Bodies from Hurricane Helene devastation identified with FBI technology built to track criminals
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FBI's Nashville Field Office is using a new fingerprinting technology to help identify bodies in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Tennessee and North Carolina.
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The hurricane that devastated parts of Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Virginia has left more than 230 people dead since it made landfall on Sept. 27.
The FBI has been assisting local law enforcement with the grim task of identifying bodies in the eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina regions that were impacted by historic flooding, using electronic fingerprint devices that connect to phones that typically help law enforcement identify criminals.