State officials have identified three more bodies that were kept in a hidden room of a Pueblo mortuary run by former county coroner Brian Cotter and are now turning to public DNA databases to try to identify the remaining 15 people whose remains were found at Davis Mortuary.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials released an update on the investigation Tuesday, announcing the three new identifications and bringing the total number of positively identified remains to nine.
Forensic experts have been working to identify all 24 bodies since August, when state inspectors found a hidden room in Davis Mortuary where the remains were left to decompose, some for more than a decade.
Investigators also found “multiple containers of bones, cremains and probable human tissue representing an unknown number of deceased individuals” at the mortuary.
The investigation, now in its fifth month, is ongoing, CBI officials said Tuesday. Cotter, who resigned as the county coroner in late August, has not been arrested or charged in the case.
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Investigators are now using forensic genetic genealogy and working with private labs and public DNA databases, which could help identify distant relatives, build family trees and identify the remaining 15 people.
“This decision was based on poor record keeping by Davis Mortuary, lack of investigative leads, poor condition of the remains and degraded DNA,” CBI officials said in the update. “Although this is a slower process, it is more likely to yield usable results.”
Once the investigation is done, the case will be presented to the 10th Judicial District Attorney’s Office to consider filing charges, state officials said.
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