Overview

• The Office of Chief Medical Examiner used enhanced DNA sequencing techniques to confirm identities that eluded earlier analyses
• Victims confirmed include 26-year-old financial operator Ryan D. Fitzgerald, 72-year-old nonprofit executive Barbara A. Keating and an unnamed woman at her family’s request
• The total of World Trade Center victims identified since 2001 now stands at 1,653 of the 2,753 who perished, leaving about 1,100 still unrecognized
• Remains recovered at Ground Zero in 2001 and 2002 were reexamined as genetic methods evolved over more than two decades
• Mayor Eric Adams called the breakthrough consoling for families still awaiting answers, and Chief Medical Examiner Jason Graham vowed to continue the identification work