Funding for cold cases, missing persons getting cut
POSTED 12:35 PM, NOVEMBER 3, 2016, BY SARAH STEWART, UPDATED AT 07:44PM, NOVEMBER 3, 2016 OKLAHOMA - Anthropologists in our state said it will be a blow to solving cold cases in our state. They’ve just learned a federal grant that funds DNA testing for missing persons will no longer be funded. The grant is through the National Institute of Justice and is called Using DNA Technology To Identify the Missing. It provides $4.7 million for the entire country and has been in existence since 2004. Read more on KFOR.com's website
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Anthony Urena’s mom seeks change in how NYPD handles missing persons
By Sheila Anne Feeney sheila.feeney@amny.com January 28, 2016 Judith Lopez, 46, believes the NYPD’s initial refusal to acknowledge her son as a missing person after he disappeared last year is a civil rights issue: Why shouldn’t cops take the disappearance of a healthy adult, without cognitive or physical problems, as seriously as they might a missing child or elderly person? Police, she complained, “repeatedly told me he was a healthy 23-year-old who didn’t want to come home,” rebuffing her first attempts to lodge a missing person’s report when her son, Anthony Urena, inexplicably vanished. Read more here: http://www.amny.com/news/anthony-urena-s-mom-seeks-change-in-how-nypd-handles-missing-persons-1.11405671 |
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