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Mass. woman's remains identified from World Trade Center

November 2, 2006
NEW YORK --Human remains recovered from around the World Trade Center site have been identified as those of a Massachusetts flight attendant killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, officials said.



The city's medical examiner's office announced Wednesday that remains had been identified for three more victims of the attack. The remains were recovered long ago and were not involved in recent discoveries that prompted renewed searches.


The remains belonged to Karen Martin, Douglas Stone and another man whose family asked that his name not be released, said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office.


Martin, of Danvers, Mass., was an attendant on American Flight 11 that was hijacked and crashed into the north tower, and Stone, of Dover, N.H., was a passenger.
The identifications were made after the families submitted additional DNA samples to the medical examiner's lab, Borakove said. She declined to comment further on their cases.


The remains of about 40 percent of those killed at the World Trade Center have not been identified.


Over the years, as the medical examiner has tried to identify the remains of the 2,749 victims, some families have occasionally been asked to give more DNA, typically from cheek swabs, to enhance the profile and increase their chance of getting a match.


Meanwhile, New York is hiring several additional forensic experts as it renews its search for remains around the site.


As many as 10 forensic anthropologists will join the search for remains of Sept. 11 victims on the next phase of the project, which could stretch well into next year, Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said.


The work involves tearing up parts of side streets, exploring the rooftops of selected buildings near the 16-acre site, and excavating more manholes beyond the dozen that the city is already exploring.


The current search was prompted by the discovery last month of human bones in an abandoned manhole.


Some 200 pieces of bone and other remains have been found since the accidental discovery last month by utility workers doing routine labor in a manhole along the western edge of the lower Manhattan site. Officials say the manhole had been paved over and forgotten when a service road was built there in the midst of excavating trade center rubble years ago.

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