Todd Matthews - Yahoo! Voices

Operation Passageway

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sun, 08 May 2011 12:34:28 EDT

OP was the prototype and initial data source for the current (national) missing persons database.

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Published: May 08, 2011

Mother Finds Daughter Among the Unidentified

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:32:25 EDT

Mary Weir finds daughter among the unidentified

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Published: Mar 14, 2011

Missing Pieces: The Mysterious Murder of Penn State Student Betsy Aardsma - Part 2

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:43:22 EDT

I first interviewed Derek Sherwood, Administrator of 'Who Killed Betsy?' (http://www.whokilledbetsy.org/) website, on my radio show Missing Pieces.

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Published: Nov 13, 2010

NamUs Southwestern Academy

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:24:43 EDT

National network of case management resources for future education, training, investigation and eventual solving missing and unidentified persons cases in the United States.

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Published: Oct 16, 2010

Hunters Safety Beyond the Hunt

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:53:28 EDT

Law Enforcement depend on hunters finding human remains

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Published: Oct 13, 2010

Are YOU Missing?

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:44:24 EDT

If you have severed ties with the past, might be wise to look back to see what might have transpired in your absence.

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Published: Oct 10, 2010

Advocacy...Talking...In Front of People??

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:51:39 EDT

Tell the truth and speak from the heart is the very best advice for any cause you support

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Published: Sep 02, 2010

Advocates Evolve into Legitimate Roles

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:23:34 EDT

An advocate evolving into an official role is one way to inject a strong dose of compassion into the system.

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Published: Aug 12, 2010

Volunteers Driving DNA Technology

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:48:24 EDT

It is essential to have two or more family reference samples to take full advantage of CODIS searching. The search ability is greatly enhanced by multiple samples.

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Published: Jul 31, 2010

Key Benefits for Law Enforcement / Coroner Usage of NamUs.Gov

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:59:04 EDT

NamUs offers Law Enforcement free services once cases are entered into the system

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Published: Jun 13, 2010

Lost & Found Persons - FBI / NCIC Statistics -

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:44:56 EDT

Please pass along this message to whomever might have a need for this information. Specific state statistics are available upon request. NCIC Statistics - provided by the FBI-NCIC for media relations (USA & Canada)

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Published: Jun 06, 2010

DNA Database Searches

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:14:00 EDT

CODIS 6.1 - Family member reference samples may only be searched against the unidentified deceased samples at the national level. Acknowledgments:

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Published: May 01, 2010

Cyber Sleuths

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:43:41 EDT

As a good rule of thumb viewing missing & unidentified websites - it is always best practice to check "source data."

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Published: Jan 01, 2010

Dental Initiative for the Missing & Unidentified

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:46:06 EDT

You can make a difference and very easily. Even though your records were created for treatment purposes, in the event of a missing person, they take on an entirely new purpose.

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Published: Nov 21, 2009

The Forgotten Lost & Found

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:51:23 EDT

The Forgotten isn't based on any single group or org, but a fictional version of all. "Any Group" so to speak as they had to create a "new entity" that had characters that meet often on a physical basis.

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Published: Oct 30, 2009

Innocent Victims?

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:37:27 EDT

Unidentified murder victims, not always innocent bystanders, Like the malicious missing, the malicious deceased is also a stumbling block

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Published: Oct 13, 2009

Face Value?

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:44:06 EDT

Project EDAN is comprised of professional forensic artists devoted to sharing their gift. The artists donate their talent to create facial reconstructions for Law Enforcement Agencies that do not have access to, or funding for forensic art services.

Contributor: Todd Matthews
Published: Oct 11, 2009

NamUs Awakens

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:45:35 EDT

In 2009 NamUs will release a fully searchable NamUs system, which will search cases in the missing persons database against cases in the unidentified decedents database

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Published: Jul 04, 2009

Lost Toddler -

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:00:23 EDT

Is it possible that these cases are connected? Stranger things have happened.

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Published: Jul 04, 2009

Resurrection Day for Cold Cases

contributor-community@yahoo-inc.com (Todd Matthews) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:06:14 EDT

Despite a massive search - no sign of the boy has ever been found.

Contributor: Todd Matthews
Published: Jul 03, 2009