‘Identify Indiana’ hopes to gives names to the Indiana 600+ unidentified human remains

INDIANAPOLIS — There is believed to be more than 600 unidentified people sitting in evidence boxes at coroner’s offices and police department’s across Indiana.

A team of investigators and coroners are now trying to get that number to zero through a new initiative called Identify Indiana. It’s a partnership between the Indiana Coroner’s Association, the Human Identification Center at the University of Indianapolis and the Indiana State Police laboratory.

“The end goal is to get these people home,” said Newton County Coroner Scott McCord. “Let’s solve these. I mean we can do it, the technology is there and we have a good group of people that are willing to do it.”