Death and Deliverance
DESOLATION: Cesareo Dominguez, left, and Jose Lerma search the southern Arizona desert for the remains of Dominguezs daughter, Lucresia. After crossing the border June 19, she became dehydrated and was abandoned by smugglers. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
FAREWELL: Margo Cowan, Lerma, Dominguez and Dominguezs nephew Jose Sanchez at a Tucson church service. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
SKETCHY CLUES: Lerma uses a crude map drawn by Lucresias son Jesus, 15, to try to find the dry creek that Jesus left her in while he searched for water. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
MEMORIAL: Cesareo Dominguez packs dirt around a cross he placed near where he found his daughters remains. Dominguez returned with Jose Lerma, four immigrant aid workers and a priest to pray and plant the cross. Dominguez, who lives in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, says he will bring his wife to visit someday. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
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REMEMBRANCES: Dominguez holds a photo of Lucresia, her son Jesus and one of her nephews, along with some of her belongings (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
GRIM DISCOVERY: A Border Patrol helicopter hovers above the remains of a body discovered by Cesareo Dominguez and Jose Lerma during a search for Dominguezs daughter Lucresia, but it wasnt hers. Sixty-five migrants died in Pima County in July, almost twice as many as the countys previous record for a month. Its the journey of death, said Allen Williams, a Pima County sheriffs deputy. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
