ViCAP was the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, designed to analyze and collect information on violent crimes. Records included murders, sexual assaults, missing persons cases, and unidentified remains. NamUs was a searchable national database of unidentified remains and missing persons cases. The National Crime Information Center was a nationwide clearinghouse for missing persons and crime information. More than twenty-three thousand missing persons cases were currently open in the US. Querying all three databases gave them a better chance of identifying their victims.
