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Horman was born and raised in [[New York City]], where he attended the [[Allen-Stevenson School]], from which he graduated in 1957. He then graduated cum laude (top 15%) from [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] in 1960 and [[Harvard University]] in 1964 and worked for a number of years in the U.S. media. In 1972, he settled temporarily in Chile to work as a freelance writer.<ref name="Nizkor"/>

On September 17, 1973, six days after the military takeover, Horman was seized by Chilean soldiers and taken to the [[Estadio Nacional de Chile|National Stadium]] in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], which had been turned by the military into an ''ad hoc'' prison camp, where prisoners were interrogated, and tortured and many were executed. The whereabouts of Horman's body were presumably undetermined, at least according to the Americans, for about a month following his death, although it was later determined that, after his execution, Horman's body was buried inside a wall in the national stadium. It later turned up in a morgue in the Chilean capital. A second American journalist, [[Frank Teruggi]], met with a similar fate.

At the time of the [[military coup]], Horman was in the resort town of [[Viña del Mar]], near the port of [[Valparaíso, Chile|Valparaíso]], which was a key base for the American and Chilean coup plotters. US officials speculated at the time that Horman was a victim of "Chilean paranoia," but did nothing to intervene. It is unlikely that Horman would have been killed without a green light from the CIA, according to papers released in 1999 under the Freedom of Information Act.<ref>{{url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/13/world/us-victims-of-chile-s-coup-the-uncensored-file.html?scp=1&sq=charles%20horman%20memo&st=cse}}</ref> Efforts to determine his fate were initially met with resistance and duplicity by [[Chile_–_United_States_relations#U.S._Embassy_Functions|US embassy]] officials in Santiago.<ref name="Nizkor"/>