Armed with DNA Samples, Mexico's Attorney General Searches for Disappeared Persons Gustavo Castillo Garcia - La Jornada
go to original July 30, 2013

As part of the strategy to address missing person cases that have arisen since 2007, the Attorney General’s office (PGR), since the start of 2013, began gathering DNA tests of the remains of those found in burial graves throughout the country, according to representatives for the Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam.

The PGR has already obtained information from state prosecutors ranging from fingerprints, physical descriptions, and photographs to genetic records of the deceased that had been classified as missing. Local authorities have also submitted the precise location of those burial graves that have been opened since January 2007. In the context of these efforts, which took effect some days ago, expert studies and soil samples in terrain in the state of Baja California have been conducted. Santiago López Meza, otherwise known as “The Stewmaker” [for particularly unpleasant reasons], allegedly deposited his victims of the Arellano Félix brothers’ cartel in these parts.

MV Note: This is part of the Peña Nieto government's recently announced United Search for Disappeared Persons. See other story: Mexican Mother Finds Daughter Dead After Searching Two years, Two Months and 20 Days

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Translated by Shaun Twomey

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