‘Making a match is incredibly satisfying … until you have to inform the family’

Headline Title:  ‘Making a match is incredibly satisfying … until you have to inform the family’ 01 November 2013 A scar, a tattoo, broken bone, a toothbrush kept in a small bag, a set of teeth.These are the some of the clues anthropologist Robin Reineke looks out for every time she is faced with a set of human remains of one of the hundreds of people who die every year while attempting to cross the Arizona desert.Robin is part of the “Missing migrants project”, a team that works at the Pima County Morgue in Arizona.Their job is to try to identify the corpses of the hundreds of men…

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