Missing persons
Justice Department Fights for the Missing
Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice has helped to lead the search for tens of thousands of missing Americans. Created by the Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, known as NamUs, catalogs photos, fingerprints, dental records and other forensic evidence in an effort to find the missing, identify human remains and close cases that, in many...
Reporting and Investigating Missing Persons: A Background Paper On How To Frame The Issue
Date Published
August 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Frequency of Heteroplasmy in the HVII Region of mtDNA Differs Across Tissue Types and Increases with Age
Date Published
March 2000
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Operation Lady Justice Task Force Accomplishments Fact Sheet
Date Published
May 2020
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJP
Operation Lady Justice Summary Fact Sheet
Date Published
June 2020
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Program/Project Description,
Legislation/Policy Description,
Instructional Material (Programmed),
Factsheet
Agencies
OJP
Operation Lady Justice: Comparison of the NamUs and NCIC Databases Fact Sheet
Date Published
July 2020
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Report (Technical Assistance),
Program/Project Description,
Instructional Material (Programmed),
Factsheet
Agencies
OJP
Operation Lady Justice: Administration for Children and Families Hotlines Fact Sheet
Date Published
July 2020
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Report (Technical Assistance),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJP
Operation Lady Justice: Missing Person Clearinghouses Fact Sheet
Date Published
August 2020
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Report (Technical Assistance),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
OJP
Microhaplotypes in forensic genetics
NCJ Number
253976
Journal
Forensic Science International-Genetics
Date Published
January 2019
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Link
TECHBeat, March 2018
Date Published
March 2018
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Innovative Uses of Automated License Plate Readers To Enhance Criminal Investigations
Date Published
June 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description,
Case Study
Agencies
BJA-Sponsored
Office of Justice Programs (OJP) / Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) Resource Page
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established this Federal Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) Interagency Working Group (MDI-IWG) to coordinate Federal initiatives to strengthen the MDI system and support death investigation services practiced by medical examiner and coroner offices (ME/Cs) across the United States. The MDI-IWG...
Finding the Missing in Indian Country
Juanita Adams
It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...