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Forensics: Heavy use of rapid DNA. Foreign media given unprecedented access to forensic institute to witness atrocities
Staff at Abu Kabir work 24/7 along with colleagues in IDF and police to identify victims of mass butchery by Hamas terrorists; in some cases identification likely impossible — Read on http://www.timesofisrael.com/foreign-media-given-unprecedented-access-to-forensic-institute-to-witness-atrocities/
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Forensics: Mass casualty ID in Israel. ‘I only knew that from the Nazis’: Israeli forensic experts identify tortured and burned bodies
Experts say they have found evidence of decapitation, rape and people being burned alive. — Read on http://www.politico.eu/article/i-only-knew-that-from-the-nazis-what-israeli-forensics-have-been-seeing-for-days/
Forensis: War crimes. Among the Dead: Forensic Scientists Recall Horror of Kosovo’s Mass Graves
The smell of decay and the trauma of exhuming children’s bodies from mass graves dominate the memories of forensic experts who worked in Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia after the war, driven by a sense of justice and the desire to … Continue reading
Forensics: More details on How forensic investigators use DNA, fingerprints and other methods to identify remains after a fire | CNN
The facts are grim. The devastating fires in Maui have caused at least 115 deaths, yet only 46 of those have been identified two weeks on from the blaze, police said Thursday. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for, too. — … Continue reading
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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