An autopsy reveals that Matilde Muñoz died of asphyxiation and violence in Indonesia.

PalmThe autopsy performed on the body of Matilde Muñoz, the 72-year-old Mallorcan woman who disappeared on the Indonesian island of Lombok on July 2 and was found dead at the end of August, confirmed that the cause of death was asphyxiation, in addition to presenting signs of blunt force trauma to the head and neck.

The forensic report was revealed this Thursday by local media as Indonesia Satu which has summoned the head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the West Lombok Police, AKP Lalu Eka Arya Mardiwinata.

The body was found buried on a beach in Dusun Loco, Senggigi, after the confession of two employees of the hotel where the victim was staying, identified as SU, 33, and HR, alias G., 29, who are currently in prison.

The human remains were found face down, still wearing some of their clothing and jewelry, including two necklaces with shell pendants and a Buddha figure. The forensic examination determined that the body was already largely reduced to a skeleton, requiring a detailed analysis to establish the causes of death.

West Lombok Police have stated that the case will be investigated to the last consequences and that the suspects will be prosecuted for premeditated murder, homicide and robbery with violence resulting in death.

According to the same official sources, the two suspects confessed to moving Matilde's body up to four times after the murder, first in the hotel's generator room, then to the back of the building, later to a vacant lot and finally to the beach where it was found.

Suspicions that it was a crime from the beginning

The victim, a native of Galicia and resident in the Balearic Islands, had last been seen near the Bumi Aditya Hotel on Senggigi Beach, where she had booked a 20-night stay, as family spokesperson Ignacio Vilariño told Europa Press at the time.

Days later, a message was sent from Matilde's cell phone to a hotel employee, containing spelling mistakes "uncharacteristic of her," warning her that she had to travel to Laos, something that never happened and which the family considers an alibi by the alleged killers or their possible perpetrators. It was from then on that the family began to suspect and consider that Matilde could have been the victim of a crime.