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30 Years After Yoryi Godoy’s Murder, Mendoza Reexamines a Case That Shaped Its Memory

The focus is the deception’s lasting toll on Mendoza.

Overview

  • Mendoza outlets mark the 30th anniversary with retrospectives that note no new legal moves, with Jorge Godoy still imprisoned and Graciela Camargo living under conditional release.
  • Investigators found the parents staged a kidnapping while the father later confessed to killing the three-year-old, transporting the body by bicycle to a field in Villanueva and burying it.
  • Forensic reports detailed severe beatings that caused multiple injuries and hours of agony without medical care, and investigators said the child likely could have survived with prompt treatment.
  • A 1997 trial in the Quinta Cámara del Crimen issued life sentences, naming the father as the killer and convicting the mother for concealment and failing to seek help.
  • Public memory remains strong at the Guaymallén municipal cemetery where the child is buried, where staff and police removed a man trying to take soil from graves in a brief incident that drew attention to the site.