The Cameras Captured Her Murderer After Getting Rid Of The Body — Alice Gross

Alice Poppy Madeleine Gross was born on February 14, 2000 in London.

Alice lived in Hanwell to the west of that city with her parents, José and Rosalind and her sister Nina.

Everyone says that she was very creative and that she loved painting and music. She often wrote songs and knew how to play both the piano and the violin.

Alice was always a child very dear to everyone but at the age of 14 she was diagnosed with anorexia and depression. Unfortunately, just when she was looking for treatment for her illness, the tragedy happened.

The facts:

On August 28, 2014, 14-year-old Alice left her house at about 3 in the afternoon for a walk. She told her parents that would return at 6 but that if she was late she would let them know sooner.

True to her word and seeing that she was going to arrive later, she sent a text message to her father to tell him that she was on her way home. But time passed and after an hour without showing signs of life, Alice’s parents began to worry. They called her several times on the phone without success so intuiting that something bad had happened to her, they reported her disappearance to the police.

The Detective designated for the case was Superintendent Carl Mehta and it must be said that he immediately set up his team to look for Alice.

The first thing they did was publish the photo of the girl on the news and on social networks. This made the case go viral and many people declared that they had seen Alice that afternoon.

These sightings placed the young woman in several places where she was recorded by the security cameras. The police came up with the images and thanks to that they were able to reconstruct the path she had made.

In the images they could see Alice along the Grand Canal before 4 p.m., then in an area called Brentford Lock she appeared walking along the canal bridge. This only proved one thing and that was that the young woman was heading back to her house.

Despite the recordings and an intense search by the police, there was no trace of Alice. Her family was so devastated that Rosalind, the mother, appeared in the media to ask her daughter to return home.

At this point the investigators came to the conclusion that for the disappearance of Alice Gross they were going to need more means and that they could not take care of everything. From here, the case went to Scotland Yard’s crimes and crimes unit.

The public helped distribute on social networks the photo of the missing young woman next to the hashtag “look for Alice”. On the other hand, both relatives and volunteers placed posters with everywhere.

Alice’s massive search involved 600 officers tomorrow afternoon and night, and even a reward of 20,000 pounds was offered for anyone who could provide information about the case.

On September 4, that is, a week after the disappearance, the first important clue emerged. Apparently the police found the girl’s backpack near the Brent River. Inside was not her mobile phone but the rest of her belongings were.

There were also the shoes she was wearing when she left her house. The strangest thing was that she also had them on the images of the security cameras that were checked by the agents of that day.

This led the researchers to consider the possibility that Alice had taken her life, since it must be remembered that she was going through depression.

Using divers and tracking dogs, the police started a new search that covered 15 square kilometers of a wooded area and cloudy water. This was a huge and laborious task but at that time it was the only thing they could do to find the teenager. Despite the effort, they didn’t find a single clue.

After this search they recorded the data of Alice’s mobile phone and there they verified that the last message she sent to her father had been done near the Brent River, so they ordered a new search in that area.

As the days went by, the agents ruled out that Alice had taken her life by throwing herself into the river because according to the forensics, if she had ended her life that way, the body would have to have already come out and that did not happen.

The next step was to search the database of missing people in the area and there they found something interesting.

Arnis Zalkalns, 41, had recently disappeared. The couple of this Latvian man and construction worker denounced his disappearance one day when he did not return from work.

When reviewing the images of the security cameras again, the police were very surprised. In them, Arnis appeared riding a bicycle just behind Alice in the bridge area.

After this he was captured by another camera crossing a busy street. Obviously there was nothing wrong with this but the agents realized that it had taken him 45 minutes to get from the point where he met Alice to the main road when it usually takes a few minutes.

But not only that... In less than 12 hours the man went twice more by bike to the area where Alice was last recorded in different clothes. The images of a store in the area also recorded him at 8:08 p.m. buying beer.

The detectives went to Arnis’ property after certifying their worst fears... and it was that this subject had a criminal record. Apparently he had been convicted for taking his wife’s life. For this reason, he spent 7 years in a prison in Latvia and then moved to England. When he entered the country, no one checked his history.

In 2009, that is, 2 years after arriving in London, he abused a 14-year-old girl near the same channel in which Alice was seen. The girl never made a formal statement, which is why Arnis was never prosecuted.

The builder also had other convictions, including being responsible for spreading a sexually transmitted disease.

The police began to search for Arnis without rest but since they found no trace of him they thought he had fled the country.

Find Alice Gross:

On September 30, the metropolitan police announced a terrible discovery. They had found in a wood area the lifeless body of a young woman.

A day later they confirmed that it was Alice Gross. Her body had only one sock on and was in terrible condition. According to the police, the girl had been wrapped in garbage bags with several bricks and tied to a bicycle wheel. The coroner established that he died from suffocation.

Inside the bag they also found a cigarette whose DNA belonged to Arnis, just like the one found in the shoes that appeared in the teenager’s backpack. But not only that incriminated him.. When checking the man’s house, they found the victim’s mobile phone in the backyard.

Four days later the police found Arnis, but not in the conditions they expected to be able to arrest him since he had taken his own life in a Boston Manor forest.

Based on their background, the researchers came to the conclusion that the attack on Alice was for sexual reasons. In addition, it was not only clear that he was the author but he went to the place several times to try to hide the body.

Although it seems that things are different now at the time, Alice’s family expressed concern about the system of criminal record verification by the authorities.

The young woman’s mother appeared devastated before the court and showed her disappointment with the police. She said that her daughter’s horrible death had destroyed her confidence in the United Kingdom’s ability to protect its citizens.

He was shocked that the authorities did not control a man who had served seven years in prison and who had later moved to England. Although Arnis was previously arrested for alleged sexual assault, no further action was taken against him, which gave him the opportunity to continue abusing innocent girls.

The Crown Prosecutor’s Office said that if the murderer had not died, he would have been accused of the murder of Alice Gross, but for the family it was too late and completely useless to make this statement.

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