A bible, a toothbrush and family portrait: The heartbreaking and pitiful possessions found on the skeletal remains of those who died trying to cross into the U.S.

• Arizona's Pima County Medical Examiner's Office receives about 176 human remains each year, discovered on the U.S.-Mexico border
• Most belong to undocumented immigrants who died of dehydration trying to cross the border 
• Forensic anthropologists repatriate the remains they can identify; the others are cremated 
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Last words: A letter to a loved one was found among money and other personal items on this unidentified person. Their body was discovered in the Arizona desert on October 9, 2014

 

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