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Here's an interesting use for the 'Net:

Apr 24, 2007 1:05AM PDT
Amateur sleuths keep cold cases alive
There are 100,000 missing people in the United States alone and at least 6,000 unidentified bodies. With the authorities struggling to solve so many cases, thousands of volunteers are using the internet to try to match the missing with the unidentified. Internet sleuth Todd Mathews reports ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6583129.stm

Not suggesting anyone make this their new career, but it looks interesting and useful at the same time.

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Clues to many missing and unidentified
Apr 24, 2007 3:20AM PDT

might be found by attempting a thorough investigation of the Chicago electoral machine. I say "attempting" because many of those with knowledge to offer can probably not be identified.

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Missing and unidentified in Chicago? Heavens no!
Apr 24, 2007 11:22AM PDT

There is no such thing in the election system. We even raise the dead to vote in Chicago!

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Ha ha, heh heh....
Apr 24, 2007 1:02PM PDT

They don't bother to "raise" the dead in Chicago, just use their current street address.