- The husband was arrested for reckless homicide on April 6
- The case has since been upgraded to homicide, according to local reports.
- The body was discovered in Plaza Enrique García Herrer, Málaga, on Saturday
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An American woman was found dead in an apartment after engaging in “extreme sex” before police arrested her husband while on holiday in Spain.
The body of the 44-year-old woman was discovered inside a tourist apartment located in Plaza Enrique García Herrer, Málaga, on April 6.
Spanish police quickly arrested her 50-year-old husband, as sources close to the case revealed to local media that the death could have been related to some “extreme sexual practices” in which the couple were involved.
The husband was arrested for manslaughter after the woman’s death.
According to local reports, the case was being investigated as gender violence, before being elevated to homicide, since current evidence points to an accidental death during extreme or risky sexual practices in an “intimate context.”
The body of a 44-year-old American woman was found in a Malaga apartment and police believed “extreme sex” caused her death.
However, local media have stated that new procedures carried out by investigators led detectives to believe that they would place the events in a context of sexist violence.
On Monday, the 50-year-old man appeared before a judge at the Investigative Court number 9 of Malaga, who ordered the suspect’s provisional detention without bail, according to the Spanish press.
Judicial sources confirmed The Opinion of Malagathat the case will now be taken over by the Violence Against Women Court, due to the nature of the case.
The events arose last Saturday when local police were alerted to the presence of an unconscious woman in an Airbnb-style apartment located in the historic center of the city.
The doctors who went to the property could only certify the death of the tourist, at which point the National Police took charge of the investigation to determine the cause.
The body was then transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine to undergo an autopsy and forensic study.
If the sexist motivation is confirmed, it would be the third fatality of this type in Malaga so far this year.
The Spanish National Police continues its investigations into the case.