Denver Man Accused of Murdering Wife on Luxury Eurotrip Nabbed After Global Manhunt
MADRID—The two figures are hard to make out at first on the grainy CCTV footage from a camera outside the posh Sotogrande residential development in Andalusia, Spain. The footage, taken Christmas Day, shows a well-built man dragging who cops would later identify as his 40-year-old wife down the stairs of their holiday apartment by her bare ankles and dumping her into the trunk of his rented Ford Kuga.
Another CCTV camera—some 8 hours away in Valencia—would capture the man, now identified by Spanish police as Iranian-born American Michael Hoseyni, buying a shovel, a stick, an axe, gloves and knife at a Do-It-Yourself hardware shop. Police say he did not stop the car once on the long drive. They believe he buried her body on Dec. 27, according to GPS data from the car they rented in Italy in August.
The badly decomposed beaten body of his Russian-born American wife Yana Rose would be found over three weeks later—on Jan. 21 in a makeshift grave some 1,200 kilometers to the north in Valencia, not far from the hardware shop where Hoseyni bought the macabre kit he allegedly used to bury her.