Thursday, April 28, 2011

We Can Help!!

We Can Help!
A while back I received the following information from my good friend Todd Matthews with a request for me to see if I can find people to help with this project.
First off KUDOS to Chris Edwards at the Conway County Coroners Office for plunging into this effort to find the missing.
However, they did not have the time or resources to find images for these missing persons.
But I just know that there are bunches of just dying to do something to help so Here we are!!

Per Todd:
The Arkansas ocme are entering missing persons cases - probably close to 500 of them. The reason for this is for the collection of DNA. The President’s DNA program for CODIS now requires that the case have a NamUs submission before free testing is completed for the state(s).
It was to the ocme's best interest to begin entry so that the family reference samples could be collected. Their hope is that the DNA elevation into CODIS will result in some associations to their unidentified remains with in the state.
The down side it that many of these cases will not have images. They are out there though - newspapers, websites etc.
I'm going to publish these case into NamUs without the images. But it is my hope that if anyone out there  can locate images - I can then add them to the file as well.

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