Last Friday, November 22, Netflix premiered the documentary series 900 days without AnnabelleAn unpublished testimony about what has become the longest kidnapping in Spain’s history: the abduction of a young woman Annabelle Segura. The most surprising testimony of the documentary series is that of the journalist Vanessa EscobarDaughter of singer Manolo Escobar and Anita Marx.
© GTRESAs he explains, his life changed overnight on that fateful April 12, 1993, the day Annabelle was kidnapped. “I was Annabelle’s neighbor“, he began, as he lived with his parents in the same urbanization of La Moralesa as the young victim. “I was 14 years old when Annabel was kidnapped and I know that it affected my parents greatly. actually, It made them decide that we should live in Benidorm because there they felt or thought I was going to be safer.“, he revealed.
© NetflixVanessa, 43, told how terror struck all the residents of Intergolf, an urbanization with great security and luxury facilities. “The urbanization structure was circular. You entered, you went through a security checkpoint… We were, as the name suggests, Intergolf, inside a golf course. Lots of gardens, swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts… It was a sight to behold“, remember.
© NetflixAs the journalist declared, “In the bubble we lived in, what Annabelle’s abduction and disappearance had done sent fear into our bodies.” “Fear, panic set in. I believe that was before and after Annabelle’s abduction” she reflects.
© NetflixAnnabelle Segura was 22 years old at the time Emilio Munoz and Candido Ortiz They abducted her in a white van when the young woman, a business student, was out jogging in the neighborhood where she lived. The kidnappers intended to demand a ransom to pay their debts, however, they decided to kill him and bury him in an abandoned ceramic factory in Numancia de la Sagra, Toledo. For more than two years, the two men, with the help of Felisa Garcia, Emilio’s wife, convinced everyone that Annabel was still alive..
