¿Quién es quién? Un caso de identificación antropofísica en el estado de Puebla

Abstract

Dr. Amparo Espinosa Rugarcía wanted to find the missing remains of her grandparents for personal reasons. She started researching about origin, settlement and death of her relatives in question. This searched her to the probably area where the remains of her grandparents were placed: a crypt belonging to Family Rugarcía, located in “La Piedad” cemetery in Puebla city, Mexico. Inside the crypt several drawers and funerary niches, some occupied and others empty, were found; some of the occupied niches had tombstones where the name of the people inside and the date of death could be seen. Unfortunately, none had the name of her grandparents, which represented a problem because in the cemetery’s registry is noted down that their remains were placed inside the crypts, thus it was supposed that the remains of Dr. Espinosa’s grandparents were in the interior of some unidentified drawer. At this point the questions that constitute this paper arose: were the remains of the grandparents really inside the crypt of Family Rugarcía? If they are, where are them? Which corpse belongs to the grandmother and which to the grandfather? How we can know about it?