MMIP unit describes cold‑case work, DNA advances and family outreach to committee Joel Smith, an investigator with the Department of Public Safety's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons unit, told the House Tribal Affairs Committee the unit focuses on missing‑person investigations and cold‑case homicides, has reunited people with families in recent cases and is using improved DNA technology and community visits to advance investigations.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons unit is revolutionizing cold-case investigations in Alaska, successfully reuniting families with loved ones missing for over a decade.

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