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

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

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

Over the past three years, the skeletons of hundreds of female migrants have been discovered in the Sunland Park Triangle, ...

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

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Nearly a year after the U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for a Central Texas family of four missing after the boat they were on capsized in ...

Alejandro Rodriguez Hernandez received a life sentence for murder and an additional 20 years for abuse of a corpse from a ...

The body of a young woman from the U.S., who may have been kidnapped, was found buried in a hidden grave in Juárez, Mexico.