11case filesUpdated Jul 11, 2026
Casepin holds 11 case files in Chile. By legal status, 1 marked unsolved, 1 marked ongoing, 8 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: Self-made by subject, or taken by family or friendEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenSan Borja Park, Santiago, Chile · 2012
Daniel Zamudio, a gay Chilean man, was beaten and tortured for hours in a Santiago park in March 2012 by four men linked to a neo-Nazi gang; he died of his injuries 25 days later, prompting Chile to pass a long-stalled anti-discrimination law.
Panguipulli, Chile · 2021
Francisco Martínez, a 27-year-old street juggler, was fatally shot by a Chilean police officer during an identity check in Panguipulli on February 5, 2021, sparking days of protests and riots across Chile; a Chilean court later ruled the officer acted in legitimate self-defense.
SOLVEDListenAntofagasta, Chile (route spanned multiple garrisons from southern to northern Chile) · 1993
Following the 1973 Chilean coup, an Army death squad flew by helicopter across Chile and executed dozens of detainees held in military custody, in a campaign later prosecuted over decades against Augusto Pinochet and other military officials.
SOLVEDListenPuente Alto, Santiago, Chile · 2006
Hans Hernán Pozo Vergara, a 20-year-old Chilean man, was murdered and dismembered in Santiago in March 2006, with his remains discovered across multiple sites in Puente Alto and San Bernardo. The sole suspect, businessman Jorge Iván Martínez Arévalo, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a police visit, and in 2007 prosecutors concluded he was the intellectual author of the crime.
Credit: Diego GrezCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenLolol, Colchagua Province, O'Higgins Region, Chile · 2012
In July 2012, María José Reyes Moore and Juan René Duarte Becerra were killed and decapitated days apart at an antique shop in Lolol, Chile. The shop's owner, Óscar Segundo López Rodríguez, was shot and killed by a responding police officer at the scene of the second attack.
OVERTURNEDListenSanta María Clinic, Santiago, Chile · 1982
Former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva died in January 1982 following complications from surgery. Years later, judicial investigations concluded he had been poisoned; six people were convicted of homicide in 2019, but Chilean appellate and Supreme Court rulings later overturned the convictions, finding he was not a homicide victim.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenSeguro Obrero building, Santiago, Chile · 1938
On 5 September 1938, Chilean police (carabineros) summarily executed 59 members of the National Socialist Movement of Chile (Nacistas) after they surrendered following a failed coup attempt in Santiago, along with two Seguro Obrero building employees killed in the confusion.
SOLVEDListenNear Santiago's airport, Santiago, Chile · 1985
In March 1985, during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship, three Communist Party members were abducted and killed in Chile, their throats slashed, in a case that became a major political scandal and led to convictions of six police secret service members.
UNSOLVEDListenCantera de Metrenco sector, Ruta 5 Sur, Padre Las Casas commune, Temuco, Araucanía Region, Chile · 2020
Eugenio Nain, a 24-year-old Chilean police corporal of Mapuche descent, was shot and killed by an unidentified armed group near a highway barricade in Padre Las Casas commune on October 30, 2020, amid the Araucanía Conflict; no perpetrators have been identified.
The files run from 1938 to 2021. The 2010s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Seguro Obrero massacre, from 1938.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (5), police shooting cases (2) and hate crime cases (1).
1 file of the 11 has coverage attached: 1 video, podcast or documentary.
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.
Daniel Zamudio — Credit: Self-made by subject, or taken by family or friendEditorial useSource
File:Camilo Catrillanca.jpg — Credit: Felipe DuranCC BY 3.0Source
Casa del asesino de Lolol — Credit: Diego GrezCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Nazi-insurrection-chile — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
11. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 ongoing, 8 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Seguro Obrero massacre, from 1938. Open the file
Murder of Daniel Zamudio, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 11, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
