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Feb 2023
45m 27s

Mississippi's Missing And Unidentified

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About this episode

This week, we take a deep dive into what it takes to construct an entirely new database--from the ground up--of a database that not only collects data on the missing and unidentified, but hopes to use that research to assist the communities least likely to receive resources, and most likely to remain unidentified after death. We analyze the construction of the new Mississippi Repository for the Missing and Unidentified, explore its unique "mapping" system for identifying clusters of the missing, and speak with its creators, two MSU professors, Drs. Jordan Lynton Cox and Jesse Goliath.

Pre order Laurah's book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

Social handles and email for Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons 

Email is: MissinginMS@MSState.edu

Poster Presentation: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365360272_Mapping_Medico-legal_Disparities_The_Mississippi_Repository_for_Missing_and_Unidentified_Persons

Cemetery Preservation Project: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/news-1/2023/2/7/msu-field-school 

Episodes mentioned:

Sovereign Bodies: http://bit.ly/40xNI5D 

LAMMP Database: http://bit.ly/3ll4gxf

Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions

Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Translation by Guadalupe Lopez/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney 

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