The bodies are typically found by accident. A decaying corpse drying out in the Texas sun, stumbled upon by a hunter or ranch hand. A call might be placed to the sheriff’s office or the remains might be loaded into the back of a pickup truck. ..
From left, Texas State University Students Shelby Garza, Audrey Schaefer, and Kari Helgeson remove an unidentified victim’s remains from a grave in Falfurrias, Texas, on January 5, 2017 as part of Operation Identification (OpID), an initiative to identify and repatriate the remains of suspected migrants recovered along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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