Macarena Díaz, who took care of him for 15 years, said that the boy died and she left him in a garbage container near Madrid next to his wheelchair | The police haven’t found him.
Antonio David Barroso had a very hard life and a cruel end, according to his mother, the only one who knows where her son’s body is. The kid was, or is, because it is not known if he is still alive, a severely disabled person, with a 91 percent handicap, who could not move or eat by himself. The his mother, Macarena Díaz, is accused of making him disappear on September 12 last year. Up to that moment, all the testimonies agree that she “went out of her way” for her son. The woman, who suffers from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, left her house Moron de la Frontera (Seville) with her son in the back of the car.
After an erratic journey through half of Spain, the woman arrived the next day at a Carabias gas station (Segovia) Y He said he had thrown his son, already dead, into a garbage container near Madrid. Macarena is free, she has returned to her house, and nothing is known of the fate of Antonio David. These are the keys to the case, according to the summary accessed by CASO ABIERTO, the investigation and events channel of Prensa Ibérica.
1. Is Antonio David Barroso alive or dead?
The main hypothesis is that the boy, who would be 16 years old today, is dead. It is based on the statements of the mother, who does not remember the exact location. On another occasion, she noted that she had thrown “over a ravine”. The investigations of the National Police came to point out an area of the Avenida de Portugal, near the M-30. Hundreds of containers were reviewed, also in Arroyomolinos and Navalcarnero, without success. For weeks the landfills of Valdemingómez and Pinto (Madrid), where the waste from those areas is taken, were being checked, also without success.
When she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, Macarena came to make a drawing with what she remembered of the area where she had left her son’s “corpse”.
2. When and how did the child die?
Macarena stated that her son He had died in his house in Morón de la Frontera. several days before (September 9, according to her most repeated version) that she left with the car and the body of the child. At first she stated that she had killed him, supplying a syringe with water. Later, he changed the version and stated that Antonio David had a fever, that he had begun to foam at the mouth and she had died in his arms. In other of her chaotic statements, she pointed out that part of her paternal family had been drugging her and her son for some time.
3. Did anyone see Anthony David alive those days?
Several residents of Morón and a priest claim they saw the child, I live, although with a bad appearance, on the streets and in a town church on September 9 and 10, which denies the date of death provided by the mother. Be that as it may, the days before September 12, Macarena empties her house, she gets rid of mobile phones, leaves furniture in a dumpster and gives her two dogs up for adoption.
4. God, Santiago, crucifixes
The woman says that, initially, she wanted to take her son to do the Camino de Santiago to see if a miracle would happen. The police took a statement parish priest of the church of San Miguel, in Moron de la Frontera (Seville). The mother asked him to bless her house on July 25. The priest was surprised by the “large number of religious images” that was in the house where the woman and her disabled son lived. This religious explained that Macarena had started this “approach to God” at the end of 2020, first going to church once a week, always accompanied by her son in a wheelchair. Then, starting in June, the woman went to mass almost every day. She talked a lot with the priest, to whom she confessed that she was planning to sell her house and take her son to live in a special rehabilitation center for the disabled in Alcalá de Guadaira.
5. A sect?
A part of the investigations abounded in the change suffered by the mother in recent months. A social worker from Morón de la Frontera confirmed the drastic religious turn in the woman’s life. She recalled that she saw her at the end of the summer of 2021 and she was “changed”, she assured that she wore “a large crucifix on her chest” and that she spoke in a way “more cultured and educatedpractically educated”. The policemen asked her if she thought that Macarena could have links with sects or esoteric groups and the woman replied, “I don’t know, but because of all these changes, it could be.” The woman’s brother, for her part, confirmed that she went to church every day, but denied that she had relations with other types of mystical groups. He admits that “there is a possibility” that her sister gave the child to a religious group, although he says that she “does not think so”. The father of Macarena’s little daughter, for her part, stated that “when she suffered her first psychotic outbreak, in 2017, she began to be interested in religious issues, cults and sects, visiting churches daily, reaching obsess that your child could be cured in one of those places. In fact, the image of Macarena in her whatsapp profile was, the days before the disappearance of her son, a crucified and suffering Christ.
6. The final journey
The Police have been recovering images from security cameras throughout Spain. This is how she has reconstructed the last 24 hours of Macarena, driving her car adapted to her son’s disability. The images of her show her first throwing two large bags of garbage at her door and then already driving her car. At 10:30 a.m. on September 12, 2021, a traffic camera records the car where her mother and son are driving, near Jerez de la Frontera, in the province of Cadiz. Between 11:05 and 11:12, several images show how the woman follows her path and passes through the capital of Cadiz, crossing the bridge of the Constitution of 1812.
7. In Caceres
At 5:25 p.m. that afternoon, Macarena and her son, dead or alive, arrive in the town of Miajadas, in the province of Cáceres. Images from a service station show only the woman, who buys a bottle of oil and heads back to the car. Macarena told the police that she had had to buy oil because the car overheated. In fact, one of the images shows how the vehicle has the hood open. The child is not seen, who according to the mother was already dead, inside the car. Police recovered some images of Macarena pushing the wheelchair of his son. They were recorded by the cameras of the Hotel Triana, in Miajadas, but they are blurred and David cannot be seen.
8. The last image of David
At 9:10 p.m. that night, a security camera from a store near the Hotel Perales, in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) shows Macarena’s arrival at the hotel. You see the woman pushing the wheelchair and you can also see the silhouette of his son, David. A hotel employee told the police that saw the mother and child, and that he thought the kid was asleep. Macarena reserved a room there where, according to her statements, she slept next to the body of her son. At 00:35 at night, the same camera records her mother leaving the hotel pushing her son’s wheelchair. It is the last image, blurred, of Antonio David that the police have managed to recover.
9. Alone, in Segovia
At 4.05 in the morning, Macarena appears alone in the town of Riaza (Segovia).The cameras of the Plaza Hotel in that town record her going up the entrance stairs. The woman is already alone, she is wearing the mask against covid and carrying a suitcase. There is no trace of his son. There are no free rooms that night and Macarena goes downstairs. A neighbor of the town sees her ten minutes later throwing some objects into a garbage container on the street, in front of the hotel.
10. The gas station
At 7:05 the same morning, Macarena enters a service station of a gas station in Carabias (Segovia). It has taken almost three hours on a journey of just over 40 kilometers. She has changed her clothes and has her hair tied up. She goes alone and tells the employee that they have “killed her son”. The woman notifies the emergency services, who arrive shortly after and attend to her mother. She is then admitted to the psychiatric unitfirst in the Segovia Hospital and later in Valme (Seville). Investigators search his car and his house, finding no trace of the child.
Macarena received a medical discharge and regained her freedom. She has returned to her house in Morón, where she lived with her son. She receives medication for her illness and she has to go to court periodically. She is under investigation for the child’s disappearance. The boy’s father, Antonio Barroso, with whom the woman is at odds, continues to fight for the whereabouts of his son to be known. The woman insists that her son died in her house, several days before she made him disappear, because she, she has told her relatives, she “went crazy” with her death .