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Item Open Access Unidentified bodies in the Mexican context(University of Florida Press, 2022-04-20) Fortuna, Maria; Corrales, Laura; Robinson, Alan; Enríguez Farias, Roxana; Marquez-Grant, NicholasThe discovery of clandestine graves has become a recurring fact during the last ten years in Mexico, estimating that there could be more than 2000 scattered throughout the country (Guillen et al., 2018). Less well known, reported and attended to are the mass graves, located in municipal or state census, which house bodies of unidentified people and of which there is no official census. It is estimated that there are some 26,000 unidentified bodies (SEGOB, 2019a) and annually, in Mexico City alone, almost 500 are destined for the cemetery mass grave. Comprehensive projects in forensic science are required to mitigate the high percentage of unidentified bodies that coordinate the correct burial of bodies and their search in mass graves. The current humanitarian crisis and the complexity of the context make it necessary to consider the overlaps between cases of the disappeared and unidentified bodies, between search and identification.