Overview
- Security officials confirmed Wednesday at 7:22 a.m. that police drones had located Di Fabio’s motorcycle and his body near the Silo Monument in Punta de Vacas.
- Di Fabio, 57, was riding back from Chile with friends and broke from the group near Horcones before friends filed a missing‑person report when he stopped answering calls.
- A large overnight search followed on Route 7 using Unidad VANT, the Mendoza police drone unit, and the Halcón III police helicopter at dawn.
- Homicide prosecutor Claudia Ríos and forensic police are processing the scene under a working hypothesis that he missed a curve and fell about 50 meters down a ravine.
- Di Fabio was a veteran local journalist and EDEMSA’s institutional relations manager, and his death has hit Mendoza’s media community and his family hard.