The disappearance of Antonio David Barroso Díaz, the 15-year-old boy from Morón de la Frontera (Seville) who was lost on September 12, 2021, during a drifting trip with his mother by car from Andalusia and supposedly destined for Galicia, remains in the dark. This week marks the third anniversary of an event in which there are no bodies or anyone in prison, although Macarena, the parent, is still the subject of an official investigation in court for the crime of disappearance of a minor. She leads her life with mental problems that have only complicated the search for David and increased the agony of Antonio, his father. The couple had been separated for years.
As ABC has learned, in the Morón court that is hearing the case, there is a report sent by the central services of the National Police in which three hypotheses are established about what happened to the little boy. The first is that the minor died on September 12 in Morón, due to an illness or heat stroke. Another is that he lost his life at the Perales home, in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), where the mother and son stayed for four hours before resuming the journey to Madrid.
But there is a third theory, which is the one that researchers give the greatest plausibility: that Antonio David died on the way and they point out as the most probable point the municipality of Miajadas (Cáceres), crossed by the southwest highway (A-5). This is where the so-called Ruta de la Plata, the A-66, connects, along which they traveled north, from Seville to Extremadura.
The sources consulted indicate that “it was terribly hot that day.” Macarena stopped and left the van open for a few minutes while he refueled at a gas station. He must have realized at that moment that the little boy had died en route, otherwise he could have suffered from heatstroke.
The researchers point out in the report that, to make matters worse, the woman had not given the teenager any treatment for a long time. In fact, it was proven that the last purchase of medication was made weeks before, in her city. She herself also did not take her medication for her bipolar and schizophrenia, with which she had been diagnosed, until at least the summer. In a conversation with ABC last year, he admitted that he had stopped doing so before the summer “because he was gaining weight.”
Gibberish in the courtroom
The judicial investigation is tortuous. Three judges have succeeded and the fourth has joined. The principle in this case is that if there is no body, there is no proven homicide; However, the Ufam Central, in charge of the police investigation, considers Macarena as the author of at least one homicide for lack of assistance. For the time being, the file is neither archived nor provisionally closed, but no new proceedings have been requested either. In short, everything is stopped and for the moment it does not seem that it will get out of the quagmire. The Prosecutor’s Office is providing a full defense to the woman due to her mental state; In fact, she spent two months in the psychiatric hospitals of Segovia and Valme, in Seville, after her arrest on the morning of September 13 at a gas station in Carabias, where she declared that the child was dead (that she had killed him herself). ) and that she had thrown in the trash: “At that moment, it wasn’t me, I was like drugged. I don’t know if it’s a dream or if it’s real. There is a family plot against me, the whole family. Even the one I have in Marbella. “They want to take my son away from me.”
The researchers are considering a partial, but not complete, defense, without completely canceling their volitional capacities. In addition, the responsibility could be sought in the mother’s family, since they knew that she was not following the pharmacological treatment and had done nothing, the sources of the investigation detail to this newspaper.
So where is David? The police have carried out countless searches along a very wide route, from Seville to Riaza (Segovia), where Macarena, now childless, tried to spend the night of September 13, without finding a place to stay. In the morning, the Civil Guard found her disoriented at the Carabias gas station and told her that the child had died. What he said was that he had thrown the body into a container and the articulated chair in which David was in another (his disability prevented him from moving, but he also did not speak or have practically any other senses). He first indicated this near the Xanadú shopping center, along Arroyomolinos and near the descending lane of the A-5, where he was seen at 2:08 a.m. But there is no trace of it on the cameras. In the reconstructions she attended, it was concluded that she did it later, in Aluche, specifically on Illescas Street, 1. A cashier at the Caixa de Padre Piquer sees the vehicle at 2:11 in the morning. In addition, this newspaper learns that the police managed to locate both the truck that collected the waste that day and the specific containers.
The traffic cameras in the area record the passage of Macarena’s car, but then there is a 14-minute delay when it is filmed again through the M-30 tunnels, heading north, at 2:25 a.m. All conceivable speed calculations have been made. They estimate that this parenthesis is the time it took to get rid of the miner and the chair in which he was transporting him. Ufam Central then requested the cessation of waste corresponding to these dates in the Valdemingómez (Villa de Vallecas) and Pinto landfills. The court authorized the searches on site, but this diligence did not produce the expected results either. But here we come to a key element: the researchers point out, as has been said, that the death could have occurred in Miajadas; but also because Antonio David most likely ended up in the Valdemingómez landfill.
The police did not have enough time between requesting the search of the premises and preventing the waste treatment corresponding to that day. Between two and three days passed. Since it was raining in Madrid, the waste treatment was brought forward, which worked against him. That is where the boy would have ended up. Macarena’s initial version (he later changed it several times), the one that still shocks him, is therefore probably the most faithful to reality. In Riaza, he got rid of his documents, like his transport ticket.
30 seizure episodes per day
Macarena Díaz, now 42, had to take care of her son, who is 91% disabled due to West syndrome. A few days before the escape, the boy had convulsions in a supermarket and she said that everything was fine with him. That’s how she was caught by the chambers of commerce. Lately, these episodes were reaching 20 or 30 a day. The National Police of Morón, a few months before, was present in the house and informed the municipal services of the lack of care and attention given to the minor. But those who should have acted at that time did not, and the tragedy was consummated.
The mother had become a religious fanatic, she talked about exorcisms, resuscitation of the child and asked for a second medical opinion, but she did not like what the doctor told her. In his delirium, he decided to take her to Santiago de Compostela so that the Saint could heal him. She got rid of all the furniture in Morón’s house and before leaving for Galicia, she threw her cell phones into a container, which allowed her to travel without the possibility of geolocation. Something that was planned as an explosion and whose true motivation will never be known.
After filling up in Miajadas, he entered the Talavera Hotel at 8:30 p.m.: the employee saw the child “as if he were sleeping”. He was covered with a blanket that he had just bought in a bazaar and had put on a mask, uselessly. But what he was carrying was already a corpse and he spent four hours with it, until midnight, when he decided to resume the journey to Madrid and get rid of it.
