Macarena Díaz is free. She claims that her disabled son died at home in Morón de la Frontera (Seville) and she left him in a container near Madrid. The police suspect that she could have thrown it into the Tagus River as it passes through Talavera de la Reina (Toledo).
Nobody has seen Antonio David Barrosoa 15-year-old disabled young man, since September 12, 2021. His mother, Macarena Díazassures that his son died in his house in Morón de la Frontera (Seville) and then she left the body in a Dumpster from a neighborhood in Madrid. The Police still The boy’s body has not been found. and the woman is free. The summary of the case, to which CASO ABIERTO has accessed, reveals that the investigators observe in the behavior of the mother “an absence of sorrow and remorse that draws attention in view of what happened”.
Macarena, who suffers a bipolar disorderwas admitted to a psychiatric center after she arrived alone on September 12, 2021. a Carabias gas station (Segovia) and will tell what happened. He participated in reconstructions of his car journey crossing Spain with his son and even pointed out some containers in the south of Madrid as the place where he had left the body, although he later assured that he had made “a mistake.”
“I’m out of money”
After receiving medical discharge, the woman was released pending trial. The police officers investigating the disappearance of Antonio David suspect that she manipulate the investigation and they point out that he has continued with his life as if nothing had happened.
Thus, on October 11 he told two agents: “now I’m out of moneybecause I have stopped collecting aid for my David”, alluding to the payments that the Andalusian Government made to her for taking care of a disabled minor. Before the same police officers, the woman had stated that she left her town with the body of your son in the car because “he knows that they are going to carry the dead man“.
Shortly after leaving the hospital, the woman carried out one more action that the police considers important: “There is another relevant piece of information that shows that Macarena was indeed continue with your life despite what happened and that confronts with a possible remorse and is the fact of having requested before the Tax Agency on November 21, 2021 to stop the deduction for disabled children” from which he benefited in the Income Tax return.
In that same document, the young man’s mother adds: “I am the mother of the missing disabled child, the child died on September 10, 2021, but I do not yet have the death certificate. I request that they pay my unemployment“.
September 12 marks two years since the disappearance of Antonio David Barroso. The police consider the most probable hypothesis that the mother took the child alive from her house, started the trip and he died in the Miajadas gas station (Cáceres)where security cameras recorded her mother getting in and out of the car with sad gestures, or on the road from there to Talavera de la Reina, where the woman arrived shortly after with your son in the wheelchair. The investigators point out that for this reason the woman bought a blanket in Talavera despite the heat that day, about 35 degrees. Her intention, they point out, was to cover the lifeless body of her son to prevent the hotel employees from noticing that he was dead.
Throw it into the Tagus River
Along these lines, the researchers point out the possibility that Macarena throw into the Tagus River his son’s body and the wheelchair. They consider striking that the woman remembers exactly the entrances and exits of that town, in which she had never been. They do not therefore rule out “the simpler and more feasible idea: push a heavy electric chair with a person tied to it, knowing that the body will not float, near a mighty river and in an area where no one who was not there could notice their presence.
Investigators believe that the woman could have thrown her son’s body into the Tagus River, inspired by other real or fictional crimes, “knowing that the chances of finding him are remote, and her behavior constitutes an imitation of others already carried out.”
Macarena’s excellent memory of her time in Talavera, unlike the rest of the last trip she took with her son, draws the attention of the police, who point out the possibility that she realized that the Tagus River was a “good place” to leave the body of Antonio David. The researchers add that the woman could be inspired to do so in cases of real crimes or fictional events from television series: “the behavior of leaving a family member in the water is something that has been seen in some fictitious or real event in the media, knowing that the possibilities of finding him are remote, constituting his behavior an imitation to others already carried out”.
The police point out that that way to get rid of your child’s body it would be less aggressive than throw it in a garbage container. “Throwing your loved one into a garbage container is something that is not usually done by people who have provided good treatment to that person,” they indicate in the report, where they add that Macarena’s relatives do not see her capable of leaving to his son, for whom he had always lived, in the trash. “Is less burdensome to push a chair with your child than to pick up your own child and leave him in a container under the garbage,” the investigators conclude. The summary, in fact, includes images of the place in the Tagus River where Macarena could have dumped the body of Antonio David and the wheelchair he used.
stop medication
Macarena, suffer from bipolar disorder, he had stopped taking the medication he needed. She had already had two psychotic breaks in 2017 and 2019 and knew the risks of stopping taking lithium, but he did it again, since the previous summer, he confessed, because I gained a lot of weight, up to 18 kilos, he said, if he took the pills. Her son, for his part, needed to take four types of pills daily to avoid, among other problems of his illness, suffering epileptic seizures. The police investigation has revealed that Macarena He stopped giving him two of those medications between 13 and 15 days before he died. In fact, several witnesses, from a priest to a supermarket employee, saw the child suffer. violent convulsions the days before his disappearance.