Category Archives: missing persons

Forensics: Law. Illinois enacts immigration protections amid Trump crackdowns | Reuters

Illinois residents can sue federal immigration agents if they believe their civil rights have been violated. — Read on http://www.reuters.com/legal/government/illinois-enacts-immigration-protections-amid-trump-crackdowns-2025-12-09/

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Forensics: Horrific. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content – Oklahoma Watch

Utter BS . Another DOGE~like move to “save” women from “gender extremism.” This is gibberish and cripples what little publicity about the ongoing tragedy of missing indigenous women in the US. #MMIW What Happened Task Force Creation Trump signed an … Continue reading

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Forensics: Polish scientists co-develop tool to tell age from DNA

The process could help police narrow suspect lists in investigations. — Read on tvpworld.com/89798333/polish-researchers-help-develop-dna-forensic-tool

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Forensics: Remains of three bodies returned from Gaza do not belong to hostages, forensic tests

Forensic tests ruled that the three bodies transferred from Gaza by the Red Cross do not belong to Israeli hostages; an Israeli official said Hamas still violates its duty to return the bodies of fallen captives — Read on http://www.ynetnews.com/article/skmkre7ywe

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Forensics: Historian uncovers evidence of second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Pennsylvania who suffered from cholera, violence and xenophobia

Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa. — Read on theconversation.com/historian-uncovers-evidence-of-second-mass-grave-of-irish-immigrant-railroaders-in-pennsylvania-who-suffered-from-cholera-violence-and-xenophobia-261442

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Forensics: Is this the new norm of the feds fighting crime? DOJ disappears data on Native missing and murdered cases on its website.

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/13-democratic-members-of-congress-push-to-restore-report-on-mmip-crisis

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Forensics: Operation “DataBack” project wants to centralize Native DNA for missing persons investigations.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/04/18/forensic-dna-breaks-new-ground-for-mmip-cold-cases

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Forensics: The long road to ID unknown remains in the US. 11,000 bodies need attention.

https://www.startribune.com/forensic-anthropologist-minnesota-cold-case-unidentified-remains/601322975

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Forensics: Identifying a missing child 29 years later. Genetic DNA.

https://vt.co/news/us/girl-who-disappeared-without-a-trace-as-a-two-year-old-26-years-ago-found-alive

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Indigenous families experience homicides TEN TIMES HiGHER than the general population.

https://www.threads.net/@kelseycombe/post/DGs2_LkOyzr?xmt=AQGzF2U0ovQ3PLh4OAPaGsT8u9bmcccTat_6ZbtsQ7ZHBQ

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