In this Bell Work Talks Michael Nance discusses Missing and Unidentified Persons -"Our Nation's Silent Mass Disaster."
If someone you love disappeared what would you do to find them how would you be affected?
On any given day there are approximately 90,000 people reported missing to the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC). There are approximately 40,000 unidentified persons in coroner and medical examiner offices nationwide.
Learn how the National Institute of Justice developed the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) to provide resources, paid for through federal taxes and are no cost, to families, law enforcement, coroners, and medical examiners.
Find out how NamUs is working with the Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives in Operation Lady Justice.
Learn how families are impacted by the debilitating affects of "ambiguous loss" and NamUs resources to help.
Michael Nance retired from the Tulsa Police Department in 2010 after thirty-eight years. Nance's last assignment was as a Homicide Detective in Tulsa's Homicide Unit.
Nance worked as a missing person/cold case investigator for the Oklahoma District 27 District Attorney's Office after retirement before joining NamUs in December 2012.
Nance also works with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children(NCMEC) as a Team Adam Consultant (TAC) and Project Alert volunteer.
Nance has been NamUs' Regional Program Specialist for Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma for the past eight years.
Resources:
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
www.namus.gov
Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation’s Silent Mass Disaster https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/missing-persons-and-unidentified-remains-nationssilent-mass-disaster
Operation Lady Justice
https://operationladyjustice.usdoj.gov/?
fbclid=IwAR0wtcqPNNZC6hPJgJOgtGf_pmHdxVCH_DL8584a2HdU2BFKeOYL0bRWKw
National Center for Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NCMEC) https://www.missingkids.org/
National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ncic
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) https://www.fbi.gov/services/laboratory/biometric-analysis/codis/codis-and-ndis-factsheet#:~:text=CODIS%20is%20the
%20acronym%20for,used%20to%20run%20these%20databases.
Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM)
https://www.swgdam.org/
Ambiguous loss in families of the missing
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(02)11815-0/fulltext
