Welcome to the Center for the Recovery and Identification of the Missing (or CRIM) at UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago).

We are an interdisciplinary team of professors, staff, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students specializing in sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, forensic anthropology, GIS (Geographic Information System), remote sensing, geospatial analysis, history, and electrical and computer engineering.  Our efforts focus on our partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (or DPAA) in the research, investigation, recovery, and repatriation of missing U.S. service members from past conflicts.  We primarily specialize in World War II sites in the Philippines, but we have also worked with the DPAA and their partners in Vietnam, Cambodia, Italy, Laos, and Palau.

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  • 72,053 Service Members Unaccounted for from World War II.

  • 7,466 Service Members Unaccounted for from the Korean War.

  • 1,575 Service Members Unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.

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Who They Are

UIC CRIM works closely with a number of organizations in our efforts to account for missing U.S. service personnel.

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