El Ingeniero

Israel Ticas is El Salvador's only criminologist. His job is to find and unearth the hundreds of missing people who have been murdered and dumped in the hills and countryside of one of the world's most dangerous countries. His forensic skills and background in systems engineering have earned him the nickname, The Engineer. Most of the bodies Ticas finds are under 18 -- victims of the brutal gang war, which has engulfed the country. But the two biggest gangs (MS-13 and 18 Street) declared a controversial truce in 2012. The murder rate fell dramatically as a result, from 14 to 5 each day. The politicians have hailed this as a victory, yet as we discover from The Engineer, this is not the whole picture. More than a year on from the peace deal, the murder rate and number of people reported missing are on the rise once more.

The Engineer is devoted to his work, which he says, is more of a hobby. In an under-developed country with scarce resources, he is often the only source of help for the hundreds of mothers searching for their missing children. His colleagues say they want to clone him. The gangs want to kill him. Spain and Canada have offered him asylum. The threat to The Engineer's life, and to his family, is real, yet he says he will never leave.