Ricardo Guillermo Pardo Tobar died at 10:00 hours that day, at the Estadio Nacional, due to thoracic gunshot wounds, as recorded in the Medical Death Certificate from the Legal Medical Institute.

Ricardo Pardo, in his capacity as an instructor, was part of a group of "Black Berets" from the Paratrooper and Special Forces School of Peldehue until 1970. That year, he was discharged along with a group of fellow soldiers due to, as was widely published in the press at the time, the ties he maintained with parties of the Unidad Popular.

According to witnesses, Ricardo Pardo was arrested on October 10, 1973, at his home in the commune of Maipú by plainclothes officers who identified themselves as members of Investigaciones. His family was told he was being taken to the Estadio Nacional; however, his detention was not acknowledged at that facility or others.

In 1974, they learned that he had died and had been buried in Section 29 of the General Cemetery without their knowledge.

During the final months of 1973, nine members of the aforementioned group of former paratroopers were arrested under similar circumstances by their own former comrades-in-arms. All were taken to the facility maintained by the Ejército in Colina in the Peldehue sector, and their fate was invariably the same.

Mario Melo Pradenas, Javier Sobarzo Sepúlveda, and Luis Barraza Ruhl currently remain in the status of forcibly disappeared, and Julio Martínez Lara is deceased; their cases are recorded in the report of the Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación as victims of human rights violations.

Jorge Vicente Piérola also remains in the status of forcibly disappeared, and Alberto Arnoldo Ampuero Angel, Daniel Germán Estrada Bustos, David Héctor González Venegas, and Enrique Alfonso Toledo Garay were also victims of political executions; their cases were classified as victims of human rights violations by this Corporation.

The Superior Council, considering the place and cause of death, and especially the fate suffered by his former comrades-in-arms, formed the conviction that Ricardo Guillermo Pardo Tobar was executed by State agents outside of any legal process while he was being held deprived of his liberty. For this reason, it declared him a victim of human rights violations.