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El Futuro Perfecto for suppositions about the past
In Spanish, we use El Futuro Perfecto to make a supposition about something that happened in the past.
For example:
In English this supposition is generally expressed with "must have".
In Spanish we don't need to add anything to the sentence to express that supposition/probability. The use of El Futuro Perfecto includes that nuance.
The use of El Futuro Perfecto with this nuance will very often be triggered by a question or previous comment using El Pretérito Perfecto or El Presente for example:
"Marisa está muy guapa hoy, ¿verdad?"
(Marisa looks very pretty today, doesn't she?)
or
"¿Dónde ha ido tu hermano?"
(Where did your brother go?)
See also Conjugate regular verbs in the perfect future in Spanish (El Futuro Perfecto) and Conjugate Spanish irregular verbs in the perfect future in Spanish (El Futuro Perfecto)
For a different way to make suppositions about the past see also How to say "must have [done something] in Spanish with the verb deber
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