Colonia Dignidad

===Sexual abuse===
In 1996, Schäfer fled child sex abuse charges in Chile,<ref name=NaziCult/> escaping arrest until 2005.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4338825.stm |title=Fugitive Chile cult leader held |first=Clinton |last=Porteous |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2005-03-11 |access-date=2012-02-04}}</ref> The previous year, in his absence, a Chilean court had convicted him of child abuse, together with 26 other cult members.<ref name=27Convicted>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/12/warcrimes.chile |work=[[The Guardian]] |title=Fugitive Nazi cult leader arrested |date=2005-03-12 |access-date=2008-04-02 |first=Luke |last=Harding}}</ref> In 2006, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.<ref name=PaulSentence>{{cite news |url=http://www.dw.com/en/german-cult-leader-in-chile-gets-20-year-sentence/a-2031481 |title=German Cult Leader in Chile Gets 20-Year Sentence |last=Conway |first=Jane |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=2006-05-25 |access-date=2016-09-07}}</ref> He died in prison of a heart ailment, on 24 April 2010, at the age of 88. At the time of his death, he was still under investigation for the 1985 disappearance of mathematician [[Boris Weisfeiler]], an American citizen who went missing while hiking near Colonia Dignidad.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/25/AR2010042503221.html |title=Paul Schaefer, 89, ex-Nazi preacher jailed for abuse, dies |first=Emma |last=Brown |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2010-04-25 |access-date=2016-09-07}}</ref>