Documented investigations presented factually, with solved and unresolved cases separated for easier browsing.
Samuel Luiz, 24, was killed in a group attack in A Coruña in 2021. Spain's Supreme Court confirmed three adult murder convictions while upholding a fourth defendant's acquittal for insufficient evidence.
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Coordinated bombings struck four Madrid commuter trains in 2004, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,800. The 2007 trial produced convictions and acquittals later reviewed by Spain's Supreme Court.
Open case file →Anabel Segura was abducted near Madrid in 1993 and killed within hours. Voice analysis and public tips helped identify her kidnappers, who were later convicted of kidnapping and murder.
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Alfredo Galán was convicted of six murders and three attempted murders committed around Madrid in 2003; Spain's Supreme Court confirmed the convictions and sentence in 2006.
Open case file →Twenty-year-old nursing student Nagore Laffage was killed in Pamplona during San Fermín in 2008. José Diego Yllanes was convicted of homicide, and Spain's Supreme Court confirmed a 12-year-and-six-month sentence in 2010.
Open case file →Sandra Palo was abducted and murdered near Madrid in 2003. One adult and three minors were convicted in separate proceedings.
Open case file →Solved / AdjudicatedETA kidnapped the 29-year-old Ermua councillor in July 1997. Material perpetrators were later convicted and each received 50 years in prison.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedFive-year-old Mari Luz disappeared in Huelva in 2008. Spain's Supreme Court confirmed prison terms of 22 years for Santiago del Valle and nine years for Rosa del Valle.
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SolvedThree teenage girls were kidnapped and killed near Valencia in 1992.
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Partly SolvedSeventeen-year-old Marta del Castillo disappeared in Seville in 2009. Miguel Carcaño was convicted of her murder, but her body has never been recovered.
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SolvedTwelve-year-old Asunta Basterra was found dead near Santiago de Compostela in 2013. Her adoptive parents were convicted of murder in 2015.
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SolvedIn 1990, brothers Antonio and Emilio Izquierdo opened fire in the village of Puerto Hurraco, killing nine people after a long-running family feud.
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SolvedDNA evidence linked the murders of Rocío Wanninkhof and Sonia Carabantes to Tony Alexander King and exposed the wrongful conviction of Dolores Vázquez.
Read case file →SolvedEight-year-old Gabriel Cruz disappeared in Níjar in 2018. Ana Julia Quezada was convicted of his murder, and Spain’s Supreme Court confirmed a permanent-reviewable prison sentence.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedThe León provincial president was murdered in 2014. Spain’s Supreme Court ultimately confirmed prison terms of 22, 20 and 14 years for the three convicted women.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedRuth and José Bretón Ortiz were murdered in Córdoba in 2011. Their father was convicted of both killings and Spain's Supreme Court confirmed a 40-year sentence.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedDiana Quer disappeared in Galicia in 2016. José Enrique Abuín Gey was convicted of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder, and Spain's Supreme Court confirmed permanent reviewable imprisonment.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedAna Orantes was murdered by her former husband in Cúllar Vega in 1997, thirteen days after publicly describing decades of abuse. José Parejo was convicted of murder.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedMarcos Campos Nogueira, Janaína Santos Américo and their two young children were murdered in Pioz in 2016. Patrick Nogueira was convicted of all four killings.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedTeacher Laura Luelmo was murdered in El Campillo in 2018. Bernardo Montoya was convicted of murder, sexual assault and unlawful detention; the sentence became final in 2022.
Read case file →Solved / AdjudicatedMarta Calvo disappeared in Manuel, Valencia, in 2019. Jorge Ignacio Palma was convicted of her murder as part of a wider serial-murder prosecution, and Spain's Supreme Court imposed permanent-reviewable imprisonment in 2024.
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