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Texas Observer Reports Mass Graves Investigation May Have Been Botched

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Grave markers next to a Brooks County burial plot marked for exhumation in May 2013 by the Baylor University forensics team.

From Texas Standard:

John Carlos Frey, a reporter with the Texas Observer, joins the Texas Standard to talk about the wrong-doings he found while looking into an inquiry led by the Texas Rangers.

There is a raft of unanswered questions about mass graves in South Texas near the border in and around Falfurrias, discovered in 2013 by forensic anthropologists. Buried remains — more than 50 bodies — were scattered and unmarked. Bones from multiple bodies were buried together, sometimes multiple bodies in the same bags.

Read the rest on the Texas Standard.