Twelve years later crimes of Guanarteme. The family of Ana María Artiles and Antonio Quesada will be the only suspects in the murders of the two elderly people sitting in the dock. After reopening the case a few weeks ago thanks to the impetus and work of the victims’ family, the judge has now taken the first step and calls the deputy director of the victims’ bank branch to testify for the double crime , after having deduced what “the possible commission of the crime of murder” acted from.
The trial against the deputy director of the Guanarteme neighborhood section was dismissed in 2023 for lack of evidence. After ordering the Provincial Court of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to reopen the case and the new procedure proposed by the family, the investigating judge now deduces the possible commission of the crime of murder and calls the suspect to testify.
Patricia Catalina, the lawyer who represents the family of the murdered elderly people, does not hide her satisfaction after having obtained the reopening of the case in first instance and now that the only suspect is called to testify: “We are extremely happy with the reopening du as well as for the proceedings before the jury court for the two crimes of aggravated murder which could be punished by a permanent prison sentence reviewable for each of them. The Provincial Court of Las Palmas agreed with us and it is clear that there is sufficient evidence to continue the investigation against the only person under investigation for the murders of Antonio and Ana María, as well as for an alleged crime of fraud against marriage, a more than probable motive for committing the crimes in a violent and cruel manner.
The suspect
The last time Antonio Quesada and Ana María Artiles were seen alive was in March 2012 and they were in the company of the main investigator: the deputy director of your bank branch trustworthy in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The man who managed the money and property of the two people aged 76 and 74.
The two elderly men had an appointment with the deputy director while the office was closed to the rest of the public. Exactly at 6:32 p.m. that day the cameras They record how the couple and the assistant manager left the bank together. We would never see them alive again.
On August 20, 2017, a hunter found the couple’s bones buried in the Cow Ravinein the town of Agüimes. In 2018, the police arrested the deputy director of the bank after discovering that customers scammed with a profile similar to that of the murdered couple, facts for which he was dismissed from the branch.
The suspect’s story did not match the data taken from his cell phone. His statements were full of contradictions. After several days in temporary prisonthe judge released him for lack of evidence and kept him under investigation until June 2023, when he provisionally closed the investigation against the deputy director and ordered the case file.
