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• 05 / 08 / 2009

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The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday it used DNA, a tattoo, an uncle's identification and the process of elimination. Authorities say they also received help from an independent journalist in Cuba and the Cuban Democracy Movement in Miami.

The bodies were identified as Jorge Gonzalez, Osmani Segura, Rolando Alberna, and Ivan Pelaez.

Their decomposed bodies chewed by sharks were found after last summer's Tropical Storm Fay swept through the area. Family members said the men were from a group who fled Cuba on a homemade raft to avoid being jailed for their human rights activism. The raft and the others on board were never found.

(Miami Herald)