Overview
- Police confirmed late Saturday that 32-year-old Hernán Maximiliano Barrera was found dead in a rural sector near a compuerta after five days of searching.
- Investigators seized a handwritten note that the family says mentioned strange movements in accounts and devices and placed it under judicial custody for forensic analysis.
- The prosecutor’s office has ordered pericias and transferred Barrera’s body to the morgue while labeling the case initially as a possible self-inflicted death and still probing for third-party involvement.
- Maximiliano Cabrera, 26, has been missing since August 28 after being last seen at a basural on Route 7 in San Luis, and searches with dogs, drones and heavy machinery are now focused on removing earth in the dump.
- Families say delayed deep searches and late use of machinery complicated both cases, a problem tied to rural access, lack of phone records for informal workers, and growing public pressure for faster forensic results.