Vanessa, daughter of Manolo Escobar, reveals how the kidnapping of Anabel Segura changed her life

Last Friday, November 22, Netflix premiered the documentary series 900 days without Anabelan unpublished testimony about what became the longest kidnapping in the history of Spain: the kidnapping of the young woman Anabel Segura. One of the most surprising testimonies of the documentary series is that of the journalist Vanessa Escobardaughter of the singer Manolo Escobar and Anita Marx.

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As he explains, that fateful April 12, 1993, the day Anabel was kidnapped, changed his life overnight. “I was Anabel’s neighbor“, he begins by saying, because he lived with his parents in the same urbanization of La Moraleja as the young victim. “I was 14 years old when Anabel’s kidnapping occurred and I know that it affected my parents greatly. In fact, It made them decide that we should go live in Benidorm because there they felt or thought that I was going to be safer.“, he reveals.

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Vanessa, 43, tells how terror invaded all the residents of Intergolf, an urbanization with great security measures and luxury facilities. “The structure of the urbanization was circular. You entered, you passed through a security checkpoint… We were, as its name suggests, Intergolf, inside a golf course. Many gardens, swimming pools, tennis courts, basketball courts. .. It was a spectacular place“, remember.

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As the journalist declares, “in that bubble in which we lived, what Anabel’s kidnapping and disappearance did was put fear into our bodies.” “The fear, the terror, crept in. I believe that there was a before and after Anabel’s kidnapping“he reflects.

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Anabel Segura was 22 years old when Emilio Muñoz and Cándido Ortiz They kidnapped her in a white van while the young woman, a business student, had gone out for a run in the neighborhood where she lived. The kidnappers’ intention was to ask for a ransom to pay off their debts, however, they decided to murder her and bury her in an abandoned ceramics factory in Numancia de la Sagra, Toledo. For more than two years, these two men, with the help of Felisa García, Emilio’s wife, made everyone believe that Anabel was still alive..