Missing student was likely crushed, then incinerated after passing out in garbage while partying in tourist spot: cops
By Jared Downing
Published Oct. 21, 2024, 7:14 p.m. ET
A 24-year-old student partying in picturesque Majorca, Spain, was likely crushed to death in a garbage truck and then incinerated after falling into a trash bin, police said.
Agostina Rubini Medina had been missing for more than two weeks after she vanished during a night out with her friends in Palma, the capital city of the famous vacation hotspot island.
Now the National Police of Spain have a theory: The sloshed student probably passed out while digging around in a trash bin — possibly for her phone — and was scooped into a garbage truck, crushed in the truck’s garbage smasher and finally dumped into an incinerator.
A worker at a shop near a bus stop on Medina’s route home said the girl, who was visibly drunk, had stopped in to buy a bag of chips just before midnight.
Shortly afterward, a witness who had been at the bus stop told cops they saw Medina’s handbag and blouse neatly arranged by a large trash bin.
Tracking data showed Medina’s phone fixed to that spot for around a half hour before moving to the incineration plant, where it went dead. That timeline matches travel records from the garbage truck.