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.
Police later found human skeletal remains among the ash of the incinerator plant and are working to determine if they belong to Medina, the Sun reported.
“The main hypothesis is that she went into the container to get something and had the bad luck of feeling unwell inside the container,” Inspector Ángel Ruiz told reporters.
Cops added that she was a thin woman with a very low tolerance for booze, worsened by medication she had been taking.
