23case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 23 case files in Spain. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 1 marked ongoing, 19 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Unknown authorCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListen55 Atocha Street, central Madrid · 1977
Five labour activists were killed and four gravely wounded when right-wing gunmen attacked a workers' legal office on Atocha Street in Madrid on 24 January 1977; the main perpetrators were later convicted.
Credit: National Human Rights Council of the Kingdom of MoroccoPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenMelilla border fence, near Nador, Morocco/Spain · 2022
On 24 June 2022, at least 23 migrants and asylum seekers died in a crowd crush at the Melilla border fence during a confrontation between a group of roughly 2,000 migrants and Moroccan and Spanish security forces.
Credit: GoldorakCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenRoad near Ispaster, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain · 1980
An ETA gun and grenade ambush on a Civil Guard convoy near Ispaster, Spain, on 1 February 1980 killed six Civil Guards and two of the attackers.
SOLVEDListenZarautz, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain · 1980
A 1980 mass shooting by the Basque separatist organisation ETA at a bar in Zarautz, Spain, killed five people and led to two convictions.
OVERTURNEDListenTresjuncos, Cuenca, Spain · 1910
In 1910, a shepherd named José María Grimaldos disappeared from the Spanish village of Tresjuncos; two men were tortured into confessing to his murder and served over 12 years in prison before Grimaldos reappeared alive in 1926, leading Spain's Supreme Court to void their convictions.
SOLVEDListenErmua, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain · 1997
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a 29-year-old councillor in Ermua, Spain, was kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA on 10 July 1997 and shot two days later after the Spanish government did not meet ETA's 48-hour deadline; he died of his wounds on 13 July 1997. Two people were tried, beginning in 2006, in connection with the kidnapping and killing.
SOLVEDListenMarkina, Basque Country, Spain · 1980
On 20 September 1980, four off-duty Spanish civil guards were shot dead by ETA gunmen in a bar near Markina in the Basque Country.
SOLVEDListenPuente de Vallecas, Madrid · 1995
A car bomb planted by the Basque separatist group ETA in Madrid's Puente de Vallecas district killed six people and injured nineteen on 11 December 1995.
SOLVEDListenLa Rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2017
On 17-18 August 2017, a terrorist cell killed 16 people in a van attack on Barcelona's La Rambla and a vehicle-and-knife attack in Cambrils, Spain; most of the attackers were killed by police or in an earlier explosion, and three associates were convicted in 2021.
SOLVEDListenLos Cristianos, Tenerife, Spain · 2011
Jennifer Mills-Westley, a retired British grandmother, was killed in a shop in Los Cristianos, Tenerife, in 2011, and a Bulgarian man with paranoid schizophrenia was convicted of her murder in 2013.
The files run from 1910 to 2022. The 1990s hold the most, with 7 files. The oldest is Crime of Cuenca, from 1910.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (18), kidnapping and abduction cases (5) and mass shooting cases (3).
1 file of the 23 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary from 1 creator.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Lola González Ruiz — Credit: Unknown authorCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Basilica del Pilar ZaragozaAragon(Spain)-2 — Credit: derivative work: Escarlati (talk) [[:Image:Basilica_del_Pilar_ZaragozaAragon(Spain).jpg|B…CC BY-SA 3.0Source
Hermetically closed unidirectional turnstiles where migrants were trapped (cropped) — Credit: National Human Rights Council of the Kingdom of MoroccoPublic domainSource
Atentado de Ispáster cropped — Credit: GoldorakCC BY-SA 4.0Source
23. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 cold, 1 ongoing, 19 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Crime of Cuenca, from 1910. Open the file
Annie Elise (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
