Old landfill may contain human remains of victims

Are there human remains of 9/11 victims in a former landfill? Twenty years later, some families of the disappeared are convinced of this. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Twin Towers, 600,000 tons of rubble, a mixture of materials and human remains, must be cleaned up and sorted. It is not far from Manhattan, in the Fresh Kills dump, that the rubble will be buried.

Now closed, this former landfill remains a controversial place for the parents of Matthew Horning, who died in the attack. For them, the ruins have not been sufficiently examined and may still contain human remains. Like 40% of the people who died in the World Trade Center, his body was never found and is believed to still be among the rubble.

Fresh Kills, the forgotten place of September 11

With his eyes riveted on the Manhattan neighborhood, David Diggins remembers it as if it were yesterday. How to forget it? Twenty years earlier he was standing in the same place at the Fresh Kills dump. From the top of the hill, he watches in horror the collapse of the Twin Towers from his workplace. From that moment on, he knows it. David will be mobilized, with his team, to clean up Ground Zero, an operation that will last ten months. Today, Fresh Kills is about to experience a new life. The old landfill will be transformed into a park in 2035.