Overview
- Investigators traced the burial using public and classified records, locating bones in 2024 in the military section of a Bucaramanga cemetery.
- DNA from the recovered bones matched a sample taken from the remains of Torres' father, which were exhumed in Bogotá for comparison.
- The Unit for the Search of Missing People completed a dignified handover on Sunday to activist priest Javier Giraldo for burial at Bogotá's National University.
- The search unit, created by the 2016 peace deal, says it has found nearly 5,000 sets of remains, identified and returned about 700, and located 500 people reported missing who are alive.
- Officials noted longstanding reports that soldiers treated Torres' body with chemicals after his 1966 death, complicating identification for decades.