Identification of a decedent in a 103-year-old homicide case using forensic anthropology and genetic genealogy

• Main Authors: Amy R. Michael (Author), Samantha H. Blatt (Author), Mariyam Isa (Author), Anthony Redgrave (Author), Douglas H. Ubelaker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Oxford University Press, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Anthropologists are often the custodians of long-term unidentified human remains though their positions as curators of university or museum skeletal collections. Various factors decrease the solvability of these legacy cases including the passage of time, the loss of provenience for specific cases,...