On June 25, 1986, in the northernmost part of madrid, the capital of Spain, there was a village called Somosiera. As the sun rises slowly at 6 a.m., the whole village is shrouded in the glow of the morning. Suddenly, a loud explosion broke the tranquility of the village, and the light of the fire immediately caught the eye, and people rushed to the sound.
A series of crashes were seen on the road above the village, and a white can truck flared up on the lower part of the hillside. Half of the man's body in the truck was blurred with flesh and blood, and the woman next to him was squeezed and deformed, and she did not know whether she was alive or dead.
The sulfuric acid poured sharply at the opening of the rear tank, the explosion continued to sound, and a large black poisonous smoke soon formed in the sky. Not far from it, there was a small sedan and a medium-sized van, both of which were damaged to varying degrees.
After a while, search and rescue personnel arrived quickly. They controlled the fire while rescuing the wounded. Unfortunately, because the sulfuric acid truck was too badly damaged, the owner and his entourage were killed one after another. Search and rescue personnel informed the family to claim the body based on the identity information of the owner, but the owner's mother said that there was one less child.
It turned out that her grandson Juan, who was only 10 years old, was also in the car at the time. However, the search and rescue personnel searched the scene of the incident and found no trace of the boy. So, where did the boy go? Why did he disappear out of thin air?
At 8:00 a.m. on June 25, 1986, more than two hours had passed since the accident, and the rescue work was basically nearing completion. According to the accident investigation, this may be just a simple car accident accident. Regrettably, two people on the truck were tragically killed, but thankfully the sedan and van crew were only slightly bruised.
Search and rescuers then found the wallet in the car and, through id information, found that the owner of the car was named Andrés Martinez, and the woman's name was Carmen Gomez, who was his wife. At the same time, the search and rescue personnel also found a photo on the hanging ornament in the car, showing a family of three, a small boy standing between his parents, smiling sweetly. It is not difficult to guess that the little boy should be the child of the owner of the car.
At that time, the search and rescue personnel did not care about this small matter, but just skimmed it. No one expected that the little boy in this photo would make this incident an unsolved case.
After the accident investigation is completed, the search and rescue personnel sort out the remains, and then call the families of the victims to claim the remains.
Just listen to the "beep" of the phone, and it is quickly connected. The search and rescuers were a little surprised, and without much thought, they asked, "Hey! Is it Andres' family? The old man's trembling voice on the phone replied, "I'm his mother, what happened to them?" ”
The search and rescue worker heard that it was the old man, and said in a tactful and heavy tone: "I feel very sorry that he and his wife had a car accident on the Somosieira Highway, and both died on the spot." Can you come and claim it? You'd better not bring your children with you, because the scene is more tragic. ”
As soon as the words fell, the old man's tone suddenly became anxious: "Child? What child? Wasn't my grandson Juan also in the car? How is he? ”
When the search and rescue personnel heard that there was a child, they immediately asked, "What?" We didn't find children here, only the owner of the car. Are you sure? ”
"I'm sure my grandson Juan is also in the car." The old man's firm tone on the phone made the search and rescue personnel suspicious, and they did not find any trace of the child at the scene.
What's going on here? Who's lying? Let's look back to the day of June 24, 1986.
The boy's name is Juan Pedro, and he is ten years old. He was the only son of the owner, Andres, and his wife, Carmen, both of whom were very fond of Juan. Andrés was a veteran driver who traveled frequently between the Spanish cities of Cartagena and Bielbach, a route that was a common occurrence for him.
On the afternoon of June 24, 1986, Juan, who was returning home from school, took out his report card and asked his father to take him to the Basque country to see the cows, and it happened that Andrés was driving in the direction of the Basque Country. He immediately made a decision and decided to leave tonight.
It turned out that Juan had seen on school television that the northern Basque Country had his favorite cows, and he wanted to go there and touch the cows, so he wanted his father to take him on vacation. Andrés loved Juan, looked at the expectation in the eyes of the child and got good grades. He thought about it for a moment and agreed.
At exactly 19:00 p.m., the Andres family of three packed their bags and set off for the Basque Country on time. Along the way, the family of three talked and laughed and imagined a beautiful trip. As everyone knows, this walk actually caused their family to be destroyed and separated.
At 6 a.m. on June 25, 1986, when they were driving on the Somosieira Highway, somehow they suddenly began to overtake, as if they were chasing and dodging something, and they went on a rampage in a daze. The car in front of it could not dodge, and was pushed forward by the truck for tens of meters, and the rearview mirror on the right side was directly knocked off. But the speed of the truck did not stop, but it soared faster and faster, straight to the front of the truck, the harsh brake sound sounded, the truck rolled over and exploded, so there was a scene of our beginning.
Upon arrival, search and rescue personnel immediately dumped lime and sand on trucks to dilute the erosion of sulfuric acid, and then urgently rescued the injured. I saw that the upper body of the man in the truck was close to the ground, and the left half of his face was soaked in sulfuric acid on the ground, with serious corrosion and almost no breathing. The woman next to him had been squeezed and deformed, and there were no vital signs.
After an hour of emergency rescue, around 8 o'clock, both truck personnel were rescued. Unfortunately, the man finally swallowed his breath. At that time, the old man's phone made the search and rescuers wonder if the child was buried in the sand, because it was too small for them to pay attention. So they immediately gathered the men to shovel sand with shovels and look for the boy's tracks.
Under the sand, they found only one piece of clothing, which had been corroded in many places, but it was not difficult to see that the dress did not belong to Juan. The medical school also said that if sulfuric acid completely dissolves the human body, it will take at least 5 days. That's pretty fast, and it's actually going to take longer.
If Juan is completely dissolved by sulfuric acid, there will always be traces of relevant human tissue on the ground, but there is none. Search and rescuers immediately ruled out this possibility.
To determine if Juan was in the car at the time of the accident, search and rescue crews began checking the truck's travel time.
According to surveillance, at about 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on June 25, the Andres family stopped at gas stations and breakfast restaurants, and then they approached the employees at the time to understand the situation.
The gas station employee recalled: "There was indeed a truck to refuel, it was a family of three, and the little boy was still lying at the window waving at me. "So it seems that Juan was still with his parents around 3 a.m.
The breakfast shop employee also recalled: "They ordered coffee and crepes, the family of three was full of laughter, and the little boy specially ordered an egg from me." After about half an hour, the family left. ”
From the employees' memories, Juan has always followed his parents. But why was no trace of him found at the scene at the time of the accident? Could it be that Juan's parents pushed him out in time when the accident occurred?
Search and rescue personnel then conducted a carpet search and visit to the surrounding woods and residents. Armed with photographs on hanging ornaments, they visited residents one by one to ask if they had seen the boy in the photographs, but found nothing, and the residents said they had not seen Juan.
Then it was what happened between the time the breakfast shop and the road, which led to Juan's disappearance.
The search and rescuers once again focused on the scene of the crime, and they found several obvious brake marks on the road, so they conducted another meticulous search of the surrounding area. In the grass, a humble recorder came into their sight. Due to the explosion, the surface of the recorder has been scorched, but the memory card is still intact.
In the video, the truck has stopped many times on the highway for a long time, the highest time is 1 minute, and the lowest time is 20 seconds. For drivers, multiple sudden stops on the highway are undoubtedly putting their lives behind.
What happened to make Andres, a veteran, make such a repeated pause on the road? Is it really easy for an event to happen?
The leak of the video caused an uproar among the public, and there were many opinions on the Internet. The continued heated discussion of the incident made the government feel pressure and ordered all parties to assist in solving the case as soon as possible.
The parties dispatched a number of personnel to print and distribute Juan's photographs and posted a reward notice, saying that those who could provide major clues to the case would be rewarded heavily. A white Japanese van and a drug shipment entered the police's sight as clues.
The owner of the accident van recalled: "I was a little drowsy at the time, only to see a white Japanese van parked at the scene of the crime, a man and a woman, the man was about 40 years old, the woman was about 30 years old, and the western face came down. The man took a parcel from the truck, while the woman came up to me, claiming to be a nurse, and gave me a simple bandage. Then I fell into a coma and woke up to see you. ”
The clue of parcels and European faces of men and women makes people realize that this does not seem to be a good thing. What is a mysterious parcel? And why only rescue truck drivers?
Search and rescue personnel immediately checked the Japanese van under surveillance, but found no trace of the two men and women. They have a strong anti-reconnaissance ability, as if they disappeared out of thin air. Whether Juan was in the car or not is unknown.
Just when she was confused, Juan's grandmother provided another clue to the government. A week before the incident, Andres had called her to ask her not to go out in the near future, for fear that some criminals would kidnap her and threaten Andres to transport contraband.
It is not difficult to guess that some lawbreakers threatened Andres to transport drugs, but Andres refused them. On the day of the incident, Juan may have been kidnapped by them and used to threaten Andres to put a parcel on the car and ask him to transport him out of the checkpoint. After following all the way, Andrés may have reacted strongly. So there were multiple pauses in the recorder, and a major accident that followed.
In Spain, the drug industry has been under heavy duty. The government checks the highway checkpoints everywhere to prevent contraband from being carried out of the country. Perhaps it was just the sight of Andres being a veteran of the car to be familiar with the line, plus the sulfuric acid truck facilitating the concealment of drugs, so they started their idea.
Sure enough, search and rescue personnel found traces of drug powder residue on the back wheel of the truck, corroborating this idea and hinting at the boy's whereabouts. So was Juan really kidnapped? Is he alive or dead? Unable to locate the Japanese van and the government unsure whether Juan had been kidnapped, the case was left open.
It wasn't until 1987 that clues were given that Juan had been seen in Madrid. He followed an elderly Iranian refugee and asked for directions from the U.S. Embassy. Just when the man wanted to take a closer look at the boy, the old man pulled the boy away. When he returned home, he suddenly saw Juan's picture, remembered that the boy was Juan, and immediately came to report the crime.
Search and rescuers immediately dispatched police to the camp to inquire, and then went to the U.S. Embassy, but both said they had not seen the two. It was strange that the old man and Juan realized something and were deliberately avoiding their pursuit. But why did Juan avoid it? Was he coerced? None of this is known.
To this day, Juan still has no news. Some speculated that he would come back again; others speculated that he might have been stimulated, had lost his memory, and did not know his way home; but more speculation was that he might have been killed long ago and left his body in the wilderness. But in any case, it is just speculation.
For the family, Juan's grandmother still holds Juan's picture at home waiting for him to return. No matter what he looked like, he was still the lovely Juan in Grandma's eyes. Maybe one morning, Juan would carry the morning sun, push open the door, and shout sweetly at her, "Grandma, I'm back!" ”