Joy and sorrow as DNA brings missing loved ones home

Advances in identification methods give families the chance to bury their long-missing loved ones.

First comes the alarm, then the dread, then the pain. But now for families of long-missing people, there finally comes some hope.

It’s hope with a small H because it doesn’t mean their loved ones have, against the odds, been discovered alive. Instead it signals the possibility that they’ll get a chance to bury them and finally have a grave to grieve at.