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NYC Medical Examiner Identifies 9/11 Victims With DNA

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  • Mark Desire, assistant director of NYC’s Chief Medical Examiner office, continues identifying 9/11 victims with DNA.
  • Forty percent of the 2,753 victims remain unidentified, including about ten of the 24 Canadian victims.
  • The lab used a DNA-genealogy breakthrough last month to identify an unnamed victim, its first ID in a year.
  • Desire pledged to families that the search will never stop, after identifying Barbara Keating in August 2025.