DNA Identifies 9/11 Victim (from Human Remains in a Con Edison Manhole)

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Source: Newsday

DNA identifies 9/11 victim
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
July 25, 2007, 8:18 AM EDT

The city medical examiner has identified the remains of one more of The Missing -- the more than 1,100 people who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, but whose bodies were never found.

The medical examiner Tuesday announced that the remains of Edward Ryan, 42, of Scarsdale, who died at the World Trade Center, were identified by after DNA testing on remains found in a Con Edison manhole at Ground Zero in October.

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He "was identified from remains recovered from the Haul Road following the discovery of human remains in a Con Edison manhole at the WTC site in October 2006," Borakove said. The chief medical examiner last year sent a letter to the families of the more than 1,100 victims whose remains have not been found, telling them that advanced DNA technology may help identify their loved ones. "I cannot say how many (we will match) or how long it will take," chief medical examiner Charles Hirsch wrote in the letter to the families. "This is ongoing. We may have paused in our work, but we didn't stop trying."

He added: "We will never quit."

The letter was a milestone because previously, the medical examiner told families that -- though he would keep trying -- chances were scientifically slim that future identifications would be made.

Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-wtc-0726,0,1691230.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

[YOY]

1. Wonder how he got in the manhole

Hiding for cover gone awry?

[soothsayer]

3. NYC called in a mob run waste mgt firm on day 1 and let them wash down

the crime scene. They used seives to sort the pieces and anything small enough got hosed down into the sewers, while the rest went to the aptly named Fresh Kills landfill in pile number 5 if I'm not mistaken. You weren't allowed to take PHOTOS of the crime scene, but you could wash away all the potential evidence. Pretty odd handling of a crime scene.

[YOY]

5. Ughh. Thanks but everytime I start asking questions about 9-11 it just gets worse

n/t

[Bongo Prophet]

4. Assuming an honest question here, from the "parts" that got swept into the sewers.

Google the story referred to in the article.
Gruesome stuff.

[soothsayer]

2. go to the Fresh Kills landfill if you want to id the rest

[givemebackmycountry]

6. That's a helluva job RUDY!

You'll make such a great President seein' how yur Merica's Mayor and a 9/11 hero and all that!

Asshole - serious asshole.