Overview
- Spain's Civil Guard found the dismembered remains Friday at the Zurita landfill in Puerto del Rosario, identifying the victim as 56-year-old Belgian national Katty Oosterlinck.
- Her 22-year-old son was detained Friday afternoon in Las Palmas on suspicion of murder and is considered the prime suspect, with his name withheld by authorities.
- Oosterlinck’s body was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Las Palmas for examination, and officials have not disclosed how she died.
- Investigators have reconstructed parts of the timeline with the suspect and searched her home in Corralejo along with other locations tied to the case.
- Friends and volunteers had searched the island after she was reported missing May 4, and local expatriates say the case has shaken their community.