Clark County's Office of the Corner/Medical Examiner was awarded a $400000 grant from the US Department of Justice to launch a program to help solve missing persons cases through the use of DNA testing. The grant funded an 18-month program to exhume, sample and do DNA testing on about 50 missing persons cases. "There's no one to speak for these people, but if we can apply today's science to yesterday's cases, we may be able to identify them and give families or loved ones the answers they've been searching for," Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy says. The Coroner's Office has identified 32 missing persons since 2002 when it launched its "Las Vegas Unidentified" Website pages, which post details of missing person cases, including some photographs. The Web page was used as one of the models for the National Missing & Unidentified Persons Initiative (NAMUs.org) to assist the forensics community, law enforcement investigators and the general public with identifying decedents. Clark County has more than 160 cases involving unidentified decedents. As part of implementing the new grant-funded program, the Coroner's Office will review all 160 cases and select the ones most likely to be solved from the use of DNA testing and analysis
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