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Spain’s tiny village Tor is now a destination for true-crime enthusiasts, and residents are fed up

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The Spanish village of Tor on Oct. 29, 2025. A decades-old killing in the tiny village in the northern mountain town in Spain has turned the village into a destination for true-crime enthusiasts, creating a headache for remaining residents. (Maria Contreras Coll/The New York Times)

A decades-old killing in Tor has turned the village into a destination for true-crime enthusiasts, creating a headache for remaining residents.

PHOTO: MARIA CONTRERAS COLL/NYTIMES

Jason Horowitz

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TOR, Spain – Ms Pilar Tomas stepped outside her stone house and walked towards the scene of a crime that has for 30 years haunted Tor in Spain, a tiny, mist-shrouded village of 13 houses high up in the Pyrenees.

“They found him there,” she said, pointing through a cold rain at another stone house a few metres away.

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