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‘We Want an Answer’: They Fear Their Relatives Are Among the Hundreds of Bodies Piled up at a Crematorium in Mexico
- Authorities discovered 383 embalmed bodies piled inside the Plenitud crematorium in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on June 26, 2025.
- The discovery followed reports concerning the crematorium's misuse, involving failures in oversight and concerns over the handling of bodies amid ongoing regional violence and disappearances.
- The bodies came from six different funeral homes, with some having name tags and others possibly remaining for three to four years, indicating severe neglect and improper disposal practices.
- Chihuahua Attorney General César Jáuregui stated that authorities intend to pursue the maximum penalties against those responsible. Officials have identified possible matches for 27 of the bodies while examining nearly 150 sets of remains.
- Two suspects, including the crematorium owner, face charges and are held in pretrial detention, and a hearing is scheduled for July 4, 2025, while families continue seeking answers and reparations.
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Nearly 400 Neglected Corpses Discovered by Authorities After Being Thrown 'Indiscriminately' Around Crematorium
Two people have been arrested and held in pretrial detention in connection with the shocking discovery, the Chihuahua State Prosecutor's Office announcedHERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP via Getty A Municipal Police vehicle outside the crematorium in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico.NEED TO KNOWPolice have arrested two people after authorities discovered nearly 400 embalmed corpses piled in a Mexican crematoriumThe owner and an employee have been arrest…
‘We want an answer’: They fear their relatives are among the hundreds of bodies piled up at a crematorium in Mexico
By Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — Families are demanding answers after authorities in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, discovered that 383 bodies had been stored in a crematorium for months and years after the people had died. Norma Guardado Meraz was one of many locals who visited the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Office this week to get more information about its investigation into the discovery, fearing that among the bodies are those of their relatives. The di…
By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ MEXICO CITY (AP) — Forensic experts have identified about 30 of the 383 uncremated bodies found piled up in a crematorium in northern Mexico, sparking outrage and uncertainty among hundreds of people who fear the bodies of their relatives may be there. More than a week after the chilling discovery, authorities in the northern state of Chihuahua continued Friday to identify hundreds of embalmed bodies that had been stored for a…
Chihuahua AG says: more families asking for assistance than uncremated bodies found
JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) -- Chihuahua Attorney General César Jáuregui along with his department (FGE) and the state medical examiner's office (SEMEFO), continue efforts to identify the 383 bodies found inside the 'Plenitud' crematorium south of Ciudad Juárez. A.G. Jáuregui told local media outlets that the news of the uncremated bodies discovered raised concerns among families in Juárez who are looking to learn if their late family members were …
Chihuahua.- The Attorney General of the State, César Jáuregui Moreno commented that due to the public interest that has awakened the case of the Plenitude crematorium in Ciudad Juárez where 383 bodies were found, nearly 700 families have come to request some clarification. Jáuregui Moreno commented that the people are being attended by the Executive Commission for the Care of Victims of the State of Chihuahua (CEAVE), which has tanatologists in …
The image was shocking: hundreds of people formed in the esplanade of the office of the Attorney General, in Ciudad Juárez, some with parasols, others with folders full of leaves, some even carrying funeral urns. The restlessness summoned them, the possibility that their relatives, dead years ago, would not have been burned, as they requested. It is the main consequence of the scandal of the crematorium Plenitude, which accumulated hundreds of b…
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