It is possible that some process was attached to those files and until that process released those files it wouldn't release the space, Also Unix will take its own time to actually clean up a delete. It will delete the inode reference from the directory listing but can take some time to actually release the space depending on how busy the system, or that filesystem, is. I have seen some programs that make hidden files to carry out tasks. The software actually created a file then attached a process to it and then deleted the file whilst the process was attached. The file was accessible to the process but was hidden from everything else. You can find them with an inode listing.
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