title: New hope for identifying the unidentified. The National Crime Information Center unidentified person/missing person files.
abstract: The National Crime Information Center Unidentified Person/Missing Person Files offer computer comparison of descriptive data on unidentified dead and living persons with data entered on missing persons. Completion of a simple, but detailed standard form allows entry of descriptors of physical characteristics, fingerprint classification, dentition, anthropologic and x-ray findings, optic prescriptions, medical devices, surgical procedures, serology, jewelry, and clothes. Medical and law enforcement agencies collect the descriptive data on the unidentified; families and law enforcement agencies collect missing persons information. Entry for both is via law enforcement regional or state NCIC computer terminals. Continuous comparison and cross search of both files is initiated upon entry of either form.
mesh_terms: D001344:Autopsy; D003201:Computers; D003415:Crime; D005553:Forensic Dentistry / Q000379:methods; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011996:Records