Chile toughens sentences in 'Missing' killings of Americans [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Chile toughens sentences in 'Missing' killings of Americans

Eva Vergara, Associated Press
Updated 4:37 pm, Thursday, July 21, 2016

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's Supreme Court on Thursday lengthened the prison sentences of two former military officers convicted in the 1973 killing of two Americans during the early days of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

In a unanimous ruling, the court sentenced retired Gen. Pedro Espinoza to 15 years, up from the seven ordered by the trial judge, and ex-Col. Rafael Gonzalez to three years instead of two.

Both were convicted in 2015 in the deaths of documentary filmmaker Charles Horman and university student Frank Teruggi, who were detained days after the coup that put Pinochet in power.

Horman's bullet-riddled body was later admitted to a morgue as a "John Doe." Teruggi's corpse was left in a Santiago street.

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Chile-toughens-sentences-in-Missing-killings-of-8401514.php

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Horman, left, Terrugi, right



General Pedro Espinoza , left, Col. Rafael Gonzalez, right



General Pedro Espinoza, right-hand man of deadly DINA Manuel Contreras [/center]