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Nearly 200 bodies, no names;
OPP try to identify remains - some dating back decades - turn to the public for help
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020826&docId=l:1293088616&isRss=true
same info The Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/883438--dead-people-with-no-names-in-ontario
OPP try to identify remains - some dating back decades - turn to the public for help
Shes known only as the Nation River Lady. She was murdered 35 years ago, and nobody knows her name. At least, no one has come forward to identify her.
Her body still lies in a freezer in the Toronto morgue She is the oldest such unidentified person there among 120 unclaimed bodies.
The morgue has a separate storage area for unidentified remains, where the temperature is kept lower to assist in their preservation.
Bodies that are the subject of homicide cases remain in the city morgue until the police have completed their investigation. Bodies are kept in regular storage at 4C and longer-storage temperatures are kept at minus 20C.
This case may have gone really cold, but officials still hope to solve it.
Loam maintains an internal database to compare missing persons and unidentified remains in addition to the website where tips on posted cases are received from the public.
Some of these may be bodies and some may be just skeletal remains, Loam said.
Through the website, police also hope to harness the power of so-called "web sleuths" who search for missing persons as an online hobby.
Loam says that since Project Resolve was launched, 10 bodies have been identified, along with 35 missing persons.
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020826&docId=l:1293088616&isRss=true
same info The Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/883438--dead-people-with-no-names-in-ontario