Two of the seven retired military officers convicted of kidnapping and murdering Chilean singer-songwriter Victor Jara have gone on the run, police have confirmed. They were sentenced to 25 years in prison last week.

The Chilean Police Investigations Department (PDI, by its Spanish acronym) confirmed that former soldiers Raúl Jofré González and Nelson Haase Mazzei are fugitive and could not be arrested, according to BíoBío radio station.

The Chilean Supreme Court convicted former army officers Jofré González and Haase Mazzei last week, along with Edwin Dimter, Ernesto Bethke, Juan Jara and Hernán Chacón. They were given 15 years in prison for the killings of Jara and former Head of Prisons, Littré Quiroga Carvajal, and another 10-year sentence for the two kidnappings.

On top of that, Rolando Melo received an eight-year sentence for covering up the crimes. The defendants, who are between 73 and 85 years old, were all free before the ruling.

However, Jofre and Haase Mazzei are not the only ones who have attempted to avoid jail. Chacón, 87, died by suicide before he could be taken to prison, when police arrived at his home to take him into custody.

According to BíoBío, when the police officers arrived, Chacón told them he needed to fetch belongings from his bedroom before going with them. There, he took his life.

Jara was kidnapped a few days after the September 11, 1973, military coup that led to Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.

He was tortured and shot 44 times at the Universidad Técnica del Estado — a state university where he taught a class at the time.

Littré Quiroga Carvajal, the second victim, was detained on September 11, 1973, going voluntarily to the Armed Regiment #2. Two days later, he was transferred to the National Stadium. He was 33 years old, and his body was discovered near the Metropolitan Cemetery together with four other people, including Jara.