Hands of Perón Hands of Perón The cutting of the Hands of Perón refers to a 1987 incident where the tomb of Juan Perón, former President of Argentina, was broken into and his hands dismembered and removed by persons unknown. Perón died in July 1974. His casket remained in the "Quinta de Olivos" presidential residence until the March 1976 coup. The coffin was then placed in the Perón family tomb in Chacarita Cemetery, located in the Chacarita ward of the city of Buenos Aires. In July 1987, 13 years after his death, the Peronist Justicialist Party received an anonymous letter claiming Perón's hands
Manos: The Hands of Fate to get the NYPD off their trail. It worked for a while before they were caught, due to the character of Dr. Joan Watson having recognized Torgo's features from the film. The film's editor, James Sullivan, was the namesake of one of the characters in the episode. In 2011, the original 16mm workprint of "Manos: The Hands of Fate" was discovered in a collection of 16 mm films by Ben Solovey, a Florida State film school graduate. Solovey announced his intention to preserve and restore "Manos" for a Blu-ray release. Solovey financed the restoration via crowd funding website Kickstarter, raising