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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. The Lost Ones Forty names on September 11th World Trade Centre death toll for more than two years were removed Wednesday, 29 October 2003 because the city confirmed the people’s deaths or in some case their existence. The list was cut from 2,792 to 2,752, a decision made by several city agencies, including the medical examiner’s office, the police department and the mayor’s office. The names removed included illegal immigrants whose jobs were not well documented and people whose relatives say they were near the trade centre on September 11th 2001 but know little more than that. Thousands of names landed on the list of chaos immediately after the strike, when worried callers swamped the city’s “missing” hotlines to report a friend or a relative they hadn’t heard from. Missing-person reports poured in from around the world, many from people who gave only sketchy information at best, partial telephone numbers, misspelled names and few details. The city formed a group called the Reported Missing Committee, charged with finding out fraud and crossing off errors from the death list, which peaked at 6,700 two weeks after the attack. And as early as September 2003, the police had made 40 arrests related to people falsely claiming they had lost loved ones, and law enforcement agencies in other cities had done the same. In most cases, victims whose remains have not been identified have people legally declared dead by the court and their families issued death certificates based on documents or other proof they were at the trade centre or on the hijacked planes. In the names removed from the list, no such proof was ever found and remains were never identified. About 60% of the victims have had remains identified. The tally had stood at 2,792 since December 2002. Days before the first anniversary remembrance last year, the city released its list of 2,801 names, which were read aloud by relatives and dignitaries. By that December, city officials removed nine of the names. One was a duplication, one was fabricated by a woman allegedly trying to defraud victims’ charities and seven had been wrongly reported missing. The Lost Ones written by Bill Barber |
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