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This series, apparently much like the case, was a bit chaotic. The storyline tries to keep the stories straight, but the final episode succumbs to the madness and is disjointed. The investigations seemed to be entirely dictated by public opinion and misses seemingly key lines of inquiry. The brother definitely seemed to be lying. It was all just a bit of a miss, which is unfortunate for the victim.

I had no idea what to expect when I started to watch this, but it is such a chilling and surreal case that does indeed deserve to be told (and it is done so with a respect towards everyone involved). So many questions that still needs to be answered and so many who deserve the truth to come forth. I found it quite scary and haunting.

The docu offers nothing new or special. The case of the missing girl is stunning though. Could have been a great docu but lacks theories and structure. Who did it?

Why does a 17yr old need a boyfriend or boys who are friends? I do not understand parents who are fine with their minors hanging out with boys, boys picking them up from their homes etc., Marta was 17. She had to study and come back home! Period! That's all that's required at rer age. Girls do not know or have the maturity at 17 to decide about the dangerous species known as "boys." Never trust a boy with your daughter. No matter how kind or polite he comes across as. Their evil side is shown only when a girl is vulnerable. All they want is s**. Sad to this precious girl treated like a piece of meat and nothing more. She was a human being. Full of life and love to give. Had dreams and aspirations. Wonder how much fun, love and laughter she bought into a room but who cares. But what it is to the world? Once a girl is out of her home, she is seen as an object as if there is nothing more to her. All those men protesting in the series, if given an opportunity, will act the same. Can never trust a boy or a man.

A great, shocking documentary to enter the miserable human mind. To be seen together with "Sarah - The girl from Avetrana", where similar events lead to reveal the true misery of the people. Discomforting, but unfortunately reality, heavy and harsh reality.

Now permanently resident in Spain, my wife and I will occasionally watch a Spanish television production and given that she in particular likes to watch true-crime programmes, we happened on this recent Netflix series. Told over three one-hour shows, it concerned the disappearance and murder of a pretty young teenage girl Marta Del Castillo in Andalusia in 2009, one of those crimes which ends up gaining national prominence with saturation TV and press coverage, to such an extent that it accidentally elevates the missing girl's parents to celebrity status with the father in particular seemingly unable to move without having a TV or newspaper company microphone shoved in his face seeking some instant reaction to events as they occur.

I've watched one or two similar programmes of this type in Spain and they've all struck me in the media-frenzied way that contemporary television in particular treated such matters. Compared to the BBC news-reporting style I've grown up with, in Spain occurrences like this seem instead to be much more emotionally, even sensationally treated. Besides the apparent requirement for a running commentary from the distraught parents, there appears to be no end of nightly TV programmes with highly-charged presenters contributing their opinion on each new twist in the tale. I don't know if it's the old cliché about the hot-blooded Spanish temperament or just a less detached and I'd say professional approach to news-coverage but I certainly felt that a calmer, more measured approach by the various news-hounds might have served this sad story better.

This Netflix production. I would charge, is similarly guilty of getting too close to the case. The director doesn't use a narrator but instead lets the events lead the story, with an advancing clock-calendar indicating the passage of time. So what we get is almost a rolling CNN-type breaking-news treatment of the story, going over and over the various versions of events from all the different protagonists without really leaving the viewer with a sense of what actually happened to Marta the fateful night she disappeared.

Of course I appreciate that given the girl's body has never been found, there will obviously be some confusion as to her real fate but I felt this frenetic, full-on retelling of this tragic story didn't serve her altogether well. As I said earlier, this may be a cultural thing and that Spanish viewers may be familiar and indeed comfortable with this highly-charged production style but I personally think the telling of this story could have benefitted from a cooler, more grounded treatment, as indeed could the original investigation itself.

It was frustrating to watch this till the end. Teenage idiots not revealing where the body is, pointing fingers at each other & changing the story of how she got killed over & over & over & over. It was ANNOYING. They were making the whole Police department look for her in many many areas. Underwater, Garbage landfill, Digging a site. Just complete INSANITY. And the parents are heart broken & crying. I cant believe it. The whole thing is a disgusting mess & horrible.

Watch it only if you can deal with how messy & annoying a documentary can get. Its mindblowing to me how nothing happened & i was stuck seeing the annoyance of this documentary. HORRIBLE.