Dark Memories: Crimes From the Balearic Islands

In September 1996, German radiologist Rudgerer Oyntzen killed his two children, aged 6 and 8, by a lethal injection during a vacation in Mallorca

February 2013. An 18-year-old man kills his mother in Palma, beating her savagely with a barbed dumbbell.

In the island of Menorca the mummified remains of a child are found inside a suitcase in 2010.

In 2002, agents of the Guardia Civil receive information about an alleged unsolved crime.

The popular festivities of San Antonio Abad in the Mallorcan town of Pollença are interrupted by the brutal murder of Llorenç Colom.

The discovery of a decapitated corpse on the coast of Mallorca triggers an investigation of a murder perpetrated by a network of drug traffickers linked to the Colombian cartels.

Ángel Ábad is killed by two shots inside his restaurant in the town of Porto Cristo, Mallorca. Revenge for an alleged extra-marital relationship.

In 2006 Katerina Buchler was shot dead at her home in Cala Murada, Mallorca. Her husband, Rudolf Eberhard, was the only witness to the events.

The Pere Garau neighborhood, in Palma de Mallorca, wakes up to the news that one of its residents has confessed to have killed and dismembered his brother.

On January 11th, 1977 María Dolores Santiago Palenzuela disappeared leaving no trace.

The body of a German citizen, Günter Ulrich, is found at the bottom of a well filled with concrete in The Seven Houses estate, located in the east of Mallorca.

In 1987 the discovery of the corpse of German Winfred Brandt initiated an investigation that led to the resolution of another mysterious discovery on two beaches in Mallorca.

The German businessman Manfred Meisel, the so-called King of Beer, is murdered in his home as well as his eight-year-old son Patrick and Claudia Leinsten, his employee.

Noura Hitchou is murdered in broad daylight on her way home from work.

Operation Kraken led to the dismantling of a dangerous organized gang of paramilitaries dedicated to carrying out robberies with violence in homes and commercial premises.