Anthropologists from the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IMF) have been working on the Piedras Blancas property for three weeks, looking for bones among mounds of garbage deposited by nine trucks. They estimate that they might find remains of Anahí Bulnes (36 years old), the woman who has been missing since December 5 and for whose alleged murder Santiago Campos Matos (37) is accused and detained.
It is suspected that the woman may have been dismembered and that her remains have been thrown in the trash. Hence, the IMF was called to carry out this work, with unprecedented characteristics.
The director of this prestigious Institute, David Dib, in dialogue with ElDoce, specified that at the moment nine anthropologists work in the “removal of a giant mound of rubbish that has been previously crushed”, making a first selection of skeletal remains.
“About nine trucks have deposited the trash in this shredding space. There are three trucks that we mightn’t search because they are in a burial area that cannot be removed. We are hopeful that we can find some or all of the remains if they were to be found.” Dib said.
“There is not a lot of experience in the world of searches of these characteristics,” he stressed.
The professional indicated that this work in Piedras Blancas will take regarding two more months. “Later, in the laboratory we are going to discriminate animal bone from what might be human bone,” added Dib, regarding what follows, anticipating that this task will require regarding two more months.
The professional highlighted that the IMF has frequent contact with the family of Anahí Bulnes, who is very committed to the search, to whom they inform them of the details of the work that is being carried out.
Regarding the importance of the task they are developing, he stated: “There is a humanitarian need for the family to have the complete body or the remains that certify the death (of Anahí Bulnes); and that they can be returned to concretize the process of duel”.