SOLVEDListenBuenos Aires, Argentina (kidnapping site); Timote, Buenos Aires Province (killing site) · 1970
Former de facto Argentine President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu was kidnapped from his Buenos Aires apartment on 29 May 1970 by members of the far-left guerrilla group Montoneros and shot to death three days later on 1 June 1970.
Credit: Roblespepe. Using this public-domain dataset for the relief: ETOPO1 Global Relief ModelCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenSouth Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina · 2017
The Argentine Navy submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in the South Atlantic on 15 November 2017 during a training exercise, with 44 crew members aboard. Despite a large multinational search, the vessel was not located until 16 November 2018, when the private company Ocean Infinity found its wreck at a depth of 907 metres. All 44 crew were lost.
Credit: TitiNicolaCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenSan Vicente / Alejandro Korn, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina · 2021
Tehuel de la Torre, a 21-year-old Argentine trans man, disappeared on 11 March 2021 after leaving his home in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, to meet a man who had offered him work as a waiter. His body has never been found. Luis Alberto Ramos was convicted of aggravated homicide motivated by hatred of gender identity and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2024; a co-accused, Oscar Alfredo Montes, faces a separate jury trial.
Credit: Caras y CaretasPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenRural Río Negro Province, Argentina · 1904
Between 1904 and 1909, dozens of immigrant peddlers from the Ottoman Empire vanished in rural Río Negro, Argentina, amid allegations of ritual cannibalism by a Mapuche community; over 70 people were arrested and charged, but the case collapsed after confessions were found to have been extracted through torture, and it remains unsolved.
SOLVEDListenBuenos Aires, Argentina (primary documented site; practice also reported in Chile, Colombia, France/Algeria, Madagascar, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and Zaire) · 1976
"Death flights" refers to a method of extrajudicial killing in which victims were dropped from airplanes or helicopters into oceans, rivers, or mountains, used by multiple governments and military forces during 20th-century internal conflicts, most extensively documented during Argentina's 1976–1983 Dirty War.
UNSOLVEDListenLe Parc Puerto Madero, Torre del Parque, Buenos Aires, Argentina · 2015
Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot dead in his locked Buenos Aires apartment hours before he was to present accusations against then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. A 2017 forensic report concluded he was murdered, contradicting earlier suicide claims, but no material perpetrators have been identified.
UNSOLVEDListenBetween General Daniel Cerri and Villarino Viejo, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina · 2020
Facundo Astudillo Castro, a 22-year-old Argentine man, disappeared on 30 April 2020 after being stopped by police at a lockdown checkpoint while hitchhiking. His decomposed remains were found on 15 August 2020; an autopsy determined he drowned but could not establish homicide, suicide, or accident, and the case remains unresolved as to responsibility.
SOLVEDListenCushamen Department, Chubut Province, Argentina · 2017
Santiago Maldonado, an Argentine craftsman, disappeared on 1 August 2017 after Gendarmerie forces dispersed a Mapuche protest in Chubut Province; his body was found in the Chubut River in October 2017, with autopsies concluding death by drowning and hypothermia with no signs of violence, though his family continues to believe he was forcibly disappeared.
SOLVEDListenResistencia, Chaco Province, Argentina · 2023
Cecilia Strzyzowski, a 28-year-old woman from Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina, disappeared on 2 June 2023 after being seen entering the home of her partner César Sena. She was later found to have been murdered in a femicide involving Sena and members of his politically influential family, the "Sena Clan." In November 2025, six defendants were convicted of murder while one was acquitted.
Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Argentina · 2017
Nahir Galarza was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the December 2017 murder of her 20-year-old boyfriend, Fernando Pastorizzo, in Gualeguaychú, Argentina, in a case that drew intense national and international media attention.
The files run from 1904 to 2023. The 2000s hold the most, with 5 files. The oldest is Patagonian cannibal murders, from 1904.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (12), disappearance cases (5) and kidnapping and abduction cases (3).
None of these files has creator coverage attached yet; each one can still be heard as a narrated case file.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Mapa Desaparición ARA San Juan (3) — Credit: Roblespepe. Using this public-domain dataset for the relief: ETOPO1 Global Relief ModelCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Banderazo trans archivo de la memoria trans 2021 titi nicola periodicas Santa Fe; Argentina 39 — Credit: TitiNicolaCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Liga Patriótica Argentina — Credit: Unknown (original coat of Argentina)Dexxter (vector graphics)Public domainSource
Plaza-Mayo-bombardeo-1955 — Credit: unknown/desconocidoPublic domainSource
Ceremonia en memoria a las víctimas en la embajada de Israel (04) — Credit: Cancillería ArgentinaCC BY 2.0Source
Los canibales del Rio Negro (1910) — Credit: Caras y CaretasPublic domainSource
24. By status: 7 unsolved, 1 ongoing and 16 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Patagonian cannibal murders, from 1904. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 13, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
