The Doe network, a project to identify corpses without names

In all countries of the world there are hundreds of corpses that have never been identified.In all countries of the world there are hundreds of people looking for their relatives who disappeared and they never heard from them again.Someone wanted to remedy this unfortunate situation and created the Doe network , a project to identify nameless corpses.

The Doe network, a project to identify corpses without a name

The names of John Doe, Jane Doe or Baby Doe , are used in the US In order to designate in the police field the cadavers and human remains s found that cannot be identified or to hospitalized persons who cannot confirm their identity.Doe began to be used in England in the 14th century as a fictitious name in legal matters.

The creator of the Doe network is called Todd Matthews and it all started in his adolescence.When he was 17 he learned that his girlfriend's father had found a girl's corpse in the woods, wrapped in a tent. No one could identify her and happened to be a "Jane Doe" or as she was known in the area, "the girl in the tent".Todd worried thinking about the young woman's family and decided to find out who she was.that in the US alone there are more than 40,000 cases of unidentified people .After 11 years of research and online help, contact with a woman who had been looking for his sister.Everything coincides: physical, approximate age, area of possible disappearance...Matthews and the sister presented the information to the police and after the relevant evidence of DNA it was confirmed that was Barbara Ann Taylor Hackman .The murder case was not resolved, but the girl's family can bury her with her own and know It had finally happened.

The Doe network, a project to identify corpses without names

Todd Matthews thought that this could not end there, that there were many people suffering without knowing what had happened to their relatives and launched the Doe network They are usually activated when the police have stopped working on the cases since it has been too long.They try to see matches between missing and deceased who have not been identified. On the network, the work is Volunteer and families can ask for help in finding their loved ones.Files are created with missing persons data on the one hand, and on the other the characteristics are introduced.Physical characteristics of the bodies found unidentified and coincidences are sought.Matthew created a working group in parallel with forensic artists called Eden Project who voluntarily make robot portraits and clay reproductions of the remains found.

The Doe network, a project to identify corpses without names

The Doe network has resolved more than 70 cases and works on 3 continents, although it has not escaped criticism since some believe that it violates the privacy of people who may have disappeared voluntarily.If you want to see their website, here is a link.

The Doe network, a project to identify corpses without names

What do you think of the initiative? Do you think it is the police that should handle these cases? If you have been interested in this article, you may want to read the post: 3 murders that NO ONE has solved.Any theory?

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