Losing Spaniard: Death by flood - a life in homelessness!

Losing Spaniard: Death by flood - a life in homelessness!

Quart de Poblet, Spanien - A tragic and bizarre story has found a surprising end after over 40 years. Miguel Morales Molina, who in 1984 in Dúrcal, Andalusia, disappeared, has been missing since then and was officially declared dead due to a court procedure in 2016. But fate wanted it differently: a devastating storm that hit the Valencia region on October 29, 2024 unveiled his body in a flooded orange grove in November. According to information from El País posthumously enables tragic return to the life of his family.

The 34-year-old Miguel disappeared during a marriage war that was characterized by drug abuse and domestic violence. His wife Maria Montserrat had submitted the divorce shortly before his disappearance, since Miguel often abused her and her two daughters. Sources of OE24 report for years on the streets of Valencias, without papers and without contact to the world, while his family was in an uncertainty lived. His daughters, Jessica and Sara, were too young to remember their father and had given up hope of seeing again.

a tragic and lengthy process

Despite the years of uncertainty, the family began a procedure for the official declaration of death in 2009. After a long legal process that took another six years, Miguel was declared dead in 2016 - incredibly at the time when he lived in reality. Finally, however, he was discovered by the catastrophic weather conditions, which demanded several fatalities, by a local farmer. The report states that the police investigation showed that it had died of "Asphyxic drowning in muddy water". His discovery did not heal his family's wounds, but shows the tragedies that hide behind long missing cases. The sisters are now confronted with the fact that their father, whom they believed as dead, died tragically, and they have to take care of the transfer of his mortal remains, which are now divided between them.