This evidence-led archive covers four files: a modern DNA-led murder conviction, a dictatorship-era death under torture, the transnational kidnapping and murder of Eugenio Berríos, and the forced disappearance of María Claudia García de Gelman with the restoration of Macarena Gelman’s identity.
Final appellate judgments support both classifications: Sena’s 2024 murder conviction was affirmed, and Chile’s Supreme Court confirmed differentiated sentences in the Berríos kidnapping-and-homicide case in 2015.
A military network removed Berríos from Chile, held him in Uruguay and killed him. Chile’s Supreme Court confirmed final, differentiated sentences in 2015.
Read the sourced case file →
A genetic profile preserved from Lola’s belongings led investigators to Sena in 2022. He was convicted in 2024, and an appeals court affirmed the sentence.
Read the sourced case file →Both files have significant judicial findings but retain unresolved elements: the Roslik judgment was reported under appeal, while María Claudia García de Gelman’s remains have not been located despite final homicide convictions.
Uruguayan doctor Vladimir Roslik died after military detention in April 1984. In 2025, nine retired officers received first-instance convictions for the San Javier detention-and-torture operations.
Read the sourced case file →
Operation Condor agents abducted pregnant María Claudia García in 1976 and removed her newborn daughter’s identity. Macarena recovered her identity in 2000; her mother’s whereabouts remain unknown.
Read the sourced case file →“Solved / adjudicated” rests on final appellate review: Sena’s murder conviction in the Chomnalez case and the Chilean Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in the Berríos case. “Partially adjudicated” is retained for Roslik because the related 2025 convictions were reported at first instance and did not newly convict anyone of homicide.
The genetic match changed the direction of the investigation, but forensic evidence did not itself impose guilt. The court evaluated the DNA evidence, Sena’s account and the wider record before entering judgment; the appellate court then reviewed and upheld that result.
Moreira’s eight-year sentence concerned concealment. Describing him as the person convicted of the murder would erase a material legal distinction and misstate the adjudicated record.
The national colors, coastal forms, memorial light, genetic profile and court file are clearly editorial. They do not depict Lola, Sena, the discovery site or physical evidence as documentary imagery.
Three verified files are published: the murder of Lola Chomnalez, the torture death of Vladimir Roslik and the transnational kidnapping and murder of Eugenio Berríos.
Sena was convicted of very especially aggravated homicide in April 2024, and the Fourth-Turn Appeals Court affirmed his 27-year-and-six-month sentence in September 2024.
Uruguay’s scientific police continued comparing a male genetic profile preserved from Lola’s belongings with the national genetic database. That work led investigators to Sena and to further testing used in court.
Lola disappeared while walking near Barra de Valizas in Rocha Department on 28 December 2014. She was found dead in the coastal area two days later.
Ángel Eduardo Moreira Martínez was separately convicted of concealment and received eight years. He was not the person convicted of committing Lola’s murder.
Yes, when a Uruguay case has reliable sources, a clear present status and enough verified material for a substantive, victim-aware file.
← Return to all country archives