In the Gracia neighborhood, Barcelona, When the cleaning employee entered the rental apartment she was supposed to clean, she found a terrifying scene. On February 21, 2008, he found the corpse of an adult woman sitting in an armchair, with a bag over his head taped to his neck and completely naked.
He immediately called the police, who were shocked by how tidy the crime scene was. They did not find any document that said who that body belonged to, the only information they had was about the rental of the apartment of those days, expenses that had been paid with a bank card in the name of Ana María Páez Capitán.
The story of María de los Ángeles Molina, the woman who murdered her friend and usurped her identity
Ana was 36 years old and was a fashion designer. The day she disappeared, February 19, she had arranged to meet her friend María de los Ángeles Molina. She had told her husband that and her brother too in the last conversations she had with them.
That’s why at first they didn’t worry. But the next day, unable to contact her, They reported his disappearance to the police. María de los Ángeles, her friend, said that in the end they couldn’t get together because she had to go to Zaragoza, which is a little more than 3 hours by car from Barcelona.
When the experts obtained the results of the autopsy, they reported that she had not been a victim of sexual abuse and that she had not defended herself from the attacker’s attack. And death was due to asphyxiation. It was considered that he died accidentally during the sexual encounter. But there were still loose ends such as where his belongings were and why the body was abandoned in those conditions.
Another clue that puzzled investigators was the presence of semen from two men in the vagina and mouth of the corpse. Leading them to believe he may have done some sex work, but the family strongly denied this. He had enough income to live a comfortable life without the need to do those jobs.
The day the funeral took placeMaría de los Ángeles came with tears in her eyes, and believed that no one suspected her. But from then on they began to find identity theft. On the same day of his disappearance, 600 euros had been withdrawn from his account. Which aroused suspicion because it was at a time when he was at work.
When they saw the videos from the security cameras, They saw a woman who seemed to be Ana doing the banking transactionbut the boyfriend recognized perfectly that it was not her, but María de los Ángeles, or Angie, as she was nicknamed. The only strange thing is that he was wearing a black wig.
In her statement before the court, Angie said that their meeting had been an excuse that the two of them invented to cover her from a meeting with a lover. And she stated that she was in Zaragoza because she had gone to look for her mother’s ashes. Police verified that part of his story was true.
Furthermore, by showing your photo to the bank workers recognized her and they said that she called herself Ana María Páez. And Miguel, Ana’s boyfriend, stated that on the night of her disappearance, Angie looked very upset. With all this background, the agents went to raid Angie’s house that same year.
There they found all kinds of documents, photocopies with her personal information, a blonde wig and a bank card in Ana’s name. She had used those wigs to request loans in her name. The evidence was so compelling that Angie was convicted of planning and carrying out the murder of her friend.
They also discovered that they were not best friends as she had said. But Angie had been an employee of Ana and had been planning that murder for 2 years, looking for ways to use drugs to put her to sleep and going to get semen in brothels for men.
Source: Ambito
I am an author and journalist who has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade. I currently work as a news editor at a major news website, and my focus is on covering the latest trends in entertainment. I also write occasional pieces for other outlets, and have authored two books about the entertainment industry.
