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National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NameUs)

August 15, 2009, 7:51 am
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
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  The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), is an online tool that searches cases in the missing persons database against cases in the unidentified decedents (human bodies or skeletons) database to find possible matches. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System is intended to improve access to database information and allow criminal justice professionals, medical examiners and coroners, victim advocates, families of missing persons, and the general public to contribute to solving these cases.Anyone may search the database, but by registering in the system both law enforcement professionals and the general public can:

  • Add new missing persons cases
  • Add physical and circumstantial details, photographs, dental contacts and other critical pieces of information to a case
  • Create and print missing persons posters
  • Track multiple cases as information is added to the system

You can find answers to frequently asked questions online, or you may wish to contact the NIJ about the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System at 1.202.307.2942.

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