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NamUs provides tools that empower family members of missing persons to enter and search case information, and connects families with criminal justice professionals to assist in the search for their missing loved ones.
Each month, NamUs publishes reports and statistics for all unresolved missing person, unresolved unidentified person, and unresolved unclaimed person cases published, as well as American Indian and Alaska Native Case Statistics and Tribal Case Reports.
If an investigating agency, family member, or previously reported missing person would like to expedite the removal of archived cases from internet search engines, please contact our support team via our toll-free hotline at (833) 872-5176 or by email at [email protected].
By bringing people, information, forensic science, and technology together, NamUs helps resolve missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases nationwide.
Agencies can directly upload dental information for missing and unidentified person cases to NamUs, which is a secure, central repository. NamUs forensic odontologists can also be contacted to digitally scan, code, and upload information to NamUs cases on behalf of investigating agencies.
In order for proper searching to take place in CODIS, and for potential associations to be identified, DNA profiles from at least two family members should be collected for every missing person case. If no first-degree relatives are available, additional family reference collections may be required.
The NamUs database fills an overwhelming need for a central repository of information related to missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases. The database is searchable by all, with biometric and other secure case information accessible only to appropriate, vetted criminal justice users.
All registered users can enter missing person cases into NamUs. Prior to publication in NamUs, a Regional System Administrator will verify the missing person report with the appropriate law enforcement agency and obtain permission from that agency to publish the case information in NamUs.
NamUs is a national repository for long term missing, unidentified, and unclaimed persons cases. It is a really powerful tool that allows for cross matching and searching between both the missing persons and the unidentified persons records.
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