Gabriel Cruz

The Murder of Gabriel Cruz, also known as Operación Nemo refers to the events related to the disappearance of a child called Gabriel Cruz Ramírez in Spain. It took place in the afternoon of 27 February 2018 in the southern town of Las Hortichuelas (Almería), where the child was murdered in a family cottage near the town of Rodalquilar. The eight-year-old boy disappeared somewhere on the way from his grandmother's house to his cousins', only 100 metres apart, and then he was missing for the next 12 days. A SAR service of over 5,000 people including 3,000 volunteers and 2,000 professionals was established. It was the largest coordinated search for a missing person in the history of Spain. On 11 March, the body was found in the trunk of the vehicle of Ana Julia Quezada, who was the father's partner at the time. The alleged perpetrator had previously unearthed the child's body on a farm owned by the child's paternal family in Rodalquilar. It was there the murder had allegedly taken place on the same day of the disappearance. Ana Julia introduced the body into the vehicle and went to her home in La Puebla de Vícar. There, at the garage door, she was stopped by the Civil Guard, who had been following in her footsteps. Two days later, the defendant confessed to the crime. The investigation of the case remains open and pending on legal ruling.

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