AZ AZ - Cowlic Village, HispMale 14-20, UP11162, Cranium in shopping bag hanging from tree, Location known for migrant activity, Feb'13

[Hochman]

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ML13-00537

Reconstruction (Jaw is estimated)

"The cranium was found by a USBP agent in a plastic shopping bag hanging from a tree in a remote desert location known for migrant activity. No other skeletal elements or personal effects were located."

Sex - Male
Race - Hispanic
Location - Cowlic Village, Arizona

Spoiler: Location estimate (Blue dot)

County - Pima County
Age Range - 14 - 20
Estimated Year of Death - 2011-2012
PMI - Years
Condition of Remains - Partial skeleton (Cranium)

Unknown
- Hair
- Eye color
- Height
- Weight
- Clothing

 

[Puzzleworth]

Poor kid. Sounds like he died in the wilderness and someone else found his remains.

 

[AguaFlorida2001]

Based off the circumstances, I'm guessing this was somebody trying to cross into the United States from Latin America. I just can't understand why their cranium was found in a shopping bag hanging from a tree? That sounds a bit more intentional than just finding a body laying in the desert.

Some of these people look a bit like the reconstruction:
Antonio Ramirez-Lopez
Oscar Federico Reyes-Cruz
Enrique Heriberto Marquez-Nataren

 

[ohemgee.kay925]

Based off the circumstances, I'm guessing this was somebody trying to cross into the United States from Latin America. I just can't understand why their cranium was found in a shopping bag hanging from a tree? That sounds a bit more intentional than just finding a body laying in the desert.

Some of these people look a bit like the reconstruction:
Antonio Ramirez-Lopez
Oscar Federico Reyes-Cruz
Enrique Heriberto Marquez-Nataren

I wonder if maybe someone found the cranium and placed it in the hanging bag so that it would be discovered otherwise? Perhaps they were afraid of being considered as someone more involved than just finding it in that area?

 

[aurycore]

He was definitely an undocumented immigrant. the Tohono Odham reservation is an immigrant hotspot and he probably died from getting murdered. there is genuinely no way he would've died from an animal if the cranium was found in a plastic bag, or it could be possible that the remains were tampered with.

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Enrique Heriberto Marquez Nataren?

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[aurycore]

Enrique Heriberto Marquez Nataren?

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I can see it, but Enrique has smaller eyes while UID has larger ones and a more rounder chin.

 

[aurycore]

he was found right near a highway too, near route 202 and also green valley. Could be that someone probably noticed him and murdered him then put him in a plastic bag, but then again what would've happened with the rest of his remains?

 

[The4TierBridge]

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he was found right near a highway too, near route 202 and also green valley. Could be that someone probably noticed him and murdered him then put him in a plastic bag, but then again what would've happened with the rest of his remains?

I'd assume the initial death was not suspicious. This is probably a dis-articulated cranium somebody found along the San Miguel corridor, probably from a migrant or less likely from a native who lived on the Tohono O'odham Reservation, who had died many years prior, and then the discoverer put it in a bag for whatever strange reason. COD and manner of death are both undetermined for 13-00537 in the AZ Migrant Death Index. Case Number-based Radius Search