Over 5,000 John Does Pile Up as Cartel Wars Rage
Mexico's morgues overflow with 5,348 unidentified corpses, a crisis fueled by drug violence and bureaucratic failures. Families struggle to identify loved ones in the macabre backlog. National database and DNA collection urged.
Forget spring break, Mexico has a body break - and it's not a party. The Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM) is drowning in a macabre tsunami of corpses, struggling to identify a staggering 5,348 unclaimed bodies, with 629 festering in morgues for over seven years, according to a bombshell report.
Information requests revealed the gruesome inventory spanned 2018-2024, but the bean counters conveniently forgot to note cause of death, age, or gender - because who cares when you're dealing with a mountain of dead bodies, right?
