A Needle In A Haystack
This wasn’t going to be as straightforward a case as most people would have been led to believe, however. It might seem cold to put it this way, but this woman’s case was a drop in the ocean. Because around 70 000 female adults are reported missing every year, it would be impossible for Yen to single-handedly identify the remains. Especially given that this woman had disappeared all the way back in the 70s. He had a plan though…
A Place To Start
In January 2016, there were 21 894 active female missing person cases in the USA. All cases that went cold were kept in storage and all investigators were able to access the information in these files regardless of their jurisdiction. This meant that any officer could simply access the database if they were prompted to pick up an old investigation once more. As one can imagine, this was a fathomless flood of people and their varying levels of related details and developments.