Few things are as traumatizing for a family as a loved one who goes missing — a son or daughter or parent disappearing without a trace. It happens hundreds of times a year in Canada, and sometimes the cases remain open for decades — wounds that never heal. But there is one resource that authorities in Canada have not tapped in their search for the missing: the hundreds of unidentified human remains sitting in morgues and cemeteries across the country. Ottawa has announced that in 2016, it will begin funding a National DNA Databank for missing persons —using science to help close the books on family tragedies by putting a name on these anonymous remains. It’s a step that families, and police forces, say should have been taken years ago. 16x9 looks at some of the cases that could benefit from this databank. glbn.ca/CV5xw
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:10:13 +0000
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