UNIDENTIFIED

Notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy's eight unidentified victims may finally have a chance to be identified due to modern DNA technology. The bodies were exhumed in order to gather DNA evidence to be compared with that of family members.

The body of a young unidentified boy found in Maine on Saturday evening now has a name.

Another unidentified dead child has been found continuing a tragic trend across the country.

In the U.S. there are over 40,000 unidentified human bodies or remains in morgues or nameless graves. Do you have information that could lead to the identity of this person?

In the U.S. there are over 40,000 unidentified human bodies or remains in morgues or nameless graves. Do you have information that could lead to the identity of this person?

Linda Crystal working on missing persons and unidentified bodies across the nation. New York State database.

USO, when not referring to the United Service Organizations, refers to phenomena that can be seen underwater, entering the water or leaving the water that cannot be identified. In other words, USOs are unidentified submerged objects.

An unidentified child's body found in a Georgia landfill might be that of a missing 7-year-old girl from Orange Park, Florida, named Somer Thompson. Somer Thompson has been missing since Monday afternoon when she disappeared while walking...

Squad car dash cam catches unidentified animal on tape in full daylight.

Missouri's governor just signed a proclamation making June 17 Missing and Unidentified Persons Awareness Day in the State of Missouri!

Launched in July 2007, a national system/database for missing and unidentified persons has become a reality. It will eventually be comprised of two databases.

There are 100,000 missing people and more than 7,000 unidentified bodies listed with the FBI-NCIC.

There are tens of thousands of missing and unidentified people in the US alone. We never hear about most of them. This is for them.

It has been reported that an unidentified half-skull found in 1995 matches the skulls that were found at Robert Pickton's pig farm. Was the person yet another possible victim of Pickton's?

On April 1, 2008, cold case detectives James Scharf and David Heitzman along with the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office, had Jane Doe's remains exhumed from her unmarked grave at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.

Murder victims who cannot be identified at the time of the crime may never be identified. So what happens to the bodies?

Often, in a cold case, the reason it becomes a cold case is due to a lack of physical evidence or identification factors such as dental records. DNA then become the only tool that can make an identification in these cases.