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Forensics: Naming the unknown: How First Nations are identifying the children buried in unmarked graves
Historical documents hold the clues, but finding the identities of missing children is grueling detective work. — Read on globalnews.ca/news/9216470/residential-school-ungraved-graves-canada/
#NamUS expansion bill. Gabby Petito’s family speaks with Eyewitness News about federal bill to help find missing people
For the last year, the family of Gabby Petito has stayed out of the media spotlight. — Read on abc7ny.com/gabby-petito-missing-person-family/12357599/
Forensics: #NamUS PHOTOS: 100 people most recently reported missing in Arizona
More than 1,000 people in Arizona are currently listed as missing on the NamUS database. Here are 100 of the most recently reported missing person cases in our state. If you have any information about any of these cases, please … Continue reading
Forensics: More funding for #NamUS. Tillis, Hoeven unveil bill to coordinate data for missing persons, unidentified human remains
Tillis, Hoeven unveil bill to coordinate data for missing persons, unidentified human remains – Ripon Advance — Read on riponadvance.com/stories/tillis-hoeven-unveil-bill-to-coordinate-data-for-missing-persons-unidentified-human-remains/
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Forensics: Genealogy again. Remains found in Hancock County in 1990s ID’ed as missing Cleveland woman
A woman whose remains were discovered in Hancock County in 1994 have been identified nearly 30 years after the fact. — Read on http://www.wrtv.com/news/public-safety/remains-found-in-hancock-county-in-1990s-ided-as-missing-cleveland-woman
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Forensics: Forensic genealogy helps to solve the mystery of The Somerton Man
In this episode of the What Remains podcast we tell you how a professor and a genealogist teamed up to solve one of the oldest mysteries in the world. — Read on http://www.wral.com/forensic-genealogy-helps-to-solve-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man/20517698/
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Forensics: Gabby Petito’s family announces new bill to help find missing persons: ‘A huge step forward’
Gabby Petito’s family on Friday praised a new, bipartisan Senate bill to help find missing persons as a “huge step forward.” — Read on http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/gabby-petitos-family-announces-new-bill-to-help-find-missing-persons-a-huge-step-forward
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Forensics: #NamUs Selects Othram as a Forensic Genetic Genealogy Partner
Great news! Im very proud to be able to assist NamUs with Missing and Unidentified cases. September 27, 2022 — Othram, the leading forensic sequencing laboratory for law enforcement, and the National Missing and — Read on http://www.prweb.com/releases/2022/9/prweb18921844.htm
Forensics: #NamUS Bill could make it easier to locate missing people across the U.S.
There are more than 22,000 people missing in the U.S. More than 600 of those people were reported missing in East Tennessee. — Read on http://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/trace-act-could-universalize-how-missing-person-information-is-entered-into-namus/51-795be65e-0573-46c9-a0cc-5dde761c1fa8
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Forensics: Kudos to Amy at NamUS!! Governor signs NamUS bill into law
HARRISBURG — State police are now required to turn over DNA samples of missing persons and unidentified decedents to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS), thanks to two — Read on http://www.dailyitem.com/content/tncms/live/
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