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It led to one of the biggest public searches in SpainвЂ™s history, until her body turned up, apparently sexually assaulted, on waste ground in Los Rodeos, between Puerto Banus and San Pedro, on November 2.Д«ut it wasnвЂ™t just any bit of overgrown land.

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She had vanished some 500 metres from her boyfriendвЂ™s house, at around 10pm, her violent stabbing leaving an ominous series of blood stains on waste ground, as well as drag marks and nearby tyre tracks.

The Wanninkhof case had begun on October 9, 1999, in La Cala de Mijas, when 19-year-old Rocio had been slayed on her way home. The British authorities had even tracked him down and warned the Spanish counterparts of his past, but inexplicably he was never extradited home to face other charges.

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Incredibly, he had easily immersed himself into a new life on the Costa del Sol, despite actually appearing on UK TV programme Crimewatch on a separate rape case the week he left for Spain, in 1997. The fact he had moved to Spain having changed his name by deed poll from Tony Bromwich вЂ“ aka the Holloway Strangler, in the UK, for half a dozen vicious attacks on women вЂ“ only made the case more supercharged. I started with KingвЂ™s acquaintances in Alhaurin (among them his former workmates at the Bowers Arms as well as an ex-flatmate, a Danish girl) and eventually ended up interviewing his wife and family back home. The truth about the Wanninkhof caseвЂ™, in particular, goes deep in a six-parter, which sets up as being a study of one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Spanish history. It makes for gripping TV, studying Dolores VazquezвЂ™ alleged motives and alibis, as well as her potential links to the eventual convicted murderer, a British barman called Tony King. Everyone has an opinion on the murder of the attractive half-Spanish, half-Dutch teenager on the Costa del Sol in 1999.Д«ut while it is still transfixing the nation two decades on, today it has gone stratospheric, after the launch of two high-profile documentaries in recent months.Д«oth Netflix and HBO have released programmes on the case, in particular focusing on the involvement of the former lesbian lover of RocioвЂ™s mother. Mention the Rocio Wanninkhof case around Spain and expect plenty of raised eyebrows. ITвЂ™S no surprise the death of Rocio Wanninkhof in 1999 is still fascinating armchair sleuths, writes Olive Press editor Jon Clarke, who wrote a book on the case.

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