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Texas Observer Reports Mass Graves Investigation May Have Been Botched

Grave markers next to a Brooks County burial plot marked for exhumation in May 2013 by the Baylor University forensics team.
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Grave markers next to a Brooks County burial plot marked for exhumation in May 2013 by the Baylor University forensics team.

From Texas Standard:

John Carlos Frey, a reporter with the Texas Observer, joins the Texas Standard to talk about the wrong-doings he found while looking into an inquiry led by the Texas Rangers.

There is a raft of unanswered questions about mass graves in South Texas near the border in and around Falfurrias, discovered in 2013 by forensic anthropologists. Buried remains — more than 50 bodies — were scattered and unmarked. Bones from multiple bodies were buried together, sometimes multiple bodies in the same bags.

Read the rest on the  Texas Standard.

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Rhonda is the newest member of the KUT News team, joining in late 2013 as producer for KUT's new daily news program, The Texas Standard. Rhonda will forever be known as the answer to the trivia question, “Who was the first full-time hire for The Texas Standard?” She’s an Iowa native who got her start in public radio at WFSU in Tallahassee, while getting her Master's Degree in Library Science at Florida State University. Prior to joining KUT and The Texas Standard, Rhonda was a producer for Wisconsin Public Radio.