The Search for the Disappeared
How can science help in the investigation of political kidnappings and mass murder?
Argentina's military juntas were responsible for torturing and killing over 10,000 people. Today their bones are their only witnesses. By exhuming unmarked graves, forensic scientists are identifying individual victims and finding important evidence to bring those responsible to justice.
Many of the 'Children of the Disappeared' have survived because they were illegally taken by military families who may have been involved in their parents' murder. When grandparents eventually trace their grandchildren, the only way they can get them back is to prove their real identity by genetic testing.
Narrator Paul Vaughan
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MAVIS LYONS SMULL. NICK RAYNER
Written and Produced for
WGBH Boston by DAVID DUGAN
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