hornachos · ES
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A woman disappeared from her home village of Hornachos, in the province of Badajoz, on the evening of 9 May 2017. She had stepped out briefly to see off a family whose daughter she looked after, leaving her phone and keys behind and telling her son she would be back to make dinner. She never returned, and for almost nine years the case remained unsolved, although her family had long suspected two neighbours. In March 2026 the Central Operative Unit of the Guardia Civil arrested two brothers, her neighbours, and searched their house. Skeletal remains found under a cemented and tiled inspection chamber in the patio were identified by biological analysis as hers. Days after the arrest the younger brother confessed to the killing and exculpated his brother. Both are held in pre-trial detention under an investigating court in Villafranca de los Barros on suspicion of murder and unlawful detention. On 14 September 2026 the two men were brought from prison to their house in Hornachos for a judicial reconstruction of the crime, where they were met by angry neighbours. Only the elder brother took part in the reconstruction; the younger, who had confessed, did not cooperate.
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- incident_date corrected from the article date 2026-09-14 to 2017-05-09, the date of the victim's disappearance. city corrected from badajoz, the province named in the source's '(Badajoz)', to hornachos, and coordinates moved to Hornachos. victim sex set to F. judicial_status history dated to the March 2026 arrests. slug updated to match; filename left unchanged per the archive convention.