Mass Grave Complex (MGC) identification and analysis of Grave Site Candidates (GSC) #1 & #2 at CECOT.

Textbook case of a very poorly hidden genocide site.

I am a former mass grave complex and genocide site investigator with real-world experience. My expertise is in analyzing satellite and spy plane imagery for the identification of very specific features and identifying landmarks to locate sites of genocide.

I have worked in multiple undisclosed areas and have experience in not only the identification & reporting, but also the boots-on-the-ground investigations.

I unequivocally stand by the analysis and statements made in this report.

This is a difficult one to analyze, but easier when you keep reorienting to known facts, like shadow direction and features.

It's difficult to tell, but when you isolate the shadows and their direction, you will realize the black area is LOWER than the dirt around it. It's also not even round!

You can begin to see the details and features. What we see is a filled pit, with a black/dark grey tarp/netting/covering (for off gas and wild animals reasons). You can kind of see flesh towards the bottom of the black circular area (visually circular, it is actually square), in between it and the dirt.

At the northern edge of the black covering you can see a white/gray coloring that is sitting on top of the dirt layer. This is a chemical powder spread over the top of the corpses before the covering. It helps to cut down smells and increases decomposition rate. What specifically? That requires investigation.

But some things never change with the corpse management of mass kill sites.

Again, this one is difficult. Your brain is going to have a tough time because of the contrast and shadows.

Keep isolating shadows and reorienting your brain.

After practicing a bit with seeing the shadows and identifying your known facts about them (direction, length) let's look at the features in question.

Overall, we see centered in this satellite image, a complex of three visually observable pits and disturbances in the ground. Around them are visually observable pathways that are consistent with walking paths. The paths access each area of disturbance and pits with a central pathway of wider, deeper and chatoyantly brighter variation than the surrounding dirt.

This is consistent, at a glance, with mass burial site complexes seen in many different areas of the world. A 3-4 pit complex allows for easier access by a central pathway. This also allows for maximizing the area you have with efficiency of filling operations.

The northernmost pit location appears to have already been covered back up. Meaning this was the first pit to be filled up and covered up after being dug.

The disturbance on top roughly follows the outline of a square pit, that has been filled and covered with dirt. We note the dirt piles in question appear to have been dug into from the pit edge moving away.

This is consistent with filling the dirt back into the pit with the dirt pile on the edge it was dug from. (I.e no one throws dirt back into a pit from the backside of the dirt pile, it's always from the pit side moving out).

It is consistent with the type of disturbed dirt you see after a pit has been filled with something other than the dirt that was there and then dirt back on top.

The amount of "extra" dirt around this area is also consistent with the displacement we expect from corpses.

Meaning there is OBVIOUSLY something buried under there, because there IS extra dirt.

We can also visually note that the dirt remaining is of darker coloration than the known topsoil. This is highly consistent with deeper dirt not being able to fit back into the pit. Remember, the topsoil removed will be at the BOTTOM of the dirt pile, what we are seeing is highly likely to be the middle of the dirt pile, and being deeper originating dirt.

Notice how the trail leading to the covered pit is wider, more defined, and appears to have raised edges or smoothed sides?

This is consistent with dragging corpses through to the pit. Probably on small cloth or tarp "sled", explaining the rounding or raised edges.

When a corpse is pulled by a single individual utilizing a “sled”, the pulled side is usually bunched or rolled to grab into and exert leverage. This “rolls” the “sled” into a rounded “tube” with the weight of the load being able to more easily be handled. This has been noted and photographed at many mass grave sites to cause a “rounding" look to the sides of the pathway as the loads are pulled and push/smooth the dirt. What we see is consistent with many repeated actions of the described sledding of heavy weights through the area. This also is consistent with the pathway leading off to the top pit being used less recently . The pathway isn't as deep into the complex and would have, presumably, now had a day or two of time since covering. Since the current operations have just now finished filling pit #2.

The size of the pathways are also consistent with a single line of workers dragging loads through and walking around to grab another one. We do not see disturbances to the chatoyancy of the central walkway, consistent with single line dragging/smoothing actions. Not really consequential, but an interesting item of note that I have observed in many of these images of pit filling operations. Some things are just the easiest, simplest and most effective way to do something, and it's just a universal feature.

Why isn't there a lot of blood trails or reddish black discoloration in blood patterns?

Remember the main kill area is in the central complex, near the prison bays and interrogation row. You can see the humans are killed and drained there, then moved.

Surprisingly little trailing will occur after they are draining and sitting for a few hours. Any remaining blood in the corpse, regardless of animal species, will be coagulated and not particularly capable of trailing. Remember, we are highly confident that the corpses are dragged on a sled, this along with the constant dragging comes debriding actions of the top levels of dirt along the pathway.

In other words, any small trailing of blood that does make it on the pathway will be of a different consistency than the compacted dirt pathway. This will allow the dragging sled that comes next to debride, or pull off, the blood mixed into dirt. It will simply smooth it into the pathway and within a few inches of movement, you will not have much of a visible difference in dirt color levels. Especially, if the viewing height is a satellite image capture. The details of what we would expect to see to verify consistency, is simply not possible from the data provided.

Again, that is if any blood does manage to trail at this point after hours of draining/coagulation.

This is NOT an analysis or report of the kill area imaged above. That will be a separate report and analysis. Kill area included for reference and to note that it is a concurrent feature with GSC #2.

You can see an area consistent with what we would expect for a truck or flatbed to pull up with a load.

This is at the northernmost point of the walking paths.

Its disturbed dirt and merging with the pathway is consistent with what we expect for those operations as well. People dragging corpses (smoothed and compacted, due to weight of corpses dragged on a cloth or tarp) and mixing with the tracks, footprints and other movements to create a semi defined and mixed disturbance area.

Unlike where we see well defined pathways that don't merge with other features or disturbances.

Again, consistent with the image as a whole.

The pit we see to the west, is consistent with being a hand dug pit. We know it is probably hand dug due to the lack of machinery tracks anywhere. We also see dirt piles along all four sides of the pit.

This is inconsistent with machinery being used. However , this IS consistent with multiple prisoners in the pit digging and throwing dirt above them out of the dig area.

Consistent with how these incidents have been witnessed and photographed to be accomplished throughout my experience.

Two other features noticed that are consistent with how we know mass grave sites are handled.

The pit with the black covering and the pit above it (filled and covered) have a small black anomaly in the center of each "square".

That small anomaly is consistent with the center of the tarp or covering being "tented".

A central pit pole is inserted, and corpses filled around it. This allows the covering to tent up, which, when covered with dirt again, allows water to drain from the surface over the corpses and draining around them and then hitting the bottom.

It's how we have seen mass burial pit drainage for a while now. It's a simple and effective way of making sure top soil doesn't drain down into the cavities that will settle out. It ensures that you can plant grass over it more effectively.

We see the small black spot, the tented up portion sticking above the dirt. This is consistent with how it's all handled. Once all the pits are filled in and tamped down a bit with the extra dirt piles we see, it will be covered.

We also see this consistency with the black covered pit, we also see the chemical powder and flesh around the edges in a way that is consistent with a down sloping tarp covering.

This type of drainage and topsoil management is a very common feature and indicates yet another piece of evidence as to what this is.

We also know the black covering is NOT water having settled into it, because it is not very shiny under direct sun.

We have evidence of the chatoyance of the area in some other areas of CECOT where we DO see water. It is not consistent with the black covered pit.

Yes, the area will settle over time as decomposition continues, however that's not really an issue, because you just throw more dirt in as it settles, with the topsoil intact because of the tarp management. You end up seeing depressions in the area on satellite, but that's IF you get a satellite image of it.

Yes, the tarp covering, as mentioned in an earlier analysis piece, also helps to keep smells from coming up and also helps keep animals from digging up biological matter.

While also managing drainage, topsoil, and later filling in after settling.

You can also see another mass grave site to the north-east of the central three.

You will notice similar pathways, around disturbed areas of darker (deeper) dirt on the surface areas.

This again indicates that there IS something below the surface. Because we see "extra" dirt that is usually found below the surface.

This is consistent with another mass grave site.

Bottom line: this one specific area is of HIGH probability to be a mass grave site.

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UPDATED on 4.27.2025:

The probability was upgraded to

“Likely and of Utmost Gravity”

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An investigation with digging into specified areas and into the kill area are required.

This is NOT an analysis of the kill area specified in the central compound. That will be another report and breakdown.

It is important to remember the kill area and the mass grave at the moment of the images used for analysis ARE concurrent.

They were both captured at the same geographic location, same date and time (shadows consistent with being the same time) and with the same satellite. They ARE concurrent snapshots of actions taking place.

They are part of the whole picture of operations occuring at the moment of satellite image capture. They are not separate and must not be considered separate instances.

Updates/Revisions Section

The following images are for the update issued on 4.27.2025.

They are to visualize where the specific GSC areas are in reference to each other.

These following images with post processing text and circular brush strokes were not used or considered in the analysis. They are for reference ONLY.

UPDATE 4.27.2025.

Upon closer analysis during the historical satellite imagery analysis of GSC area (WIP), an update has been issued.

This update ADDS the following label: GSC #1 (changing previous labeled area to GSC#2). This label has been added to the area directly Northeast of the previous GSC #1 complex.

This update changes the previously labeled “GSC #1” to the following: GSC #2.

Upon closer analysis and detailed shadow/topo observations, a prior mass burial complex was identified. The spot previously mentioned in this report as suspicious with the walking path area directly Northeast of the prior labeled GSC #1:

- Is consistent with a mass burial complex that has seen one or two cycles of seeding and root systems (meaning at least one (1) season of grass growth and death from seasonal change. We see this with the slightly more “evened out” appearance of the entire site as a whole. This is consistent with post-covering growth cycles seen in many MGCs upon historical images analysis.

Utilizing satellite imagery during the WIP report of historical analysis, we can state with very high confidence the following:

GSC #1 was dug, filled and recovered around June 2023 (give or take a month).

First post-operations, topsoil management was performed around August 2023. Meaning the pits were now depressions because of biological materials decomposing. This date is when we are highly confident more soil was placed on top and very heavy grass seeding operations began.

The first flora growth, post complex covering, occcured during the 2023/2024 growth cycle.

GSC #2 was dug around 3.15.2024, and was in mid-complex filling operations on imaging date of 3.20.2024.

Summary: This geographic area has two (2) specific areas that are highly consistent with two (2) mass grave complexes that: were dug, filled, covered and topsoil managed at distinctly different times. They were not in operations in concurrence and do show two distinctly different planned operations.

A recommendation for investigation into the specified geographic areas has been upgraded: a probability for the area hosting multiple MGC is “Likely and of Utmost Gravity”.

End of update 4.27.2025. (GJM)

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(c) 2025, Gabriel J. Muller

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