3 Sept. 11 Victims’ Remains Are Newly Identified, Nearly 24 Years Later

3 Sept. 11 Victims’ Remains Are Newly Identified, Nearly 24 Years Later
United Airlines Flight 175 collides into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York as smoke billows from the north tower. Chao Soi Cheong/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—Three 9/11 victims’ remains have newly been identified, officials said this week, as evolving DNA technology keeps making gradual gains in the nearly quarter-century-long effort to return the remains of the dead to their loved ones.

New York City officials announced Thursday they had identified remains of Ryan D. Fitzgerald, a 26-year-old currency trader; Barbara A. Keating, a 72-year-old retired nonprofit executive; and another woman whose name authorities kept private at her family’s request.