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@othram Who killed Janie Sanders?
I checked through some the news about this identification and found this article about a young girl murdered two years earlier in the same area as where Clara's body was found. Might be good to reach out, I'm sure the nature of the case and its brutality is something the police department there is very eager to resolve too! Appreciate the work you all do!
 
AkitasAreLovely said:
@othram Who killed Janie Sanders?
I checked through some the news about this identification and found this article about a young girl murdered two years earlier in the same area as where Clara's body was found. Might be good to reach out, I'm sure the nature of the case and its brutality is something the police department there is very eager to resolve too! Appreciate the work you all do!
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Thanks for your suppport and for the tip. We will look.
 
With so many notable cases of UIDs solved this year, it feels like the end of an era. Old cases with long discussions are increasingly scarce so I wonder what cases will capture people's imaginations soon. The recent big cases like Mostly Harmless were solved fairly quickly, technology marches on and even though there are countless cases in the backlog waiting to be processed, a world without John and Jane Does feels oddly much closer. Even people from the 19th century are now increasingly identified.
 
JovanSrna said:
With so many notable cases of UIDs solved this year, it feels like the end of an era. Old cases with long discussions are increasingly scarce so I wonder what cases will capture people's imaginations soon. The recent big cases like Mostly Harmless were solved fairly quickly, technology marches on and even though there are countless cases in the backlog waiting to be processed, a world without John and Jane Does feels oddly much closer. Even people from the 19th century are now increasingly identified.
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I just heard that Walker County JD's NamUs recently got taken down, with all the high-profile cases being solved this and last year, I have to wonder what cases will get the attention of the internet next.
 
JovanSrna said:
With so many notable cases of UIDs solved this year, it feels like the end of an era. Old cases with long discussions are increasingly scarce so I wonder what cases will capture people's imaginations soon. The recent big cases like Mostly Harmless were solved fairly quickly, technology marches on and even though there are countless cases in the backlog waiting to be processed, a world without John and Jane Does feels oddly much closer. Even people from the 19th century are now increasingly identified.
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Perhaps we transition from individual cases to clusters of cases, grouped by a common feature, like geography. As an example, there are local teams now in several states working with us to clear all cases in their one area.

Its very important to solve any case, but imagine the impact of being able to say all UID or all sex assaults in a given city or county are solved.
 
othram said:
Perhaps we transition from individual cases to clusters of cases, grouped by a common feature, like geography. As an example, there are local teams now in several states working with us to clear all cases in their one area.

Its very important to solve any case, but imagine the impact of being able to say all UID or all sex assaults in a given city or county are solved.
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That's really true, you have states like Nebraska and New Hampshire with 4-15 cases vs states like Arizona or California with over 2000
 
doggybag2355 said:
That's really true, you have states like Nebraska and New Hampshire with 4-15 cases vs states like Arizona or California with over 2000
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We also need to find cases that have not made their way to NamUs yet. How can we solve a case we don’t know about?!
 
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That's really true, you have states like Nebraska and New Hampshire with 4-15 cases vs states like Arizona or California with over 2000
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Would we want to try to prioritize older cases, where forensic evidence or relatives/friends of the victims might be more difficult to find alive, or have clear memories to help assist in ID?
 
AkitasAreLovely said:
Would we want to try to prioritize older cases, where forensic evidence or relatives/friends of the victims might be more difficult to find alive, or have clear memories to help assist in ID?
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That's probably entirely up to the investigating agency, they usually have their own order of importance on picking which cases to solve first.
 
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