{"id":131796,"date":"2025-08-09T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131796\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:22:22","slug":"3-sept-11-victims-remains-are-newly-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131796\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Sept. 11 victims&#8217; remains are newly identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three 9\/11 victims\u2019 remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-terrorist-attacks-90224539cc716ab039ae3792dd9cbf35\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">effort to return the remains<\/a>\u00a0of the dead to their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three 9\/11 victims\u2019 remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long\u00a0effort to return the remains\u00a0of the dead to their loved ones<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>New York City officials announced Thursday they had identified remains of Ryan D. Fitzgerald, a 26-year-old currency trader; Barbara A. Keating, a 72-year-old retired nonprofit executive; and another woman whose name authorities kept private at her family&#8217;s request<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>They were identified through now-improved DNA testing of minute remains found more than 20 years ago amid the wreckage of the World Trade Center after the al-Qaida hijacked-plane\u00a0attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the city medical examiner&#8217;s office said<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New York City officials announced Thursday they had identified remains of Ryan D. Fitzgerald, a 26-year-old currency trader; Barbara A. Keating, a 72-year-old retired nonprofit executive; and another woman whose name authorities kept private at her family&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>They were identified through now-improved DNA testing of minute remains found more than 20 years ago amid the wreckage of the World Trade Center after the al-Qaida hijacked-plane\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/september-11-attacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacks of Sept. 11, 2001<\/a>, the city medical examiner&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach new identification testifies to the promise of science and sustained outreach to families despite the passage of time,&#8221; chief medical examiner Dr. Jason Graham said in a statement. \u201cWe continue this work as our way of honoring the lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keating&#8217;s son, Paul Keating, told media outlets he was amazed and impressed by the enduring endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just an amazing feat, gesture,&#8221; he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/07\/us-news\/remains-of-3-more-9-11-victims-idd-using-new-dna-tech-officials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the New York Post<\/a>. He said genetic material from part of his mother\u2019s hairbrush was matched to DNA samples from relatives. A bit of his mother&#8217;s ATM card was the only other trace of her ever recovered from the debris, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Keating was a passenger on Boston-to-Los Angeles-bound American Airlines Flight 11 when hijackers slammed it into the World Trade Center. She was headed home to Palm Springs, California, after spending the summer on Massachusetts&#8217; Cape Cod.<\/p>\n<p>Keating had spent her career in social services, including a time as executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Middlesex, near Boston. In retirement, she was involved in her Roman Catholic church in Palm Springs.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press sent messages Friday to her family and left messages at possible numbers for Fitzgerald&#8217;s relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald, who lived in Manhattan, was working at a financial firm at the trade center, studying for a master&#8217;s degree in business and talking about a long-term future with his girlfriend, according to obituaries published at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed when the hijackers crashed jetliners into the trade center\u2019s twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in southwest Pennsylvania on 9\/11. The vast majority of the victims, more than 2,700, perished at the trade center.<\/p>\n<p>The New York medical examiner\u2019s office has steadily added to the roster of those with identified remains, most recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-city-sept-11-victims-remains-6d233c805604bf9b0b501d9499107a76\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>. The agency has tested and retested fragments as techniques advanced over the years and created new prospects for reading genetic code diminished by fire, sunlight, bacteria and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope the families receiving answers from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner can take solace in the city\u2019s tireless dedication to this mission,\u201d New York Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three 9\/11 victims\u2019 remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[24166,5229,24167,12170,7448,1578,5249,12443,405,403,50,5226,5225,77624,5228,5227,5292,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-131796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","11":"tag-app-public-safety","12":"tag-app-top-stories","13":"tag-associated-press","14":"tag-manhattan","15":"tag-nationwide","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-nnt","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-public-safety","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114999023706220696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}