Dogs That Roam With Human Remains: Jalisco

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This article was translated and reposted from INFORMADOR.MX

Written by; Jonathan Lomelí

BRISAS DE LA PRIMAVERA: ZAPOPAN, JALISCO

On Monday morning a man called 911. On his property, in Brisas de la Primavera, in Zapopan, a dog was walking around with a human skull on its snout. The same thing happened on Tuesday. A woman reported to the police that she saw a dog with a tattooed forearm.

This Wednesday the Zapopan Search Group and the State Search Commission located a property with evidence of at least seven clandestine graves or clandestine burial sites in Brisas de La Primavera.

The place has the geography of the neighborhoods bordering the Bosque de La Primavera. Dirt roads, hiding places in trees and bushes, semi-populated properties where life takes place in the midst of massive crimes, most likely at night.

At 500 meters there is a spa, three grocery stores surround the spot and less than three kilometers away is the UdeG High School 20. It is enough to walk a few meters into the forest to get lost in its thicket, but no, the criminals buried the bodies in a relatively populated adjacent area. A farm near the point, if you look closely, a house in apparent abandonment, contrasts with the number of video surveillance cameras surrounding it.

The dogs roamed, the first one, 1.7 kilometers from the clandestine burial zone. The second was barely half a kilometer away. During yesterday’s work they located four other limbs scattered in the vicinity.

The burial sites are concentrated in an area of about one hectare. Each one is 20 to 30 meters apart. The bodies are found wrapped or in plastic bags. One official’s report described it in these terms: “There are even pieces in the land lying around. It’s huge.

Are we facing one of the largest clandestine burial sites located this year? A year in which we have 17 graves and 257 bodies exhumed, most of them in Tlajomulco and Zapopan. The work of Forensic Sciences will continue in the coming days. Until yesterday, official information was scarce.

In that area of Zapopan, near the forest, dogs wander around with human remains in their snouts, and find the victims before the State Prosecutor’s Office, while they assure us that “in this six-year term there are more graves because now they are looking for the disappeared”.

jonathan.lomeli@informador.com.mx

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