Stephen Phelan

Stephen Phelan lives in Madrid. He is work­i­ng on a book about the missing skull of Francisco de Goya.

Diary: Spain’s Disappeared

Stephen Phelan, 20 November 2025

Two human skeletons​ lay in the newly excavated grave, with numbers on plastic tags placed beside them. One of the skulls had a row of metal teeth. Joaquín Sancho Margelí’s family, who requested the exhumation, had said he could be identified by his silver dentures. The other skeleton was probably that of Elías Mohino Berzosa, whose family also wanted his remains...

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