BIO: Todd Matthews is the Director of Case Management and Communications for NamUs. He joined the NamUs management team in 2011 as the program transitioned to the UNT Health Science Center. In his current role, he manages the NamUs Regional System Administrator staff, oversees quality assurance and quality control of NamUs data, performs outreach and training, coordinates all NamUs print and broadcast media, and serves as the media spokesperson for NamUs.
Todd Matthews previously served as a NamUs Regional System Administrator and was a member of the NamUs Advisory Board for the development of the NamUs database and program. In those roles, he piloted efforts to coordinate data exchanges between NamUs and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
He has also served as the Media Director for two important volunteer programs related to missing and unidentified persons: The Doe Network and Project EDAN. He has worked as a blogger for Discovery ID and served as a consultant for Jerry Brukheimer on "The Forgotten" and Dick Wolf on "Lost & Found", two scripted series related to missing and unidentified persons.
LISTEN: Link will go live Saturday 11-21-15 at 10 a.m. Pacific
LINKS:
NamUs: National Missing and Unidentified Persons System http://www.namus.gov
University of North Texas Health Science Center's Center for Human Identification/Forensic Science Unit http://www.untfsu.com/index.html
Todd Matthews on UNT site: http://www.untfsu.com/Staff/ToddMatthews.html
Project EDAN http://www.untfsu.com/forensicArt.html
"Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains: The Nation's Silent Mass Disaster," NIJ report by Nancy Ritter. http://www.nij.gov/journals/256/pages/missing-persons.aspx
"Identifying Missing Persons and Unidentified Decedents" NIJ Website Law Enforcement topics http://nij.gov/topics/law-enforcement/investigations/missing-persons/Pages/welcome.aspx
The Doe Network: http://doenetwork.org
Black and Missing Foundatation http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children http://www.missingkids.com/home
PBS Frontline's "Post Mortem" series map of death investigation in the U.S. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/map-death-in-america/
"Uniform Protocol to Address Unidentified Human Remains and Missing Persons," Marzena H. Mulawka, Ismail M. Sebetan, and Paul C. Stein, in The Journal of Forensic Identification, available through NCJRS https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=254866
"Resolving Missing and Unidentified Person Cases Using Today's Technologies," Dustin Driscoll, National Missing and Unidentified Persons (NamUs) Analyst, in The Police Chief Magazine, May 2013 http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=2925&issue_id=52013
