missing persons

They include one on missing persons protocol for law enforcement and prohibiting state funds from helping create a central bank digital currency.

The Federal Communications Commission launched a new missing and endangered persons code for its nationwide Emergency Alert System. It will allow law enforcement to send out messages about missing adults to the public through phones, TV and the radio. The code is part of efforts to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis throughout the country.

The Wyoming Legislature passed a bill this year funding a five-year forensic genetic genealogy pilot program. The technology is essentially a reverse 23andMe and could help bring closure to unsolved cases throughout the state.

May 25 was National Missing Children’s Day, and advocates are calling attention to the rising number of missing children around the country, including in parts of the Mountain West.

A Cheyenne English college professor was amazed by how the Gabby Petito case struck a chord with the nation while there are so many other missing persons in the state of Wyoming. So Renee Michelle Nelson decided to create a podcast focusing on cases from marginalized communities called Unsolved Wyoming (release date June 3).

"Missing people of Wyoming," a Facebook page created by a Casper woman and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation's (DCI) revised website, which includes a section dedicated to Wyoming missing persons cases, are newer efforts aimed at keeping missing persons in the public consciousness.

A manhunt is currently underway in the Bridger Teton National Forest for a man suspected of committing a triple homicide in Caldwell, ID.A car registered…