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May 26th, 2009, 10:31 AM
FDLE's big challenge: Bodies, but no names
By Willoughby Mariano | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 26, 2009
Some of their names have eluded investigators for decades.
There's the homeless man with a curly beard who died in an emergency room in March 2002. There's a round-facedwoman found 25 years ago along a road in the county's tourism district. And there's a man with high cheekbones and deep-set eyes who was discovered in an Altamonte Springs landfill in 1973.
More than 80 of these unidentified bodies have been found in Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole and Volusia counties — 34 of whom were slain.
Now, through Missing Link, an initiative recently launched by the Orlando region's Florida Department of Law Enforcement office, their survivors get a better shot at learning their fate. FDLE uses its specialized knowledge and technical resources to help law enforcement re-examine each of these cold cases, and make sure they've done everything possible to find out who these people are.
Full story at http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-cold-cases-missing-link-fdle-052609,0,2379006.story
By Willoughby Mariano | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 26, 2009
Some of their names have eluded investigators for decades.
There's the homeless man with a curly beard who died in an emergency room in March 2002. There's a round-facedwoman found 25 years ago along a road in the county's tourism district. And there's a man with high cheekbones and deep-set eyes who was discovered in an Altamonte Springs landfill in 1973.
More than 80 of these unidentified bodies have been found in Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole and Volusia counties — 34 of whom were slain.
Now, through Missing Link, an initiative recently launched by the Orlando region's Florida Department of Law Enforcement office, their survivors get a better shot at learning their fate. FDLE uses its specialized knowledge and technical resources to help law enforcement re-examine each of these cold cases, and make sure they've done everything possible to find out who these people are.
Full story at http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-cold-cases-missing-link-fdle-052609,0,2379006.story