Overview

• The family’s legal team has requested access to U.S. satellite archives from 2002 to scan the 600-hectare La Candelaria estate for signs of ground disturbance.
• Six members of the Gill family vanished on January 13, 2002 after being seen at a wake in Viale, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
• The case file is still labeled as a missing-persons inquiry, and investigators report no new physical evidence.
• Attorney Marcos Rodríguez Allende says Argentine satellites can detect major ground changes only from 2007 onward, so a state-to-state request via the Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry is required because a local judge cannot obtain the data directly.
• A national reward of 12 million pesos remains active, and prior searches, FBI assistance and excavations produced no conclusive results while longtime suspect Alfonso Goethe died in 2016 without being charged.