Missing persons nonprofit forming in Md.

Loved ones of missing Marylanders are forming a nonprofit organization to make substantive changes in the way authorities approach missing person cases.

Darlene Huntsman, a member of the emerging Maryland Taskforce for the Missing and Unidentified, said one thing she learned when her sister disappeared more than 20 years ago is that law enforcement isn’t always adamant about gathering physical evidence, including DNA, in these types of investigations.