Mississippi's Missing And Unidentified

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, News

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a deep dive into what it takes to construct an entirely new database--from the ground up--of a database that not only collects data on the missing and unidentified, but hopes to use that research to assist the communities least likely to receive resources, and most likely to remain unidentified after death. We analyze the construction of the new Mississippi Repository for the Missing and Unidentified, explore its unique "mapping" system for identifying clusters of the missing, and speak with its creators, two MSU professors, Drs. Jordan Lynton Cox and Jesse Goliath.

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Social handles and email for Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons

Email is: MissinginMS@MSState.edu

Poster Presentation: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365360272_Mapping_Medico-legal_Disparities_The_Mississippi_Repository_for_Missing_and_Unidentified_Persons

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Episodes mentioned:

Sovereign Bodies: http://bit.ly/40xNI5D

LAMMP Database: http://bit.ly/3ll4gxf

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Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Translation by Guadalupe Lopez/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney

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1:03.2	This is the Fall Line.
1:25.8	Missing an unidentified people are a major focus of our work here at the Fall Line.
1:30.9	We've also talked about who goes missing, who gets media coverage, and the uneven resources allocated in cases.
1:37.9	The complexities of solving unidentified persons cases, doe cases, are a major point of discussion too.
1:45.2	There's both the work of identifying the deceased and in determining the way they died.
1:50.0	And if they were the victim of a crime, then there's another case altogether, a homicide to be solved.
1:56.2	When we talk about databases that focus on the missing and unidentified, we're generally speaking of national projects.
2:03.2	The most well known of those is Namus.
2:05.8	That's the National Missing and Unidentified Person System, which is the official governmental system for recording missing and unidentified persons cases.
2:15.1	But not all cases make it into Namus.
2:17.8	We often encounter both missing persons and unidentified decedents who have not been entered.
2:23.3	It's because some states just don't require reporting, and even when cases are in Namus, there's a learning curve to using it.
2:31.5	The interface isn't very user-friendly for non-professional users.
2:35.9	Actually, many of the professional users on their side of the data entry, they have issues too.
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