Overview
- Authorities and search collectives began coordinated field operations on January 8 in the colonia Miguel Alemán near the Baja California–Sonora border.
- A third burial site identified over the weekend brought the confirmed total to nine bodies recovered across three clandestine graves within an ecological reserve.
- K9 units guided excavations that involved more than 50 participants, and officials have secured the area for continued recovery and documentation.
- Investigators documented 9 mm and .223 shell casings and burned material at earlier grave sites, and the recovered remains were transferred to Semefo for forensic study and genetic profiling.
- Independent parents’ search groups reported locating dispersed skeletal remains in nearby dunes at ejido Mérida using drone-based geospatial analysis and an AI model, and they notified authorities.