 While driving on a road called "La Membrilla" (not to be confused with the town of the same name), he happened upon 21-year-old Rosana Maroto, who was cycling from her home in Valdepeñas to her father's country home, seven kilometers away.Maroto studied Art History in Ciudad Real and had returned to Valdepeñas only two days before, following the end of the school year.She had no relationship with Romero.