Thursday, 10th June 2021 at 5:19 pm
A new Netflix documentary film, Murder by the Coast, looks at a case that shocked both the local Spanish and British ex-pat communities of the Costa del Sol in 1999.
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Featuring interviews and new research into what has been described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Spanish legal history, the documentary tells the story of the murder of teenager RocÃo Wanninkof in 1999, who was found stabbed to death three weeks after she went missing.
While a friend of the family, Maria Dolores Vázquez, was found guilty of the crime, a second similar murder four years later led the police to believe they had arrested the wrong person and the real killer was still at large.