DNA from genealogy databases could help give a name to unidentified missing children, but trust and privacy concerns remain a challenge.
The dates for the case files stretch back in time — sometimes for decades. Their faces are an artist's rendering of what they likely looked like. All of them are children who were found dead in America but whose identities remain unknown.
"Children of color, families of color, have a smaller footprint in the DNA databases," Bischoff said. "As we saw with the 'Boy in the Box,' I remember watching that on 'Unsolved Mysteries' as a child and thinking, 'There's no way you can have a little kid who was found dead in a box and nobody can figure out who this child belonged to,'" said Erika Marie Rivers, founder of Our Black Girls.
DNA from genealogy databases could help, but trust and privacy concerns surrounding it remain a challenge. Chemistry professors Kelly Elkins and Cindy Zeller can extract information encoded in DNA, compare it to samples and fill in the details on human remains.
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