'Reopening old wounds': When the remains are identified, 20 years later

Scientists are still testing the vast inventory of unidentified remains for a genetic connection to the 1,106 victims

Last month, two detectives showed up at Ny­kiah Morgan’s Long Island home. Her son, Dante, called her while she was at wo­rk. “They’re here about Grandma,” he said.
 
Nearly 20 years ago, Dorothy Morgan, Morgan’s mother, disappeared into the rubble of the collapsed towers, like most of the 2,753 ground zero victims on the morning of September 11, 2001. She was working as an insurance broker in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
 
With no remains, her daughter was never able to give her a proper burial. But now the detectives had arrived with news that