US EditionNearly 400 Corpses Found on Site Near US-Mexico Border in 'House of Horrors'
- Police discovered 383 embalmed bodies piled irregularly in a private crematorium in Ciudad Juarez on July 2025.
- The crematorium falsely promised funeral homes it would cremate bodies but instead stored them to decompose, causing the pileup.
- The bodies included 218 men, 149 women, and four children, two of whom were newborns, stacked in five or six rooms and the yard.
- Attorney General Cesar Jauregui described the scene as 'Dantesque' and stated that some remains were up to four years old.
- Authorities arrested the crematorium owner and employee, opened a process for families to identify remains, and investigated possible criminal negligence.
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2 arrests made after 383 bodies found piled up at Ciudad Juárez crematorium
The owner of a private crematorium in Ciudad Juárez where 383 bodies were left in piles to decompose has been arrested along with his sole employee. The attorney general of Chihuahua, César Jáuregui Moreno, announced that José Luis Arellano Cuarón, the owner of the Plenitud crematorium in the Granjas Polo Gamboa neighborhood of Ciudad Juárez, and Facundo Martínez Robledo, an employee, were detained on Sunday. A judge ruled that the two men must …
Horror as 400 human corpses found inside house of horrors on US-Mexico border - The Mirror
Investigators have found 383 complete corpses and six partial remains at the property in the Mexico-US border town of Juarez, where it's thought "unscrupulous" owners had been defrauding grieving relatives
Ciudad Juárez, Chih., Relatives of people who are two or three years old from having died demonstrated yesterday outside the Attorney General's Office (FGE) of Chihuahua to demand that the names of the 383 people, whose bodies were stacked and hidden in the crematorium and of those who were given false ashes, be made known.
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