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"Marco (responsible for killing Sibora Gagan) destroyed my daughter's life, but at the same time he took my life. My heart has died with him", these were the words of a mother who, after nine years without hearing from her daughter, the first news she received about her was that she had been killed and her body walled up in an apartment in Torremolinos, Spain. .
Today, Elisabeta says goodbye to her "butterfly" in the country where she grew up and lived most of her life, Italy.
She was 22 years old when she was last seen. It was summer, 2014, in Torremolinos. Sibora had settled down with the man she was in a relationship with at the time, Marco G. She met him in Nettuno, an Italian commune located in the metropolitan capital of Rome, where she also lived.
"The first year they met, I didn't think anything bad about him, nor was there anything that made me think he might abuse her," says her mother.
However, the relationship progressed and during one of Elisabeta's visits to Malaga, her daughter confessed that "he was very possessive and that she no longer wanted to be with him". He also confessed that, if one day he managed to separate from him, "he would have to go far, to a place where he would not find him".
Soon after the young woman went missing, alarm bells rang for her mother, who was more than a thousand kilometers away. "One day he told me he would call me and he never did." Meanwhile, his partner and the last person he had kept in touch with, assured relatives that he had left without prior notice and that he also did not know his whereabouts. I started to worry because everything seemed very strange to me", explains the mother. She admits that the suspicions have always been focused on Marko, although she never thought "that he would have done something so bad".
It was the murder of another woman, on May 17, by the same man in the same town, that set off alarm bells and sparked an investigation that led police to find Sibora's walled-up body. "When I saw his face on television and in the newspapers that he had killed another girl, I knew that Sibora was not here," she complains. And although the nine years without knowing anything about him have been "terrible", she says she always had "faith" that one day he would come back through the door.
With the certainty that her "butterfly" (as some people around her) had taken her life, Elisabeta began to count the days until her body was repatriated to Italy and for her relatives to say goodbye. More than five months have passed since then, but for Sibora's mother "it seems like 60 years ago". She doesn't believe that time can heal the wound, but burying her and being able to take flowers to a part of the world comforts her. "Our beloved is already at home" and this Saturday, November 18, a service was held.
A SPONTANEOUS CONFESSION
After allegedly taking the life of his last partner, Marco was arrested. He was still at police headquarters when he spontaneously told the officers guarding him that the young woman who had been missing for nine years "was buried in the attic where he lived with her." A demonstration that although he later did not ratify in the presence of his lawyer nor in court. From that moment, the agents assigned to the Local Forensic Police Brigade of the Torremolinos-Benalmádena Police Station focused the investigation on the last known address of the woman of Albanian origin, located in the neighborhood of El Calvario, in Torremolinos, in search of traces that would provide relevant information on the whereabouts of the missing woman. Initially, a first procedure of entering and checking the apartment was carried out. The agents then added two new eye checks by the Scientific Police due to the suspicion of the use of a corrosive substance by the person under investigation to eliminate the evidence. Continuing the investigation, the researchers put into practice a new technique with X-ray instruments in a new search of the house.
A LARGE WOODEN CHEST
An anomaly in the construction of one of the walls has made the agents suspicious. This space was compared with the house next door, and it was found that a closet had been built in the corresponding place, space that did not exist in the house next door, a perfect construction that went completely unnoticed. With the cooperation of the home's owner and current tenants, investigators tore down the wall. Behind the wall, a wooden box, like a sarcophagus. After the demolition of the wall was completed, the lid of the box was lifted and it was seen that the interior was full of lime, giving off a strong odor of this substance.
Inside, on a pile of lime, they found a plastic bag with a knife with traces of dried blood. Buried in the lime, there were also various items belonging to the missing woman and a bouquet of flowers on the torso of a corpse, which was stuffed in a camping bag and wrapped in plastic bags. This was Marco's perfect hiding place, which helped him hide the crime for nine years.
SIBORA WAS STABBED TO DEATH
The discovery brought to light a complete corpse, in conditions of "saponification", as the Spanish media write, although it could be concluded that it was a woman. Finally, the body was removed and sent to the Anatomical Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy, which confirmed that it was Sibora Gagani and that she had been stabbed to death. Sibora had several tattoos, several drawings carved into the skin, which the found body had presented and which have allowed the forensic team of the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IML) of Malaga to solve the identification of the dead body. A date on her arm, a star and the letter A on the back of her neck, another star on her leg and a drawing on her back are the tattoos that the young woman had, as announced by the platform Sos Desaparecidos in 2014 when the mother spread the alarm about the disappearance of her.
MISSING FOR NINE YEARS
Sibora Gagani, who used false Italian documentation under the name Simona Faraone, began a romantic relationship with Marco in 2009 in Italy, where they lived together. But a year later, always according to family history, he decided to travel to Spain, a country where he had already lived, to look for work. His wife also accompanied him, albeit for seasons. In 2013, Sibora returned to Italy with the intention of leaving the relationship with Marco and not returning to Spain. She told her mother she no longer wanted to live with him, but claims she never mentioned being a victim of abuse.
That same year, the young woman changed her mind and flew back to Torremolinos to give herself a new chance with her lover, but this time in nearby but different houses. A few months later, in the summer of 2014, at the age of 22, Sibora disappeared. Her mother reported on the events in Italy, so the agents of the National Police started working with the authorities of the trans-alpine country, also asking for the cooperation of the citizens due to the difficulty in finding the young woman.
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