• The search: they locate skeletal remains of a human body in Cerdido

"Iago, finally, is already resting." So reads the message that Yago de la Puente's family spread in the last hours to confirm the fatal outcome of this young man whose story was cut short 13 and a half months ago.

Yago disappeared without a trace on July 14, 2019 after attending the International Celtic World Festival of Ortigueira , in Lugo , and despite the intense search of family, friends and Security Forces, no clue helped his location, until this week, skeletal remains were located in the town of Cerdido .

A neighbor of Cerdido, in the province of La Coruña , located the remains last Wednesday 26 on a hill in the place of Casanova , in the parish of A Baqueira , a wooded area with difficult access very close to the one that had been marked as the last point at which Iago was seen alive. The surroundings had been the subject of detailed searches and searches months ago, without any trace of the young man being located.

After the discovery of the remains, all eyes turned to the disappearance of the young man from A Coruña, despite the fact that his personal belongings or clothing did not appear near the bones.

Yago's search

It was like this because a neighbor declared in her day, when the photo of Yago was widely disseminated to search for news about his whereabouts, that she recognized the young man in the photo because she had asked him about the bus stop. She made the consultation less than a kilometer away from the point where those remains appeared.

The department of Biology of the Criminalistics Service of the Civil Guard analyzed the remains and late this Friday night, two days after the discovery, confirmed to the family that his DNA corresponded to that of the young man, who when he disappeared was 28 years .

The Civil Guard itself confirmed this Saturday that the remains "correspond 100% to the missing person." The agents are now investigating the causes of the death of the young man, whose disappearance was not explained.

In more than a year of searching, he has not been able to give answers as to why the young man never returned home from Ortigueira. Although thanks to witness statements, his last movements could be drawn after attending the festival, his fate remained unknown.

A train and a stop

It could be established that he took a FEVE train that was taking him from Ortigueira towards Ferrol and also that, for reasons that have not been clarified, he got off at the stop in Cerdido. On July 16, when his family had not heard from him for two days, the neighbor placed him in that place and from then on, silence.

His family and friends never explained these movements to each other and they never stopped looking with hope for his whereabouts. Until now. "After a year, two months and 14 days of searching, without losing hope, today we have just been told that the remains found belong to Yago," her father confirmed on social networks.

José Manuel de la Puente González sent a message to all the people who helped him tirelessly in recent months because "I wanted the news to be known by me before any other means. Since you have been helping and supporting both me and to all my family". And to all who collaborated he thanked "thanks for so much."

In this way, he thanks the crowd that was involved in the search for Yago from the beginning and until just before the declaration of the state of alarm for the coronavirus crisis, with raids of up to 400 volunteers . Several search operations had been carried out in this same area and the boy's father had even returned after confinement. As soon as the de-escalation began, this man from A Coruña restarted the search and returned to Cerdido, without success again.

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