A Seattle Post-Intelligencer special report on how police here and around the nation fumble missing-person reports, originally published in 10 parts.
Their names remain unknown. Men and women. Teenagers and a toddler. Two newborns.
Identities of nearly 100 dead people in Washington remain a mystery, obscured by the passage of time or lost within a system designed to help restore names to bodies, but one that often fails.
They include victims of accident, murder and suicide.
During a year long investigation of unsolved missing- and unidentified-persons cases, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer compiled this county-by-county list of Washington's anonymous dead.
