As forensic teams exhume bones at La Escombrera, families stand guard—demanding the city confront the paramilitary violence it once buried beneath construction debris. For decades, La Escombrera was known only as a dump where trucks tipped rubble from Medellín’s construction boom. Operation Orion’s Long ShadowThe trenching at La Escombrera also reopens the wounds of Comuna 13’s violent past. According to Justice Gustavo Salazar, who leads the JEP investigation, La Escombrera soon became a paramilitary base. Investigators told her that one skeleton belonged to a girl aged 16 to 18 with “perfect teeth”—just like Carol.