On Friday morning, the Berkeley County Coroner’s Office held a private burial for two unidentified and unclaimed individuals at Berkeley Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Despite extensive efforts to identify these individuals, including autopsies, dental exams, fingerprinting, DNA analysis, and genetic genealogy, the identities of the deceased remain unknown.
Efforts to Identify the Deceased
The burial comes after countless hours of work from the coroner’s office to determine the identities of these individuals. “Hundreds of hours [have] gone into investigating these deaths, but unfortunately we got to a point to where there’s nothing else we can do,” said Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell…