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LOS ANGELES - Arusyak Martirosyan struggles to open the door of a stranger's one-bedroom apartment overflowing with the belongings from a life lived but not claimed in death. Wedged against the door is a giant box of Gain laundry detergent and …
A 74-year-old woman died alone in the hospital last year. It's the job of investigators in a little-known and understaffed Los Angeles County department to find her family. If they can't, she will be buried along with tens of thousands of others in a communal grave for the county's “unclaimed dead.” The tradition dates back to 1896. The 2023 internment for the first time included those who died from the coronavirus. The investigators are part of a small army of public servants who spend three years searching for family before relinquishing them to be buried in the communal gravesit...
A 74-year-old woman died alone in the hospital last year. It's the job of investigators in a little-known and understaffed Los Angeles County department to find her family. If they can't, she will be buried along with tens of thousands of others in a communal grave for the county's “unclaimed dead.” The tradition dates back to 1896. The 2023 internment for the first time included those who died from the coronavirus. The investigators are part of a small army of public servants who spend three years searching for family before relinquishing them to be buried in the communal gravesit...
For weeks, they call nursing homes and houses of worship, scour public records and ancestry websites and comb through homes and apartments.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arusyak Martirosyan struggles to open the door of a stranger’s one-bedroom apartment overflowing with the belongings from a life lived but not claimed in death. Wedged against the door is a giant box of Gain laundry detergent and plastic tubs piled high. Blouses and T-shirts, suspended by hangers over a living […]