The deterioration of the corpse identified thanks to DNA as that of the woman who disappeared in November has made forensic analysis very complicated.
The second great enigma of the many that still surround the disappearance and death of the Madrid psychologist Sandra Bermejo Garcia It is clarified thanks to forensic science: the cause of death of the woman was traumatic fallout. What the investigators cannot specify yet is how Sandra Bermejo would have fallen from a height that caused fatal injuries. Because that’s exactly what the forensic technicality means. “precipitation trauma”: an injury or combination of injuries that occurs as a result of landing on the ground by falling from a considerable height. In precipitation, according to forensic literature, serious injuries to limbs occur, such as fractures and cavities, as well as injuries to internal organs.
Once the body found on a pebble beach in El Ferrero on December 23 was identified thanks to a DNA comparison as belonging to Sandra Bermejo García, the family’s concern immediately became knowing the cause of death. The mystery is cleared up in favor of the blows he would have suffered in a fall from a great height, although this newspaper was also able to find out that the poor condition of the corpse recovered near Cape Peñas prevented some vital organs from being examined during the autopsy by the simple reason that they were no longer there. This is logical given that the body would have been submerged in the water of the Cantabrian Sea for more than a month, at the mercy of the waves and according to the place where it was found, in possible contact with rocks. LDecomposition and erosion had taken their toll on the corpse, which was in very poor condition after so much time out in the open.
Death due to fallout trauma sheds no light on the exact circumstances in which the alleged fatal fall occurredsince it could be voluntary, accidental or induced by a second person. At least these are some of the conjectures made by the psychologist’s family, especially reluctant to the suicide hypothesis given the lack of a psychological profile that endorses this thesis and the absence of signs that are usually common in autolytic behaviors.
Both the relatives of Sandra Bermejo García and the SOS Desaparecidos association, which is present at the preliminary judicial proceedings, urge the National Police to speed up all the open lines of investigation and “get to the bottom”. Thus, and among other actions, they order to trace the woman’s telephone history from a month before her disappearance, to take a statement from the fishermen who saw two cars suspiciously parked next to the woman’s early in the morning of The day after Bermejo had stopped showing signs of life and to seek an explanation for the fact that the body had been found to the west of the Peñas lighthouse, a fact seen as “strange” because the dominant current of the Cantabrian Sea drags floating objects to the East.