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CNN
2 days ago
- CNN
DNA matching helps identify 3 victims of 9/11 terror attack
Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City officials have identified three more victims, Ryan Fitzgerald, Barbara Keating, and a woman whose name is being withheld, through family outreach and advanced DNA analysis. CNN's Leigh Waldman reports.
CNN
2 days ago
- CNN
DNA matching helps identify 3 victims of 9/11 terror attack
Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City officials have identified three more victims, Ryan Fitzgerald, Barbara Keating, and a woman whose name is being withheld, through family outreach and advanced DNA analysis. CNN's Leigh Waldman reports.
CNN
2 days ago
- CNN
DNA matching helps identify 3 victims of 9/11 terror attack
Nearly 24 years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, New York City officials have identified three more victims, Ryan Fitzgerald, Barbara Keating, and a woman whose name is being withheld, through family outreach and advanced DNA analysis. CNN's Leigh Waldman reports.
The Hill
3 days ago
- Health
- The Hill
NYC identifies 3 new 9/11 victims who died at World Trade Center
Three new victims of the 9/11 attacks were identified this week by New York medical officials, nearly 24 years after the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. The New York City (NYC) Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified Ryan Fitzgerald from New York, Barbara Keating from California and a third unnamed woman through DNA analysis. 'Each new identification testifies to the promise of science and sustained outreach to families despite the passage of time. We continue this work as our way of honoring the lost,' the chief medical examiner Dr. Jason K. Graham said in a Thursday statement. The examiners' office continues to reach out to family members for DNA reference samples' in its effort to identify victims. The Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center resulted in 2,753 deaths. According to the Medical Examiner's office, the three victims identified this week are the 1,651 st, 1,652 nd and 1,653 rd victims. About 1,100 victims of the deadly Al-Qaeda attacks remain unidentified. 'The pain of losing a loved one in the September 11th terror attacks echoes across the decades, but with these three new identifications, we take a step forward in comforting the family members still aching from that day,' Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement.
ABC News
3 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Three September 11 victims' remains identified by new genetic techniques after nearly 24 years
Three 9/11 victims have been identified using new DNA technology as the effort to return the remains of the dead to loved ones continues after nearly a quarter of a century. New York City officials announced on Thursday, local time, that they had identified remains of Ryan Fitzgerald, a 26-year-old currency trader; Barbara Keating, a 72-year-old retired nonprofit executive; and another woman whose name authorities kept private at her family's request. The three were already among the thousands of people long known to have died in the Al Qaeda hijacked-plane attacks of September 11, 2001, and long listed among the names on the national memorial in New York City. But these families, like many others, never previously knew of any remains of their loved ones. In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed when the hijackers crashed jetliners into the World Trade Center's twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in south-west Pennsylvania. More than 2,700 of the victims perished in the fiery collapse of the twin towers, and about 40 per cent of those victims have not had any remains identified. The new identifications were made through now-improved DNA testing of minute remains found more than 20 years ago amid the wreckage, the city medical examiner's office said. "Each new identification testifies to the promise of science and sustained outreach to families despite the passage of time," chief medical examiner Dr Jason Graham said in a statement. Ms Keating's son, Paul Keating, told media outlets he was amazed and impressed by the enduring endeavour. "It's just an amazing feat, gesture," he told the New York Post. He said genetic material from part of his mother's hairbrush was matched to DNA samples from relatives. A bit of his mother's ATM card was the only other trace of her ever recovered from the debris, he said. Barbara Keating was a passenger on the Los Angeles-bound American Airlines Flight 11 when hijackers slammed it into the World Trade Center. She was headed home to Palm Springs, California, after spending the summer on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Ms Keating had spent her career in social services, including a time as executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Middlesex, near Boston. In retirement, she was involved in her Roman Catholic church in Palm Springs. Mr Fitzgerald, who lived in Manhattan, was working at a financial firm at the World Trade Center, studying for a master's degree in business and talking about a long-term future with his girlfriend, according to obituaries published at the time. The New York medical examiner's office has steadily added to the roster of 9/11 victims with identified remains, most recently last year. The agency has tested and retested tens of thousands of fragments as techniques advanced over the years and created new prospects for reading genetic code diminished by fire, sunlight, bacteria and more. It said it would continue to retest in the future. "We hope the families receiving answers from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner can take solace in the city's tireless dedication to this mission," New York Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. AP
