Mexico Deploys High-Tech Tools and Pig Proxies in Cartel Grave Searches

Mexico Is Using Pigs, Drones, and Lasers to Find Drug Cartel Victims

In the fields of Jalisco, Mexico, pigs dressed like people are being buried, burned, chopped, and wrapped in lime. It sounds like either an incredible feast is about to take place or something extraordinarily grim is happening. It’s a little of the latter, but it’s all a part of a larger effort to more easily find remains of the 130,000 people officially classified as missing as a result of cartel violence. The AP reports that a coalition of sci…

Clothed pigs are buried in Mexico as scientists use them in search of missing

The pigs play an unlikely role as proxies for humans to help find the staggering number of people missing during decades of drug cartel violence.

Scientists are dressing pigs in clothes and burying them in Mexico for this horrific reason

Mexican scientists are using dead pigs to simulate human remains in efforts to locate 130,000 missing persons due to drug cartel violence.

Amid drug cartel violence, Mexican authorities use pigs to help locate the missing

Mexican authorities are testing creative solutions as the number of missing now surpasses 130,000

Scientists dressing pigs in clothes and burying them in Mexico

First the scientists dress dead swine in clothes, then they dispose of the carcasses. Some they wrap in packing tape, others they chop up. They stuff the animals into plastic bags or wrap them in blankets. They cover them in lime or burn them. Some are buried alone, others in groups.

Scientists Are Dressing Pigs In Clothes And Burying Them. Here

First the scientists dress dead swine in clothes, then they dispose of the carcasses. Some they wrap in packing tape, others they chop up. They stuff the animals into plastic bags or wrap them in blankets. They cover them in lime or burn them. Some are buried alone, others in groups. Then they watch. The […]