Reaching Out to the Families of the Missing
Call to Action
Even in a small city like my hometown of Livingston, Tennessee. If each family were to feel the loss at the personal level at the same time -- imagine the magnitude of the event. Without the shared experience of the tragedy it becomes lost in the shuffle of day to day events.
That's why it is so important to make the resource of www.NamUs.gov known to the public. It is a tool you can use at the family level.
The Missing Persons Database contains information that can be entered by anyone. Before a missing persons case will appear on this Web site, however, it will be validated. The site also provides links to state clearinghouses, medical examiners and coroners, victim assistance groups and pertinent legislation. There's over 100,000 known missing persons in the USA. www.FindTheMissing.org
The Unidentified Decedents Database contains information entered by medical examiners and coroners. Anyone can search the database using characteristics such as sex, race, distinct body features and dental information. There are up to 50,000 cases of unidentified remains in the USA. www.IdentifyUs.org
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is the first national repository for missing persons and unidentified decedent records. Unidentified decedents are people who have died and whose bodies have not been identified.
NamUs consists of two databases that anyone can search. The Justice Department hopes that law enforcement officials and the public will use the databases to share information to solve cases.
All users are on the same page, the same core data. But law enforcement users have a more intense level of access to information not available to the public. So the system can be used as an investigative and communication tool.
If you have a missing loved one, the first responsibility is your own. You should take steps to enter the case into www.NamUs.gov
We encourage law enforcement to register for access to the system as soon as possible. The NamUs Missing Persons database can be directly accessed via - www.FindTheMissing.org or via www.NamUs.gov
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
Using a Newspaper Morgue or Archive Database to Find Friends and RelativesA newspaper morgue, or archive database, as they are now called, can answer a multitude of questions for you, although the answers to those questions may cost you a small fee.- Renewed Hope for Lost and Found PersonsAt last movement into the finalization of the NamUs - National Missing and Unidentified Persons System at www.NamUs.gov
Missouri Missing Announces June 17th as Official "Missing & Unidentified...NOW THEREFORE, I Matt Blunt, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, do hereby proclaim June 17, 2008 as MISSING AND UNIDENTIFIED PERSONS AWARENESS DAY
NamUs.gov I feel this is the most accurate way to export data to the public and to law enforcement across the globe. At last we all have the opportunity to be on the "same page".
- California State | UDRS UDRS - Unidentified Decedent Reporting System
- NamUs Awakens
- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
- US DOJ Launches National Missing and Unidentified Persons Initiative
- NamUs --- Missing Persons
- How YOU Can Help with the Missing & Unidentified NOW
- National Missing Persons DNA Database
- Missing Pieces Interview Transcript / Janice Smolinski
- hidden in the masses of others unaffected
5 Comments
Post a CommentPRAISE THE LORD TODD,
How very grateful we are to have a Man like you OUT THERE.
GOD BLESS you and yours for all you are and do for the silent Missing & Unidentified!
Still missing from Beaumont,TX, a Mother,Daughter,Sister,
"Kimberly Ann Langwell".
NO BODY,NO CHARGES!
HER life counted,her disappearance left complete devastation in her loving family.
I know Missing & Unidentified Persons SOULS cry out,
WHO will speak for me?
TODD your Voice is loud and you do make a difference!
I PRAY for all Missing & Unidentified!
My missing daughter is April Beth Pitzer, missing 6-28-04 from Newberry Springs, California...Thank you so very much
Todd, the role you chose to take is more than any Mother could ask..You are our Hope. Our Missing Loved ones hope. If I can do "anything" to assist you with this program or anything else, please do not hesitate to contact me...
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my Missing Adult daughters story.Alot of changes have taken place since that interview on Missing Pieces #14 archived edition...
Because of you and many others like you have chosen to share in our loss, suffering, and greif...we know we aren't alone.....it takes special people to do the things we families need being done, and you are indeed one of the special..Thank you, Kimberly,Dave VanNorman and Daphne with the Doe network. We love you
Todd, I think what you do is wonderful and a blessing. Alot of people do not realize the ones of us with a missing family memeber live through hell,but you do and you have a wonderful heasrt.Keep up the good work you have done.
Maryjane...sister of Hope Meek,epsisode 30 missing pieces
that is so wonderful of you that you care so much to help the families and to educate all the people that dont have this tragedy!