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Mar 21, 2008 12:13 am US/Central

Cold Case: The Unidentified Bodies

Reporting
Caroline Lowe
St. Paul (WCCO) ― The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has a new, first-of-its-kind program to track down missing persons.

There are currently almost 800 missing adults in Minnesota and almost 260 unidentified remains and bodies in this state. The BCA has been working with local law enforcement and coroners and medical examiners to try to see how many of them might be matched.

They are providing DNA kits to local police agencies to give to relatives of missing persons to compare with DNA on bodies or remains they find.

The BCA has also started a new system where they will start tracking missing adults once they have been missing 30 days. Minnesota is the first state in the country to take this approach after such a short period of time.

They will collect photos, dental records and DNA so they have that information uploaded into local and national databases.

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