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The disappearance of the Alcàsser girls
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In 1992, three schoolgirls go missing in the Spanish village of Alcàsser: Toñi, Desiree and Miriam never come home after a night out.
Their bodies were found on January 23, 1993, exactly 30 years ago this week. A suspect, one Miguel Ricart, was arrested almost immediately. He confesses to the crime. But that was really just the beginning of the story…
The Alcàsser case is still a sensitive subject in Spain after all these years. The whole country was in shock at the time, and the live broadcasts from Alcàsser still hold the record for the most viewed Spanish broadcasts of all time. But after that, many people felt that the TV makers had gone way too far in the gruesome details that were shared and the intrusion into people's saddest moments.
In search of lost crime delves into the case that still has a hold over Spain exactly thirty years later: the incompetent police work, the sad father who takes justice into his own hands, and the main suspect who manages a very daring escape....
And after all these years the question remains: was Miguel Ricart the real perpetrator of the murder of the girls of Alcàsser? And if he didn't do it, then who did?
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