Over 70 bodies out of the 444 that were kept by the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Science (IJCF) - 322 of which were stored in refrigerator trucks - have been fully identified, though the institution had not yet undertaken the search of their family members or corresponding authorities to begin the delivery and burial processes.
The bodies correspond to people who died of illnesses, suicide, and accidents , as well as people who lived on the street. Most of them carried some sort of identity document, though others arrived at the hospital fully identified and later died. Among the bodies, there were two foreigners and one child.
Last Monday night, the “ Por Amor a Ellxs ” group, made up of the missing persons’ family members and friends was given access to a list of 18 names , which they published on Facebook . Sources of IJCF authenticated said list and informed of an even longer list that includes almost 60 names .
Furthermore, it was reported that, starting September 21 , four groups of the missing persons’ families protested outside the institute’s facilities, requesting to see the bodies that were kept in trailer boxes. So far, only 29 people have been claimed by their families .
One of the people that have been identified is Jonathan Michelle Tafoya Rojas, a 7 year old boy who was left in the Guadalajara Civil Hospital in 2016 . His parents never returned to claim the body.
There were also two bodies that corresponded to American citizens Decker Jerry Wayne and Charles Marshal Vann , who lived on the shores of the Chapala Lake . They both died in 2016 and have not been claimed by their families either.
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL , the current director of the Institute, Carlos Daniel Barba Rodríguez , acknowledged that there had been a lack of coordination between IJCF’s internal areas and law enforcement agencies to identify the bodies.
Ever since this “contingency” started developing at the Forensic Institute, the government of Jalisco appointed three groups to trace the families of the people that have been identified so far.
LIST OF PEOPLE IDENTIFIED AT IJCF AND YEAR OF DEATH:
2014
Guillermo Rodríguez Borgaro
2015
Felipe Sandoval Íñiguez
2016
Daniel Charles Tuesz
José Luis Castañeda Castaño
Gerardo Rodríguez Carvajal
Alejandro Herrera Sánchez
Juan José Morales Galván
Rubén Hernández
José Rafael Apechea Pérez
Ramón Vázquez Flores
José Manuel Corona
Jonathan Michelle Tafoya Rojas
David Pérez Becerra
Elías Fernando López Carrizales
María Esther Carrasco Caballero
2017
José Gerardo Pérez Baraja
Darril Alan Bietila
Alberto Pacheco Ramírez
Samuel Baltazar Ubaez Pimentel
Oscar Vicente García Martínez
José Luis Aviña González
Ramón López Arce
Víctor Abel Pezeros
José Ángel Alcarz
Armando Rodolfo Paniagua Paredes
Luis Manuel Rodríguez Anguiano
Miguel Ángel Velázquez Castillo
Enrique Sánchez Sotelo
Ramón Horta
Roberto García Guzmán
José Jorge Gwich Hurtado
Juan Alberto Alvarado Cordero
Eugenio Reyes Lara
Víctor Gabriel Mendoza Lozano
Decker Jerry Wayne
María Teresa López Villalbazo
José Alberto Saucedo Serrano
María del Rosario García Siordia
Charles Marshal Vann
Víctor Gabriel Mendoza Lozano
Mauricio Chávez Valencia
Jorge Hernández Valles
Antonio Méndez García
Gerardo Mata López
José Luis Silva Solís
Jorge Arturo Morales Castillo
José de Jesús Cano Ortiz
Carlo Gibrán Díaz Santos Velázquez
Ramiro de la Cruz Barajas
José Luis Ornelas Martínez
Graciela Yescas Carrillo
Humberto Gutiérrez Hernández
Josefath Escobedo Portales
José de Jesús Vázquez Alfaro
Sergio Castillo González
2018
Ricardo Sergio Wong González
María Azucena López Águilar
Miguel Salvador Leal
Alberto Alvarado Martínez
Juan José Carpio Reyes
Maribel Parra Mendoza
Felipe Ortiz Vázquez
Alejandro Rodríguez Mendoza
Carlos Mario Félix Castro
Maribel Parra Mendoza
José Ramírez Rodríguez
José Alberto Cortés
Juan José Mendoza Madrigal
Martín Salazar Jiménez
Arturo Pinzón Ríos
Crédulo Larios Guzmán
Erik Ricardo García Gómez
Juan Carlos Camacho Oropeza
UNKNOWN YEAR OF DEATH
José Manuel Ramírez de Anda
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