Juarez Crime Lab restores dried-out corpses with rehydration
10:28 AM CST on Monday, February 9, 2009
By Angela Kocherga / 11 News
JUAREZ, Mexico
There’s new hope for families searching for missing loved ones around Juarez, Mexico.
The Juarez Crime Lab has a new method of identifying bodies abandoned in the harsh desert
climate there: rehydration.
Using a technique developed by Dr. Alejandro Hernandez, lab workers are able to restore
mummified, cardboard-like skin back to a recognizable texture.
The lab is able to recover fingerprints, and sometimes restore other identifying marks on the
body, like moles, scars, tattoos and – in one case – a woman’s entire face.
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