Pubdate: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 Source: Irish Independent (Ireland) Copyright: Independent Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd Contact: http://www.independent.ie/ Author: Damian Whitworth FBI FIND SIX BODIES AT DRUG RANCH FBI investigators working at the painstaking speed of archaeologists yesterday had unearthed six bodies at a drug cartel's suspected killing field. Officials involved in the investigation believe that the hunt for as many as 100 bodies at four possible mass graves could take months. Identification by DNA tests and dental records may prove an even more difficult task. The first skeletal remains, some clothed, others in just underwear, were found jumbled on top of each other in one grave at a ranch in the Chihuahua desert a few miles south of the Mexican border with Texas. Mexican newspapers said that the Rancho de la Campana had been bought by alleged henchmen of Amado Carillo Fuentes, the kingpin of the Juarez drug cartel who died while undergoing plastic surgery in 1997. The Juarez gang is regarded as the most ruthless in Mexico, responsible for smuggling billions of dollars worth of drugs into the US and believed to be behind the scores of mysterious disappearances of people from both sides of the border. - --- MAP posted-by: Don Beck