Anthropologists at the FACES Lab, working together with scientists at a Louisiana Criminalistics laboratory, began the LA Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons Information Program with the aim of providing a database that will be used to help identify and resolve Louisiana's cases of unidentified remains and missing persons. The law, House Bill 1140 Act 227, can be downloaded in PDF format here. LAW ENFORCEMENT: Please contact us if any information on this website needs to be updated or if you would like to add new cases.

With the cooperation of law enforcement agencies throughout the state, the goals of the project are to: