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0:06 - Introduction and Valencia Setting
1:23 - Discovery of the Skull
3:33 - Esther's Background and Disappearance
4:56 - Suspicious Messages and Family's Search
8:07 - Investigation Focuses on Jos茅 Jurado
12:13 - Connecting Crimes and Jos茅's Arrest
16:28 - Evidence, Motive, and Pattern Revealed
20:38 - Past Crimes, Prison, and Conclusions
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0:06 - Introduction and Valencia Setting
1:23 - Discovery of the Skull
3:33 - Esther's Background and Disappearance
4:56 - Suspicious Messages and Family's Search
8:07 - Investigation Focuses on Jos茅 Jurado
12:13 - Connecting Crimes and Jos茅's Arrest
16:28 - Evidence, Motive, and Pattern Revealed
20:38 - Past Crimes, Prison, and Conclusions
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00:05Esther's story revealed the profile of a psychopath. Someone who besides killing
00:12several people was obsessed with fame. One of the craziest cases in recent times in Spain.
00:30We're going to February 2024. Specifically to the province of Valencia in Spain. Some of you already know here on
00:39the channel because I mentioned it in several videos. I lived in Spain. I was in Palma de Mallorca for
00:44about a year. Spain is a country I love. A country that during that year I traveled around as much
00:53as I could. Honestly I could have traveled more. But unfortunately I didn't get to visit Valencia.
01:00But a lot of people told me that Valencia is a very beautiful place. Very lovely. Hopefully in the future
01:05I can go back and visit Valencia.
01:09But I did want to say that Spain is one of those countries that really enchanted me. Even more so
01:17with cities like Barcelona and Mallorca. I live there.
01:21But today we're going to talk about Valencia. And in this area, in this province, there's a city called Gandia.
01:27Gandia.
01:28Or Gandia. Or Gandia. Which is considered one of the largest and most important coastal cities in this country.
01:36And something about this city is that when you go to the outskirts of Gandia, a lot of people go
01:43hiking.
01:43And at this time, in February 2024,
01:48there were two men who were doing exactly this activity.
01:53They were walking through the area.
01:55They decided to take a shortcut.
01:57And that's when they found a skull.
01:59This skull was in a dense reed bed
02:02between a beach road and the N332.
02:06Obviously, with this discovery,
02:08they called the police.
02:09And something that had to be taken into account with this finding
02:12was that this location was perfect for hiding a body.
02:16And maybe the person who left this skull
02:20thought that the remains of this person would never be found.
02:23That always happens to me.
02:25Especially here in the United States.
02:27Because I live in the United States now.
02:31When I drive on highways where there are very dense forests,
02:35I always start to imagine that maybe there are bodies there
02:38that no one will ever find.
02:41Because these are places where,
02:43even though there are people who go through these forests,
02:46there are many areas where maybe not many people ever go.
02:51So at least for me, when I go through those places,
02:56I start to imagine the number of possible human remains
03:00that could be found in these dense forests.
03:03After this discovery,
03:05all the usual procedures that are done in an initial investigation
03:08were carried out from cordoning off the area
03:10to finding everything that could be considered evidence.
03:14Unfortunately, the only thing that stood out was the skull.
03:18Nothing else had been found.
03:20But two months later,
03:22after having gone to the area several times,
03:25the authorities ended up finding other evidence.
03:29For example, more skeletal remains,
03:31clothes, and even documents.
03:34These documents referred to a woman
03:36who had disappeared months earlier,
03:38named Esther Estepa.
03:40The story with Esther takes us back to August 2023.
03:45That is, six months before the body was discovered.
03:50She was last seen on that date
03:52while she was on a trip in Gandia.
03:54For months, her family did what they could to find her.
03:59From appearing in the media
04:01to being on social networks
04:03and trying to keep the search for Esther alive
04:06until February 2024 arrived.
04:09And the family was able to confirm
04:10that their daughter was no longer alive.
04:12Esther was 42 years old when she disappeared.
04:15It was a mysterious case.
04:18And the question was,
04:19what had happened?
04:20What happened to Esther?
04:30The full name of the victim was Esther Estepa Perez.
04:34She was from Seville.
04:36As we said, she was 42 years old
04:39and she had been an independent woman for a long time.
04:43But she had gone through complex situations in her life.
04:46For example, she had reported an ex-partner for abuse.
04:51This led her to stay in a shelter
04:53for women experiencing violence.
04:56Located in the small town of Muchamiel in Alicante.
05:01Actually, this town is called Muchamiel.
05:04I think.
05:05I'm not sure if that's how you pronounce it.
05:07But I was searching on the internet
05:10and the other more well-known name
05:12that this town has is Muchamiel in Alicante.
05:15Despite all this,
05:17she was always in contact with her mother,
05:19a woman named Josefa Perez.
05:21But she was known to those closest to her as Pepa.
05:25So we're going to refer to her mother by that name, Pepa,
05:28before traveling to Gandia.
05:31There is a medical record
05:32that Esther visited the French hospital in Borja
05:35because she had severe pain in her legs.
05:39Apparently, according to this record,
05:41she had stayed in the hospital for a few hours
05:44until she was discharged in the early morning.
05:47After this, Esther traveled to Gandia,
05:50which is where she disappeared.
05:52Meanwhile, during those days, Pepa, Esther's mother,
05:56started receiving strange text messages from her daughter.
06:00She told her mother that she was living on the street
06:02with two Argentinian friends,
06:04that she was unemployed
06:05and that she regretted having been a bad daughter.
06:10But the most striking thing
06:11was that she told her mother
06:13she was going to leave Spain
06:14to start a new life in Buenos Aires.
06:17She also told her
06:18that she was going to sell her cell phone
06:20to be able to make this trip.
06:22Therefore,
06:22she was not going to be able to talk to her mother for a while
06:26until she got another phone
06:28once she was in Argentina.
06:30Now, the mother was sure from the very beginning
06:33that those messages
06:34had not been sent by her daughter,
06:36a mother,
06:37a relative,
06:38even friends.
06:41They know the way a certain person writes.
06:45I don't know if you get what I mean.
06:47I can tell when
06:48my friends write to me in a particular way
06:51or the punctuation marks they use
06:54or the way they express themselves.
06:56And apparently,
06:58these messages were very different
06:59from how Esther usually wrote.
07:02The expressions,
07:03the tone,
07:04and the writing style
07:05were not Esther's.
07:06Her mother was sure of that.
07:09Peppa,
07:10the mother,
07:11then knowing this
07:12and sensing that it wasn't her daughter,
07:14told the person
07:15that if they didn't talk on the phone
07:17and she didn't hear her voice,
07:19she would report this to the police.
07:21But from that moment on,
07:23all communications were cut off
07:25and the phone had been turned off
07:27because none.
07:30No calls were going through.
07:32From that moment on,
07:34they only went to voicemail.
07:36It was like the phone
07:37from that second
07:39was turned off.
07:40Few days later,
07:42the disappearance
07:43was officially reported.
07:45I always say
07:46that we can't judge the family.
07:48But these kinds of cases
07:49teach us things too
07:51when something strange
07:52happens to someone.
07:54When it's someone you care about
07:56and there are red flags
07:58that maybe
07:59someone is in trouble
08:01or the person just
08:02isn't acting normally.
08:04You have to report it right away.
08:06It's better to make a mistake
08:08and report
08:10than to delay an investigation.
08:12The family possibly
08:13had hopes of
08:15talking to her
08:16at some point
08:17over the next few days
08:19until they said enough
08:20and called the authorities.
08:34Things get even stranger
08:36when after the disappearance
08:38and before the body was found,
08:40Peppa received a call
08:41from one of her daughter's friends.
08:44This man had identified himself
08:46as Jos茅 Jurado Montilla,
08:4862 years old
08:50and the mother said
08:51he was very polite
08:52in the way he spoke to her.
08:54This man told the mother
08:56that he had seen the news
08:57about Esther's disappearance
08:58and asked her
09:00if there was any news
09:01about her whereabouts.
09:03The mother thought
09:04he was a concerned friend
09:05who was willing to help.
09:08For disappearances,
09:10you know that the first 48 hours
09:11are crucial
09:12and any help is important,
09:14whether it comes from friends
09:15or even strangers.
09:17Jos茅 Jurado
09:18This mysterious friend
09:21told Peppa
09:22that he was going
09:23to look for her
09:24on his own
09:24and that he would call her
09:26if he found out
09:27anything new
09:28about the disappearance.
09:30At this point,
09:31we have to take into account
09:33how perceptive
09:34Esther's mother was.
09:36She,
09:37despite receiving
09:38several calls
09:39from friends
09:40and strangers,
09:41found this particular call
09:43strange.
09:44Even more so
09:45because her daughter
09:46used to tell her everything
09:47and had never mentioned
09:49a friend named Jos茅.
09:51Although she had
09:52no clear evidence
09:53for her suspicions,
09:55this conversation
09:55stayed in her mind.
09:57The mother began
09:59to investigate
09:59and found that
10:00this man posted a lot.
10:02He wrote on TikTok
10:03about his travels
10:04all over Spain,
10:06sometimes as a backpacker,
10:08talking to his followers
10:10as if it were
10:10a kind of digital diary
10:12where he documented
10:13everything.
10:15On that account,
10:17he used the username
10:18Dinamita Gerardo Montia.
10:21He called himself
10:23Vagamundo Viajero
10:24and showed rather
10:25simple videos
10:26of his travels
10:27on foot,
10:27on buses,
10:28on trains,
10:29through small towns
10:30and past beautiful scenery
10:32and so on.
10:33Also,
10:34it was clear
10:34that he lived
10:35in cheap boarding houses
10:36or outdoors.
10:39This content
10:40attracted views.
10:41It wasn't common
10:43to find a man
10:44his age
10:44living a normal life.
10:46In fact,
10:47in some comments
10:48on these videos
10:49from his audience,
10:51so to speak,
10:52they called him
10:53the nomadic grandpa
10:54and he had
10:54quite a lot of support
10:56to keep recording
10:56everything he did
10:58on his trips.
10:59These videos
11:00kept appearing
11:01after Esther's disappearance
11:03until this man
11:04started talking
11:05about his friend,
11:06showing photos
11:07and talking
11:08about her disappearance
11:09on his TikTok account.
11:11All of this
11:12was striking
11:13to the family.
11:15I've been thinking
11:16about my friend
11:16every day
11:17and it keeps me
11:18up at night.
11:19I've retraced
11:20every step
11:21I took with her,
11:22searching for her
11:23and I haven't found
11:24anything positive.
11:26Last night,
11:27I dreamed
11:27that she had forgotten me.
11:30I understand that.
11:32But what I don't understand
11:34is how she can forget
11:35her family.
11:37that those 20,
11:3821 days
11:39you spent with me,
11:40for me,
11:41they were the best
11:4221 days of my life.
11:44So I want you to know,
11:46wherever you are,
11:47and no matter
11:48how much time passes,
11:52I will never forget you
11:54because that mark
11:55you left on my heart,
11:57that mark,
11:58it never,
12:00never goes away.
12:04show some sign
12:05of life.
12:08You left a sign
12:09of life
12:10because I have
12:11truly loved you
12:12for real.
12:13On one hand,
12:15he seemed to be
12:16a man
12:16who really wanted
12:17to help find
12:18Esther.
12:19On the other hand,
12:21let's remember
12:22that something
12:23didn't add up
12:23for the mother.
12:25So she kept
12:26searching online
12:27to find more information
12:29about this
12:29traveling TikToker
12:30and what she found
12:32was surprising.
12:39More than two years
12:41before everything
12:42we've told you
12:43about Esther
12:44in the south of Spain
12:45and specifically
12:46in August
12:47of the year
12:482022,
12:50a 21-year-old guy
12:51named David Hurtado
12:53had disappeared.
12:54To put this
12:55disappearance
12:56into context,
12:57we have to say that
12:58David,
12:59who was a computer
13:00engineering student,
13:02had told his family
13:03that he was going
13:03to spend the afternoon
13:04at a family estate
13:06located in the
13:07Montes de M谩laga
13:08to collect carob pods.
13:11That same night
13:11when their son
13:12didn't return,
13:13the parents
13:14called the police
13:15to report the incident.
13:16The next day,
13:18a search was conducted
13:19and it didn't take long
13:20to find the lifeless
13:22body of David Hurtado,
13:23who also had gunshot wounds
13:25on his back
13:26and it was confirmed
13:27that he had been
13:27finished off
13:28when he fell to the ground
13:29after the first shots.
13:32Very similar
13:33to Esther's case.
13:36This young man
13:37had been found
13:38in a remote,
13:39hard-to-reach area,
13:40which again indicated
13:42that perhaps
13:43it was a place
13:43where the perpetrator
13:44thought he would
13:45never be found.
13:47The bad thing
13:49about this
13:49was that
13:50there was nothing else.
13:51There was no more evidence,
13:53much less
13:54knowing it was
13:55a remote place.
13:57There were no security
13:58cameras or leads
14:00that could help
14:00find the culprit.
14:02This was one of those cases
14:03with nothing to go on.
14:05For months,
14:06the investigation
14:07made no progress
14:08and it seemed like
14:09it was going to end up
14:11as a cold case,
14:12like many other cases
14:14where there isn't
14:14much evidence.
14:16But things changed
14:17because of a detail
14:19that initially
14:19hadn't been considered.
14:21This was the detail
14:24that if specialized agents
14:26hadn't found it
14:26would have turned it
14:28into a cold case.
14:29David had a backpack
14:31that was found
14:32with a body
14:33and on the metal tab
14:35of the zipper
14:36two tiny traces
14:38of DNA were found.
14:40One was David's,
14:43the victim's,
14:44and the other
14:46was from a man
14:46who had to be identified.
14:48And you already know
14:49where I'm going
14:50with this story.
14:51It wasn't easy
14:51to identify the DNA
14:53that was found.
14:53But two years later,
14:55in the year 2024,
14:57that DNA
14:58was able to be linked
15:00to the genetic profile
15:01of Jose Jurado Montilla,
15:03the TikToker
15:04who was talking
15:05at that moment
15:05about Esther's case.
15:07It's important
15:08to clarify
15:09that David's case
15:10was still being investigated.
15:12Jose was the main suspect,
15:14but a lot more evidence
15:15had to be found
15:16in order to arrest
15:17and charge him
15:18with a crime
15:19as serious as murder.
15:21Now,
15:22on the internet,
15:24the media was already
15:25talking about
15:26these suspicions
15:27and they mentioned him
15:28by his full name.
15:30That's how Esther's mother
15:31was able to find
15:32this information.
15:34Which was also a case
15:35very similar
15:36to her daughter's.
15:38When David's case
15:40already had plenty
15:41of solid evidence,
15:42they had to arrest
15:43Jose Jurado
15:44as the main suspect.
15:46But since they didn't
15:48have a fixed address
15:49for him,
15:49it was difficult
15:50to locate him.
15:52We have to say
15:53that he wasn't
15:53a very intelligent criminal.
15:57His biggest mistake,
15:59I think it was his ego,
16:01or so it seemed.
16:03Someone who commits crimes
16:04as perverse
16:05as those Jose
16:06was suspected
16:07of having committed.
16:08They usually not only
16:10try to eliminate evidence,
16:11but also to go unnoticed.
16:14But he apparently
16:15wanted to be famous
16:17to get views.
16:18And this led to him
16:20being discovered.
16:21It didn't take
16:22the police long.
16:23By watching his TikTok videos,
16:25they were able
16:26to find his exact location.
16:28That's how,
16:29on May 17th, 2024,
16:31almost three months
16:32after Esther's body
16:34was found,
16:35Jose Jurado Montillo
16:36was arrested
16:37without resisting.
16:39By that time.
16:43This arrest
16:44was only for David's case.
16:46The authorities
16:47still hadn't discovered
16:48that maybe he was
16:49responsible for Esther's death.
16:52Something the family
16:54was starting to investigate.
17:02When the news
17:03became public
17:04that Jose Jurado
17:06could have been
17:07the murderer
17:08in the Montes
17:09de Malaga case,
17:11all the attention
17:13started to focus
17:13on this TikToker.
17:15The media began
17:16uploading his videos.
17:18People started looking
17:19for information
17:19on his TikTok account.
17:21And that's when
17:22the videos of Jose
17:23talking about Esther
17:24started to come to light.
17:25Although at that time
17:26it was all speculation.
17:28People were looking
17:29at a possible murderer
17:31involved in David's death
17:33found in a remote area.
17:35And this suspect
17:36was talking about Esther
17:38who had been found
17:39in similar conditions.
17:41And worst of all,
17:43Jose said he was
17:44a friend of this woman.
17:46This
17:46he claimed something worse.
17:49And according to Jose himself,
17:51he was the last one
17:52to see Esther alive
17:53before she disappeared.
17:55The investigators
17:57began trying to find
17:58more direct links
17:59between Jose
18:00and Esther's case.
18:04That's how they were able
18:05to confirm
18:06that they had met
18:07at a municipal shelter
18:08in Alicante
18:09and from that moment on,
18:11they started walking
18:12together along the coast
18:14to different towns
18:15and cities
18:16in the province.
18:18What's more,
18:19there was a record
18:20of a call for an ambulance
18:21on one of those nights
18:23and this call
18:24was made by Jose.
18:27And this was the record
18:28that would later be seen
18:30at the Francesca de Borja hospital
18:32about Esther
18:33and her leg pain
18:35since,
18:36as could be confirmed,
18:39Esther and Jose
18:40had walked
18:4137 kilometers
18:42between the cities
18:43of Dinia
18:44and Gandia,
18:45which caused her
18:46to start having
18:47this intense pain.
18:48If you remember
18:49after this,
18:50Esther's mother,
18:52Peppa started
18:53receiving messages
18:54from her daughter
18:54about supposedly
18:55going to live
18:56in Buenos Aires
18:57with her new
18:57Argentinian friends.
18:59The autopsy
19:00of Esther's body
19:01was complex
19:02because it was
19:03in an advanced
19:04state of decomposition.
19:06It is believed
19:07that she had been abused.
19:09It was also found
19:10that
19:10the cause of death
19:12was a fracture
19:13at the base of the skull.
19:14Two other fractures
19:15were found in the area
19:17and it was confirmed
19:18that they were inflicted
19:19while she was still alive.
19:21Something very strange
19:22was found
19:23on Esther's skull.
19:24There was a mark
19:26in the shape
19:28of a cross.
19:29And when
19:30the authorities
19:31they were investigating
19:33the belongings
19:36they were searching
19:37through Jose's belongings
19:38they found a necklace
19:40with a cross
19:41that
19:42fit exactly
19:44with the size
19:45and shape
19:46of this mark
19:47found on the skull
19:48of Esther.
19:49What the authorities
19:51believe is that
19:52after killing her
19:53Jose left that cross
19:54on her head
19:55for days
19:56until
19:57when he decided
19:58to leave the area
19:59he took that cross
20:01with him.
20:01Jose had reportedly
20:03uploaded more than
20:0416 videos
20:05about Esther's case
20:06presenting himself
20:07as a concerned friend
20:08but the authorities
20:10believe he was trying
20:11to mislead them
20:12because supposedly
20:13he had continued
20:14Esther's route
20:15something that would
20:17something that would
20:17later prove
20:17not to be a path
20:18Esther had taken
20:19in other words
20:21maybe
20:22he was planting
20:24the idea
20:24of places
20:25that would never
20:27lead to finding
20:28anything
20:29about the case.
20:30The authorities
20:32had a solid case
20:33not only with
20:34the death of David
20:35but also with
20:35the case of
20:36Esther Estepa
20:37but
20:38this was going
20:39to be the beginning
20:40of other old
20:41pieces of information
20:43link to
20:43Jose Jurado Montilla
20:59this case uncovered
21:00a serial killer
21:01who had been active
21:02since at least
21:031985
21:05the cases of
21:06David and Esther
21:07were possibly
21:09the last ones
21:10and I say possibly
21:12because maybe
21:12with these cases
21:14later over time
21:16other victims
21:17are discovered
21:17up until now
21:18these are the two cases
21:20and what we're going
21:21to discuss next
21:22because Jose Jurado
21:23he had been arrested
21:25for a series of murders
21:26in the 1980s
21:27these were murders
21:29committed in rural homes
21:31and rural areas
21:32of Malaga
21:33the cases
21:35they had elements
21:37in common
21:37victims alone
21:38in isolated areas
21:40also
21:41it was proven
21:42that there were robberies
21:43shotgun blasts
21:45and a particularly
21:46cold kind of violence
21:48among them
21:49was a local resident
21:51from the
21:51Porto de la Torre
21:52area in Malaga
21:53also
21:54two tourists
21:55who were camping
21:56in the El Toro area
21:57and a man
21:58whose body
21:59was found
22:00partially charred
22:01in a rural house
22:02in the Puerto de los Randos
22:03in Campanillas
22:04for those four homicides
22:06the courts
22:07sentenced him
22:09to a total
22:10of 123 years
22:12in prison
22:12for almost
22:13three decades
22:15Jose was behind bars
22:16serving that sentence
22:18in 2013
22:19a European court
22:21overturned a rule
22:23known as
22:24the Parrot Doctrine
22:25that's
22:26basically
22:27this is what we understand
22:28with this doctrine
22:29there were some cases
22:31and some people
22:32convicted
22:33of very serious crimes
22:36who were beaten
22:39or
22:40were serving a sentence
22:42more longer
22:44than they were supposed
22:45to serve
22:45something like that
22:47and when Jose's case
22:50was reviewed
22:50under these new rules
22:52his sentence
22:53was reduced
22:54and he was released
22:55after almost
22:5628 years
22:57in prison
23:00unfortunately
23:01being released
23:02gave him the opportunity
23:03to kill again
23:05now
23:06it's known
23:07that there are
23:08many serial killers
23:09who kill for pleasure
23:10others to maintain control
23:12but the case of
23:13Jose Jurado
23:14was more complex
23:16he seemed to take
23:18a certain pleasure
23:19in creating content
23:20on the internet
23:20knowing that he had been
23:22getting away with it
23:23for years
23:25at the same time
23:27it was possible
23:28to confirm
23:29the sexual abuse
23:31that Esther had suffered
23:33which could also
23:34have been the motive
23:35in this murder
23:36or behind the robberies
23:38in earlier cases
23:39and in David's case
23:41this suggested
23:42that he was an opportunist
23:44possibly
23:46murdering
23:47was simply
23:47getting rid of witnesses
23:49so that any benefit
23:50he could get
23:51would be buried forever
23:54the trial
23:55hasn't taken place yet
23:56apparently
23:57there is a lot of evidence
23:58against him
23:59and what is expected
24:00is that
24:01justice will be served
24:03and that's what we hope for
24:04as well
24:04from this channel
24:05a short
24:06but
24:06very interesting case
24:09that combines
24:10all this about
24:11the internet
24:12fame
24:13and
24:14a critical mind
24:16which
24:17we could say
24:18showed he had
24:19some intelligence
24:20but at the same time
24:22his ego
24:23led him to be captured
24:26that's it for today's case
24:27I look forward
24:28to your comments below
24:29and I'll see you again
24:30in the next story
24:31yeah
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