text: COURTS “AUCTIONED OFF” THE ONLY
  EVIDENCE OF DISAPPEARED AMERICAN
  The process on the
  disappearance of the mathematician, which occurred in January 1985, is in the
  hands of magistrate Jorge Zepeda.
  In a bundle auctioned together with other packages five
  years ago the things used by American mathematician Boris Weisfeiler until the
  moment of his disappearance, were lost. He is the only
  The unusual sale – which involved the only existing testimonial evidence – became evident when Judge Jorge Zepeda resumed the investigation within the framework of his proceedings after being designated by the Supreme Court as responsible for the accusations against Colonia Dignidad for human rights violations.
  According to information obtained by “La Segunda,” in September 1999 Weisfeiler’s things were part of a judicial auction, which included other series of goods accumulated in the facilities of the Second Criminal Court of San Carlos. This procedure was registered in a certificate issued by the court and attached to the file originally held by Judge Gilberto Cornejo and then transferred to members of the Court of Appeals in Santiago Judges Juan Guzmán (2000) and Alejandro Solís (2000).
  The legal auction thus included a compass, a sleeping bag, a
  small tent, green military type trousers and a knapsack of the same color,
  which were all that remained of
  These articles were found one week after Weisfeiler’s trail was lost, in an area 100 kilometers away from lands owned by Dignidad settlers.
  Although it was initially spoken of as an accident, the case took on an international aspect when in 1998 the U.S. Ambassador at that time, Gabriel Guerra Mondragón, asked the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Relations to investigate Weisfeiler’s whereabouts after hearing a statement by an anonymous person who during the last months of 1997 affirmed that the disappeared person had been captured and taken to Colonia Dignidad where he had been murdered with a shot in the head.