Tag: searchers

Mexico’s ‘searchers’ seek the disappeared — and political support

Mexico’s “buscadoras,” or searchers, are seeking political support in the United States after finding little more than closed doors in their home country. The term searchers refers the often gruesome task of physically sifting through dirt in search of human remains ignored by Mexico’s professional forensic services. The buscadoras are mainly mothers and sisters of […]

Woman plummets 100 feet to her death in Virginia cave, searchers say

A woman fell 100 feet to her death while inside a cave in northwest Virginia, searchers say. It happened Friday, Jan. 12, “in the Staffordsville Community outside of Pearisburg,” according to the Giles County Sheriff’s Office. Searchers identified the woman as 38-year-old Autumn Nicole Draper of Fairlawn, Virginia, station WDBJ reported. Fairlawn is about 22 […]