WASHINGTON - When an adult goes missing, the case often doesn’t get the same level of attention focused on missing children.
Now, “America’s Most Wanted” is starting something new to give families of those missing adults, help in their search.
Links:
America’s Most Wanted
http://www.amw.com/
America’s Most Wanted | My Story
http://www.amw.com/mystory/
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
http://www.namus.gov/
About MyStory:
AMW gets hundreds [...]
National system open to families, investigators
NamUs contains two databases – one for unidentified remains and one for missing persons – and search engines the general public can use to find a match.
The Justice Department has unveiled a computer database that will help families locate the bodies of lost loved ones. Families, law enforcement agencies, medical examiners and coroners, victim advocates, and the general public are encouraged to register their missing loved ones with The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), the first national repository for [...]