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The longest search

By Diane Martindale

29 September 2001

THE hunt for survivors in the rubble of the New York World Trade Center has
turned into a homicide investigation of America’s largest crime scene. It’s an
investigation that will take months if not years to complete.

“Bodies are going to be coming up a little bit at a time, not a thousand
bodies at a time,” Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York
State Police, told Âé¶¹´«Ã½. “Bodies will still be there, probably, come
Christmas.”

Many will never be found, raising the troubling prospect that the world will
begin to weary of this colossal forensic project—and…

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