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WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's coroners and medical examiners receive about 4,400 unidentified human remains on average annually but about 1,000 typically are not identified after a year, the government reported Sunday.
Overall, there were 13,500 unidentified human remains on record at those offices as of 2004, the latest year such data was available, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
The study of the approximately 2,000 offices was the first of its kind, the Justice Department agency said.
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