70 out of 444 bodies identified at Jalisco Forensic Institute

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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