The Mexican government is creating a biometric population registry (CURP) to help combat its missing persons crisis, but ...

The pigs play an unlikely role as proxies for humans to help find the staggering number of people missing during decades of ...

Techniques honed during routine Rio Grande searches proved invaluable in the search and recovery efforts after the ...

Mexican scientists are using dead pigs to simulate human remains in efforts to locate 130,000 missing persons due to drug cartel violence.

Because pigs are remarkably similar to humans, knowing the signs of their decomposition can help identify hidden burials.

Four decapitated bodies were found hanging by their feet from a bridge in Mexico over the weekend. The 15 other bodies, including the fifth missing his head, were discovered just yards away in a van.

Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of 34 people in a mass grave in a western region wracked by cartel violence, the state prosecutor's office said Thursday. The remains were found during ...