Sheriff's Deputies open the refrigerated content that contains migrant bodies. Dr. Kate Spradley's team will be entering the refrigerated container to remove bodies to start to work on identifying them in the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project.86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team sets up the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project.(OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine fingerprints of badly decomposed bodies and takes photos of them. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

A helicopter flies over the mobile morgue unit of Dr. Spradley. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley doing a walkthrough of the refrigerated container containing more than 25 bodies of dead migrants to start to work on identifying them in the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

An employee of Vadel Funeral Home puts on a tyvek suit before entering the refrigerated container containing 25 bodies of dead migrants that Dr. Kate Spradley and her team will spend the week identifying. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team enters the refrigerated container to remove bodies to start to work on identifying them in the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project.86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team enters the refrigerated container to remove bodies to start to work on identifying them in the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project.86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team looks at identification tags on body bags inside of the refrigerated container containing 25 bodies of migrants that had tried to cross the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, TX. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852 (Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team enters the refrigerated container to remove bodies to start to work on identifying them in the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project.86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team take fingerprints and DNA samples for the FBI and therefore the FBI, within 4 hours, were able to identify the individual as a man from Honduras. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine badly decomposed bodies. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team take fingerprints and DNA samples for the FBI and therefore the FBI with in 4 hours were able to identify the individual as a man from Hoduras. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine fingerprints of badly decomposed bodies and takes photos of them. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team take fingerprints and DNA samples for the FBI and therefore the FBI with in 4hours were able to identify the individual as a man from Hoduras. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project...(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine personal effects of migrants who have died on the border. This knapsack belongs to a man from Honduras who the FBI was able to identify through fingerprints taken by Dr. Spradley’s team. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine personal effects of migrants who have died on the border. This knapsack and its contents belongs to a man from Honduras who the FBI was able to identify through fingerprints taken by Dr. Spradley’s team. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

On the last day of OpID in Maverick County, TX, Dr. Kate Spradley's team received a message that a 4-day old body of a 42 year-old woman was found near El Indio, TX in Maverick County, TX. She was badly decomposed, covered in maggots. Dr. Spradley's team took the body to get fingerprints and DNA . As they were doing so, they found items in her personal effects such as her ID, passport from Mexico and a blanket with photos which possibly could contain a photo of the woman. There were other personal items as well as food. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team enters the refrigerated container to remove bodies to start to work on identifying them in the field morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project.86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine personal effects of a 42 year-old migrant woman, who was found in El Indio and who had passed away 4 days earlier before being found and bought to the mobile morgue of Dr. Spradley by the Medical examiner. They were pulled out of her bag. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine felt that was placed on the bottom of shoes that belonged to a 42 year-old migrant woman who had passed away 4 days earlier before being found and bought to the mobile morgue of Dr. Spradley by the Medical examiner. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine personal effects of a 42 year-old migrant woman, who was found in El Indio and who had passed away 4 days earlier before being found and bought to the mobile morgue of Dr. Spradley by the Medical examiner. They were pulled out of her bag. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

On the last day of OpID in Maverick County, TX, Dr. Kate Spradley's team received a message that a 4-day old body of a 42 year-old woman was found near El Indio, TX in Maverick County, TX. She was badly decomposed, covered in maggots. Dr. Spradley's team took the body to get fingerprints and DNA . As they were doing so, they found items in her personal effects such as her ID, passport from Mexico and a blanket with photos which possibly could contain a photo of the woman. There were other personal items as well as food. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team examine badly decomposed bodies and takes photos of them. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team take fingerprints and DNA samples for the FBI and therefore the FBI with in 4 hours were able to identify the individual as a man from Hoduras. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

On the last day of OpID in Maverick County, TX, Dr. Kate Spradley's team received a message that a 4-day old body of a 42 year-old woman was found near El Indio, TX in Maverick County, TX. She was badly decomposed, covered in maggots. Dr. Spradley's team took the body to get fingerprints and DNA . As they were doing so, they found items in her personal effects such as her ID, passport from Mexico and a blanket with photos which possibly could contain a photo of the woman. There were other personal items as well as food. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team take fingerprints and DNA samples for the FBI and within 4 hours, they were able to identify the individual as a man from Honduras. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team take fingerprints and DNA samples for the FBI and therefore the FBI with in 4 hours were able to identify the individual as a man from Hoduras. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852.(Kevin C Downs/Redux)

Dr. Kate Spradley's team at the mobile morgue. Dr. Spradley is a biological anthropologist and forensic anthropologist at Texas State University who leads the Operation Identification (OpID) project. 86 TX-131 Eagle Pass TX 78852..(Kevin C Downs/Redux)