After a long wait of 27 years for closure, the Weisfeiler family can finally feel being given justice and relief.

A Chilean judge has issued arrest warrants for eight former police and military officers with regard to the infamous kidnapping and disappearance of Boris Weisfeiler, a Mathematics professor who disappeared in 1985 while hiking in Chile. He was the faculty member at Pennsylvania State University at the time of disappearance.

As per the indictment by the Judge Jorge Zepeda, the police officers--tipped off by a local--arrested Weisfeiler assuming him to be a left 'extremist', who crossed the border illegally. The professor was allegedly wearing'military-type attire' which led to his arrest, New York Times reports.

The Chilean officers then tried to close the issue by claiming that Weisfeiler had drowned in a nearby river and maintained the same to this date. But the indictment has confirmed long-standing beliefs of his family that he was killed near Colonia Dignidad by a German enclave led by ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer.

Weisfeiler who was a Russian Jew was reportedly tortured and killed by the German enclave during captivity, indictment states.

According to the report by New York Times, though the officers have been charged with kidnapping and concealment, murder charges have not been addressed by Judge Zepeda nor has he acknowledged the presumed death of the then 43-year old professor.

Weisfeiler's disappearance case was reopened in 2000 after the Clinton administration declassified some of the records. Apparently, Judge Zepeda cited some of these documents in his indictment.

According to the list by many human rights organizations there are more than 1,000 names in the list, who are considered 'disappeared' during the dictatorial regime of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. His strong anti-communist sentiments are believed to be the reason behind his alleged human rights abuses in Chile during his reign.

Now, the democratic government is reportedly taking steps to investigate into the human rights accusations.

Weisfeiler experienced discrimination in Russia for being a Jew and fled his homeland to 'freely practice his career and religion' and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1981. He settled in Penn State after working under Swiss Mathematician Armand Borel at the Institute for Advanced Study near Princeton University for some time.

Based on his kidnapping, a short film named 'The Colony' was made in 2007.