This evidence-led archive begins with the 2014 murder of 15-year-old Lola Chomnalez near Barra de Valizas. It follows the years-long investigation, the national genetic-database work that identified Leonardo David Sena Cabrera, his murder conviction and the 2024 appellate ruling that left the sentence in place.
A Rocha court convicted Leonardo David Sena Cabrera of Lola Chomnalez’s murder in April 2024. The Fourth-Turn Appeals Court affirmed his 27-year-and-six-month sentence in September 2024.
No unresolved Uruguay file has yet passed this archive’s sourcing and editorial threshold.
“Solved / adjudicated” rests on a murder conviction affirmed by the Fourth-Turn Appeals Court. It does not rest on the 2022 arrest, and it does not merge the murderer’s conviction with Ángel Eduardo Moreira Martínez’s separate conviction for concealment.
The genetic match changed the direction of the investigation, but forensic evidence did not itself impose guilt. The court evaluated the DNA evidence, Sena’s account and the wider record before entering judgment; the appellate court then reviewed and upheld that result.
Moreira’s eight-year sentence concerned concealment. Describing him as the person convicted of the murder would erase a material legal distinction and misstate the adjudicated record.
The national colors, coastal forms, memorial light, genetic profile and court file are clearly editorial. They do not depict Lola, Sena, the discovery site or physical evidence as documentary imagery.
One verified file is published: the murder of Lola Chomnalez and the DNA-led prosecution and conviction of Leonardo David Sena Cabrera.
Sena was convicted of very especially aggravated homicide in April 2024, and the Fourth-Turn Appeals Court affirmed his 27-year-and-six-month sentence in September 2024.
Uruguay’s scientific police continued comparing a male genetic profile preserved from Lola’s belongings with the national genetic database. That work led investigators to Sena and to further testing used in court.
Lola disappeared while walking near Barra de Valizas in Rocha Department on 28 December 2014. She was found dead in the coastal area two days later.
Ángel Eduardo Moreira Martínez was separately convicted of concealment and received eight years. He was not the person convicted of committing Lola’s murder.
Yes, when a Uruguay case has reliable sources, a clear present status and enough verified material for a substantive, victim-aware file.
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