The Virginia Department of Health's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has been awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Missing and Unidentified Human Remains (MUHR) Program (CFDA 16.050). The grant will fund the Virginia Unidentified Project, which aims to investigate and identify approximately 200 unidentified human remains cases under the Office's jurisdiction. Key activities include exhuming buried remains, performing updated forensic examinations, submitting DNA samples for CODIS entry and forensic genetic genealogy analysis, and coordinating with law enforcement on case submissions to national databases. The expected outcomes are the identification and repatriation of several cases to families, as well as completing case documentation using the latest available technologies. This Project Grant award has a period of performance from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2026.
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