Lost & Found Persons - FBI / NCIC Statistics -

Updated - March 1, 2010 Indexing

Todd Matthews
Todd Matthews, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Jun 6, 2010 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
According to the FBI-NCIC there are (approximately) Current as of the March 1, 2010 indexing.

There are 93,538 Missing Persons listed in their system. Children and adult.

There are unidentified. Children and adult.

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The numbers fluctuate due to newly entered cases and removal of resolved cases.

Often cases are often purged and / or expire.

A spike/ drop in numbers does not necessarily mean an increase in missing and unidentified, it can means that more cases are being entered/ removed into the system.

Older cases are often added to the NCIC years after the actual event initially took place.

The NCIC statistics reflect the USA, Canada and their territories. Some experts feel that these are only 10-50% of the actual numbers as not all cases are / were reported to the NCIC by law enforcement. We hope to encourage more agencies to take full advantage of this available resource. We hope to see a retroactive approach to the submission process as well.

There are many cases that are not yet listed with the NCIC. Missing-person experts estimate that the bodies of 40,000 to 50,000 unidentified men, women and children were found by police during the past 50 years.

For the family members of the missing, it is imperative that they properly report - and request that their loved one's case is listed with NamUs & NCIC.

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The International Homicide Investigators Association estimates there are more than 40,000

unidentified dead nationally. (USA)

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DNA Database Searches CODIS 6.1 - Family member reference samples may only be searched against the unidentified deceased samples at the national level.

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Published by Todd Matthews

Todd's calling to be a voice for missing and unidentified persons began when he solved the identity of the "Tent Girl" case, Barbara Hackman-Taylor, after a ten-year journey that ended in 1998.  View profile

Collect and submit samples from all available family members, even if you don't think they are very relevant to the missing person, and send to a lab that does all three types of DNA analysis - STRs, mtDNA, and Y-STRs - with access to CODIS 6.1.

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