Forensic experts piece together 41 bodies a week after 119 bags of dismembered human limbs, heads and torsos were found in a secret burial site in western Mexico

• The Jalisco Forensic Science Institute was able to put together 13 complete bodies, 16 partial bodies, six heads and six body trunks
• Forensic examiners said that 27 of the 29 bodies were identified as males
• Local police were alerted of foul odors emanating from the rural town of La Primavera in the western Mexico state of Jalisco
• Investigators discovered 119 plastic bags containing human remains that were buried in a clandestine mass grave
• Family members have already claimed two of the four bodies that were positively identified by forensic staff

Forensic examiners have been able to piece together 41 bodies after more than a hundred plastic bags containing human remains were found dumped in a secret burial site in Mexico.

On Tuesday, a team of examiners from the Jalisco Forensic Science Institute said they were still working on the grisly contents discovered inside 119 bags in Zapopan, a municipality in the western state of Jalisco.

Experts said that after a week of study, they had been able to piece together 13 complete bodies, 16 partial bodies, six heads and six body trunks that correspond to separate victims.

The Jalisco Forensic Science Institute added that 27 of the 29 bodies were males.

The Jalisco Attorney General’s investigative unit for missing persons said Tuesday  that three of the four bodies identified were males. Only two of the victims were positively identified by their families.

Mexican authorities located 119 plastic bags with human remains in Zapopan, Jalisco, during an eight-day investigation in early September 

Residents alerted the local police of a foul odor emanating from a grass field in La Primavera, a neighborhood in the municipality of Zapopan on September 3. Authorities from Jalisco Forensic Science Institute have pieced together 41 bodies

Residents alerted the local police on September 3 to a foul odor emanating from a grass field in La Primavera, a rural neighborhood in Zapopan. Authorities had to call in backhoes to fully excavate the 32-foot deep pit during an eight-day period. 

The forensic team is working on analyzing at least 200 body parts that were in the bags. 

Clandestine burial sites have become common in Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, considered by analysts and the Drug Enforcement Agency as the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico.

A forensics team in western Mexico says it still has about 200 body parts that still need to be analyzed

It took Mexican authorities in the state of Jalisco eight days to excavate through a clandestine burial site to dig out 119 bags that contained body parts

Gangs frequently use such pits to dispose of the bodies of rival gangs or kidnap victims.

In July, prosecutors found 21 bodies in the yard of a house near Guadalajara. In May, the remains of at least 34 people were found at two separate properties in Jalisco.

In March, workers were removing mud and debris to clear a storm drain at another spot on the outskirts of Guadalajara, when they began finding plastic bags with the odor of dead bodies.

In the end, they pulled a total of 20 bodies out of the storm drain.

Mexico set a record for homicides in the first half of 2019 with 17,608, up 5.3 percent compared to the same period of 2018 when 16,714 people were killed. It’s the most deadliest first half since the government started keeping official numbers in 1997.

The country of almost 125 million now sees as many as 100 killings a day nationwide. 

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