Arlington officials can't get their stories straight Nov 6, 2009
Around 400 service members work full time, conducting roughly 50 missions per year, scouring the battlefields of Vietnam, Korea and even Germany for remains that are returned to the largest forensic anthropology laboratory in the world, located in Hawaii. The Department of Defense regularly issues news bulletins documenting the successful repatriation and identification of remains from long-ago conflicts, despite the obvious difficulty of the task. (Salon)
Forensics expert helps GBI with difficult cases Nov 4, 2009
Tersigni-Tarrant also does consulting forensic anthropology work for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ... The next semester, she'll teach an additional class - forensic anthropology - as a UGA adjunct professor ... Tersigni-Tarrant was a pre-med student at the University of Michigan when she took a course on the study of bones she thought would be an easy "elective blow-off." Forensic anthropology was much harder than she anticipated, and at the same time, more intriguing. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Daily guide to television and radio Nov 3, 2009
a Hinojosa talks with Mercedes Doretti, a world leader in using forensic anthropology and archeology to investigate human rights violations. Doretti is the cofounder of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which has worked at every known location of genocide and mass killings. (Boston Globe)
Zeigler called psycho by former co-worker Nov 1, 2009
Testimony concluded Friday with H. Gill King, director of a University of North Texas laboratory for human identification and forensic anthropology. King, who holds a doctoral degree, is an expert in hard tissues. (KHOU.com, TX)
Mercyhurst College unveils human anatomy and forensics lab in North East Oct 31, 2009
2 million Hirtzel Human Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology Laboratory on Route 89 in North East on Friday afternoon ... Pennsylvania's only board-certified forensic anthropologists are on staff at Mercyhurst and teach undergraduate- and graduate-level programs in forensic anthropology, the scientific collection, processing and analysis of human remains ... Students are anxious to work in the new lab, said forensic anthropology graduate student Erin Franks, 23, of Pittsburgh. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Book Review: '206 Bones,' by Kathy Reichs Oct 20, 2009
Reichs books contain interesting information about forensic anthropology work, about procedures used to study bones for the clues they can serve up to help solve what happened, sometimes many years ago. For instance, bones of four victims found in a lake are identified even though they might be nearly 40 years old or are they. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Search widens in effort to ID human remains Oct 3, 2009
Police are examining clothing found along the shore and await results of an examination of the remains by a forensic anthropology team at Mercyhurst College. "There was a lot of evidence gathered, so it's hard to say what was connected and what isn't," Yehl said. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Army allows three to vie for forensic task orders Oct 1, 2009
The support will cover the forensic disciplines of nuclear DNA, serology, forensic anthropology, digital evidence, forensic toxicology and forensic pathology, among others, according to a Sept. 28 announcement from American Systems. The goal of the DFES is to more centrally manage forensic science activities for all of the military services criminal investigations and warfighter operations and to support homeland security functions. (FCW.com)
The diminutive Dr Death Sep 14, 2009
She took up forensic anthropology and pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington DC. Upon her return home, she passionately embraced her new job, often working alone on corpses at the Ramathibodi Hospital from as early as 5am, in an era when there were only six forensic pathologists in Thailand. Much of what she knows is self-taught from books. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Families bury dead from massacre in Peru Aug 30, 2009
Bullets found with the bodies were inscribed with the acronym FAME, which stands for Military Factory for Arms and Munitions, said Pablo Baraybar, who led the 2008 exhumation as head of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- International)
City to host Ms. Wheelchair America pageant this weekend Aug 24, 2009
She expects to graduate in May 2010 with a degree in the area of forensic anthropology. Foster has volunteered as a cheerleading coach for elementary school students and served as a teacher in the Mock Trial summer law institute. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Body found on outskirts of Bogalusa is identified Aug 20, 2009
The identification was made after a review of medical records, an examination by the LSU forensic anthropology team lead by Mary Manhein and autopsy exams done in Bogalusa and Baton Rouge, he said. Schneider reportedly had visited St. Tammany Parish Hospital where he was told he needed to have a leg amputated due to severe cellulitis, said Kathy Casama, the coroner s civil administrator. (Bogalusa Daily News, LA)
Hand, body found in woods near Bogalusa city limits Aug 11, 2009
The circumstances of the death and the identification of the victim are under investigation by both local law enforcement and the LSU Forensic Anthropology team led by Mary Manhein, who is known as one of the nation s leaders in that field. It was reportedly the LSU team that located the body, but the discovery actually started with one body part on July 25. (Bogalusa Daily News, LA)
Eleven WPD personnel recognized8:22 pm | (No comments posted.) Aug 8, 2009
She underwent 10 weeks of extensive training through classroom instruction, lab activities and field practicums in specialized courses such as crime scene management, arson, death investigation, wound pattern interpretation and forensic anthropology. School resource officers Terry Ingalls and Chad Stricherz along with Detective Secretary Connie Cutler served as Camp Chance coordinators during July and helped make the fourth annual program a success. (Watertown Public Opinion, SD)
Second Day For Nieto Murder Trial Is Short Jul 22, 2009
A forensic anthropology expert said he was given a bone by police to test for any DNA.. The jury listened to the doctors testimony as he described how he determined the bone fragment was human and female. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Guatemala rights scientist honoured Jul 5, 2009
At this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Mr Peccerelli and his colleagues at the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG) are being honoured for their commitment to using science to promote human rights. Since 1992, the Foundation has been investigating human rights abuses committed during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, particularly the 18-month period in the early 1980s when General Efrain Rios Montt pursued what has been described as a... (Yahoo News -- Guatemala)
Mtley Cre/Bones May 21, 2009
The show is based on forensics and police procedurals in which each episode focuses on an FBI case file concerning the mystery behind human remains brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, played by David Boreanaz, to the forensic anthropology team lead by Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel. Mtley Cre recently returned to the top of the charts with Saints of Los Angeles, their first new studio album with the original line-up -- Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars, Tommy Lee and... (FOX19.com, OH)
Skeletal remains found on Lookout Mountain identified May 21, 2009
The family of Allan Hansen has donated his remains to the University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center in Knoxville, Tenn. A memorial service will be held at a later date. (Catoosa County News, GA)
Home schooling on the rise in Virginia May 15, 2009
She then will transfer to a college or university to pursue forensic anthropology and historical archaeology. Ann Siegal said her daughter has thrived in home schooling, but other children might not. (Chatham Star Tribune, VA)
Local students are merit scholars May 9, 2009
She plans to major in forensic anthropology. Receiving 2,500 scholarships from the National Merit Corporation were Xiayang Yu and Daniel Wilson. (Madison County Record, AL)
Guatemala to open mass grave in search for war dead Mar 23, 2009
"If they knew very little, (they were) killed quickly. If they knew a lot, they were held first for three to six months," added Peccerelli, who runs the non-governmental Forensic Anthropology Foundation and who worked in Bosnia after the 1992-95 Balkan conflict. Almost a quarter of a million people were killed or disappeared during the conflict between leftist guerrillas and the government. (AlertNet)
Intriguing exhibit demonstrates work of forensic anthropologists writeLink("vid_id=1471&file=deathperception.flv"); Mar 15, 2009
Death Perception: The Science of Forensic Anthropology ... He is curator of the UNI Museum's popular new spring exhibit, "Death Perception: The Science of Forensic Anthropology," open now through May 16 ... There also is a display devoted to the Body Farm, the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center, and its founder and O'Brien's mentor, William Bass III.. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
ATL students helped in Chandra Levy case Mar 3, 2009
The students would use forensic anthropology to rebuild the case. Levy disappeared from her apartment in May 2001. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Forensics lab brings cold cases back to life Feb 27, 2009
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY BATON ROUGE The clay face perched on a lab shelf at Louisiana State University's Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services FACES looked familiar to the sheriff's deputy. It got him digging back into his old case files. (USA Today -- Tech)
23 Identified From Mass Grave in 1980s Peru Massacre Feb 26, 2009
DNA tests, carried out at Virginia-based forensic lab Bode Technology and partially funded by the U.S. State Department, have thus far identified 23 victims by name, including 15 women and five children, according to a statement from the Peruvian Team of Forensic Anthropology. German Vargas, a lawyer for victims' relatives, told The Associated Press that the majority of those identified are related to members of the group he represents, Paz y Esperanza. (Fox News)
DNA identifies Peruvian victims Feb 25, 2009
The director of the Peruvian forensic anthropology team, Jose Pablo Baraybar, said they expected to identify several more victims in the next few weeks. Some 70,000 people died in the conflict between the military and Maoist rebels. (BBC News -- Americas)
Local team called to duty Feb 14, 2009
Dirkmaat, a nationally renowned expert in the recovery of remains, took a prominent role Friday in the forensic anthropology investigation at the site where a regional commuter plane crashed outside of Buffalo, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground ... Dirkmaat led the forensic anthropology recovery effort on Sept. 11, 2001, when United Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Hickam team taught recovery of remains Feb 10, 2009
"This gives all the officers and enlisted members a better opportunity to practice their negotiation skills, understand forensic anthropology better, and understand when you are doing dry screening, what everyone's looking for," Crisp said at the site. Bunnell wants the next academy to take place on a hillside, adding another layer of challenge. (Honolulu Advertiser)
