Thieves cut the hands off Juan Perón's body in 1987 and demanded 8 million dollars, and the judge investigating died in a car crash

Perón died in office on 1 July 1974 and lay in the family vault at the Chacarita cemetery from 1976. In June 1987 the Justicialist Party received an anonymous letter saying his hands had been taken, with his military cap and sword. Officials opened the tomb and found the hands cut off. The letter demanded 8 million dollars; party leader Vicente Saadi refused to pay. Página/12 reported in 2008 that the thieves also took a letter from Isabel Perón, cut it in three and sent the pieces to three Peronist legislators. Judge Jaime Far Suau led the investigation. Six men were arrested and five prosecuted, but none was charged with the crime^†. The judge died in a car crash on 22 November 1988; two researchers cited by Página/12, Negrete and Iglesias, call it an attack, and the case file was stolen in 2008^†. Journalists David Cox and Damián Nabot attribute the theft to Licio Gelli of the P2 lodge; other investigators reject a ransom motive. The hands have not been found. On 17 October 2006 Perón's coffin was moved to a mausoleum at his former country house in San Vicente, and union groups fought at the ceremony, injuring several people^†. The move let Martha Holgado, who had sought his DNA for 15 years, obtain a sample; a November 2006 test showed she was not his daughter^†. She died on 7 June 2007.