A prosecutor from the Specialized Directorate against Human Rights Violations opened an investigation against Luis Alberto and Rafael Herrera Herrera as alleged responsible for the disappearance of four people in the rural area of ​​Fusagasugá (Cundinamarca), on October 23, 2002.

The material evidence shows that they would have contacted members of the extinct Peasant Self-Defense Forces of Casanare, which had interference in the Sumapaz region between 2002 and 2003, to have them take away against their will a group of inhabitants of properties surrounding the properties of the Herrera Herrera family.

The bodies of two of the victims were found in 2008, in a field in Silvania (Cundinamarca), and delivered to their relatives in December 2025, after the Internal Working Group for the Search, Identification and Delivery of Missing Persons (GRUBE) obtained the biological samples to establish full identity. Meanwhile, the search for the other two missing people continues.

Due to these events, the Herrera Herrera brothers will be formally linked through an investigative procedure, which will be carried out on February 6, for the crime of forced disappearance.

Additionally, Rafael Herrera is accused of the crime of violent sexual assault due to the sexual abuse of a minor that was discovered in this investigation.

This process is followed in accordance with the parameters of Law 600 of 2000.