downstairs to talk to her ex-boyfriend, Miguel Carcaño. She never returned home. Her mother called her at nine, ten, and ten-thirty, but the phone was dead.
Twenty days later, Carcaño confessed. And that's where what makes this case different begins: the place he indicated was empty, and so was the next one. Version after version, each one launched a search—the Guadalquivir River, a landfill, some land in Camas, a property in La Rinconada—and none found anything. The search cost €616,319.27.
On January 13, 2012, the Provincial Court of Seville sentenced him to twenty years for murder and acquitted the other three defendants. A year later, the Supreme Court added a year and three months for a crime against the parents' moral integrity: not for killing her, but for not telling them where she was. The video recounts that afternoon hour by hour, the three years it took for the sentence to be handed down, and the fourteen that have passed since then.
WHAT ALMOST ALL COVERAGE GETS WRONG
• There was no jury trial: the case left that procedure on September 2, 2010, and was tried by three professional judges.
• The minor's trial was in March 2011, not 2009: the ruling itself is incorrect in its findings of fact and is corrected in paragraph 27.
• The sentence is not "21 years": it is twenty years from the Provincial Court plus one year and three months added by the Supreme Court in 2013.
• The then-minor and his mother admitted to a judge in 2022 that they lied, but the Provincial Court acquitted them of perjury on June 25, 2024: today they have no convictions for lying.
• Only one person has been convicted for the death of Marta del Castillo. The other three defendants have been definitively acquitted.
WHAT IS NOT MENTIONED
The victim was a minor: her body is not described, there are no forensic details, and nothing is included about the version of events from March 2009 that no court accepted as valid. Of the three acquitted, only the established facts are mentioned, nothing more, without any insinuations. The fourth accused was fifteen years old and is not named. And the video doesn't reveal Marta's whereabouts: nobody knows.
CHAPTERS
00:00 I'll Call You Later and Tell You
02:16 The Usual Square
05:35 Three Calls
08:17 One Hundred and Forty-One Pages
09:50 The Dawn of the Twenty-Fifth
12:06 Seventeen Hours
14:58 A City Putting Up Posters
18:02 The Jacket Lining
21:47 Two Meters of Mud
25:35 The Rollover
29:20 No Disturbance
32:08 Two Courts That Don't Speak to Each Other
36:20 Nineteen Sessions
40:46 The Right Grip
43:13 Four Acquittals and Twenty Years
46:44 One Year and Three Months More
49:39 Notorious and Rude
53:14 What Came from Prison
56:40 Someone Tells the Truth
58:38 What Arrived Late
1:02:27 Eleven Points and one open
1:05:38 July 19
MAIN SOURCES
Judgment 1/2012 of the Provincial Court of Seville, January 13, 2012:
https://estaticos.elmundo.es/document...
Order of the Court of Instruction No. 4 of Seville, May 3, 2013:
https://e01-elmundo.uecdn.es/document...
Note from the General Council of the Judiciary on the appeal, Supreme Court Judgment 62/2013 January 29, 2013:
https://www.poderjudicial.es/cgpj/es/...
The ten contradictions between the two rulings, February 24, 2012:
https://www.libertaddigital.com/socie...
The acquittal for perjury, June 27, 2024:
https://www.eldiario.es/sevilla/audie...
SYNTHETIC CONTENT
The voice, music, ambiance, and sound effects are generated by artificial intelligence. There are seven synthetic voices—five characters, the narrator, and the voice of the announcements—none of which is the voice of the person being portrayed, nor are they taken from a recording of the case. Of the 125 images, 53 are real photographs and documents from the case—26 copyrighted, cited with their source superimposed; 14 in the public domain, the court rulings; 10 licensed under CC BY, the IGN orthophotos; and 3 under CC BY-SA—and 72 are AI-generated ambient recreations, without on-screen captions. None of the reenactments represent a person or any document related to the case.
#MartaDelCastillo #Ma...