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To: average joe who wrote (4826)7/18/2008 9:03:46 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Respond to of 5290
 
Argentine thieves disrupt severed hands investigation

Posted Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:16pm AEST

Thieves have broken into an Argentine judge's home and stolen documents relating to the bizarre theft of a former president's severed hands.

In 1987 someone broke into the mausoleum of former president Juan Peron and stole his hands, after severing them from his corpse.

Judge Alberto Banos has been investigating the bizarre crime for almost a decade, after taking over the case when the previous investigating judge died in what is often described in Argentina as a "mysterious car accident".

Judge Banos believed the theft had some political significance, but never announced a suspect.

He kept the files of the case at his home, to protect them.

But late in the evening, someone broke into his house and stole his computer and all the files related to the case, but left everything else.

abc.net.au