The revelation earlier this year that a Colorado man had buried his estranged wife's body under the grave of a World War II veteran in 1995 grabbed headlines.
What was less mentioned about the case of Kristina Tournai-Sandoval is that the nonprofit NecroSearch is the one that confirmed the location of her body. At 5280.com, Robert Sanchez uses that case to launch into a feature on the esteemed group of volunteers, who excel at finding and identifying human remains.
"Body hunting is a strange business," as Sanchez puts it: It's expensive and painstaking work, and leads can often be little more than dead-ends. But the Colorado-based NecroSearch is so well-regarded that even the dead-ends have meaning, per a prosecutor: If "those people don’t find it, that means a body probably isn’t there."
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