The Double Disappearance Inside Chile’s Patio 29

 In April 2006, Judge Carlos Gajardo called families who had searched for decades for their missing loved ones to a meeting in his downtown Santiago office. Over the past few years, he had been leading the investigation into Patio 29, a mass grave discovered in the city’s General Cemetery containing the remains of dozens of victims who were disappeared and executed during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. But troubling rumors had emerged about issues with the identification of the remains. During the meeting, Judge Gajardo delivered devastating news: a significant number of bodies exhumed from the mass grave in 1991 had been mistakenly identified and later handed over to the wrong families.

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