ANT205H5 Lecture Notes - Outer Perimeter, Soil Compaction, Line Search
Document Summary
All the terrain to be searched: burial site. Grave itself, along with localized disturbance: grave. Pit used for burial: search indicators. Abnormalities used to detect a burial site. Objectives of death scene investigation: documentation, preservation. Destruction: prevent further loss, collecting evidence destroys scene, plan of action. Increased probability of collecting all evidence: greater accuracy in evidence collection, recovery of the maximum of skeletal remains to construct better biological profile, document relationships between objects, prevention of post-mortem damage to remains. When, where, who last seen with, etc; Where people dump bodies: perpetrator"s concerns. Reconnaissance: do not enter scene, overview. Potential hazards: type of search possible. Planning 3 approaches to locating human remains: remote sensing. Aerial photography (finding things that weren"t there before) Thermal imaging (decomposing body can be hot or cold depending on the time lapse or how long they"re dead: geophysical methods. Ground search: organized examination, systematic, advantage. Planning resources: available expertise, available person power and equipment.
