Overview
- María Victoria Caillava gave her first in-court testimony on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, as the fourth accused to speak in the federal oral trial held at the Gendarmería Escuadrón 48 in Corrientes.
- Caillava is one of seven people charged with alleged sustracción (abduction) and ocultamiento (concealment) in the June 13, 2024 disappearance of five-year-old Loan Danilo Peña, a case that lists 17 total defendants.
- Forensic odorology expert Mario Rolando Rosillo told the court that trained dogs marked Loan’s scent in the rear seats of a Ford Ranger and a Ford Ka linked to Caillava and her husband Carlos Guido Pérez.
- Defense lawyers have challenged the odorology results and raised questions about how the vehicles were handled after seizure, arguing limits in method and chain-of-custody that could reduce the evidence' probative value.
- Prosecutor Carlos Schaefer has summoned three Policía Federal officers as witnesses and the court is weighing the family's request to drain Laguna 1 and Laguna 4 for further searches, a measure that would expand on earlier on‑site rastrillajes.