Overview

• The EAAF confirmed through maternal DNA that the bones uncovered May 20 next to Gustavo Cerati’s former Coghlan home belong to Diego Fernández Lima, who vanished in July 1984 and suffered a fatal stab wound with evidence of attempted dismemberment.
• Fiscal Martín López Perrando of Criminal and Correctional Court 12 has subpoenaed former schoolmates and plans to question 56-year-old Norberto Cristian Graf, the property owner and prime suspect who offered implausible explanations for the remains.
• Under Argentine law, homicide charges lapse after 20 years, leading authorities to explore a ‘crimen por la verdad’ mechanism to establish facts and provide answers to the Fernández family.
• Investigators are probing whether members of Graf’s household knew about the 60-centimeter-deep grave in their garden and aided in concealing the teenager’s burial.
• The case highlights decades of police indifference during Argentina’s return to democracy and the Fernández family’s 41-year search amid systemic failures in missing-person investigations.