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The witnesses and historical evidence indicated that the body of the last Republican mayor of the town, Felipe Fern\u00e1ndez Varela, who had died in September 1939, was located in the mass grave designated as no. 1. Within this particular grave, only two bodies were found. Anthropological analysis showed that the first individual was significantly younger than 50\u00a0years, being the mayor\u2019s age at the time of death, while the age of the second individual was closer to 50. This second individual had a fractured skull, with a depression on the left parietal bone, and there were unmistakable signs of autopsy, which consisted of cut marks on the frontal bone and the sternal extremity of the right clavicle. Further historical research revealed documents concerning the autopsy performed on this individual. Although, according to the report, the cause of death was a stroke \u2014 the consequence of atherosclerosis and alcoholism \u2014 no reference was made to the forceful impact to the skull or intracranial bleeding. Considering the size of the fracture on the skull and the fact that there were no signs of bone healing, we believe that this impact, and not the stroke, was the direct cause of the death of the last Republican mayor. The mayor\u2019s case is a clear example of the role forensic medicine performed at the beginning of Franco\u2019s dictatorship. 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