Recent advances in DNA technology have allowed the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office to make progress on identifying remains exhumed five years ago from the county cemetery.

Two of the 66 sets of remains have already been identified through DNA matching, something that wasn't possible when these people died in the 1980s.

The first person identified, according to Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Gregory Hess, was a man who had been in a plane crash in the Rincon Mountains.

The other was a woman who was identified through a DNA profile match from a family member who was still looking for her.

Dr. Hess said the woman was found at a bus stop and had gone to the hospital under an alias, where she died.

The project costs the county nothing. It is all supported by a grant.

Because money isn't

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