Jalisco’s Las Pintitas Fosa Yields Remains

Why this is here: Searchers at the Las Pintitas site have recovered almost 60 bags containing human remains since beginning work on April 25th.

Cecilia Flores Armenta of Madres Buscadoras de Sonora visited the Las Pintitas clandestine pit in El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico, joining local mothers searching for human remains. The search began April 25th following an anonymous tip. Searchers have found nearly 60 bags containing human remains, along with three complete bodies and an undetermined number of calcined fragments.

Investigators found identification cards from people originally from states like Colima and Veracruz. Families of the missing are awaiting genetic test results to confirm identities. However, many remains show severe fire damage, complicating DNA retrieval.

Flores stated that the mothers have located between three and thirteen bags of remains daily, and that authorities should already know about 33 locations potentially used by criminal organizations since 2010. She also noted that families are performing tasks that should fall to the government. The search continues in other municipalities, including Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and Lagos de Moreno.