'Breakthrough' genealogy tests can identify 9/11 victims 25 years later

Source ABC Local
Original Load Date Aug. 23, 2026, 9 p.m.
Last Updated Aug. 23, 2026, 9 p.m.
Original URL https://abc7chicago.com/post/nyc-officials-use-breakthrough-genealogy-tests-identify-911-victims-25-years-later/19723972/

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NEW YORK CITY -- Twenty-five years after the 9/11 attacks, New York City is still working to formally identify all of the nearly 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center, and now there is a first-of-its-kind discovery. For the first time, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the NYPD ...