Case File 80-913: Taphonomic Progression and Unauthorized Stasis
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Case File 80-913: Taphonomic Progression and Unauthorized Stasis
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(00:00:37) Provenience Analysis
(00:04:55) Biological Profile Overview
(00:08:59) Maternal Injury Patterns
(00:18:16) CT Scan Findings
A bundled adolescent female, near-term pregnant, naturally desiccated in a cave system in the Sierra Madre of northern Mexico — then extracted without permits, smuggled across a border, and stored for fourteen years in a cardboard box in a suburban garage.
This case is not fiction.
This episode examines the long forensic arc of a body that survived centuries of perfect microclimate — only to lose almost all contextual meaning in the modern world through custody failure.
We reconstruct the file in layers:
• cave microclimate and natural mummification
• plant volatiles, mat wrapping, and burial practice signatures
• chain-of-custody collapse and unlogged contamination
• the museum accession that finally stopped the informational bleeding
• radiocarbon, biological profile, textile data, and fetal orientation
• thin-slice CT signatures — pelvic ring disruption, acetabular displacement, sacroiliac irregularity
We move carefully between anthropology, imaging, and mechanism analysis — without sensationalism — and without invented narrative where the archive is silent. This is not entertainment built around guessing.This is structural reading of evidentiary limits.
This file raises a bigger question:
what is truth in cases where the material is intact, but the story is destroyed?
We follow what can be proven: a late-teen female, near thirty weeks’ gestation, with a lateral-compression injury constellation in remote terrain — likely fatal even today without care.
Context lost. Bone intact. Imaging decisive.
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