The Provincial Court of León handed down a 20-year conviction for the murder, and three more years for violent robbery, as Muñoz took the pilgrim’s cash and later attempted to change the dollars into euros at a local bank.Īt the trial, officers had explained how all evidence kept leading them straight to Muñoz, a man whom neighbors have described as anti-social and prone to odd behavior. Public prosecutors had sought 25 years for Thiem’s killer, while the private prosecution was pressing for 27 years. Despite initially admitting to the crime, Muñoz later retracted his confession.
Her disappearance triggered a months-long search, with US Senator John McCain offering Spain help from the FBI to find the Arizona native.Īuthorities only found the body after Muñoz confessed and took them to the place where he had buried it – minus the hands, which he had cut off and which were never found. EFEĪ jury recently found Muñoz, 41, guilty of killing Thiem on April 5, 2015, after she took a detour from the main road to visit the small municipality of Castrillo de Polvazares, in the northern Spanish province of León. Body found on murder suspects farm is American tourist who went missing in Spain Miguel Angel Munoz, 39, led police to the body of a woman after he was arrested on Friday, a Spanish security. Police said after his conviction they suspected the Spaniard had deliberately altered the yellow signs marking the pilgrimage route to lure people towards his home.Miguel Ángel Muñoz (right) with his lawyer during the trial. Published: 11 April 2017 16:20 CEST Muñoz arriving for court in León. Her body was found naked and without hands in a remote area. Spanish farmer jailed for 23 years for murder of American pilgrim Miguel Angel Muñoz Blas, 41, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the murder of Denise Pikka Thiem from the United States whom he lured off the Camino de Santiago and beat her to death. She disappeared two years earlier as she walked alone to Santiago de Compostela after watching a Martin Sheen film about the pilgrimage. American Denise Pikka Thiem, 41, vanishes while hiking the famous Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. In April 2017 Miguel Angel Munoz was convicted of the murder of American pilgrim Denise Pikka Thiem by a court in the northern Spanish city of Leon. Listen to this episode from Unknown Passage on Spotify. The Portuguese Way - one of several St James Way routes crossing the Iberian peninsula which end in Santiago de Compostela - has its official start in Lisbon and is nearly 400 miles long. The other two women are believed to have been heading to work early in the morning when they were targeted.Ĭardoso, caught carrying valuables belonging to the Brit after being arrested at a train station as he headed back home along with his partner in crime, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison over the September 2018 attacks.Ĭortez was handed a five and a half year jail sentence. The British woman was sexually attacked near a popular tourist viewpoint called San Bento. She was forced to perform a sex act on one of the men after being sexually abused.Īnother two women were targeted in the same week in attacks blamed on the pair, who were named locally after their convictions as Diego Cardoso, 30, and Luis Cortez, 22.Ī court in Santarem ruled the pair had travelled to Santarem from the nearby city of Entroncamento to target women on their own and concluded their attacks had been “premeditated.” Get the day's biggest stories to your email - sign up for the Mirror newsletter
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