Edmund C. Horman (April 15, 1906 – April 16, 1993)[1] was an American businessman who flew to Chile in 1973 in search of his son, Charles Horman, knowing that soldiers had seized him, but unaware that he had been shot dead by the Chilean military forces under General Augusto Pinochet, during their coup against President Salvador Allende.
[2][3][4] He later became a human rights activist and public speaker, and is portrayed by Jack Lemmon in the 1982 Academy Award-winning Costa Gavras film, Missing.
[2][5] Horman died of pneumonia at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital[2][5] on 16 April, 1993.
[9] After forcefully overthrowing the duly-elected socialist government of Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens, the military rounded up thousand of suspected enemies and prisoners of the Pinochet coup, and confined them at the National Stadium in Santiago.
[10] He also participated in human rights conferences along with Joyce and his wife Elizabeth, who both lived to see Pinochet's arrest in 1998.