Abstract
Due to the slowly growing numbers of missing and unidentified individuals in the United States, combined with a lack of resources to tackle the problem and the piecemeal infrastructure of the medicolegal death investigation system, this has been described as a “mass disaster over time.” While resources like NAMUS are being developed and allocated to assist in the investigation and resolution of these cases, many agencies are understaffed, overworked, or simply unaware of the how to go about attempting to address this problem. This chapter presents a multidisciplinary approach to the investigation of unidentified “cold case” remains based on forensic science and spearheaded by forensic anthropologists.
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