El Paso County begins moving mobile mortuaries to new central location

EL PASO, Texas – El Paso County has begun the process of moving refrigerated trailers used to store bodies to a central mortuary, the county judge confirmed on Saturday.

Earlier this week, Judge Ricardo Samaniego told ABC-7 that the county had acquired a total of 13 refrigerated trailers used at the county morgue. On Saturday, an ABC-7 photographer observed that there were only seven refrigerated trailers at the site.

“We will eventually move all but 2 sites to the new site,” Judge Samaniego wrote in a text.

He confirmed that the address of the morgue’s new central location is not made public.