This weekend I returned to the theme of the nameless dead - an estimated 40,000 corpses remain unidentified nationwide - to report on an effort in Harris County by forensic anrhropologists to find new leads to decide which unnamed bodies to exhume (an effort funded by a NIJ grant..)
Here's the link to the story, a video and a map - an interactive database will be up soon.
http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/
Americans murdered in Mexico
US citizens continue to be killed in ongoing border violence. I've been covering this since 2009.
Was this teen offender wrongfully executed?
Debate over this 2005 Chron investigation - and other cases continues in Texas
Who killed Baby Jane Doe?
A 2003 investigation from the now online-only newspaper gave this baby back her name. But her murder remains unsolved...