Forensic anthropologists have identified the body found in May buried in a property adjacent to a Buenos Aires house that late Argentine pop-rock icon Gustavo Cerati used to rent in the early 2000s. The remains belong to Diego Fernández Lima, a 16-year-old who had been missing since 1984. Marks present on his bones suggest he was murdered.

News of the identification was confirmed on Wednesday by the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, by its Spanish initials), which was requested to take part in the case by the Criminal Prosecution Office n°12, led by prosecutor Martín López Perrando.

🇦🇷 El @EAAFofiical colabora con la justicia y las familias en la identificación de personas fallecidas sin identidad y en la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas en democracia. En este caso lo hizo a pedido de la Fiscalía Criminal N°12 de Martín López Perrando. pic.twitter.com/MQEtDzjfUi

After news of his identification broke out, third-division football club Excursionistas revealed that Diego was playing for the team at the time of his disappearance, and shared an emotional message written by late club board member Daniel Viviani in 1985, saying the team always remembered the........

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