Overview
- The Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense carried out a court-ordered excavation on Thursday, May 28, 2026, and found no additional human remains after a georadar anomaly proved to be an old tree trunk.
- Diego Fernández Lima’s fragments were identified by the EAAF in May 2025, and the Cámara del Crimen revoked an earlier sobreseimiento so Norberto Cristian Graf remains under investigatory suspicion.
- Initial EAAF and police work recovered roughly 150 bone fragments plus associated items including a Casio watch, a blue tie and a garment label, and experts estimated the original burial pit’s size.
- A reserved witness has told prosecutors that in 2017 a man, reportedly Graf’s father, confessed that the body had been buried in the garden, and the Fiscalía has scheduled new testimony and probative measures after the forthcoming EAAF report.
- Decades of degradation and a fragmented chain of custody complicate reconstruction, the victim’s elderly mother provided the DNA match that identified Diego, and the EAAF report will shape whether the probe advances to charges and further digs.