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Category Archives: human identification
Forensics: Dental IDs from fire victims in Lahaina
The weeks of fragmentary information from Hawaii and news media has raised some concerns I want to mention. The hurdles to identification involved in this type of mass disaster are huge principally because of the high temperature effects on human … Continue reading
Forensics: Teeth are involved in Identifying fire victims through DNA analysis: A geneticist explains what forensics is learning from archaeology
Identifying fire victims through DNA analysis: A geneticist explains what forensics is learning from archaeology — Read on phys.org/news/2023-08-victims-dna-analysis-geneticist-forensics.html
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Forensics: “If You’re Lucky, It Could Be Days’: Maui Fire Forensic Expert Compares Painstaking Identification of Remains to 9/11 Aftermath
Dr. — Read on themessenger.com/news/maui-forensic-expert-identification-of-remains
Forensics: Revealing the Smithsonian’s ‘racial brain collection’
The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/smithsonian-brains-collection-racial-history-repatriation/
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Forensics: Looking for more victims as Gilgo investigators upload missing teen’s profile into NamUS
Update: A spokesperson for the NYS Police said the inquiry was not associated with the Gilgo Beach investigation. NEW YORK (PIX11) – Investigators with the Gilgo Beach Homicide Investigation Task Force added the profile of Judith Ramona Veloz, a Bronx … Continue reading
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Forensics: The Korean War veterans who never came home
An intractable impasse between the U.S. and North Korea has stymied once-promising efforts to recover the remains of 5,200 troops lost during the Korean War. — Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/26/korean-war-repatriated-remains/
NamUS cases. 13 sets of human remains found in Knox County, TN still unidentified
With some dating back as far as the 1980s, a total of 13 unidentified remains cases in Knox County are still still unsolved. — Read on http://www.wate.com/news/lonely-bones/13-sets-of-human-remains-still-unidentified-in-knox-county/
Forensics: Missing girl walks into Montana police station four years after disappearing
A teenage girl who went missing in Arizona four years ago suddenly showed up at a Montana police station near the Canadian border. — Read on http://www.montanarightnow.com/content/tncms/live/
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Forensics: NamUS case. Missing in Texas: TXST Forensic Anthropology Center works to identify human remains
The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS) works to advance the forensic anthropology field. Part of the work they do includes identifying the nameless. — Read on http://www.fox7austin.com/news/missing-in-texas-txst-forensic-anthropology-center-works-to-identify-human-remains
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