Girona and Madrid, twinned by death: who killed and burned Anne Strande?

Montserrat Méndez, 40 years old, a resident of Girona, disappeared without a trace on October 23, 2013.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
21 November 2023 Tuesday 09:25
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Girona and Madrid, twinned by death: who killed and burned Anne Strande?

Montserrat Méndez, 40 years old, a resident of Girona, disappeared without a trace on October 23, 2013. None of the clues followed by the Mossos d'Esquadra allowed us to solve the enigma and after months of fruitless searches the file was left in the drawer of pending cases.

Anne Strande, a Dane who had only been living in Madrid for a couple of weeks, appeared charred in the ashes of the fire that destroyed her apartment on June 13, 2014. The National Police also did not find a thread to pull to find who He killed the girl and set fire to the house to cover his tracks.

They were two cases with no apparent solution. They were separated by six months in time and 700 kilometers in distance. But a stroke of fortune gave an unexpected turn to both events.

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