Overview

• Forensic teams including the EAAF have determined that bone fragments uncovered in Coghlan belong to 16-year-old Diego Fernández Lima and show evidence of violent death and attempted dismemberment.
• Cristian Graf voluntarily presented himself to the Fiscalía Nacional en lo Criminal y Correccional N°61 in Buenos Aires and has given statements while prosecutors interview witnesses from the 1984 disappearance.
• Argentina’s penal code imposes prescription periods of 12 years for simple homicide and 15 years for aggravated homicide, meaning charges could lapse without amendments such as the proposed ‘Ley Diego’.
• In Los Reyes La Paz, Mexico, three suspects remain in preventive detention on disappearance charges in the death of 5-year-old Fernandito, and his family is pressing for the case to include kidnapping and homicide counts.
• Authorities in Posadas, Rosario, La Garriga and Funes are investigating a machete familicide ending in suicide, a street execution believed to involve mistaken identity, a teenager’s drowning and a potential train accident or suicide.