A Ton of Cases to Look Through
The globe has come a long way since the 1970s, and we can thank the many technical advances that have been made for that. A file is now created for every missing individual and kept in a secure location. In order to determine whether the corpse he discovered belonged to Flora, all Yan had to do was go through the relevant files.
Yan’s workload was substantial, there were 21,894 active missing person cases alone to sort through. He needed to examine this data to see whether the woman whose corpse he had found was a match for any of the missing people in these files.