ABC News: U.S.: In NYC, Identifying the Dead, and Finding Closure

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In NYC, Identifying the Dead, and Finding Closure Aug 29th 2012, 07:13 The New York City medical examiner's office has exhumed dozens of bodies from a potter's field in a new push to identify several decades' worth of unidentified bodies. The push takes advantage of advanced DNA technology, anthropology and new federal funding. Scientists are able to review cases going back to 1988. To date, 54 bodies for which the medical examiner had no DNA samples have been disinterred from Hart Island, the city's potter's field. Some have been matched to existing DNA databases. For some families it has brought closure after years of not knowing what happened to their loved ones. For others, it is providing renewed hope for possible identification of a long-vanished brother, sister, relative or lover.

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