Overview
- The bodies of a 45‑year‑old woman and a 50‑year‑old man were discovered by their two teenage children in a jacuzzi at a rented villa in the Cap Blanc estate near Cullera on Tuesday, and the children alerted the homeowner.
- First officers preserved the scene and a specialist Civil Guard homicide unit was mobilised after investigators found evidence that required careful forensic work, including collecting a sample of cloudy jacuzzi water for analysis.
- Autopsies carried out in Valencia have ruled out criminal violence, and post‑mortem findings have led investigators to advance a provisional ‘chain‑reaction’ hypothesis in which one partner died first and the other died while trying to help.
- Urine, blood and tissue samples have been sent to a specialist laboratory in Barcelona for further testing, and authorities say those analyses could take several weeks to complete.
- The couple’s children are receiving support from social workers, relatives have travelled to Spain, consular services are assisting family abroad, and an investigating judge has placed the probe under a secrecy order.