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I came across this article while searching for something else. It's a great article that speaks about the army of volunteers who work to give all the "does" out there real names. Enjoy!
Four days a week, Todd Matthews earns $11.50 (¤7) an hour working for an automotive parts supplier. After work he drives half a mile (a kilometer) to his little beige house on a hill where he spends the next seven hours immersed in a very different world. The faces seem to float from his computer _ morgue photographs, artist sketches, forensic reconstructions _ thousands of dead eyes staring from Web sites as though crying out for recognition. John and Jane and Baby «Does» whose bodies have never been identified. His wife, Lori, complains that Matthews, 37, spends more time with the dead than he does with the living. You need a hobby, she says, or a goal. I have a goal, he replies, though he describes it as a «calling». He wants to give «Does» back their names.
His obsession began two decades ago, when Lori told him about the unidentified young woman wrapped in canvas whose body Lori's father had stumbled on in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1968. She had reddish brown hair and a gap-toothed smile. Locals named her Tent Girl.
rest of article at link: http://www.pr-inside.com/far-flung-network-of-volunteers-uses-r509501.htm
Four days a week, Todd Matthews earns $11.50 (¤7) an hour working for an automotive parts supplier. After work he drives half a mile (a kilometer) to his little beige house on a hill where he spends the next seven hours immersed in a very different world. The faces seem to float from his computer _ morgue photographs, artist sketches, forensic reconstructions _ thousands of dead eyes staring from Web sites as though crying out for recognition. John and Jane and Baby «Does» whose bodies have never been identified. His wife, Lori, complains that Matthews, 37, spends more time with the dead than he does with the living. You need a hobby, she says, or a goal. I have a goal, he replies, though he describes it as a «calling». He wants to give «Does» back their names.
His obsession began two decades ago, when Lori told him about the unidentified young woman wrapped in canvas whose body Lori's father had stumbled on in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1968. She had reddish brown hair and a gap-toothed smile. Locals named her Tent Girl.
rest of article at link: http://www.pr-inside.com/far-flung-network-of-volunteers-uses-r509501.htm