Tehuel de la Torre

Tehuel de la Torre (born 26 March 1999) is an Argentine trans man who disappeared in the afternoon of 11 March 2021 when he left his home in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, heading for Alejandro Korn to meet Luis Alberto Ramos (37), whom had offered him a job as a waiter at a birthday party.

His whereabouts remain unknown.

De la Torre was born on 26 March 1999.

At the time of his disappearance, he lived in San Vicente, Buenos Aires, with his mother, his partner and her son, and his brother.

De la Torre had started his gender transitioning a few months before his disappearance.

On 11 March 2021, De la Torre left his home heading for Alejandro Korn to meet Luis Alberto Ramos, a 37-year-old man whom he had met at several Workers' Socialist Movement rallies.

Ramos had offered him a job as a waiter at a birthday party.

On 13 March, his family reported his disappearance to the police.

A destroyed phone and jacket belonging to De la Torre were found in a raid to Ramos' house on 16 March.

On Saturday March 13, his girlfriend Luciana first went to the 1st police station of San Vicente to file a missing person's report.

She was initially rejected, but after returning with an older neighbor, she was able to obtain a report.

She stated that they originally did not want to take her report because she was 17.

The investigation is assigned to Karina Guyot, prosecutor of the Decentralized Fiscal Unit of San Vicente.

A destroyed phone and clothes belonging to Tehuel were found in the first raids of the Ramos's house on March 16.

On March 18, after learning of Tehuel's disappearance, the Department of Gender and Diversity Policies of the Municipality of San Vicente intervened and contacted the family.

On March 23, Luis Alberto Ramos was arrested in Dock Sud; he had shaved his hair and deleted the content of his mobile phone.

He refused to testify.

Oscar Alfredo Montes (46), a friend of Ramos, was arrested on 27 March.

A picture of the three taken in Montes' house the day of the disappearance was found on 30 March.

It was saved in Tehuel's Gmail account at 8:42 p.m. on the day of his disappearance.

On April 5, Minister Estela Díaz of the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the Province of Buenos Aires, met with Tehuel's family and the ministerial team, giving her commitment to closely follow the investigation.

On April 21, the Ministry of Security, through the Provincial Directorate of Registry of Missing Persons, offers a reward of between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 pesos to those who can provide data to find Tehuel's whereabouts.

On May 26, after different testimonies within the framework of the investigation, a search was carried out with tactical divers and specialized personnel in Alejandro Korn's Mirin lagoon, close to the Ramos and Montes homes.

On June 3, searches were carried out at an ecopoint and on a CEAMSE property near the Ramos and Montes homes, giving negative results.

On June 10, a raid was carried out at the house of a neighbor of Ramos in the La Nueva Esperanza neighborhood.

That same day, a woman reported having seen a person similar to Tehuel in Caleta Olivia, so the prosecutor's office sent an appeal for a sticker with her face to be made in the city.

On June 11, two searches are carried out; one on the CEAMSE property in the city of José León Suárez, and another in the home of "Agüita" (friend of the detainees), in Alejandro Korn.

On June 15, there are raids and searches in a butcher in the neighborhood La Esperanza.

On July 22, the minister of the Ministry of National Security, Sabina Frederic, met with Andrés and Ailén de la Torre, father and sister of Tehuel, in order to evaluate progress in the case and provide search tools together with the Argentine Federal Police and the Federal Search System for Missing and Lost Persons (SIFEBU).

On August 13, through resolution number 1224/21, the Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires doubled the reward (from 2 million to 4 million pesos) for those who could provide valid information that contributes to the whereabouts of Tehuel

On 10 September a bloodstain belonging to De la Torre was found on a wall in Ramos' house.

On 9 November, Ramos and Montes were charged with aggravated homicide due to hatred of gender identity – a change from the original classification – and the prosecution took the case to trial.

In March 2022, a year after his disappearance, the Ministry of Security increased the reward to 5 million pesos (around US$36,000 in August 2022) for information about his whereabouts.

At the end of 2021, Alberto Ramos's house was demolished.

On March 11, 2022, one year after the disappearance, the Ministry of Security increased the reward to 5 million pesos for information about Tehuel's whereabouts.

The charges brought forth by the family are divided into two parts: On the one hand, there are Norma, her mother, and Verónica Alarcón, her older sister, represented by lawyer Alejandro Valle, focusing on prosecuting the suspects.

Tehuel's father, Andrés de la Torre, is represented by lawyers Marcela Mancini and Vanesa Vargas, who are part of the Collective of Translesbofeminist Lawyers, who question that the prosecutor's office focuses the investigation on the search for a body.

On July 17, Montes gave a false statement confirmed by the Prosecutor's Office in which he provided false and incorrect data.

On November 9, Ramos and Montes appear for investigation and give a statement, after which the prosecutor's office decides to charge them with homicide aggravated by hatred of gender identity, a change from the original qualification.

On March 12, 2022, Martín Rizzo, Judge of Guarantees of Cañuelas, brought to trial the case of homicide aggravated by hatred of sexual orientation and gender identity against Tehuel De la Torre.