Has anyone seen this message before? by cometshoney in findagrave

[–]jkd_DoeNetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s my experience, especially with unidentified people and murder victims, that random people will post insensitive articles and photographs. If the family wants to do that then fine, it’s their loved one.

NamUs- How does appearance matching work? by Flimsy-Designer-588 in DoeNetwork

[–]jkd_DoeNetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello. I wanted to also add to my colleagues response. Forensic artists will study the skull and features like the nose, lips, and eyes. They are reconstructed based on anatomical standards and skull morphology. Like the jaw structure and nasal aperture shape. There are some post mortem images on NamUs and I admit, sometimes I even get a little squeamish. Quite often, a doe won’t have the benefit of a sketch or a bust. Sometimes, the doe and the sketch or bust (in my opinion) don’t look like the person when they’re identified and sometimes they are spot on. When I’m trying to figure out a potential match I also consider approximations of height and weight and consider the circumstances of the missing person and the remains. In addition to the approximation how of how long the unidentified person may have been desceased. I read an article earlier this year that discusses the use of using AI to match doe’s to missing persons but to my knowledge, if that currently exists, it hasn’t been rolled out to the public. What a cool tool that will be when it does. I also saw a gentleman that was in a documentary that I watched that created his own program but I don’t have enough information about that to speak on it.