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Coroner gets $400,000 grant to set up program to solve missing persons cases with DNA testing

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The Clark County coroner's office received a $400,000 federal grant to create a program for using DNA testing to help solve missing persons cases.

The county will use the Department of Justice grant to set up an 18-month program to exhume, sample and test DNA in about 50 missing persons cases. Samples will be culled from more than 160 unidentified bodies. The first exhumation will be in about 60 days.

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    • "Our ultimate goal is to positively identify decedents and return them to their loved ones," Coroner Michael Murphy said in a written statement. "Some of these cases also involve victims of homicide, and proper identification is paramount in solving homicide investigations."

    The coroner's office has identified 32 missing persons since 2002 when it launched its Las Vegas Unidentified Web pages, which post details and photos of people who have disappeared.

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    Maureen wrote on October 30, 2009 08:58 AM: Anyone who says this is a waste of money has never had a loved one go missing. Giving names to unidentifieds gives hope to the families that they will have answers. Can any of you imagine waiting months, years, decades to know what happened to your loved one? It is hell on earth.

    There are over 100,000 missing and over 60,000 unidentifieds in this country. Grants like this are so needed. Also, all law enforcement, coroners, and medical examiners need to get behind NamUs.gov and enter your missing and unidentified cases in NamUs.

    Please also EVERYONE back & encourage your representatives to establish H.R. 3695, the Help Find The Missing Act into Billy's Law. Congressman please co-sponsor this so important legislation!
    http://www.change.org/actions/view/support_for_hr_3695_the_help_find_the_missing_act_billys_law

    Thanks and keep up the good work Clark County Coroners!

    Maureen


    MIKE VEGAS wrote on October 22, 2009 03:28 PM: 50 MISSING PERSONS AND 400,000 GRANT ? LUCKY CEMETARIES AND GRAVE DIGGERS, NOW THEY CAN BE THE LAST ONES TO LET YOU DOWN, TWICE. I WONDER IF THE STATE CAN BORROW SOME MONEY FROM THE THE DEPT OF JUSTICE.


    .................. wrote on October 21, 2009 09:47 AM: http://www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=10218139


    Waste of money wrote on October 21, 2009 09:16 AM: Waste of money unless it targets the killer cops and they stop siding with them.