(Cordoba province) The father of two children, Ruth 6 and Jose 2, reported that they had gone missing at a playpark in Cordoba. However, police didn’t believe him from the start, according to the  Spanish media, who are collectively making it clear that they don’t either.

The very next day the their disappearance, a page-wide headline read: The police are convinced that the children are dead and are searching the father’s farmland. The same article recounts that after six hours of interrogation the father “hadn’t caved in”  In fact, the father just kept repeating, “What I want to know is where are my children because I feel enormous pain.”

The police, on the other hand, commented that, “He was very sparse with his comments when he reported them missing, too much so – he sounded like he was recounting a football match. The police said that they were amazed by his ‘coldness.’

There are no witnesses that can corroborate that he was in the park with the children when he said they were. So, they searched his car and found two knives and masking tape. An extensive search of his farmland so far has revealed nothing, but a recent bonfire contained charred bones – police forensic scientists are in the process of establishing whether they are human bones or not.

The day prior to the disappearance, the father had collected the children from his wife, with whom he had recently separated, for the weekend and taken them to his parents’ home in Cordoba. The children stayed the following morning with their grandparents but around midday, the father returned, telling his parents that he was taking the children to eat with a friend. The father and grandparents had an argument. Nobody has seen the children since. The lunch never took place and the father reported them missing at 18.20h – he said that they had all been in the park since 17.45h

Regardless of how damning circumstantial evidence is, without a confession or the children turning up one way or another, he is still a distraught father who has reported his children missing.

(News: Cordoba, Andalucia)