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The Last Outfit of the Missing
Fred Ramos
El Faro
El Faro
10 August, 2013
El Salvador has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, much of it gang related. In many cases, the only way of identifying murder victims is by clothes they were buried in.
Fred Ramos
Fred Ramos, born in 1986, lives and works in El Salvador. He studied graphic design, but began practicing photography in 2005. Currently, Fred is a staff photographer for El Faro...
Date found: 27 December 2012
Time: not available
Location: riverbank in the village of Soyanpago, San Salvador
Gender: female
Age: between 14 and 17 years old
Time of disappearance: not known
El Salvador has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, much of it gang related. In many cases, the only way of identifying murder victims is by clothes they were buried in.
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