The National Police have arrested a woman in Palma as allegedly responsible for the death of her aunt in a home in the town of Sineu. Investigators suspect that the woman may have killed her relative in this town in the interior of Mallorca, but she later moved her body to Palma to give the appearance that she had not participated in the events and that the woman could have having died of natural causes.
The detainee, 51 years old, called 112 to report the death of her aunt, 91, apparently due to natural causes. The woman claimed that she had found her dead at her home in Palma, unexpectedly. The emergency services and police officers showed up at the home but immediately suspected that the version the woman gave was not true.
The investigators detected elements that suggested that the death did not occur due to natural causes since the woman's body had wounds of violent etiology, according to the National Police. These injuries raised the suspicions of the police, who immediately began an investigation into the causes of the woman's death.
As a result of these investigations, the police suspect that the woman killed her aunt at a home in the municipality of Sineu and then moved the body to the home in Palma to pretend that the death had been due to natural causes. Investigators maintain that the woman made numerous contradictions when she was questioned by the agents, a circumstance that was added to the fact that the dead woman had injuries caused by violent actions.
The Homicide Group of the National Police is leading the investigations and for now they are not providing any further details of the event so as not to jeopardize the investigation, according to the Police itself. The woman is detained pending the progress of the investigations and for her to be brought to justice once the circumstances of the event are clarified.
The elderly woman's body has been transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine for an autopsy to be performed and the causes of death can be determined with greater certainty. In any case, the Police maintain that there are sufficient elements to suspect that the death was violent and did not respond to natural causes, as the detainee claims.
