Yes, times, they are a changin... Due to their busy schedules and 'that doesn't affect me mentality'. Many folks do not watch ms media/news or keep up with current events unless it pops up on facebook or other social sites,etc.
Ironically, I was just reading an interesting article that mirrored your comment;
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/us/new-hampshire-bodies-mystery/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 via FIND MICKEY SHUNICK NOW! SEARCH RESOURCES FB Page;
Cold-case murders of 4 females brought back to life by new images, DNA tests
By Phil Gast, CNN
updated 3:04 PM EDT, Sat June 15, 2013
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Social media might have made a difference
The woman and the girls were killed before there was text messaging, Facebook and other forms of social media -- a fact not lost on investigators.
And, back in 1985, police did not have a clearinghouse for missing people. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had been in existence for only one year.
Social media is a valuable tool for investigators, says the center's Williamson, who leads a five-member team.
"From the missing side it has helped in a lot of cases," she says. "You can see who perhaps who they were talking to. With teenagers, their friends know more than their families know."
Unlike in 1978 or 1985, people nowadays are extremely connected, be it through cell phones, e-mail or social media.
"If you don't get a text within two hours you might wonder what is going on," says Williamson.
Still, she cautions, there are still cases today when people "are not reported missing for various reasons."
Ebert says someone critical to identifying the four victims may not have come forward because of a sense of criminal liability or guilt for not having provided clues sooner. The victims, he says, may have been part of a disjointed family.
He hopes the DNA testing may clearly show the relationships among the four victims, providing police and the public more opportunities to identify them. "It's an awful tragedy to lose a person to a homicide. It is terrible miscarriage of justice not to know who carried out the crime against your loved one."
Williamson and her team are working on 650 cases involving unidentified children. The oldest case is from Arizona, in 1933.
Since November 2011, the team has helped identify seven children, one of whom was a victim of Gary Ridgway, the so-called Green River Killer, she says.
DNA helped solve the cases. Now Williamson hopes to give a family a sense of closure.
"A good day is giving a child their name back," she says. "And we get very excited."
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