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PakkyT t1_iuj0hzm wrote

Reply to comment by BradMarchandsNose in Lady of the Dunes Identified by Budget-Cat-3398

Understood but my question still stands, how do we have no unidentified (presumed homicides) bodies prior to 1974 in a place that has existed with laws for centuries?

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BradMarchandsNose t1_iuj37pn wrote

Policing as we know it wasn’t really a thing until relatively recently (around the turn of the 20th century). Before that, case files didn’t really exist. So yeah, you might be right, but they can only go off of what’s been reported. It’s very rare for a body to be left with no identifying characteristics like this woman’s. The FBI keeps a list of unidentified victims and they only have 53 of them in the whole country.

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