Los Angeles County has thousands of ‘unclaimed dead.’ These investigators retrace their lives ( apnews.com )
Martirosyan acts as a living representative of those Los Angeles County calls “the unclaimed dead.” She is one of more than a dozen investigators who work for the Public Administrator, an understaffed and little-known branch of the county’s Department of the Treasurer and Tax Collector....
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