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Juárez Crematorium Operators Detained as Forensic Teams Catalog 383 Uncremated Bodies

The prosecutor’s office is urging families to come forward for forensic identification of remains

Aerial view showing a crematorium where authorities found over 380 corpses embalmed in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on June 29, 2025.
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Overview

  • Two suspects—owner José Luis Arellano Cuaron and employee Facundo M. R.—are in pretrial detention charged with improper disposal of human remains and face up to 17 years in prison.
  • Forensic teams have begun cataloging 383 complete bodies and six partial remains recovered from the Plenitud Crematorium’s compound.
  • Prosecutors say the bodies piled up without cremation since 2020 under subcontracts from six funeral homes and include 218 men, 149 women and 16 unidentifiable by gender.
  • Chihuahua State Inspector Carlos Tarín launched an administrative procedure that could lead to the revocation of the crematorium’s health permit for violating corpse disposal rules.
  • Authorities are calling on more families to visit the prosecutor’s office with identifying details to learn whether their loved ones are among the remains.