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  2. Naming the dead: Hundreds of unclaimed bodies were sent ... - AOL

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    Tarrant County does not routinely publish the names of unclaimed people on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NamUS, a free public database meant to connect the dots between ...

  3. As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their ...

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    A half-century ago, it was common for U.S. medical schools to use unclaimed bodies, and doing so remains legal in most of the country, including Texas. Many programs have halted the practice in ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Families spend months searching for missing relatives, only ...

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    To encourage more jurisdictions to list these cases, NamUs launched the third dataset designated specifically for unclaimed bodies that have been identified about five years ago, said Chuck ...

  6. Unidentified decedent - Wikipedia

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    Usually, bodies are identified by comparing their usually unique DNA, fingerprints and dental characteristics. [20] DNA is considered the most accurate, but was not widely used until the 1990s. It is often obtained through hair follicles, blood, tissue and other biological material. [ 21 ]

  7. Category:Unidentified decedents - Wikipedia

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

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    Since 2019, Dallas and Tarrant counties had sent about 2,350 unclaimed bodies to the Health Science Center and, of them, more than 830 were selected for dissection and study.

  9. Hinds County, Mississippi, has buried hundreds of people in a ...

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    The NBC News list only includes adults, and it does not include the names of nine people whose unclaimed bodies were designated in recent months for pauper’s burials in Hinds County but not yet ...