Original Article

FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION OF UNIDENTIFIED CORPSES FROM TATTOOS: A CASE REPORT

Guadalupe Melo Santiesteban, Dominic Jacome Valdez Ileana, Patricia Beatriz Denis Rodriguez, Ivan Baltazar Ramos Javier, Alberto Jimenez Baltazar, Edmundo Denis Rodriguez, Javier Huesca Mendez, Saul Pantoja Vacaflor

The naked corpse of an unidentified female was located in a sewage stream, in an advanced process of putrefaction, with no soft tissues on the face due to cadaveric anthropophagy. In the external inspection, several tattoos were located that made positive forensic identification possible.