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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases throughout the United States. NamUs is funded and administered by the National Institute of Justice through a cooperative agreement with the University of North Texas Health Science ...
The National Crime Information Center ( NCIC) is the United States' central database for tracking crime-related information. The NCIC has been an information sharing tool since 1967. [ 1] It is maintained by the Criminal Justice Information Services Division (CJIS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is interlinked with federal ...
Per a 2017 report, the U.S. states of Oregon, Arizona, and Alaska have the highest numbers of missing-person cases per 100,000 people. [6] In Canada—with a population a little more than one tenth that of the United States—the number of missing-person cases is smaller, but the rate per capita is higher, with an estimated 71,000 reported in ...
The creation of a national DNA database within the U.S. was first mentioned by the Technical Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (TWGDAM) in 1989. [1] The FBI's strategic goal was to maximize the voluntary participation of states and avoid what happened several years early, when eight western states frustrated with the progress creating a national Automated Fingerprint Identification System ...
Lists of people who disappeared. Disappeared people in art at Parque por la Paz at Villa Grimaldi in Santiago de Chile. Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated: Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia. Some of these people were possibly ...
Missing white woman syndrome is a term used by social scientists [ 1][ 2][ 3] and media commentators to denote disproportionate media coverage, especially on television, [ 4] of missing-person cases toward white females as compared to males or females of color. The syndrome also encompasses disproportionate media attention to females who are ...
A Sindhi nationalist politician, who went missing on February 24, 2011, and was found dead on May 22, 2012, at a roadside near Hatri bypass. [291] Murdered 1 Year 3 months 2011 Maddy Scott: 20 Vanderhoof, Canada Scott went missing after a birthday party at Hogsback Lake 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Vanderhoof, British
Baltimore County Public Library ( BCPL ), established in 1948, is a public library system located in central Maryland and headquartered in Towson, Maryland [ 4][ 5] BCPL serves Baltimore County, Maryland, which surrounds but does not include the city of Baltimore. [ 6] Still, occasionally the two library systems share resources and expertise.