EP08 · 9 DE JULIO, CORRIENTES · 2024

Loan

“A five-year-old walks out to pick oranges after a family lunch — and never comes home.”

Season finale · Researching

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THE CASE

On 13 June 2024, five-year-old Loan Danilo Peña disappeared near the hamlet of 9 de Julio, Corrientes, after a lunch at his grandmother’s house. He had walked out with relatives and neighbours toward a nearby orange grove; somewhere on the way back, he vanished. He has never been found.

What followed became one of the largest searches in Argentine history — and then one of its most contested investigations. Seven people, including relatives by marriage and a former police officer, went on trial in June 2026, charged with the abduction and concealment of a minor; ten more face charges in related cover-up proceedings. All deny the accusations, no one has been convicted, and the trial is ongoing. This is the case Argentina cannot close — and the one we end the season on.

IN CONTEXT

CultureRural Corrientes: extended families, godparent ties, a countryside where everyone knows everyone — until nobody saw anything.

MediaTwo years of national obsession: false sightings, viral “appearances”, and a family’s grief lived on camera.

PowerLocal police, then federal forces, then the courts: a search that put every layer of the state on display.

The systemSeventeen accused across two proceedings, a trial with hundreds of witnesses — and the only question that matters still unanswered.

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