NEW YORK — Officials with the medical examiner's office here reached out to Paul Keating's family a few months ago to say they believed a team of forensic scientists had made a breakthrough.

Combing through material collected after the September 11, 2001 terror attack , they had found a DNA match between human remains and Keating's mother, Barbara Keating, who died aboard one of the passenger jets that slammed into the World Trade Center.

On Thursday, the identification was confirmed publicly by the office of NYC's chief medical examiner. "I think it's stunning," Keating told NPR, referring to efforts by the city to help families find closure. "They're doing this for us. They're doing it like they're possessed."

The mayor's office announced that three additional victims of the terror

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