Our ethnographic research (2019-2020) around the exhumations of mass graves of the Franco regime in the Paterna cemetery (Valencia) raised a series of questions about the importance of making a biographical approach to the scenes of violence and perpetration. This provides us with a powerful analysis tool that allows us to go beyond the mere temporal sequence of events and spaces, giving them their own agency. In addition, it allows other memories to be placed at the center of the debate, those of women, which, due to the characteristics of the current exhumation processes, have been moving to the margins.