Australia, - Missing persons week 1st August 2021, 500 sets remains

[TootsieFootsie]

No Cookies | Gold Coast Bulletin

On August 1, the Australian Federal Police and Queensland Police Service will launch the first Family of Missing Persons Day, marking the start of National Missing Persons Week.

The event, to be held at the State Library of Queensland from 10am to 4pm, is part of a massive project to create national databases that can link missing person information with unidentified human remains.

There are 500 sets of remains yet to be identified. Should have put Queensland in the title.

Relatives of missing people are asked to bring toothbrushes, photos etc of the missing people.


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[TootsieFootsie]

No Cookies | The Chronicle

In an Australian first, Queensland families with missing loved ones will be able to provide their DNA to help identify our unknown and missing Australians.

From August 1, the Australian Federal Police and Queensland Police Service will launch the first ever Family of Missing Persons Day, to coincide
with National Missing Persons Week.

The aim of the National DNA Program is to apply a suite of existing and new forensic techniques to hundreds of unidentified human remains, in an effort to assist state and territory police in resolving cases of long-term missing persons.

A recent audit of cases stored at police, mortuary and forensic facilities has confirmed there are more than 500 unidentified people across Australia. Many of these human remains were discovered decades ago, with some cases dating back more than 50 years.

 

[MissUnderstood]

Wow! I didn’t realise we had so many unidentified remains in Aus! Hoping some families get some long awaited answers

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Wow! I didn’t realise we had so many unidentified remains in Aus! Hoping some families get some long awaited answers

Neither did I. I just came across this article by happenstance. Thank you @TootsieFootsie for launching this thread. I have several Aussie members I really like, including you. I almost consider myself a quasi Australian…

These missing people are highlighted in the article:

Sister speaks out 16 years after brother's disappearance

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I like you too imstilla.grandma. You have a good heart.

I think the event has had to be cancelled, due to Covid.
Yes here it is. Launch of Queensland Missing Persons Day postponed

 

[ZombieKittie]

This is great news and should be done in all states.

I've just spent the last few hours trolling through the Australian missing person posts and unidentified posts on here trying to find one person in particular as Tootsie can atest I've been bumping threads here there and everywhere. No luck it seems the person I've been looking for isn't being looked for by anyone else

 

[TootsieFootsie]

ZombieKittie, if there's no thread for the person you could start one.

II think it's sad that someone is missing but no one seems to be looking for them.

I keep finding lots of cases of missing people who don't have a thread here though.

Maybe have a look on the missing persons register. I think it goes by state.

 

[ZombieKittie]

I considered starting a thread but find information on the case has been really hard I haven't been able to find any newspaper article from the time and apart from what my mum has told me the only other info I can find that it actually happened is the court proceeding to have her declared dead by her children so they could access the estate after their father died and the police files which are listed on the QLD archive site but are restricted until 2054.

I checked the missing persons register and she isn't listed there