New Developments in Forensics may help to find Australia's Missing Persons (reprinted with kind permission from the Conversation)
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Australia has 2,000 missing persons and 500 unidentified human remains – a dedicated lab could find matches Jodie Ward , University of Canberra It’s been 52 years since the Beaumont children disappeared from Glenelg beach, Adelaide on Australia Day 1966. In this case, excavation of a new area of interest – based on new evidence pointing to possible shallow graves – is expected to commence this week . Sadly however, the Beaumont children are just three of around 2,000 long-term missing people in Australia. And we also have more than 500 sets of human remains believed to be archived across the country , that have not yet been identified. It’s time Australia committed to a laboratory solely dedicated to missing persons casework. Current capability in DNA forensics could allow us to match up remains with some of these missing persons cases, and potentially give families relief. Forever wondering New research shows 38,000 ...