(29 Jul 2025)
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Cajititlán, Mexico – 10 July 2025
1. Close of hand touching plant with as insect walking on leaf, UPSOUND (Spanish): "A grave is like a micro-ecosystem that evolves over time."
2. Various of scientist José Luis Silván scanning the ground as part of experiment
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Luis Silván, scientist at Mexican research institute CentroGeo:
"Here, we’re working on a project to understand how graves evolve and how they can be detected using technology."
4. Silván pointing to hole in the ground, UPSOUND (Spanish): "This is an (experimental) grave."
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Luis Silván, scientist at Mexican research institute CentroGeo:
"We can’t see the buried bodies directly with this technology. What we see are the effects those bodies have on the soil and vegetation."
6. Close of plant sprouts on ground
7. Close of ants’ nest
8. Close of insect walking on plant leaf
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Luis Silván, scientist at Mexican research institute CentroGeo:
"We conducted an experiment using animals as stand-ins for human bodies, which we buried in the field behind me. The burial techniques replicate those observed in the region."
10. Various of pigs buried behind glass panels
11. Close of larvae growing off dead pig
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Luis Silván, scientist at Mexican research institute CentroGeo:
"In this case, we’ve been monitoring these graves for nearly two years using different technologies."
13. Drone operator preparing drone for flight to map field as part of experiment
14. Close of drone propeller
15. Drone in sky
16. Researchers monitoring drone flight
17. Close of laptop screen
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Luis Silván, scientist at Mexican research institute CentroGeo:
"We interpret the data to understand how different types of graves look, and that information is useful for people who are searching."
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Zapopan, Mexico – 11 July 2025
19. Relatives and government workers digging for missing people
20. Women volunteers walking in field; heavy machinery in background
21. Aerial of people and machinery in field ++MUTE++
22. Machine removing soil
23. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maribel Cedeño, looks for her missing brother:
"Flying over, say, a hillside makes it quicker and easier to survey than doing it all on foot—which could take us a couple of days. With a drone, it’s easier because it flags points of interest you can then go check."
24. Women during search operation
25. Photo of José Gil Cedeño Rosales, the missing brother of Maribel Cedeño, printed in her t-shirt
26. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maribel Cedeño, looks for her missing brother:
"After death, there is life. That’s what happens in these cases—when bodies go unfound and remain buried for a long time, they give life."
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Guadalajara, Mexico – 11 July 2025
27. Animal samples in tubes at Jalisco Search Commission lab
28. Insect samples
29. Sign on wall that reads (Spanish): "From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity."
30. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Tunuari Chávez, researcher at Jalisco Search Commission:
"Once, while we were here, a mother said, ‘So it’s like you’re looking for our children as if they were alive?’ And I told her that, technically, yes."
31. Close of researcher removing sample from tube
32. Sign reading (Spanish): "Grave 11. Treatment: body with cement. Depth: 0.75 m (2.5 f)"
33. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Tunuari Chávez, researcher at Jalisco Search Commission:
34. Insect samples
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Cajititlán, Mexico – 10 July 2025
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