About: Can You Identify Me?

You might know:
That each year 1000's
of people go missing.



But do you know:
That many people go
Unidentified, Unnamed,
and Unclaimed for years!


Nancy Ritter a writer/editor at the National Institute of Justice and Editor of the NIJ Journal reported about the crisis we face in her article "Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation’s Silent Mass Disaster," published in the NIJ Journal No. 256, January 2007.She reported that:

"On any given day, there are as many as 100,000 active missing persons cases in the United States. Every year, tens of thousands of people vanish under suspicious circumstances...Due in part to sheer volume, missing persons and unidentified human remains cases are a tremendous challenge to State and local law enforcement agencies. The workload for these agencies is staggering: More than 40,000 sets of human remains that cannot be identified through conventional means are held in the evidence rooms of medical examiners throughout the country."


In August 2007, Can You Identify Me blog was born. This blog features one individual who is missing or unidentified (with the emphasis on the unidentified) approximately every 30 days. The posting provides as much known information (including photos) from as many sources as possible about this individual. To add our own touch we have provided each of these unnamed with a temporary name. We did this to show love until their true identity can be discovered. These people need our help. If each and every person on this earth can view these individuals one or more might find their way home.