OUR HISTORY/ TIMELINE

CAN YOU IDENTIFY ME HISTORY/TIMELINE

2007

Can You Identify Me was born in 2007 as a blog dedicated to America’s Unidentified. It brings these individuals back to life if only for a brief moment to share some invaluable information along with their forensic reconstructions. Can You Identify Me gives the victim a first-person narrative and temporary Doe name until someone out there recognizes them. Once they are identified, they can be reunited with their families and the victims can rest in peace with a tombstone shining with their given name.

2008

The site starts to grow, reaching hundreds of new people and peaking in the thousands.

2009

The founder, Rebel J. Morris, retires from her paralegal career. She discovers social media and Can You Identify Me starts to find a wider audience.

2010

The networking of the victims has grown to new levels reaching out to a larger and more expansive audience.

Founder Rebel J. Morris teams up with forensic artist Betsy James Cooper.

Can You Identify Me commences a flyer program recruiting truck drivers to distribute the flyers on their routes, and for the general public to distribute in the neighborhoods.

Early 2011

Rebel J. Morris and Betsy James Cooper join forces with a deputy coroner, an Emmy-winning former America’s Most Wanted producer and a mother who’s experienced the devastation of finding her missing daughter in a morgue as a Jane Doe.

Betsy James Cooper, as Executive Director of Forensic Art, commences providing free forensic art services for law enforcement throughout the country.

Can You Identify Me has expanded to start a national non-profit.

The expansion of the awareness for America’s Unidentified grows and the site is receiving thousands and thousands of views for these victims.

Mid 2011

Can You Identify Me plans to take the blog to an entirely new level by creating a wonderful website that will be interactive for law enforcement and educational for the public.

The flyer program now reaches new levels.

Can You Identify Me gains national and international media coverage.

Can You Identify Me is granted its Federal 501c3 status and the board of directors pushes forward with new plans for 2012.

Late 2011

The flyer program takes on new volunteers and plans to increase its distribution throughout the country.

Can You Identify Me increases national and international awareness of America’s Unidentified, reaching over 50 countries that span across 6 continents. Through its vast social network, Can You Identify Me now reaches hundreds of thousands of views for these victims.

The website development is underway.