FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bc Missing Women Investigation, Forensic Anthropology, Missing Person
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Outdoor scenes, res, burials, badly decomposed/skeletonized, dif cult to recover. Forsci anthropologist in charge of search, mapping, docuemnts, excavate/recover, reconstruct events at crime scene. If the bone is forensically signi cant, it has a role to play in a police investigation. Once it is forensically signi cant, identi cation process: sex, age, ancestry. Taphonomy - what happens to a body after death, e. g a coyote scavenge the body. Fbi - 86% of victims know their killer/perpetrator. Inclusionary data (e. g if a skeleton is male, includes of male) Exclusionary data (excludes of female if bone is male) Women report height accurately but weight inaccurately. Of those 444, 143 were between the age of 20-40 years. And of those 143, 38 were non-white. However, what if deceased never seen a dentist. Nothing con rms id - no exclusionary data. 1 or 2 matching points on an x-ray.
