Overview
- A University of Salamanca-led team, joined by UPV/EHU scholars and Aranzadi’s forensic unit, has launched a multidisciplinary review with further steps expected in 2026.
- Lead investigator Francisco Javier de Santiago reports elevated indications of criminality around the death but says there is no conclusive evidence of homicide.
- Investigators are weighing an exhumation to enable laboratory testing, which would require authorization from Unamuno’s descendants.
- The team is applying psycholinguistic, grafological, and testimonial analysis, and a PCL-R screening found the sole on-scene witness, Bartolomé Aragón, did not fit a textbook psychopath profile.
- Researchers highlight irregularities from 1936, including the absence of an autopsy despite a bulbar lesion being cited and a rapid, Falange-controlled burial, as well as Aragón’s multiple conflicting accounts.