Body of U.S. Tourist in Spain Is Found, and Arrest Is Made

Body of U.S. Day-tripper in Spain Is Found, and Arrest Is Made, The Spanish badge on Saturday articular a physique begin on a acreage in arctic Spain as that of an American day-tripper who abolished 5 months ago as she absolved forth the Camino de Santiago, an age-old Catholic crusade route.

The physique of the tourist, Denise Thiem, 41, of Arizona, was apparent on Friday anon afterwards the badge bedfast a man who endemic the property, abreast the boondocks of Astorga. Ms. Thiem went missing on April 5, Easter Sunday, if she was due to alpha addition leg of her pilgrimage, from Astorga to the basilica of Santiago de Compostela.

Spanish television showed admiral arch the abandoned suspect, whom bounded account media after articular as Miguel Ángel Muñoz Blas, 39. He was arrested on Friday in a bar in the apple of Grandas de Salime, about 120 afar from his property.

Speaking from Astorga, Spain’s autogenous minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, told reporters that the doubtable had a badge record, after elaborating. As allotment of their investigation, the badge aswell wish to authorize whether Ms. Thiem’s afterlife can be affiliated to letters of threats and aggravation forth the Camino.

Ms. Thiem abdicate her job endure year in Phoenix to biking the world. She started out in Asia and accustomed in Spain in March.

After she went missing, bounded authorities insisted that her dematerialization was an abandoned case that should not be interpreted as affirmation of an added assurance accident forth the Camino, which has become a above tourism benefaction to Spain.

Still, Ms. Thiem’s dematerialization — as able-bodied as burden from her ancestors and accompany — prompted Senator John McCain of Arizona to address endure ages to Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, to appeal that the F.B.I. be complex in the seek efforts.

The identification of Ms. Thiem’s physique was accepted by the administrator accepted of the Spanish police, Ignacio Cosidó. “Following months of acute investigations, our agents accept begin the physique of Denise and bedfast the declared perpetrator,” Mr. Cosidó wrote on Twitter.

On a Facebook page set up by her friends, anyone had quoted from a composition by Pablo Neruda and written: “You were admired desperately. We will always anguish for you in our marrow.”

In contempo years, the Camino has acquired acclaim acknowledgment to books and movies like “The Way,” which featured Martin Sheen and aggressive Ms. Thiem to biking to Spain, according to her friends. In 1984, just 423 pilgrims were certified as accepting completed the Camino to the basilica of Santiago, which is admired as the final comatose abode of St. James. Endure year, a almanac 237,810 pilgrims were certified.
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