9/11 Memorial to Store Unidentified Remains
Thousands of pieces of human remains still unidentified after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center will be dried, sealed and stored in a memorial at the site now known as ground zero, officials said.
The remains will be preserved so that if identification techniques improve, they would be in usable condition to be identified, said Ellen Borakove of New York City’s office of the chief medical examiner.
More than 12,000 remains, some as small as bone chips or teeth, are unidentified, mostly because the DNA used to identify bodies is badly damaged, the medical examiner’s office said.
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