The Last Outfit of
The Missing

Despite the thousands of cases registered in recent years, the State lacks a policy of searching for missing persons or providing assistance to family members. Without this policy, sporadic and sui generis are the coordination between the Police, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) to attend the drama of the wandering families who are looking for their bones. In the last two years, the IML has paid attention to the problem, but the confrontations between the Supreme Court of Justice and the Legislative Assembly have paralyzed a project that tries to create a genetic bank with the DNA samples of the reappeared bones to compare them with the of the thousands of people looking for their relatives.

While this project is being carried out, Raymundo Sánchez, of the Forensic Anthropology Team of the IML, has dedicated himself to safeguarding in his personal file the data of the skeletons and the images of the clothing of the reappeared. Their hope is that by means of the dress the relatives ask to the luck that helps them to recognize their disappeared by means of shirts, calzones, skirts, shoes, briefs, pants … In this photo story the precise place of the finding is omitted of the garments for security reasons of the families of the victims.