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Migrant Lives

Dying To Get To America: Why So Many Missing Migrants Go Unidentified

A group of migrants look for an opening in the concertina wire barrier south of Eagle Pass where a 1000-foot string of buoys has been placed in the river to deter crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas.
A group of migrants look for an opening in the concertina wire barrier south of Eagle Pass where a 1000-foot string of buoys has been placed in the river to deter crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas. Bob Daemmrich/ZUMA

Since the 1990s, thousands of migrants have tried to enter the U.S. by crossing the borders of Arizona and Texas, and many have died in the desert. Yet there is no unified DNA program to identify the remains of missing migrants. So who identifies them and how do they do it?

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Eyes on the U.S. Future Society

At A Texas Body Farm, Studying The Decay Of Donated Corpses

Texas students working on the skeleton of a donated corpse
Texas students working on the skeleton of a donated corpse Texas State University

American forensics researchers place human corpses in so-called “body farms” to study their decomposition for a variety of sometimes surprising reasons.

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Rotterdam’s Newest Police Enforcers Are … Rats

On patrol
On patrol Edal Anton Lefterov - GNU Free Documentation License

A port city just like Marseille, but less riddled with crime, Rotterdam is nonetheless equipping itself with an unlikely new unit to fight illegal activity. Forensic police plan to use five big brown rats to shed light on criminal plots. After two years of training that will soon end, Derrick, Magnum, Poirot, Dupond and Dupont […]

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