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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.
