Overview

• Lawyer Marcos Rodríguez Allende was appointed to represent the family’s querella, formally reactivating the Entre Ríos investigation into the 2002 disappearance of Rubén Gill, Margarita Gallegos and their four children.
• The first steps include an exhaustive review of the case record and requests for coordinated support from national and provincial authorities to carry out new diligences at the estancia in Crucecita Séptima.
• Allende maintains the family did not leave the property and points to landowner Alfonso Goette as a principal suspect, noting that Goette died in 2016 without ever being charged.
• The Ministry of Security maintains an active reward of 1.5 million pesos per missing person, totaling 12 million pesos for reliable information on the case.
• Previous searches and excavations, including EAAF-led digs in 2019 and 2022, yielded no results, and early delays—months before the disappearance was reported and over a year to first inspections—undercut the investigation.