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• Human Remains Exhumed at La Grulla Cemetery to be Identified through DNA Samples Play Video

  December 17, 2019 6:16 PM

  LA GRULLA – University students uncovered unidentified human remains at a cemetery in La Grulla. Texas State University professor Dr. Kate Spradley has conducted similar excavations in South Texas for several years. Recently, they exhumed unidentified remains in Brooks County. Spradley says information found buried with some... more »

• Valley Native Seeks Answers after Paying $2K for Parents' Missing Burial Monument Play Video

  November 11, 2019 6:00 PM

  WESLACO – An Army veteran says he paid a Rio Grande Valley business more than $2,000 on a burial monument for his parents’ gravesite. Ten months later, he wants to know why his mother's grave is still without a headstone. Hernan Cantu's mother passed away last November. He... more »

• New Grass Covering Graves following Landscaping Issues at Mission Cemetery Play Video

  November 4, 2019 7:07 PM

  MISSION – Last month we told you about a Mission woman who was upset with the maintenance at the cemetery where her loved ones are buried. New grass has now been planted around her loved ones' graves. Mari Lou Prudencio said with a change in the ownership of... more »

• Mission Police Searching for Suspect Caught on Camera Stealing Flowers from Gravesite Play Video

  November 4, 2019 6:36 PM

  MISSION – A Mission woman says the flowers she lays on her loved one’s grave keep vanishing. She visits her mother’s grave at Valley Memorial Gardens in Mission at least three times a week. One day, she says she caught the woman taking the flowers. She informed management,... more »

• 9 more Human Remains Found in Umarked Graves in Brooks Co. Play Video

  October 25, 2019 9:57 PM

  WESLACO - More human remains were found in unmarked graves in Brooks County. The South Texas Human Rights Center and other organizations want to file a court order to get more information on the people buried in a cemetery in Brooks county and they are asking the community for... more »

• Woman Seeks Help with Maintenance of Mission Cemetery   Play Video

  October 25, 2019 6:41 PM

  MISSION - A Mission woman is upset with the maintenance at the cemetery where her loved ones are buried. She says she's been asking management for help since May. Mari Lou Prudencio has five family members buried at Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Mission. Some of her... more »

• Community Shows Support as Fallen Trooper Laid to Rest Play Video

  September 6, 2019 6:02 PM

  MISSION - Trooper Moises Sanchez spent parts of his life serving in both the Marine Corps and Texas Department of Public Safety. Outside the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery in Mission, there was an outpouring of support for the fallen trooper this Friday. The entire road was... more »

• Woman Disturbed by Bizarre Bags Left at Harlingen Cemetery Play Video

  September 4, 2019 10:28 PM

  HARLINGEN – Unwanted items at a Rio Grande Valley cemetery are causing a lot of questions and concerns, at least for one woman. She wants whoever is behind it to stop. A cemetery is a place where the dead should be left in peace; where their living relatives... more »

• Overgrown Grass at San Juan Cemetery Causing Concern Play Video

  August 12, 2019 6:19 PM

  SAN JUAN – Overgrown grass at a cemetery upsets some residents. Israel Guevara says his brother and uncle are buried at the San Juan Cemetery. "This Saturday me and my mom went out to fix up my brother's grave. The grave site, and it's looking terrible out there.... more »

• Ownership of Valley Historical Landmark in Question Play Video

  April 4, 2019 5:36 PM

  UPDATE (4/18): The rightful owner of the Eli Jackson Cemetery is unknown once again. Last week, Hidalgo County records stated Diana Cardenas had sole ownership but after a search of the records Thursday, we saw her name was removed. Assistant Chief Appraiser Jorge Gonzalez states when her name... more »

• Valley Families Burying Loved Ones for a Second Time Play Video

  February 7, 2019 6:00 PM

  RAYMONDVILLE – Some Rio Grande Valley families are having to bury their loved ones for a second time. Analisa Alfaro’s uncle was buried in someone else’s plot when he was first interred. His body had to be exhumed and buried again all because of a clerk’s mistake. ... more »

• Historic Cemetery on Verge of Getting Damaged with Proposed Border Wall Play Video

  January 24, 2019 6:46 PM

  LAS MILPAS – A historic church and cemetery could be impacted by the potential border wall. The Eli Jackson Ranch Church and Cemetery is on the verge of getting damaged by the proposed border wall. KRGV’s Christian Colón spoke with a tribal member of the Carrizo Carnecrudo Tribal... more »

• Students Working to Identify 16 Exhumed Bodies Play Video

  January 24, 2019 5:20 PM

  FALFURRIAS – Sixteen sets of human remains have been exhumed from a cemetery in Falfurrias since the beginning of the year. The director of the South Texas Human Rights Center says students are working to identify these bodies. Most are believed to be migrants who died trying to... more »

• Records Unknown, Graves Unmarked at Hidalgo Co. Cemetery Play Video

  February 22, 2018 9:44 PM

  UPDATE (3/4/19): The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley research group is back at this location. They'll continue their research this year. The group is using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to view the remains that are underground. The team is not excavating the remains. Family members have been... more »

• Harlingen Man Seeks Help Restoring Father’s Gravesite Play Video

  June 29, 2017 5:40 PM

  HARLINGEN – Caught at a crossroads, Robert Day said he’s forced to choose between paying nearly $300 or risking his health to give his father a proper burial site. His father, Ross L. Day, was a World War II veteran and an airplane mechanic, according to Day. He was laid... more »

• Man Troubled with Weslaco Cemetery Ground Maintenance Play Video

  February 7, 2017 6:21 PM

  WESLACO – A Rio Grande Valley man said trash, high grass and toppled over tombstones is what greets him when he visits his loved ones’ final resting place. The Weslaco City Cemetery looks unrecognizable with the debris and broken headstones. “I don’t know why the maintenance is not kept up,”... more »