Afterwards, according to what he had already planned and meditated, he prepared a kind of funeral pyre. He had already arranged its essential elements in a new place of the estate, among several orange trees and without visibility from the outside. He laid his children down (it has been impossible to determine whether they were dead or alive), together with a metal table with the board upright, covering practically the whole length of the minors and the pyre itself, and set a large bonfire. He quickly stoked the bonfire with firewood – about 250 kilograms – and gasoil – about 80 liters –, which reached temperatures up to 1200 °C, achieving a similar effect to that of a crematorium. Given the magnitude of the temperature, the flesh of the children's bodies disappeared quickly, leaving only a few remains of bones. José Bretón remained by the stake until 5:30 pm, fueling it with diesel oil (an accelerator) in order to keep the temperature high enough to completely scorch and make his children’s corpses disappear. Right after, José Bretón drove to the neighbourhood of the City of Children. At 6:01 pm, he parked at about 300 meters distance. He texted his brother Rafael Bretón, making him believe that he was with his children near the park and then did the same with their mother, who called him from her house. When José Bretón thought that enough time had passed to make the fictional disappearance of his children credible, he called his brother Rafael at 6:18 pm, telling him that his children were lost. He made several phone calls to some relatives, thus making his brother and his brother-in-law go to the playground to start the search. Around 6:41 pm, José Bretón called the Spanish emergency number 112 and notified the authorities of the disappearance of his children, provoking the intervention of the police. He went to the Córdoba police station at 8:43 pm to file a report of disappearance. Thereupon, the judicial proceeding started. Controversy over the bones In one of the first reports of the judicial investigation, Josefina Lamas, the forensic anthropologist of the Scientific Police who analysed the remains of the bones found in the bonfire of Las Quemadillas, deduced that those bones corresponded to the remains of animals, specifically rodents and small carnivores. This report substantially delayed the resolution of the case. The mother of the children, Ruth Ortiz,