The TRACE Act is a bipartisan bill that recently passed the U.S. Senate. It aims to improve data sharing for people who go missing on federal lands and waters. The bill would add a new category to the ...

Illinois passed the Missing Persons Identification Act, requiring police to take immediate missing person reports and end waiting periods. Law enforcement must collect and submit biometric data to ...

A skull found along a canal in Redding, Calif., in 2013 was identified using advanced DNA technology and a family tree DNA ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona has one of the highest numbers of unidentified remains in the country. Out of the 15,460 open cases for unidentified persons nationwide, 2,132 are in Arizona, according to ...

POTRERO, Calif. (WKRC) — A woman who vanished during a cross-country trip to California left an eerie message to her mother. According to National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), a ...

The Black and Missing Foundation, Inc. (BAMFI) and the Washington Association of Black Journalists (WABJ) have released The Media Guide for Reporting on Missing Persons Cases. The guide aims to fix a ...