Ex-US Navy officer wanted for murder dies in Chile
Ex-US Navy officer wanted for murder dies in Chile
By EVA VERGARA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO
The Associated Press
Published: Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 - 7:46 pm
SANTIAGO, Chile -- The anonymous death in a Santiago nursing home of a former U.S. Navy officer wanted for trial in the 1973 killing of two Americans in a case that inspired the Oscar-winning film "Missing" is generating frustration and questions in Chile and the United States.
Courts in Chile have long sought former Capt. Ray E. Davis, believing he was living in Florida. Last October, Chile's Supreme Court approved an extradition request for Davis to face trial for the deaths of American journalist Charles Horman and U.S. student Frank Teruggi, who were killed in the early days of the 1973-90 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
But Davis was secretly living in the Chilean capital all along. A Chilean death certificate says he died at age 88 of "multisystemic failure" at a nursing home in an affluent Santiago neighborhood on April 30.
"They were working to get Davis extradited and he was literally less than a couple of miles down the road," said Peter Kornbluh, author of "The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability."
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