[USA] Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation’s Silent Mass Disaster
NIJ Journal No. 256 • January 2007
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/256/missing-persons.html
Nancy Ritter
"If you ask most Americans about a mass disaster, they’re likely to think of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, or the Southeast Asian tsunami. Very few people, including law enforcement officials, would think of the number of missing persons and unidentified human remains in our Nation as a crisis. It is, however, what experts call “a mass disaster over time.”"