More than 200 other migrants just like him died, their names unknown. Their bodies are part of a border-crossers’ morgue at a university lab.

[rangerrebew]

Case 0438
A man illegally crossed the border into South Texas, died on the journey and was never identified. His remains were buried in a milk crate, his skull stained red from its contact with a bandanna.
 

More than 200 other migrants just like him died, their names unknown. Their bodies are part of a border-crossers’ morgue at a university lab.
 

SAN MARCOS, Tex. — Case 0435 died more than a mile from the nearest road, with an unscuffed MacGregor baseball in his backpack. Case 0469 was found with a bracelet, a simple green ribbon tied in a knot. Case 0519 carried Psalms and Revelation, torn from a Spanish Bible. Case 0377 kept a single grain of rice inside a hollow cross. One side of the grain read Sara, and the other read Rigo.

The belongings are part of a border-crossers’ morgue at a Texas State University lab here — an inventoried collection of more than 2,000 objects and 212 bodies, the vast majority unidentified.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/us/texas-border-migrants-dead-bodies.html?WT.nav=top-news&action=click&clickSource=story-heading&emc=edit_nn_20170505&hp=&module=second-column-region&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=9378554&pgtype=Homepage&region=top-news&te=1&_r=3

[GtHawk]

Put them to use, med schools the country need cadavers for students to study.

[Oceander]

No need to disrespect the dead.