According to Miguel Angel Godinez, the top prosecutor in the southern state of Guerrero, more than 100 people have so far come forward to inquire if one of the 60 bodies found last week at an abandoned crematorium in Acapulco is a dead relative

An anonymous tip last Thursday led authorities to 60 embalmed bodies inside the crematorium.

On Monday, the Guerrero state prosecutor spoke on MVS Radio and said that 40 bodies were in a room with a non-functioning cremation oven, The Associated Press reports. The rest of the bodies were found scattered in other rooms; some corpses were even stacked upon desks.

Godinez informed the listening audience that investigators are currently talking with more than a dozen funeral homes that are known to use the crematorium, which stopped operating about a year ago. Authorities believe that the bodies were there from six months up to two years.

Since the discovery, 107 people have gotten in touch with the prosecutor's office expressing doubts as to whether they were actually given their relative's ashes.

Godinez said people ”are uncertain that what they have at home are the ashes of their relative."

"They want to see if theirs is one of the bodies now at our office," he continued.

One man who approached the authorities with a photo of the bodies that had circulated online, explained to the investigators that he recognized his wife's flowered dress.

Godinez said the man told him, "I gave her to them to cremate" and started to weep.

The state of Guerreo has already been reeling by mysteries tied to dead bodies.

On Sept. 26, 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala, Guerrero. Only one body was recovered.

Angel Aguirre, the governor of the troubled state has resigned, due to pressure to step down.

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