Sorg Mentioned in TribLIVE Article on Long Unidentified Korean War Veteran
Marcella Sorg, a research professor of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the TribLIVE article “Korean War veteran, unidentified for decades, laid to rest in Pittsburgh.” Sorg was contacted to help identify a Korean War veteran whose remains were unnamed for 64 years. In 2012, the veteran’s remains were ordered to be exhumed from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. After almost three years in the lab, investigators believed they matched his teeth and clavicle to the dental and X-ray records of a Marine missing in action at Chosin, North Korea, according to the article. The team then called Sorg, a forensic anthropologist, for a second opinion before officially naming the man, the article states.