{"id":373592,"date":"2026-10-15T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373592\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:22:16","slug":"remains-of-second-9-11-victim-identified-through-new-forensic-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373592\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of second 9\/11 victim identified through new forensic technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

The remains of a woman recovered from Ground Zero following the 9\/11 terrorist attacks<\/a> have been identified through a new DNA forensic technique \u2014 the second time a victim of the 25-year-old terror attacks<\/a> has been identified with this groundbreaking procedure, officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s identification brings the total number of identified victims of the World Trade Center attacks to 1,655, according to the city\u2019s Medical Examiner<\/a>. An additional 1,098 victims \u2014 roughly 40 percent of the 2,753 people killed in the attacks \u2014 have yet to be officially identified.<\/p>\n

The woman, whose name is being withheld at her family\u2019s request, is only the second victim of the WTC attacks to be identified using investigative genetic genealogy, which in August was used to identify another woman killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cA quarter century after the day that forever changed our world,\u202fwe are keeping the\u202fpromise\u202fto identify those who died at the World Trade Center in 2001\u202fand return them to their loved ones,\u201d\u202fChief Medical Examiner Dr. Graham said following the identification of the woman in August. \u201cThis sacred commitment is propelled by our dedication to apply the most\u202finnovative\u202fscientific techniques, and\u202fFIGG represents\u202fa\u202fpromising new addition to our toolkit.\u201d<\/p>\n

That victim\u2019s family also asked that her name be withheld.<\/p>\n

The new forensic technique marries DNA technology with genealogical investigative techniques, which are then confirmed by OCME using other forensic methodologies.<\/p>\n

The same technique was employed by the Suffolk County District Attorney\u2019s office<\/a> as it sought to identify victims of the Gilgo Beach murders, including a young Asian man, dubbed \u201cAsian Doe<\/a>,\u201d whose remains were discovered in 2011 as investigators combed the Long Island beach searching for the bodies of missing women.<\/p>\n

In August. Suffolk County DA Ray Tierney traveled to Chinatown in Manhattan to requesting New Yorkers of hailing from the southern Han region of China to let investigators swab their cheeks, hoping the DNA they collected would lead them to a relative of the victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough modern DNA analysis\u2026 we could determine who your sister is, who your dad is, who your third cousin is,\u201d said Tierney in August. \u201cAnd the more DNA profiles you have, the more the chances are we\u2019ll find a relative of Asian Doe\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remains of a woman recovered from Ground Zero following the 9\/11 terrorist attacks have been identified through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":["post-373592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}