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2008

  • The Nameless Dead: Doe cases in NC
        WRAL.com, NC, June 25, 2008

  • Woman sheds new light on old case
        Free Press, MO, June 22, 2008

  • Doe Network finds identities for unidentified bodies
        Standard-Times, MA, June 15, 2008

  • Authorities confirm family's fears
        Valley Times, CA, June 17, 2008

  • When bones stay silent
        The Times-Union, GA, June 2, 2008

  • Identity of Jane Doe still a mystery
        Sentinel, MN, June 6, 2008

  • Body found in East Bay hills in '91 identified
        San Francisco Chronicle, CA, May 30, 2008

  • Officials haunted by cold cases
        Muskogee Phoenix, OK, May 17, 2008

  • The art of science: Forensic sketch artists combine disparate talents
        Medill Reports, IL, May 8, 2008

  • Detectives hope to ID homicide victim after decades
        Herald Net, WA, May 2, 2008

  • A Name and Face No One Knew, but Never Forgot
        The New York Times, NY April 21, 2008

  • Cop takes '83 case of missing woman t
        The Chicago Tribune, IL April 18, 2008

  • Missing persons reminders of other cases
        SWVA Today, VA April 18, 2008

  • Disappeared, without a trace
        The Daily Herald, IL, April 15, 2008

  • Amateur sleuths use the Web to help solve cases gone cold
        The Montgomery Advertiser, KS April 14, 2008

  • Doe Network finds identities for unidentified bodies
        The Kansas City Star, MO, April 14, 2008

  • 1998 murder victim in Henry County identified
        Courier-Journal, KY, April 14, 2008

  • Elgin woman's disappearance haunts family
        The Courier News, IL, April 13, 2008

  • Kentucky Medical Examiner Media Release
        KY, April 11, 2008

  • Local law enforcement works with group to ID victims
        The Pantagraph, IL April 7, 2008

  • Search continues for missing persons
        Post-Bulletin, MN, April 7, 2008

  • Online sleuths take on missing persons cases
        The Times-Standard, CA, April 6, 2008

  • Doe Network volunteers search for missing people
        Maine Coast Now, ME April 5, 2008

  • Olmsted County Sheriff's Office - Media release
        April 2, 2008

  • Flagler County Sheriff's Office - Media release
        April 2, 2008

  • Finding names for the nameless
        The Argus Leader, SD, April 1, 2008

  • Missing Morris man's body is found
        The Star Ledger, NJ, April 1, 2008

  • Amateur sleuths name anonymous dead
        Newsweek, March 30, 2008

  • Finding Grace
        The Globe Gazette, IA, March 29, 2008

  • Long-missing man's remains found in Fla.
        Home News Tribune Online, NJ, March 29, 2008

  • Doe Might Be Missing Mother
        Rock Town Weekly, February 14, 2008

  • Remains of woman found in forest west of Harrisonburg may be ID’d after 27 years
        Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA, February 13, 2008

  • Closure in Colusa?
        The Sacramento Bee, CA, February 12, 2008

  • Volunteer sleuth is on mission to ID mystery torso
        St.Louis Post-Dispatch, MO, February 5, 2008

  • Web site helps find the missing
        Erie Times-News, PA, January 25, 2008

  • A mystery named Jane Doe
        Erie Times-News, PA, January 25, 2008

  • Warm hearts, Cold cases
        The Daily Democrat, CA, January 21, 2008

  • Cold case coming closer to closure
        The Orange Leader, TX, January 17, 2008


  • 2007

  • AFTER 27 YEARS, GIRL'S COLD CASE BECOMES A HOMICIDE
        Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA, December 13, 2007

  • Composite sketch might shed some light
        The Standard-Speaker, PA, November 20, 2007

  • River Man case frustrates police
        St. Louis Post-Dispatch, MO, November 4, 2007

  • Volunteers, Web site aim to solve cases
        The Sun Times, IL, October 24, 2007

  • Man looks for clues to Jason 'Doe'
        The Daily Progress, October 15, 2007

  • Forensic workers try to give names to the dead
        The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA, October 3, 2007

  • Mother solves painful mystery
        The Anchorage Daily News, AK, September 18, 2007

  • Searching for an identity
        Deseret News, UT, September 4, 2007

  • 'Somebody cares about them. We do.'
        Dayton Daily News, OH, August 6, 2007

  • Missing man may be found — 21 years later
        Deseret News, UT, August 2, 2007

  • Web, science, public can help cold cases
        Chattanooga Times-Free Press, TN, June 17, 2007

  • Cases of unidentified adults quickly go cold
        Knoxville News Sentinel, TN, May 21, 2007

  • Law enforcement agencies face startling numbers and staggering odds to identify young ‘Jane Does
        Knoxville News Sentinel, TN, May 20, 2007

  • Police still unraveling mystery of teen's 1987 disappearance
        The Indiana Gazette, IN, April 26, 2007

  • Missing man found dead
        The Burlington Times-News, NC, April 20, 2007

  • The Mystery of a Missing Woman
        Austin, MN, KAALtv.com, April 6, 2007

  • Body of Texas woman identified 10 years after found
        The Victoria Advocate, TX, March 30, 2007

  • Unmarked Campbell grave now has name
        Knoxville News Sentinel, TN, March 29, 2007

  • Investigators ID victim in Campbell County cold case
        WBIR-TV, March 27, 2007

  • Indiana police submit cold case to Doe Network for assistance
        Wave3, February 9, 2007

  • Cracking a cold case
        whas11, February 9, 2007

  • Jane and John Doe still `someone's children'
        ACO News, January 17, 2007


  • 2006

  • 30 years later, pregnant murder victim still without a name
        Standard-Speaker, PA, December 28, 2006

  • Nation River slaying victim had webbed feet
        CBC News, November 3, 2006

  • Not forgotten: Police turn to the Internet for help in identifying the victims in a 1968 murder mystery
        Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, PA, October 29, 2006

  • Elusive quest to ID John Does
        The Miami Herald, FL, October 22, 2006

  • Search for missing brother in cyberspace
        The Press Argus-Courier, October 20, 2006

  • Though more than thirteen years old, missing persons case far from forgotten
        The Post Independent, September 18, 2006

  • Searching for answers from near and far
        The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, September 15, 2006

  • Relatives Of The Missing Hope For ‘Someday’
        The Tampa Tribune, FL, July 26, 2006

  • Web site may help find missing Watertown woman
        News10now, NY, June 21, 2006

  • Missing woman's 1997 case put online
        Watertown Daily Times, NY, June 20, 2006

  • Network Gives Hope In Discovering Identity Of Woman Killed In 1983
        NBCI News, June 20, 2006

  • Man sentenced for killing wife 11 years ago
        Public Opinion, PA, June 15, 2006

  • Mystery prompts public plea: Who is 'John Doe'?
        KTVZ.com, June 6, 2006

  • Suspect in Southwest slaying arrested
        The Modesto Bee, CA, May 21, 2006

  • After years of searching, man puts his sister, mystery to rest.
        The Oregonian, OR, April 24, 2006

  • Web Helps Detectives With Cold Case
        The Albuquerque Journal, NM, April 18, 2006

  • Nameless dead haunt city morgues
        The Oakland Tribune, CA, April 10, 2006

  • Anonymous in death
        The Beaumont Enterprise, TX, March 29, 2006

  • Web sleuths crack 'cold' murder cases
        The Sunday Times, UK, March 12, 2006

  • Missing/inaction: Morgues hold about 40,000 sets of unidentified remains
        The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA, March 6, 2006

  • Amateur sleuth identifies those dying as 'John Does'
        The Tennessean, TN, February 21, 2006

  • Disappearance 30 years ago haunts sister
        The Flint Journal, MI, February 2, 2006

  • Death Masks
        POLICE Magazine, January 28, 2006

  • A son’s disappearance ... a family’s pain
        The Muscatine Journal, January 26, 2006

  • Investigators reopen case of Eldon teen missing since 1984
        Jefferson City News-Tribune, MO, January 7, 2006

  • They Never Stop Searching
        The Reporter-Times in Martinsville, IN, 2006


  • 2005

  • Searching for the missing
        The International Falls Daily Journal, MN, December 2, 2005

  • Know this man?
        Village Soup, ME, November 26, 2005

  • Cold case may heat up with DNA evidence
        Lewiston Morning Tribune, ID - November 15, 2005

  • The grave with no name
        People Weekly - November 14, 2005

  • Solved: 3 cases with Central Florida ties
        The Orlando Sentinel, FL, November 5, 2005

  • We Have no Closure
        Public Opinion, PA, November 5, 2005

  • The mystery of Madison Man is half solved
        Madison.com, WI, October 18, 2005

  • The cipher in room 214
        Seattle PI, WA, October 6, 2005

  • Police Aim to Solve '74 Death
        The Albuquerque Journal, NM, October 5, 2005

  • America's forgotten dead: Unidentified bodies go unreported
        SitNews, October 4, 2005

  • Amateur sleuths solving cases
        Scripps Howard News Service, October 4, 2005

  • 'Madison Man' really was one

  • Nassau, Bahamas Tribune
        Nassau, Bahamas Tribune, October 3, 2005

  • New ID tools could turn corpses into somebodies
        The Philadelphia Inquirer, pA, September 30, 2005

  • Disappearance of Baltimore Mother Still a Cold-Case 19 Years Later
        September 26, 2005

  • Internet gives a face to a mysterious body in the Dordogne
        Yahoo News France, September 25, 2005

  • The Doe Network
        Fox 25 Boston, MA, September 10, 2005

  • Lynn woman's murder remains mystery to cops
        The Daily Item of Lynn, September 9, 2005

  • The latest way to bring closure to the hundreds of the families of the unidentified
        The Pressbox, UK, September 4, 2005

  • Police seek help to identify 'Jane Doe'
        The Gazette, MD, August 29, 2005

  • Vigil spotlights 14-year mystery
        The Gazette, MD, July 28, 2005

  • New Website Hopes to Identify Bodies of Missing Persons
        KSL-TV, UT, July 27, 2005

  • I can help cops solve seaside skull mystery
        The Evening Times, UK, July 26, 2005

  • Unsolved-crime Web site profiles nine cases in Miss.
        The Advocate, LA, July 19, 2005

  • Doe Network offers hope to families
        Sun Herald, MS, July 18, 2005

  • Reward now offered in case of family missing since '74
        The Examiner, July 13, 2005

  • Hearing Delayed For Accused Strangler
        July 8, 2005

  • Missing Persons. An Astounding Reality
        By Pat Pellom, 2005

  • Police maintain vigil for missing college student
        The Addison Independent, June 23, 2005

  • A New Lead In A Cold Case
        MD, June 23, 2005

  • Man charged with murder in strangling death of wife
        Waynesboro Herald, June 21, 2005

  • Missing-person Web site solves mystery for family
        Seattle PI, WA, May 30, 2005

  • Cold Case: Bones Found Near Frederick
        NBC4 News (MD) - May 11, 2005

  • Web site, DNA help ID body of teen-ager
        Fort Worth Star-Telegram, TX - February 12, 2005

  • Volunteers cast Net to find homicide victims
        The Washington Times, DC - January 28, 2005

  • Victim identified 16 months after body was found
        The Baltimore Sun, MD, January 23, 2005

  • Internet group led to ID of victim
        The Daily Item, January 19, 2005

  • Sometimes, the search for the missing never ends
        The Associated Press, AR, 2005


  • 2004

  • Police Work Mystery Of Old Tombstones
        The Boston Channel, MA, December 23, 2004

  • Miss. firm hopes to revive cold case
        The Clarion-Ledger, MS, December 6, 2004

  • Lending a hand to the law
        Evansville Courier & Press, IN, October 18, 2004

  • Regina Bos hunt goes on four years later
        Lincoln Journal Star, NE, October 17, 2004

  • Google Helps Solve a Mystery
        E-Commerce Times, October 11, 2004

  • Web helps bring people together
        The Sentinel, October 11, 2004

  • Cold cases frustrate cops and families, but scientific advances may help
        New Haven Register, October 10, 2004

  • 1993 hit-run victim is finally identified
        Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter, WA, October 09, 2004

  • Missing Woman's Case Gets Web Exposure
        Dundalk Eagle, October 6, 2004

  • Anderson missing-teen case reopened after new discovery
        The Journal Gazette, IN, September 6, 2004

  • Doe Network Helps With Sherri Miller And Pam Jackson Case
        KELOLAND TV, August 31, 2004

  • DNA links remains found in Keys in 1976 to Boca teen
        Sun Sentinel, August 26, 2004

  • Shawnee woman speaks for the dead
        Native American Times, KS, June 28, 2004

  • Doe Network combs databases for matching missing persons
        Modesto Bee, CA, June 20, 2004

  • Police keep hunting for identity of man
        Worcester Telegram & Gazette, MA, June 17, 2004

  • Bucks DA seeks help to ID woman
        The Trentonian, NJ, June 3, 2004

  • Artists give a face to a victim long dead
        The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA, June 3, 2004

  • Artists give homicide victim a face, now police hope for a name
        The Morning Call, PA, June 3, 2004

  • Artists reintroduce 'Jane Doe' to public
        Bucks County Courier Times, PA, June 3, 2004

  • Internet buffs help research missing
        The Clarion-Ledger, MS, May 24, 2004

  • 'Jane Doe' exhumed; police seek identity
        Bucks County Courier Times, PA, May 6, 2004

  • Forensic Artist
        CrimeWatch Canada, May, 2004

  • Forensic Art and Age Progression
        Forensic Science Portal, April 29, 2004

  • Boulder residents still care about Jane Doe
        The Daily Camera, April 22, 2004

  • Volunteer works online to track missing people
        The Baltimore Sun, MD, April 20, 2004

  • Nameless: Volunteers Work To Identify Bodies
        Columbia Missourian, MO, April 18, 2004

  • Network Unknown To Local Law Enforcement
        Columbia Missourian, MO, April 18, 2004

  • Family Continues To Hope
        Times Record, April 18, 2004

  • Cold case warms years after body found
        Howard County Times MD, April 15, 2004

  • Missing persons group gives mother renewed hope
        Kansas City, News Tribune, MO, April 10, 2004

  • The Lost Ones, Network of Dedicated Strangers Brings Peace to John and Jane Does of the World
        Good Morning America Appearance , April 9, 2004

  • Identification made in 1996 unidentified person homicide
        Doe Network Press Release, April 8, 2004

  • Remains of "Jane Doe" ID'd 8 Yrs Later
        WPVI-TV, April 8, 2004

  • When Immigrants Die: County's last rites
        Tucson Citizen, AZ, April 7, 2004

  • Online sleuths give mother new hope
        The Kansas City Star, MO, March 30, 2004

  • Long-ago murder victim inspires a Bandon 'John Doe' hunter
        The Oregonian, OR, March 27, 2004

  • Todd Matthews and The Doe Network: Naming the Nameless Dead
        Crime Magazine, March 23, 2004

  • Desperate search for Bridget -- sister, mother, addict
        The San Francisco Chronicle, CA, March 21, 2004

  • Coroner posts Does' photos on Web
        Chicago Tribune, IL, March 5, 2004
  • Coroner posts photos of unidentified corpses online to solve cases
        Ventura County Star, CA, February 29, 2004
  • Forget the milk carton, missing faces now online.
        AM New York, February 17, 2004
  • Amateur detectives help solve hard to crack cases.
        Associated Press (various newspapers) , February 8, 2004
  • Online network spawns new breed of detectives.
        Boston Globe, MA, February 7, 2004
  • Disappeared off face of the Earth.
        Ottawa Sun, ON, February 2, 2004
  • To identify 'John Doe' victims, investigators turn to the Web.
        Boston Globe, MA, January 25, 2004
  • Face on a Milk Carton? Amateur Sleuths Dig Deeper.
        New York Times, NY, January 1, 2004

  • 2003

  • Burg police still ponder 29-year-old unsolved case.
        Gatlinburg, December 23, 2003
  • Families seek closure on Net: Web site highlights Md. missing persons.
        Daily Times, MD, December 1, 2003
  • 18-Year-Old Kentucky Murder Mystery Ends.
        14 WFIE, November, 2003
  • Who is she? How did she die?
        Saint Petersburg Times, FL, November, 2003
  • Unidentified '01 death resolved.
        Daily Citizen, November, 2003
  • 1985 'Jane Doe' case isn't cold for volunteer Bedminster sleuth.
        Bernardsville News, November, 2003
  • Web site targets unsolved cases.
        Review-Journal, NV, November 3, 2003
  • Kentucky family still wants body of murdered man.
        Associated Press, October, 2003
  • Woman's body is still not identified.
        Baltimore Sun, MA, October 26, 2003
  • Family Buries Man Missing Since 1984.
        Associated Press, October, 2003
  • Missing Persons Network makes match in NYC case.
        Cumberland Times-News, September, 2003
  • Cybersleuth cracked the Cutler case.
        North Jersey News, NJ, September 26, 2003
  • Victim deserves a name, Doe group says.
        Pioneer Press, MN, September 15, 2003
  • Computer sleuths solve Vegas man's mystery.
        Las Vegas Sun, NV, September 2003
  • Net sleuths are hot on cold case trail.
        Star-Ledger, NJ, September 5, 2003
  • The Internet, some bones and an end to a mystery
        Star-Ledger, NJ, September 4, 2003
  • Putting a face to a mystery.
        The Daily News, August 2003
  • Clarksburg woman aids families of the missing.
        The Gazette, August 2003
  • Few leads in 20-year disappearance of Angela Hartmann.
        Ottawa Sun, ON, August 2003
  • Animation lets murder victims have final say.
        New Scientist, August 2003
  • Missing Persons Web site helps solve mysteries.
        Cumberland Times-News, August 2003
  • Pulled down the aisle by Pahrump Valley Jane.
        Pahrump Valley Times, NV, August 2003
  • Sister's search still a struggle.
        Sacramento Bee, CA, July 19, 2003
  • Making John and Jane Doe's faces more familiar.
        Court TV, July 2003
  • DNA identified 1994 homicide victim
        Akron Beacon Journal, OH, June 4, 2003
  • FORENSIC FEATURE
        The Forensic Focus, 2003
  • DA identifies murder victim.
        The Metro West Daily News, 2003
  • Amateur sleuths warm up to cold cases.
        The Press-Enterprise, CA, April 20, 2003
  • Web Helps ID John and Jane Does.
        Wired News, 2003
  • Postmortem Photographs and The Forensic Artist.
        Charles Holt, 2003
  • They Find The Lost...When Everyone Else has Given Up
        PI Magazine, 2003
  • Records often are as hard to find as a body
        Seattle PI, WA, February 24, 2003
  • VT murder victim identified as missing Clay man.
        Journal Enterprise, January 2003
  • Clay man, missing 18 years, identified as victim of 1985 Vermont murder.
        MyInKy, January 2003

  • 2002

  • Jane and John Doe of Suffolk.
        The New Island Ear, 2002
  • Trying to solve John Doe mysteries.
        The Baltimore Sun, MA, November 29, 2002
  • Their faces may be unknown, but they are not forgotten.
        KHOU News, October 2002
  • Wes Neville Serving as S.C. Area Director For The DoeNetwork / Project EDAN.
        Dillon Herald, October 2002
  • East York resident determined to solve old crimes.
        East York Mirror, October 2002
  • Cold Comfort
        Toronto Sun, ON, September 2002
  • Web site keeps hope alive for identifying dead & missing.
        Law Enforcement News, September 2002
  • Group seeks missing persons in ranks of unidentified dead.
        Miami Herald, FL, August 19, 2002
  • Janet Franson of Clark,WY pesters police all over the state asking them not to forget
        Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, WY, August 11, 2002
  • Woman missing 17 years is found.
        New Hampshire Union Leader, NH, May 14, 2002
  • Civilian uses the internet to investigate missing persons' cases.
        The Patriot Ledger, March 2002
  • Helping get Jane Doe back home.
        Waco Tribune-Herald, TX, February 6, 2002
  • Discovered skeleton doesn't match missing man.
        Associated Press, MA, February 2002
  • Authorities hope facial re-creation boosts homicide case
        The Knoxville News-Sentinel, TN, January 10, 2002

  • 2001

  • Expert group to help identify slain woman found in Campbell County.
        Knoxville News Sentinel, TN, December 6,
  • Internet cybersleuths match evidence to identify Kentucky woman missing since 1992.
        Mountainview Weekly, June 2001
  • 1993 Jane Doe identified as Kentucky woman.
        Waco Tribune-Herald, TX, June 14, 2001
  • Body may be that of woman reported missing since 1993
        Daily News, KY, June 2, 2001
  • Dispatcher's devotion may put name to victim.
        Boston Globe, MA, April 17, 2001


  • Press releases from The Doe Network


  • Match Confirmed Between Unidentified TX Accident Victim & Michigan Man.
        December 20, 2001
  • Match Confirmed Between Unidentified TX Accident Victim & Missing Kentucky Woman.
        December 19, 2001
  • Project EDAN
    Assisting Campbell County, TN Authorities with Unidentified Victims' Cases.

        December 19, 2001
  • Project EDAN Press Release.
        November 25, 2001
  • Skeleton Doesn't Match Missing Italian Man.
        March 2002
  • Match Confirmed Between Missing MD Woman & Unidentified Homicide Victim.
        March 1, 2002
  • Teen Missing Since 1976 Found Safe.
        April, 2003
  • Match Confirmed Between Missing Frenchman & Unidentified Victim.
        September, 2003


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