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  2. National Missing and Unidentified Persons System - Wikipedia

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    The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases throughout the United States. NamUs is funded and administered by the National Institute of Justice through a cooperative agreement with the University of North Texas Health Science ...

  3. Unidentified decedent - Wikipedia

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    A body may go unidentified due to death in a state where the person was unrecorded, in an advanced state of decomposition, or with major facial injuries. [6] In many cases in the United States, teenagers with a history of running away would be removed from missing person files when they would turn 18, thus eliminating potential matches with ...

  4. 'We didn't know she was dead': 11 families learned what ... - AOL

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    Yenner was one of at least 32 unclaimed military veterans whose bodies were given to the Health Science Center, records show, although the true figure is likely much larger.

  5. How did unclaimed bodies end up in the hands of a major ... - AOL

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    The story of how a major biotechnology company came to use the unclaimed dead offers a window into the pressing demand for human bodies — a crucial part of America’s $180 billion medical ...

  6. Naming the dead: Hundreds of unclaimed bodies were sent to a ...

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    Proponents of using unclaimed bodies for research — which is legal in most of the U.S. — have argued it makes good economic sense, saving local taxpayers thousands of dollars each year on ...

  7. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    In Australia, unclaimed money laws provide a one to two year reporting period each year whereby unclaimed bank accounts, superannuation, deceased estate inheritances, insurance, shares, dividends, utility deposits, unpresented cheques and other forms of "unclaimed money" are reported to the appropriate governing body under which the ...

  8. UNT science center president resigns following report ...

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    The bodies — including many military veterans — had all been unclaimed or unidentified, so many of the next of kin were not aware of what had happened to their loved ones until the report was ...

  9. Post-mortem privacy - Wikipedia

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    National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish similarly found that under FOIA, the privacy rights of a decedents' relatives are both acknowledged and prioritized when disseminating autopsy/death scene photos of the deceased. This decision was made in regards to the death scene photos of Vincent Foster, a deputy counsel to Bill Clinton ...