Francisco Miranda Miranda, 22 years old, a private worker with no political affiliation, was detained at approximately 12:00 p.m. on October 10, 1973, while he was on a public street with two other young men. The detention was carried out by personnel from the Buin Regiment of the capital, who were conducting a raid on the Población Illanes in Renca.

The detention took place in front of a large number of neighbors, and upon apprehending him, the uniformed officers took him to his home so he could retrieve his personal documents.

There, in the presence of his sister María Isabel, his mother, and a neighbor who was in the house at the time, one of the captors stated verbatim that "he would return later."

The pretext used for the detention was that Francisco Miranda needed to clarify pending matters related to his military service. This young man had lost his mandatory conscription card, but when he performed his military service at the Naval School of Valparaíso, he was discharged, apparently due to behavioral problems.

Several years earlier, and due to those problems, his parents had placed him in a juvenile home, from which he would escape only to be returned to the facility. The young Francisco Miranda showed a certain predisposition to drink to excess, for which he had been detained on occasion at the age of 14 or 15.

However, at the date of his detention and disappearance, he had no criminal record or police file.

On October 10, 1973, the military personnel who apprehended Francisco Miranda also detained other young men from the same neighborhood. One of them was released at 6:00 p.m. that same day and went to inform the family that Francisco Miranda was being held at the First Police Station of Renca.

His relatives immediately went to the police station to inquire about the detainee's situation, but the police denied the young man's arrest.

The following day, the family again went in search of information, and the police maintained their negative response. However, after much insistence, one of the guards on duty stated that they were indeed holding him and that he would be placed at the disposal of a court.

Nevertheless, the young man was never placed at the disposal of any court of the Republic, and since that date, his whereabouts remain completely unknown.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

The family went to all known detention centers following the 1973 coup d'état, such as prisons, regiments, or police barracks, without obtaining any results. They also went to the Legal Medical Institute without obtaining information regarding Francisco Miranda.

Likewise, they carried out numerous efforts before the National Executive Secretariat for Detainees (SENDET), without achieving positive results.

The anthropomorphic records of Francisco Miranda Miranda were attached to case 4449-AF of the 22nd Criminal Court of Santiago for the crime of illegal burial in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery of unidentified persons who died between September and December 1973.

The investigating judge of the case ordered the excavation of 108 graves in September 1991. From there, 125 bodies were exhumed and sent to the Legal Medical Institute. At present (late 1992), the expert identification reports are pending.

Source: (Corporation Report)

Patio 29 was usually intended for the burial of the indigent, psychiatric patients, and people who died without being identified (NN). However, between September 1973 and January 1974, its graves were used to hide victims of repression as "NN." Javiera Bustamante and Stephan Ruderer reconstruct the painful history of the site, using testimonies from the families of the forcibly disappeared, letters, documents, and other sources.

The book also accounts for the arduous process of identification and the handing over of the bodies, as well as the irregularities that characterized these proceedings. The powerful photographs that illustrate the volume were taken by visual artist Mara Daruich.

Source: ocholibros.cl, undated